Recognition for awarenet at Rhodes Community Engagement Awards 2018!

Posted on October 25, 2018October 25, 2018 by Kjetil Torp

awarenet and partners received awards for community engagement at the 2018 Rhodes University Community Engagement Awards! Sudo Soc, the computer society at Rhodes University, were among three finalists for Rhodes Society/Sports Club of the Year for their work with installing the new awarenet Learning Lab. Richard Were received the award from Rhodes University vice-chancellor Dr Read more about Recognition for awarenet at Rhodes Community Engagement Awards 2018![…]

Afrofuturist Animation Workshop!

Posted on July 10, 2018July 10, 2018 by Kjetil Torp

awarenet learners got a chance to learn how to make advanced computer animation during the Grahamstown National Arts Festival. The learners took part in the Afrofuturist Animation Workshop run by Alette Schoon of the Rhodes University School of Journalism and Media Studies. The excited young workshop participants all created their own moving and talking cartoon Read more about Afrofuturist Animation Workshop![…]

Rhodes students fix awarenet computers!

Posted on April 24, 2018April 24, 2018 by Kjetil Torp

Sudo Soc, the student computer society at Rhodes University, lent awarenet a hand in maintaining the computer labs at Joza Youth Hub. With the skilled use of an air compressor the team from Sudo Soc delicately cleaned the dusty insides of the well-used awarenet computers without damaging a single processor, hard drive nor motherboard. Sudo Read more about Rhodes students fix awarenet computers![…]

Rhodes Community Engagement Awards

Posted on October 31, 2017 by Kjetil Torp

Rhodes University awarded awarenet for their work with university student volunteers on the 10th of October. The Community Engagement programme of Rhodes University has expanded considerably in later years and 400 students now participate in the student volunteer programme. At least once a week these students take part in activities conducted by local non-profit organisations Read more about Rhodes Community Engagement Awards[…]

Funding for awarenet teacher’s course!

Posted on June 2, 2017June 2, 2017 by Kjetil Torp

The awarenet program recently received funding from the HCI Foundation for its brand new teacher’s training course. The HCI Foundation is the corporate social investment arm of HCI, a black empowerment investment holding company where the majority shareholder is the South African Clothing and Textile Workers Union. We are proud to receive a contribution from Read more about Funding for awarenet teacher’s course![…]

Common Ground Café Advert Production

Posted on April 27, 2017May 2, 2017 by Lukas Hüneke

Back in December Chiara wrote a blog post about our Community Engagement Project, where we produced short video documentaries about topics concerning the local community. One of those videos was created in cooperation with Inkululeko, an NGO working at Ntsika Secondary School. Instead of a documentary, we quickly decided to make something closer to an Read more about Common Ground Café Advert Production[…]

Our Social Engagement Project in the 4th term

Posted on December 23, 2016February 3, 2017 by Chiara Brendel

In the 4th term in the South African academic year the Village Scribe Association traditionally carries out a project that deals with South African culture and tradition, but also with engagement in the society. Lukas and me thought about some new ideas for that project and finally came up with the plan to create short Read more about Our Social Engagement Project in the 4th term[…]

Video Workshops with Upstart

Posted on December 20, 2016 by Lukas Hüneke

During the last term we did a video documentary project with our learners. Every Group chose a topic that is relevant to them and somehow connected to the local community. We wanted them to do as much as possible by themselves, but we also wanted to produce videos that look as professional as possible. It Read more about Video Workshops with Upstart[…]

Namkelekile!

Posted on August 23, 2016August 23, 2016 by Larissa Willy

For this year’s Mandela Day and the Trading Live Mandela Week organised by Rhodes University Community Engagement, the awarenet team offered their services for a IsiXhosa lesson. With Mcvay as a native speaker and Kjetil being fluent, we decided to take up the challenge and teach the guys from the Department of Human Kinetics and Read more about Namkelekile![…]

Stolen Community Property (Laptop Theft)

Posted on May 31, 2016June 22, 2016 by McVay Boko

Dear Reader Please lend me your time, eyes and ears for a short time. Crime in South Africa has reached the crest of the country, like a volcanic eruption about to explode and destroy this good land. I’m starting to think that the only way to live in this sad country is to be part Read more about Stolen Community Property (Laptop Theft)[…]