https://www.awarenet.org/blog daily 0.75 2026-06-05 https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2025/05/26/sef-participants-happy-with-their-experience-at-awarenet-hhgwj-bdhhz-d6t9m monthly 0.5 2026-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589481-GCW5XQ18ARCO6G8WUEIH/RX101601-scaled.jpg NEWS - SEF participants happy with their experience at Awarenet! - In total, 44 participants filled out our feedback surveys in which we asked them general and individual questions about their personal time at SEF. 84% of the participants described their time at SEF as either "excellent" or "good" and we were happy to hear that 95% of our participants felt adequately supported during their time at SEF. What is also nice to see is that the partipants gained several skills through their time at the SEF program. According to their own statements, 55% improved their communication skills and 57% gained better teamwork skills. 14% of the participants could enhance their leadership skills and 23% improved their time management. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589487-K5OPYRO0A0K7SFNST5NB/c.jpg NEWS - SEF participants happy with their experience at Awarenet! - On the question "what were the most rewarding aspects of your work?", 39% answered with "making a positive impact on the community" while 68% put their cross at "gaining work experience". For 27% the most rewarding aspect of their work was (among other things) "building relationships with team members" and for 48% of the partipants "learning new skills" was (one of) the most rewarding aspect(s) of their work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589492-FOQ397RHJLSZ3QAI1HAB/RX101661-edited-scaled.jpg NEWS - SEF participants happy with their experience at Awarenet! https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2025/04/25/end-of-the-third-round-of-the-social-employment-fund-ayfre-gbxha-elx74 monthly 0.5 2025-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589458-354XNQGS87LNEL599593/RX101562-scaled.jpg NEWS - End of the third round of the Social Employment Fund! - Firstly, we asked each of the participants to fill out a feedback form reflecting on their personal time being in the SEF programme. After that, all of us enjoyed coffeee, tea and food before Awarenet director Kjetil Torp and our Trustee and Chairperson Rod Amner held speeches looking back at the almost three years Awarenet has been part of the Social Employment Fund programme. Lastly, Awarenet gave each participant a Certificate of Service documenting their work for future job applications. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589462-8SEZPCBQN31I56GLZ1JI/RX101601-1024x680.jpg NEWS - End of the third round of the Social Employment Fund! - In these almost three years in which Awarenet has been part of the SEF programme, our participants have worked in a large spectrum of different part-time job opportunities in which they could apply their skills and learn a lot themselves. The jobs we offered mostly included educational work with children and learners. Our participants could choose between various different job opportunities such as being a mathematics or robotics tutor, functioning as a SD card project coordinator or doing administrative work in our open labs or in the school computer labs just to name a few examples. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589467-6NCK8FPDLFB4LJ0IJWF1/RX101661-1024x683.jpg NEWS - End of the third round of the Social Employment Fund! https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2025/03/20/robotics-lessons-are-now-fully-in-action-zfa6g-trmmx-62d8s monthly 0.5 2025-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589442-41E60XI4V7KQWGZ989CK/RX100053-scaled.jpg NEWS - Robotics lessons are now fully in action - In these first weeks of the new season our Robotics and Coding tutors taught the learners the operating principles of the robots as well as an overall introduction on how to program the robots the correct way. Now that the learners got the basics, they are allowed to use the robots in full action and can apply their acquired knowledge. It is always great to see when the learners are full of energy and curiosity after finally being able to get to the part which is the most fun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589446-5NGIC7NP4W97O2359X85/RX100095-scaled.jpg NEWS - Robotics lessons are now fully in action https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2025/02/26/new-school-added-to-awarenets-maths-program-fw5fe-wacea-rn5me monthly 0.5 2025-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589388-YVHWUBW1EJAOQDHTQQEY/RX109690-scaled.jpg NEWS - New school added to Awarenet's maths program - The lessons are going very well since the learners are diligent and the WiFi connection and the computers are in good condition. Since the various different topics in mathematics are strictly building upon each other, it is crucial for the learners to get the basics right. Without a well trained knowledge of arithmetic operations and