by Rieke Heitmüller. On the 7th and the 13th of August in the afternoon, six girls from my Life Player project, my colleague Antje and I headed off towards the Rhodes University Journalism Department. After a few months of practicing to read stories in an exciting way and taking part in drama sessions, we finally Read more about New Life Player stories recorded by awarenet students[…]
This video shows how the German volunteers help us within the awarenet programme, what they learn during their year in South Africa and why we need funding. The awarenet programme is designed to teach computer literacy to underprivileged learners as well as reading&writing and project work in an intuitive manner. We use an online platform Read more about A video about the Weltwaerts Volunteers in the awarenet programme[…]
by Rieke and Antje From the 18th to the 25th of July the event “Trading Live for Mandela Day” took place all over Grahamstown. The basic idea for Trading Live is that all Rhodes staff, students and community organizations donate 67 minutes of their time to build new relationships in the community. All members of the community could Read more about VSA takes part in Trading Live for Mandela-Day[…]
All the songs of the awarenet Peace Project 2013 are recorded and the CDs are produced. Congratulations! The CD was released on the first day of the Grahamstown Arts Festival 2014, on Thursday, the 3rd of July 2014 during a small celebration party for all people involved and our partners, supporters and friends. The event Read more about awarenet CDs are produced and were given out at the launch party[…]
The new volunteers, Julia and Lukas along with their SAGE Net. fellows, have completed their introductory seminar. Traditionally, all Weltwaerts volunteers have to attend a 10 day seminar to learn about the culture, heritage, people and challenges in their host country as well as about general issues such as appropriate behaviour, security and media use. Read more about New SAGE Net. volunteers successfully prepared![…]
Were are very proud to have shaped a learning network that is especially designed for African learners and educators. Together with the IT company eKhaya ICT, we are constantly working on enhancing the software and functions, partners provide excellent content to the social platform, which we help to integrate in a useful manner. Another recent Read more about cMinds integration into awarenet[…]
As Anna mentioned in her post of the 26. of February, VSA was looking for two new volunteers to join the awarenet team in Grahamstown. And here we are! Our names are Julia (Julia’s blog) and Lukas. Julia is 23 years old and was born in Austria. Three years ago she moved to Munich for Read more about Preparation course with Anna[…]
All the songs of the awarenet Peace Project 2013 are recorded and the CDs are produced. Congratulations! The CD will be released on the first day of the Grahamstown Arts Festival 2014, on Thursday, the 3rd of July 2014 during a small celebration party for all people involved and our partners, supporters and friends. The Read more about awarenet Peace Song Collection 2013 CD Release Party[…]
We are very happy to announce that the VSA will finally move into the Joza Youth Hub in Joza, Grahamstown. Most of the other stakeholders are already well established and offer their services to the underprivileged youth, so we are looking forward to collaborate with them in a great and useful space, closer to the Read more about VSA’s move into the Joza Youth Hub and revived collaborations[…]
by Antje Hering. Rhodes University’s Community Engagement Week ran from the 5th to the 9th of May in Grahamstown. A colourful programme consisting of education activities, youth dialogues, development workshops and panel discussions was provided to the visitors. All departments and student organizations involved in Community Engagement initiatives as well as community partners set up Read more about awarenet at Community Engagement Week[…]