awarenet learners and VSA staff along with many, many others in Grahamstown braved the weather and joined to form a Human Chain connecting poor&rich, educated&underprivileged in the memory of Nelson Mandela and his dream of democracy and freedom. Citizens came out in large numbers to make the first Human Chain event in Grahamstown on Friday Read more about awarenet learners at the Human Chain in Grahamstown[…]
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![…]
We are very proud to announce that one of our volunteers, Nosiphiwe Ngqwala, received the Gold Award for Excellence at the Rhodes University Community Engagement 2013 Awards. RU Community Engagement lists very specific criteria that have to be fulfilled. They describe Nosie as such: “Nosiphiwe has been an active volunteer in and outside of Rhodes. Read more about VSA’s awarenet volunteer receives Gold Award for Excellence at RUCE 2013 Awards[…]
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[…]
Today, I have a message for you, from Rieke and Antje – the two Weltwaerts volunteers: “On Monday, we took the train to Berlin to meet Anna in her home and office, where our internship took place. We will stay here for 4 days to be well prepared for our voluntary service. On the first Read more about SAGE Net. volunteers busy in Berlin![…]
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![…]
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.
Terri-Lynn Penney, the VSA’s community coordinator, was approached by Rooi Rikhotso, who is interested to voluntarily assist during awareNet sessions at Grahamstown schools. He comes from Limpopo and lives in Joza now, is married, has children and works for HiTech Security. He says about himself: ” I am interested to work with kids, the youth Read more about A new volunteer to assist during awareNet sessions[…]
The VSA started a great collaboration with Rhodes’ Community Engagement. CE organised 10 volunteers who are going to work with us for the year 2011. We are very happy to welcome such a large group of motivated, young and active students. Thank you very much for your interest! The volunteers are going to join Thozi, Read more about Rhodes Community Engagement volunteers for VSA and awareNet[…]