Hey everyone! It’s Kim and Larissa again! You might remember us from our first post earlier this year when we were still in Germany preparing for our voluntary service. Guess what!? We are finally here! We spent the first couple of days in Port Elizabeth where we met our mentor for the Eastern Cape and Read more about We are here![…]
Howzit?! Sitting here in Berlin and enjoying the nice weather, we think it is time to introduce ourselves. This is Kim and Larissa from Germany. We are currently at Anna and Ron’s place, preparing for our voluntary service in Grahamstown. From September on, we will be working for the awarenet programme and we are totally looking forward Read more about The Next Generation of Volunteers is Coming![…]
Support our volunteer programme for the benefit of South African and German learners! (You are only two clicks away from an easy and small donation.) We developed a social development programme that helps underprivileged learners in South Africa to enhance their computer literacy along with their reading&writing skills and project work ability. We train learners Read more about Our Fundraising Campaign for the German Weltwärts Volunteers[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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![…]
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[…]