We supported our partner SAGE Net. this year at the Christmas Market in Berlin Rixdorf. It’s not just any Christmas Market, but remarkable in that only NGOs and public benefit organisations are allowed to sell their goods or services to make the visitors aware of their work and existence. This gives the market a special Read more about SAGE Net. at the Berlin Christmas Market[…]
For the first time, we attended the Weltwärts Partner Conference, which was organised by SAGE Net. for all partners in South Africa to discuss the partnership between North (Germany) and South (South Africa). It started on Wednesday, the 12th of November 2014, went on for 3 days and took place in Port Elizabeth. Other partners came from Read more about At the Weltwärts Partner Conference[…]
After the great success of the awarenet Peace Day Concert, Sonic Art Studio and us started to organise the recording of the five different awarenet Peace Songs in the Rhodes University’s recording studios. The use of the facilities was a donation of the Department of Music and Musicology to the awarenet Peace and Music Project. During November, all Read more about Recording the awarenet Peace Songs at Rhodes University[…]
On the 19th of October the Rhodes University Community Engagement (RUCE) department invited VSA to participate in the annual planning meeting. Dr Theresa Edlmann from the Rhodes History department was leading the discussion. The debate focussed on the relations between the different NGOs and the volunteers. We started with writing down different wishes of both Read more about Annual planning meeting RUCE[…]
We are very happy and proud that our 3rd awarenet Peace Day Concert was another great success! For this year’s Music & Peace Project, 5 different groups of awarenet learners worked hard to write a song to a new backing produced by Corinne Cooper (Rhodes University’s Music Department). Schools participating were CM Vellem HPS, Good Read more about The 2014 awarenet Peace Day Concert a great Success![…]
Anna Wertlen (VSA chairperson) and Antje Hering (ex SAGE Net. volunteer) presented the awarenet programme and Mrs Hering’s year in Grahamstown to the members of the Rotary Club of Pirna (Germany) on September 24, 2014. The aim of the presentation was to showcase the planned project in partnership with the Technical University of Dresden (Saxony). Read more about awarenet Presentation at the Rotary Club in Pirna (Germany)[…]
Hi! I’m Lukas and I’m the new Sage Net volunteer for VSA in Grahamstown. For the next year I will post some personal experiences and impressions. Hamburg – London – Johannesburg – Port Elizabeth. After 20 hours of travelling I finally arrived in Port Elizabeth on the 23/09/14, where I was picked up and brought Read more about May the journey begin[…]
We are proud to announce that last Saturday, the aerial mast at the Joza Youth Hub was erected to serve the partners in the Hub and their customers – the learners of Joza, Grahamstown. The 12 m mast is a 165 kg galvanised steel lattice. The partners in the Joza Hub will use it to Read more about The Joza Youth Hub has its own aerial mast now![…]
by Rieke Heitmüller. “After graduation from school, I was thinking about a way to get to know another country and other cultures from a different perspective than a tourist. The ‘weltwärts’ – program and Sage Net. gave me the opportunity to work for the Village Scribe Association in South Africa, Grahamstown for one year. I Read more about My year in South Africa by Rieke Heitmüller[…]
by Rieke Heitmüller “On Thursday, the 28th of August 2014, we finally reached the last phase of the LifePlayer project. Therefore Antje Hering, two Victoria Girls High School learners from the LifePlayer project (Siphosethu Mboleka and Yamkela Mcatsha) and I headed off towards Samuel Ntsiko Primary School in Joza, Grahamstown. For one hour in the Read more about awarenet and LifePlayer Project successfully repeated[…]