Just to inform everyone, the VSA has joined a Rails Girls Group to keep coding and to learn more. Starting from tomorrow, we will meet every Tuesday at Beta House. I am looking forward to meet the girls again and to work on our ideas and projects. 🙂
Last month, the VSA pitched awarenet at the social impact lab in Berlin-Kreuzberg. I have blogged about this event. As an outcome of the pitch, we have been offered free participation at two workshops about Idea Reframing – From the Idea to the Business Model. Further, we were offered a free work space in the Read more about social impact lab pitch outcome[…]
The awarenet Peace Song Collection CD is out and distributed to all the participants of the project. The VSA organised a launch party to celebrate the event appropriately and thank everyone wholeheartedly who was involved in the awarenet theme song project. Terri-Lynn Penney organised the event (Fr, 1/2/13 at Nombulelo SS hall) and invited awarenet Read more about Very successfull&lively launch of the awarenet Peace Song Collection CD[…]
The VSA will take part in the next Rails Girls workshop in Berlin on the 22 and 23/02/13. Rails Girls Berlin are “the Berlin sisters of Rails Girls – a non-profit volunteer group that formed in Finland with the aim to get women into programming.” They want to give total beginners the opportunity and a community Read more about VSA joins Rails Girls Berlin[…]
We proudly announce that the VSA will pitch awarenet at the social impact lab this Friday 22/02/13 at 3pm. Everyone is welcome to attend and help us by voting. We hope to win a co-working space in the social impact lab, incl. coaching&consulting, mentoring by SAP staff, further qualification and a chance of additional financial Read more about VSA will pitch awarenet at the social impact lab[…]
On Friday 15/2/13, Dr Sarah Hanton, trustee of the VSA and awarenet coordinator, organised a presentation about the possibilities of awarenet to the staff of VG High School in Grahamtown to recruit more teachers into the programme. Terri-Lynn Penney, Viv Quin and Richard Strickland were also present to give individual support during the meeting. The Read more about VSA recruiting more teachers to awarenet[…]
We are very happy to announce that the VSA is now part of the SAGE Net network, a network that organises volunteers from Germany to stay and work in South Africa for one year. The forms were being filled out and sent off to the Weltwärts Programm a few weeks ago. On Tuesday, Mr and Read more about VSA visited by SAGE Net.[…]
The first SenseCamp for the VSA turned out to be very successful and also great fun! MakeSense Berlin invited into the Social Impact Enterprise Lab last Saturday (9/2/13) and almost 200 SenseMakers came. There was an amazing atmosphere in which creativity, social ideas and motivation was sprouting out of everyone to form a lively, sizzling Read more about Very successful Hold-Up about Passwords at SenseCamp Berlin[…]
The VSA’s community coordinator Terri-Lynn Penney organised a diary drive at the beginning of the year 2013 with the effect that diaries were given to more than 200 awarenet learners. Here is what she says about her intentions: “At the end of 2012, I realized that some of the learners that I teach awarenet, lack Read more about VSA organised Donation of 2013 Diaries to 200 awarenet Learners[…]
Have you actually wondered what a Hold-Up is? We have announced the event in a previous blog, but watch this video to find out exactly what the VSA is planning to do on the 9/2/13 at the social impact enterprise lab in Berlin-Kreuzberg. 🙂 Make Sense/Hold Up Introduction from GUST PROJECT on Vimeo.