The awarenet music sessions that will lead to the Peace Concert have started in Grahamstown. On their first session, learners were introduced to rap and HipHop music and also got a chance to rap themselves if there dared. At CM Vellem Higher Primary School, Apiwhe Solani was brave enough to get Read more about First Raps at Grahamstown’s awarenet schools[…]
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This week was the first week of our music and peace project on awarenet which will lead to the Peace Concert on Peace Day in September 2013. Terri-Lynn Penney, the awarenet coordinator in Grahamstown, accepted the participation of 5 schools, namely CM Vellem Higher Primary School, Good Shepherd Primary School, Mary Waters High School, Nathaniel Read more about The awarenet music and peace project 2013 has started![…]
The VSA is now listed on the NGO Pulse website as part of the NGO Profiles campaign, which aims to promote the work of NGOs in South Africa. The Village Scribe Association (VSA) was born from the vision of Anna and Ron Wertlen, to create jobs in the Eastern Cape through software and high-tech industry Read more about The NGO Profiles Campaign (South Africa)[…]
Today, we can proudly announce that the scholarship by the social impact lab for VSA Germany was extended for 4 months. We were given the opportunity to work more intensely on our business case and prove that the awarenet programme can become sustainable. We are very happy and look forward to discussions and development, together Read more about Scholarship extended at the social impact lab[…]
South Africa’s townships are wrecked with violence. Too many people are bored, have no perspectives, are unemployed and do not believe in themselves. This leads to alcohol and drug abuse, self-hate and violence agains rich people, neighbours and against their own family. The awarenet programme counters by offering something different to the youth: education, fun Read more about VSA’s awarenet Peace Concert on Betterplace[…]
Heute mal ein lustiger und innovativer Film von den SAGE Net. Freiwilligen, die sich eine Woche lang in Bad Breisig auf Ihre Freiwilligenarbeit vorbereitet haben. Here is the movie that resulted in the week-long seminar which prepared the SAGE Net. volunteers for their stay in South Africa. You guys rock! Very funny indeed. Looking Read more about SAGE Net. volunteers’ fun short movie![…]
Two letter from Rieke and Antje, the two SAGE Net. volunteers who will start working with us in September 2013. Sage NET organised a seminar in June for the volunteers to prepare us for the coming year in South Africa. During this ten days we learned something about the history of South Africa and the Read more about SAGE Net. volunteers can’t wait to get started![…]
René und Benjamin werden in ihrem Themenfeld “Social Entrepreneurship” einen Business Plan für ein Social Business erstellen. Beide studieren im 6. Semester Business Administration an der Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht in Berlin. In diesem Zusammenhang werden sie mit uns kooperieren und für awarenet ein Geschäftsmodell entwickeln. Ziel ist es, awarenet für Deutschland marktfähig zu Read more about A business model for awarenet[…]
Today, I would like to promote some else’s blog: Antje Hering, a young German woman, will be volunteering for the VSA for a whole year. She will document her hopes, experiences, challenges and outcomes here. We are very much looking forward to the news! Thank you, Antje.