Awarenet has started an exciting partnership with a school and university on the other side of the world! Learners from ITC high school in the city of Syracuse in New York, United States will meet regularly with Awarenet high school learners through two state-of-the-art video portals starting from September 2021. A sequel to this initiative Read more about Makhanda, South Africa meets Syracuse, New York![…]
Our learners have found that the tablets we lend out to them have proven to be a great tool in assisting with their learning during these challenging Covid times. The tablets have been pre- loaded with a variety of educational apps that can be accessed both on and offline. We have also loaded the tablets Read more about Tablets help Awarenet learners during Covid-lockdown![…]
The awarenet grade 11 and 12 core groups took a weekend off to go to educational camp at the end of May. The camp took place at the “Monastery”, an outdoor educational facility and spiritual retreat run by local Diocesan School of Girls at a former Anglican monastery. At the camp the learners learnt to Read more about Awarenet Grade 11 and 12 Camp[…]
On the 18th of May 2021, Awarenet, alongside other NPOs from Makhanda visited fellow NPOs in PE, Masifunde and Masinyusane. Inkululeko, Access Music Project, Joza Reading Club as well as Aspire Psycho Social Support joined Awarenet in a tour of the premises of these interesting organisations. At Masinyusane, we visited one of the local primary Read more about Awarenet visits local NGOs from eGqeberha (PE)[…]
This year we made use of social media to recruit some volunteers who would assist us in tutoring our learners in the different subjects set out in their curriculum. We got more than 30 responses from interested individuals, a few locals and mostly Rhodes University students. At Awarenet we started our academic year on the Read more about Awarenet gets new tutors for core groups![…]
A new exciting awarenet project involving mobile learning has received funding from the North-South Bridges Foundation in Germany! The funding is meant to support our core group learners in their quest for both digital competency and academic excellency by providing them with access to tablets and connected learning support. The North-South Bridges Foundation has graciously Read more about Awarenet program receives funding from North-South Bridges Foundation![…]
The awarenet open lab has introduced new open lab courses for the year 2021, this is to help the learners of the schools in Joza and adults that are not familiar with computers. Now they will get an opportunity to know how to use a computer as some of them have never had the privilege Read more about Awarenet Open Lab Courses[…]
On the 1st of February 2021, we welcomed a new grade 8 core group. These learners were in grade 7 in 2020 and we recruited them using the open lab register. We asked learners if they would be interested in getting academic support and computer skills and those who showed interest then signed up to Read more about New grade 8 core group for 2021[…]
The Annual General Meeting of the VSA took place on 20 November 2020. Both organisations, the VSA Trust in South Africa and the supporting organisation VSA e.V. in Germany, were present. We discussed the new child protection guidelines and our work during pandemic times and we reported about projects, finances and funding. Elections took place Read more about VSA Annual General Meeting in 2020[…]
A time of crisis also means a time where change seems more possible. At awarenet we have tried to use the crisis to change our programmes in a meaningful way for the youth and children attending. After a bleak lockdown of most activities in South Africa from the end of March until the end of Read more about Living with the pandemic at awarenet[…]