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[…]
This is our new and fancy donation form from betterplace. Please, use to support us and feel better instantly. 🙂 Even 5 Euros make a difference to our latest awarenet peace project. We will continue to inform about progress, so that you know what happens with your money. What fun! 🙂 Try it out now… Read more about Easy donation with new donation form from betterplace[…]
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[…]
Heute mal ein lustiger und innovativer Film von den SAGE Net. Freiwilligen, die sich eine Woche lang in Bad Breisig auf Ihre Freiwilligenarbeit vorbereitet haben. Here is the movie that resulted in the week-long seminar which prepared the SAGE Net. volunteers for their stay in South Africa. You guys rock! Very funny indeed. Looking Read more about SAGE Net. volunteers’ fun short movie![…]
Two letter from Rieke and Antje, the two SAGE Net. volunteers who will start working with us in September 2013. Sage NET organised a seminar in June for the volunteers to prepare us for the coming year in South Africa. During this ten days we learned something about the history of South Africa and the Read more about SAGE Net. volunteers can’t wait to get started![…]
René und Benjamin werden in ihrem Themenfeld “Social Entrepreneurship” einen Business Plan für ein Social Business erstellen. Beide studieren im 6. Semester Business Administration an der Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht in Berlin. In diesem Zusammenhang werden sie mit uns kooperieren und für awarenet ein Geschäftsmodell entwickeln. Ziel ist es, awarenet für Deutschland marktfähig zu Read more about A business model for awarenet[…]
Today, I would like to promote some else’s blog: Antje Hering, a young German woman, will be volunteering for the VSA for a whole year. She will document her hopes, experiences, challenges and outcomes here. We are very much looking forward to the news! Thank you, Antje.
The VSA was invited to take part in a technology workshop offered by SAP “Digital for Social”. It was a great workshop and I learned a lot about online fundraising and dashboard design. Both will be useful to help me enhance the awarenet platform or VSA website and to raise funds for our very next Read more about SAP technology workshop[…]
The Village Scribe Association is a non-profit organisation which developed the awarenet programme to promote computer and Internet literacy for underprivileged learners in South Africa. For technical reasons, e.g. recurrent connectivity problems, this programme uses the Internet platform awarenet. awarenet was specifically designed to meet the learners’ needs in several ways. Software development was and Read more about VSA signs MoU with its technical partners[…]
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[…]