Last week, Awarenet held a meeting with all the current Social Employment Fund participants in the Common Room of the Joza Youth Hub regarding the end of the third round of the Social Employment Fund.Firstly, we asked each of the participants to fill out a feedback form reflecting on their personal time being in the Read more about End of the third round of the Social Employment Fund![…]
This blog post is about Ziyanda and Mfundo, two of our Social Employment Fund (SEF) participants working in the Anglo-African clinic run by the department of health in Grahamstown. Through an agreement with the local department of health, Awarenet is providing part-time data capturers through the SEF program which helps the department digitalise their patient Read more about Awarenet helps out the department of health[…]
The Social Employment Fund in the Makhanda Coalition of after-school organisations is heading for a third round thanks to Awarenet being contracted to lead this work by The Learning Trust. After lots of planning and organising we are happy to announce that SEF will keep going. This third round also comes with new working opportunities Read more about New round of Social Employment Fund (SEF) – new opportunities[…]
One of Awarenet’s current projects involves the distribution of SD cards in the community of Rhini. These SD cards have been packed with audiobooks, learning media and other entertaining media for children and young teenagers. The goal of this project is to encourage the youth to read and offer them a free opportunity for extracurricular Read more about Free SD Cards for the Community[…]
Awarenet has recruited a new group of grade 8 and 9 learners to their core group programme. Last week, on the 27th of May we invited 23 learners from both grade 8 and 9 to a camp at the DSG Monastery which is located in the magnificent Eastern Cape countryside, a mere 10 km from Read more about New Core Group Orientation Camp[…]
Awarenet was visited by Dr Eva Hert, board member of its German sister organisation, who tells us the following about her visit to a variety of the Awarenet projects: In February this year my husband and I came to South Africa where we used to live some 30 years ago in Grahamstown – now Makhanda. Read more about Visit to Awarenet by German sister organisation![…]
Since July 2022 Awarenet has been part of the Social Employment Fund – a government initiative to give previously unemployed people a chance to do socially meaningful work in non profit organisations across South Africa. Awarenet’s long-time funder the Learning Trust has been instrumental in realising this opportunity as it identified Awarenet to be one Read more about Awarenet helps combat unemployment in Makhanda[…]
Learners from Awarenet and Inkululeko are helping rejuvenating Makhanda’s much-neglected streams and rivers! Through a project sponsored by the United Thank Offering of the Episcopal Church in the United States the project aims to make a group of high school learners into environmental change makers in their local communities. Working closely with local river organisation Read more about Rejuvenating Makhanda Rivers![…]
Awarenet has been accepted to be part of an exiting maths program run by Olico, a South African organisation with an impressive track record in improving the maths skills of learners across the country. Awarenet will receive funding and training for maths tutors to teach groups of grade 8 and 9 learners using innovative technology Read more about It all adds up for Awarenet![…]
Awarenet learners as well as others from different surrounding schools attended a documentary screening which was held on the 25th of August 2021. Scifest Africa in collaboration with Rhodes University and the Makhanda community worked together on producing a documentary which is aimed at promoting household electricity savings using user-driven and co-designed electricity-saving tips. The Read more about Makhanda Electricity Saving Project[…]