awarenet Project: Poetry with Harry Owen – a local Artist

The Grade 6 learners of the Grahamstown Adventist Primary School in the city of Grahamstown have been having poetry sessions organised by awarenet with one of the most well known artists in the Grahamstown community. He has been writing articles, stories and poetry… he is Harry Owen!  (You can find him on Facebook or at myspace.) Read more about awarenet Project: Poetry with Harry Owen – a local Artist[…]

Peace Day Project 2015

One of the biggest projects of VSA is the Peace Day Project during the third term (July-September). Due to the fact that we had no funding for the concert this year we had to change the plans. Because the Joza Youth Hub could need some embellishments we decided to focus on peace poems instead of Read more about Peace Day Project 2015[…]

VSA’s move into the Joza Youth Hub and revived collaborations

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[…]

Rhodes University’s Journalism Students promote awarenet.

A large group of Journalism and Media Sudies students from Rhodes University Grahamstown have put a lot of work into promoting the awarenet programme and platform. It has been a great collaboration as the students seemed to have fun reporting about us and we are so grateful for the much needed promotion! Here are a Read more about Rhodes University’s Journalism Students promote awarenet.[…]

Upstart’s and Rhodes students’ short films on awareNet

The VSA is proud to announce that a collaboration between Upstart and third year Rhodes University TV Journalism students produced fantastic short films about issues that concern learners in Grahamstown and South Africa – titled “Speaking our Minds” – and that they gave us the permission to publish these short films on awareNet. The first Read more about Upstart’s and Rhodes students’ short films on awareNet[…]

Communication is the key to success – but talk to your children, not to your ancestors!

One of the VSA’s most important assignments is networking and the provision of information. We always keep you updated about all our projects and activities. We care about transparency. You can find us on many channels: this blog, our newsletter, awareNet, facebook, twitter, Google Maps, YouTube, etc. We are always happy to receive feed back via Read more about Communication is the key to success – but talk to your children, not to your ancestors![…]