Last weekend Max and Xenia (the new volunteers from Germany) arrived in Grahamstown. Since then we have been busy showing them everything they need to know or might want to know. All that time I was trying to recall how I felt seeing all those things for the first time. It feels so distant already, Read more about Goodbye Grahamstown[…]
On the 6th of July, an excited bunch of awarenet learners trekked down the hill to see “Themba’s dream”, one of the multitude of shows Grahamstownians are treated to during the Arts’ festival. The learners in question were the winners of the awarenet Sports Day competitions in soccer and netball, so after all that running Read more about awarenet Champs were invited to Festival[…]
VSA AGM 2017 – Minutes 24.07.17 18 pm Martin-Luther-Str. 78, 10825 Berlin, Germany 6 Durban Street, Grahamstown, 6139, South Africa Welcome and excused Delayed start at 18:38 pm due to technical problems. Present: Anna Wertlen Ronald Wertlen Kjetil Torp Chiara Brendel Lukas Hüneke Sarah Hanton Excused: Christoph Flügge Judith Flügge Treasurer’s report Annual Read more about The VSA AGM and Annual Report of 2017[…]
„I’m always the one writing the personal blogposts“ Lukas complains, sitting next to me on a couch at the Wild Coast, Mdumbi to be precise. I laugh and offer him to write it. He smiles and refuses. This is one of the moments when I’m aware what one year means: There must have been 20 Read more about A last month’s melancholy[…]
Hello, We are Max and Xenia! This August we will go to Grahamstown in South Africa for 365 days. There we will volunteer at the Village Scribe Association which is teaching underpriviliged children how to use PCs and the Internet. We won´t come unprepared though, because we attended the Sage Net preparation seminar in Bad Breisig Read more about Introduction: The new volunteers are coming.[…]
The first term is already over. It was a busy time and because we had a few beginner groups, it was also challenging. Some children didn’t even know how to move their mouse, so we stuck to teaching the basics. A lot of things changed during this term, most of them for the better. In Read more about Our first term and journalism project[…]
During late March, Chiara and I had to leave Kjetil alone at the office to spend a week at the Wortelgat Outreach Trust camp site and conference center close to Hermanus in the Western Cape. There we attended the midterm seminar of our sending organization. While the timing was not very good for us we Read more about SAGE Net. Mid-term Seminar 2017[…]
The Puku Story Festival is a festival that is annually held in Grahamstown at settlers monument but this year it was held in the literature museum in Durban street. It took place from the 21st until 25th of february. The festival is basically about enriching our culture through reading and listening to stories and poetry. Read more about “We were treated like celebrities” – Puku Story festival 2017[…]
Goood means that you can now cancel your contract with your current cellphone service provider and change to goood, a new service provider that offers affordable service and wants to change the world by supporting non-profit organisations that are engaged in social impact projects like us, the VSA. If only 1% of the Germans would Read more about The VSA is goood![…]
For the fifth time, the VSA joined SAGE Net.’s selection day. Four years in a row already, volunteers from Germany have supported the awarenet programme by coming over to Grahamstown to work with us for an entire year. We are grateful, but even more proud of our successful cooperation with SAGE Net. Together, we believe Read more about Selection Day for our weltwärts volunteers for 2017/18[…]