by Rieke and Antje From the 18th to the 25th of July the event “Trading Live for Mandela Day” took place all over Grahamstown. The basic idea for Trading Live is that all Rhodes staff, students and community organizations donate 67 minutes of their time to build new relationships in the community. All members of the community could Read more about VSA takes part in Trading Live for Mandela-Day[…]
All the songs of the awarenet Peace Project 2013 are recorded and the CDs are produced. Congratulations! The CD was released on the first day of the Grahamstown Arts Festival 2014, on Thursday, the 3rd of July 2014 during a small celebration party for all people involved and our partners, supporters and friends. The event Read more about awarenet CDs are produced and were given out at the launch party[…]
The new volunteers, Julia and Lukas along with their SAGE Net. fellows, have completed their introductory seminar. Traditionally, all Weltwaerts volunteers have to attend a 10 day seminar to learn about the culture, heritage, people and challenges in their host country as well as about general issues such as appropriate behaviour, security and media use. Read more about New SAGE Net. volunteers successfully prepared![…]
Were are very proud to have shaped a learning network that is especially designed for African learners and educators. Together with the IT company eKhaya ICT, we are constantly working on enhancing the software and functions, partners provide excellent content to the social platform, which we help to integrate in a useful manner. Another recent Read more about cMinds integration into awarenet[…]
All the songs of the awarenet Peace Project 2013 are recorded and the CDs are produced. Congratulations! The CD will be released on the first day of the Grahamstown Arts Festival 2014, on Thursday, the 3rd of July 2014 during a small celebration party for all people involved and our partners, supporters and friends. The Read more about awarenet Peace Song Collection 2013 CD Release Party[…]
We are very happy to announce that the VSA will finally move into the Joza Youth Hub in Joza, Grahamstown. Most of the other stakeholders are already well established and offer their services to the underprivileged youth, so we are looking forward to collaborate with them in a great and useful space, closer to the Read more about VSA’s move into the Joza Youth Hub and revived collaborations[…]
by Antje Hering. Rhodes University’s Community Engagement Week ran from the 5th to the 9th of May in Grahamstown. A colourful programme consisting of education activities, youth dialogues, development workshops and panel discussions was provided to the visitors. All departments and student organizations involved in Community Engagement initiatives as well as community partners set up Read more about awarenet at Community Engagement Week[…]
by Rieke Heitmueller. On Friday, the 25th of April 2014, it was time for our annual awarenet Open Day. It took place at C.M Vellem Primary School for two hours in the afternoon and is inspired by the international Girls in ICT Day. This initiative is backed by ITU (International Telecommunication Union) Member States as an Read more about awarenet Open Day 2014[…]
Hi, I have been away for quite some time and guess what – I have been back in South Africa for the first time after almost two years. First thing to say: It was fantastic and everything runs smoothly without me (on site) and turns out to develop very well! 🙂 VSA News: * The Read more about Successful trip to Grahamstown[…]
Wir haben ein Video produziert, welches erklärt, was awarenet eigentlich ist, was man damit machen kann, und wie es entstanden ist. Gleichzeitig ist es ein Portrait von Ronald Wertlen, der vor 10 Jahren die Idee zu awarenet hatte. Warum und was dann passiert ist, erklärt das Video. Dieses Video wird nur das erste eine Reihe Read more about Was ist awarenet, und wie ist es entstanden?[…]