We are very happy and proud that our 3rd awarenet Peace Day Concert was another great success! For this year’s Music & Peace Project, 5 different groups of awarenet learners worked hard to write a song to a new backing produced by Corinne Cooper (Rhodes University’s Music Department). Schools participating were CM Vellem HPS, Good Read more about The 2014 awarenet Peace Day Concert a great Success![…]
by Rieke and Antje From the 18th to the 25th of July the event “Trading Live for Mandela Day” took place all over Grahamstown. The basic idea for Trading Live is that all Rhodes staff, students and community organizations donate 67 minutes of their time to build new relationships in the community. All members of the community could Read more about VSA takes part in Trading Live for Mandela-Day[…]
by Rieke Heitmueller. On Friday, the 25th of April 2014, it was time for our annual awarenet Open Day. It took place at C.M Vellem Primary School for two hours in the afternoon and is inspired by the international Girls in ICT Day. This initiative is backed by ITU (International Telecommunication Union) Member States as an Read more about awarenet Open Day 2014[…]
by Antje Hering and Rieke Heitmüller Village Scribe Association and eKhaya ICT members Terri-Lynn Penney, Rieke Heitmueller, Antje Hering and Richard Strickland with help from CM Vellem, Ntaba Maria and Victoria Girl’s learners presented the awarenet programme at the Science Festival Africa 2014. awarenet is a new interactive education and communication platform for schools, designed Read more about SciFest 2014 Review[…]
We are proud to be a Peace One Day’s partner in creating awareness and supporting peace where ever we can. With our yearly Peace Concert on September 21st, we make a real difference in the daily life of the school children in Grahamstown. We are supported by Rhodes University’s Journalism and Media Studies Department. Their Read more about Rhodes’ Video about the awarenet Peace Concert on Peace One Day’s Media Channels[…]
As a white person growing up under apartheid, the name of Mandela was the dark face of armed uprising and rebellion. And just as Nelson freed his people, so too his name freed me. I was lucky enough to have several teachers who opened my eyes to the ANC struggle, to the lies of apartheid Read more about Thank you, Nelson Mandela, for showing us the way![…]
Rhodes students’ have documented the awarenet Peace Concert this year. We thank them wholeheartedly! The awarenet Peace Concert took place in Grahamstown, South Africa, and was an event initiated by the Village Scribe Association as part of the awarenet programme to enhance computer & Internet literacy, reading & writing of underprivileged learners. The learners have Read more about Video Documentary about the awarenet Peace Concert 2013[…]
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?[…]
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[…]