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.[…]
We can proudly announce that the second annual awarenet Peace Day Concert took place and was a huge success. Some people might complain now that Peace Day is on the 21st and not on the 18th, but to keep the peace and to make people happy, we decided that the 18th had to be the Read more about The 2nd awarenet Peace Day Concert[…]
Since 2011, the VSA partners with Peace One Day, an NGO that invented Peace Day (21st of September) and encourages everyone in the world to take part. We have encouraged more than 50 young learners to write lyrics about peace and rap them on Peace Day 2011. We have recorded the learners and published the Read more about Who will awarenet users make Peace with?[…]
The VSA has found a great, reliable and effective partner for it’s awarenet programme with underprivileged learners over the years: Rhodes University in Grahamstown. This year, we are extremely lucky and proud to be able to say that no less than three Departments support awarenet’s current peace and music project. The Department of Journalism and Read more about Rhodes University supports awarenet’s Peace and Music Project[…]
Good News! This year’s Peace Day Project on awarenet has not only started successfully and with a lot of motivation from the learners and trainers. We have also motivated a lot of donors to support the project financially. Almost 50% of the project is financially secured, which means that trainers can be paid who are Read more about Almost 50% of this year’s Peace Day Project financed[…]
awarenet learners have started writing their own lyrics about peace, awareness and their dreams and believes as part of the Peace Concert Project on awarenet. Here, you can see learners from Mary Waters High School. The project participants usually meet twice a week. They use the meetings to discuss what peace means to them and Read more about awarenet learners write their own peace lyrics[…]
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[…]
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![…]
Students from Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, USA were visiting awarenet sites in Grahamstown through a university study abroad course being facilitated by Dr. Timothy Eatman and Mr. Jason Torreano. The students are working on the course and working closely with Inkululeko to develop sustainable, enterprising projects that can be used by Inkululeko learners Read more about Students from Syracuse University in New York visit awarenet in Grahamstown[…]
Sanele Ntshingana, VSA volunteer and awarenet project coordinator reports about his own project: “On the 28th of April, Sunday- a group of 7 learners from Mary Waters High School who are currently doing the “Anti-littering Campaign” went to Rhodes University Journalism Department to record an Anti-littering campaign awareness audio clip. All the 7 hip, fresh Read more about awarenet anti-littering learners visit Rhodes – Africa Media Matrix[…]