Since the beginning of this year, we are hosting OLICO maths lessons in the computer lab of D.D. SIWISA Primary School. Two groups, each consisting of three maths tutors teach the learners mathematics four times a week.The lessons are going very well since the learners are diligent and the WiFi connection and the computers are Read more about New school added to Awarenet’s maths program[…]
Last Weekend, Awarenet hosted a maths tutors training at Rhodes University Faculty of Education in cooperation with Thabiso, a OLICO maths trainer and coordinator from the OLICO maths education foundation in Johannesburg. The OLICO training started on Saturday with the more theoretical aspects of teaching. First we revised the basic structure of a lesson, as Read more about OLICO tutors training at Rhodes University[…]
Since the 24th of January, Awarenet is back to hosting both Robotics and Coding and OLICO maths lessons in the Open Labs of the Joza Youth Hub. Every Friday when the robotics lessons take place, learners from several high schools in Joza Township come to enjoy the nice environment and to learn something fun. In Read more about Full action in Awarenet’s computer labs![…]
Last Monday, the first maths lesson of the new year took place at Tantyi Primary School. On January 21st, the new grade 7s at Tantyi Public School were introduced to us and the OLICO maths programme for the first time. In the first quarter of the lesson, the learners played a little warm-up game in Read more about First OLICO maths lesson of the new year at Tantyi Public School[…]
Last week, several Social Employment Fund participants of Awarenet were interviewed to share their experiences working in the SEF programme. This part is about Thimna Tembela’s story and the impact the Social Employment Fund had on her life: When Thimna Tembela was still a learner at Mary Waters she attended tutoring sessions at Ikamva Youth Read more about Social Employment Fund Interview: Thimna Tembela[…]
After a school holiday the afterschool activities are starting to come into action again, one of them being the OLICO maths program. On the 2nd of October the SDA primary school was finally able to participate in the program again, using the computers in the Open Lab at the Joza Youth Hub. The two German Read more about The OLICO maths program in action[…]
We are Benjamin Wertlen and Benjamin Wilhelm, the new volunteers from the German government-supported “weltwaerts”-program. Both of us are going to do voluntary work at Awarenet for a year. We will also be assisting the staff in various tasks and taking care of online communication including for instance uploads on the Awarenet facebook account and Read more about Our first week at Awarenet[…]
We were recently able to distribute tablets we received from the Cacadu Development Agency to be used in the Olico maths program which Awarenet has been implementing since 2022. Last Thursday we took a site visit to see how our Social Employment Fund participants incorporate the tablets during their maths tutoring lessons at the George Read more about Tablets for Olico maths program[…]
Awarenet has for the second year in a row been contracted to coordinate the Social Employment Fund among 17 non profit organisations in Makhanda! The project provides government funding for previously unemployed community members to work in a multitude of organisations which primarily work in the after-school sector; among other things helping learners achieve academic, Read more about Social Employment Fund – part 2![…]
Awarenet is also in 2023 giving learners in Makhanda the opportunity to participate in the Olico mathematics program. This program was a great success in 2022 as grade 8 and 9 learners dramatically improved their mathematical skills through the Olico program’s well-proven method of combining online training with the presence of tutors who use innovative Read more about Olico maths training 2023[…]