This weekend, Terri, Antje and Rieke will be in East London for a very special fundraising campaign: As you know, Terri-Lynn Penney is Head Community Coordinator, awarenet Trainer and Trustee of the Village Scribe Association in Grahamstown. She will race the Ironman 70.3 to support the awarenet Peace Day Project. Antje and Rieke will inform Read more about Support the awarenet Peace Project, Education&Literacy and Terri![…]
Wir sind angenommen worden bei der betterplace Fundraising Challenge 2013! Am 01. Dezember geht es los. Dann gilt es, viele kleine Spenden zu sammeln, denn jede Spende über 10€ wird von betterplace gezählt und kann unserem Projekt “awarenet Peace Songs” weitere Spenden bescheren. Besinn Dich in der Weihnachtszeit auf Deine Mitmenschen und spende ab Read more about awarenet betterplace Fundraising Challenge 2013[…]
Terri-Lynn Penney is going to run, cycle and swim for the awarenet Peace Project. We are still looking for the second half of the funding to complete the project, i.e. to finish the music video, to record all the learners and to produce a CD. Terri agreed to run the Half Ironman in East London, Read more about Terri will complete the Half Ironman for awarenet![…]
Antje Hering, our new Weltwärts volunteer, organised a benefit concert to finance her stay in South Africa. It was a wonderful evening! She played accordion with the Klezmer-Band “Chalijastre” (see photo, Antje in the middle) and presented a few projects of the VSA/awarenet (with awarenet learners from CM Vellem HPS during the drama project with Read more about Benefit Concert by and for awarenet Volunteer in Germany[…]
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[…]
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South Africa’s townships are wrecked with violence. Too many people are bored, have no perspectives, are unemployed and do not believe in themselves. This leads to alcohol and drug abuse, self-hate and violence agains rich people, neighbours and against their own family. The awarenet programme counters by offering something different to the youth: education, fun Read more about VSA’s awarenet Peace Concert on Betterplace[…]
The VSA’s community coordinator Terri-Lynn Penney organised a diary drive at the beginning of the year 2013 with the effect that diaries were given to more than 200 awarenet learners. Here is what she says about her intentions: “At the end of 2012, I realized that some of the learners that I teach awarenet, lack Read more about VSA organised Donation of 2013 Diaries to 200 awarenet Learners[…]
The VSA has received a generous donation by an overseas member to produce another 100 awarenet Peace Song Collection CDs. This means that every participant in the awarenet Peace Song Project will receive their own copy, and the rest can be used for advertising our programme and hopefully to attract more funding to repeat the Read more about A generous donation leads to an official awarenet CD release party![…]
Three blazers to be worn at choir were handed over yesterday (13/11/12) to three grade 8 learners from CM Vellem Higher Primary School in Grahamstown. This donation was made by the VG High School Representative Council of Learners, and the money was raised during a third term market day. CM Vellem learners are very active Read more about VG High School learners raise funds for CM Vellem HPS learners’ Choir Blazers[…]