On Friday, the 14th of February – for most people also known as Valentine’s Day – we arranged a Campaign “Spread the love” in conjunction with an organization from Cape Town “Live’s Magic” which campaigns for a good environment and respect between people. Their idea was to spread love by inspiring people to hug each Read more about The Live’s Magic and awarenet Love Campaign[…]
Rhodes students’ have documented the awarenet Peace Concert this year. We thank them wholeheartedly! The awarenet Peace Concert took place in Grahamstown, South Africa, and was an event initiated by the Village Scribe Association as part of the awarenet programme to enhance computer & Internet literacy, reading & writing of underprivileged learners. The learners have Read more about Video Documentary about the awarenet Peace Concert 2013[…]
We proudly present: A video explaining the awarenet programme. It was filmed and edited by a group of Rhodes University’s Journalism and Media Studies students. Give us your comment. We would love to hear if it explains the programme well. If yes, please recommend it to other teachers, schools and learners! 🙂 Thank you.
On Friday, the 15. of November 2014, the Joza Youth Hub in Joza-Grahamstown was officially opened after years of discussions and planning by a lot of very dedicated people in Grahamstown. First one to name is Diana Hornby of the Rhodes University’s Community Engagement Independent Institute, who also opened the event alongside Executive Mayor Peter Read more about Joza Youth Hub officially opened![…]
A large group of Journalism and Media Sudies students from Rhodes University Grahamstown have put a lot of work into promoting the awarenet programme and platform. It has been a great collaboration as the students seemed to have fun reporting about us and we are so grateful for the much needed promotion! Here are a Read more about Rhodes University’s Journalism Students promote awarenet.[…]
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[…]
We can proudly announce that the second annual awarenet Peace Day Concert took place and was a huge success. Some people might complain now that Peace Day is on the 21st and not on the 18th, but to keep the peace and to make people happy, we decided that the 18th had to be the Read more about The 2nd awarenet Peace Day Concert[…]
Since 2011, the VSA partners with Peace One Day, an NGO that invented Peace Day (21st of September) and encourages everyone in the world to take part. We have encouraged more than 50 young learners to write lyrics about peace and rap them on Peace Day 2011. We have recorded the learners and published the Read more about Who will awarenet users make Peace with?[…]
The VSA has found a great, reliable and effective partner for it’s awarenet programme with underprivileged learners over the years: Rhodes University in Grahamstown. This year, we are extremely lucky and proud to be able to say that no less than three Departments support awarenet’s current peace and music project. The Department of Journalism and Read more about Rhodes University supports awarenet’s Peace and Music Project[…]
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![…]