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 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[…]
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[…]
As one of their assignments, Rhodes Journalism & Media Studies students had to do interviews in the “civic mapping” part of the course. Amber Davies, one of the students, interviewed Lindokuhle Jawa (14, photo) from CM Vellem Higher Primary School. CMV School has adopted the awarenet programme for more than two years. Here are the Read more about Interview Highlights of awarenet Learner by Rhodes University Student[…]
This year, we have started collaborating with the Rhodes University Department of Journalism and Media Studies. Rod Amner is supervising a group of third year students that will do their practical with and about our awarenet programme. Aim of the course This course was developed in response to a perceived lack of congruence between the Read more about Rhodes Journalism and Media Studies students work with and for awarenet![…]
Sanele Ntshingana, VSA volunteer and awarenet project coordinator reports about his own project: “On the 28th of April, Sunday- a group of 7 learners from Mary Waters High School who are currently doing the “Anti-littering Campaign” went to Rhodes University Journalism Department to record an Anti-littering campaign awareness audio clip. All the 7 hip, fresh Read more about awarenet anti-littering learners visit Rhodes – Africa Media Matrix[…]