other basic topics, the learners will have a hard time learning mathematics especially when it comes to more advanced content. This is why our trained maths tutors will focus on multiplication and division for now so that real progress for each learner can be guaranteed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589392-J7626UK25A555WPN3CJZ/RX109715-scaled.jpg NEWS - New school added to Awarenet's maths program - In these first sessions our tutors also already tried out the newly acquired teaching methods and little implementations which they were taught at the OLICO tutors training at Rhodes University just a few days prior. The implementation of energizers, games, competitions and more contribute to a more interesting and fun yet also focused and energetic and thus productive learning experience for the learners. The elements learned at the training could already successfully be implemented and showed great results. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589409-GD7AVFOCFRQH94DSVSZ8/RX109689-scaled.jpg NEWS - New school added to Awarenet's maths program https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589419-6G2DDK7YEHPE44DZWTD9/481123778_1062861322534609_8368747814958402531_n.jpg NEWS - New school added to Awarenet's maths program https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2025/02/25/awarenet-helps-out-the-department-of-health-ptaye-2mxsn-n6849 monthly 0.5 2025-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589330-LPQWMOSHY1A7G437WUCP/RX100128-scaled.jpg NEWS - Awarenet helps out the department of health - Through an agreement with the local department of health, Awarenet is providing part-time data capturers through the SEF program which helps the department digitalise their patient files. Also, Awarenet is providing some cleaners which helps the department with the all-important task of keeping its clinics hygienic. Ziyanda is working at the reception registering all the patients and taking care of filing while Mfundo is responsible for cleaning inside and outside the clinic but also helps wherever assistance is needed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589335-Y0DMF7C3ITWRONU2I2NT/RX100122-scaled.jpg NEWS - Awarenet helps out the department of health - Both of them got in contact with Awarenet during the second half of last year and got employed though the SEF shortly after participating and completing a work readiness workshop held by Awarenet. While Ziyanda got introduced to Awarenet via word of mouth, Mfundo heard of Awarenet for the first time by attending a music project at AMP at the Joza Youth Hub. After they finished a training at the clinic, that introduced them to all things work they got employed making the clinic staff very happy as they requested help earlier on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589354-22R5GYMO3GXWHXF2T6LM/RX100123-scaled.jpg NEWS - Awarenet helps out the department of health https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589365-B3GQDDML2B4807HKMTRV/RX100126-scaled.jpg NEWS - Awarenet helps out the department of health https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2025/02/11/olico-tutors-training-at-rhodes-university-wsct6-jnc3e-ep2m6 monthly 0.5 2025-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589307-LR3MCUS5TDZ0YCGKZ9ZM/RX100132-scaled.jpg NEWS - OLICO tutors training at Rhodes University - The OLICO training started on Saturday with the more theoretical aspects of teaching. First we revised the basic structure of a lesson, as well as what the specifics in the structure would contain, such as an energiser. These energizers are meant to get the kids motivated after a long day of school so that they can effectively participate in class. We got to experience these energisers for ourselves to get us energised as the training started in the morning hours and not everyone was fully awake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589312-N099LHXG1RYNG6GZ5L42/RX100529-scaled.jpg NEWS - OLICO tutors training at Rhodes University - Later in the day, after a lunch break we also formed 3 groups. In those groups we each presented a different topic to the other tutors, while the tutors that were being presented to ask questions they thought potential learners might ask. All in all the first day was very successful and set the groundwork for the following day, where we split into two groups, each of those groups preparing a lesson in which we'd present some of the content of a grade assigned to us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589317-GHINWWIAUEJ1HBVRKJFT/RX100779-scaled.jpg NEWS - OLICO tutors training at Rhodes University https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2025/02/04/full-action-in-the-open-labs-hmt52-altpz-w3gg8 monthly 0.5 2026-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589285-EPJOTI71S1X7JFZHD230/RX109956-scaled.jpg NEWS - Full action in Awarenet's computer labs! - Since the 24th of January, Awarenet is back to hosting both Robotics and Coding and OLICO maths lessons in the Open Labs of the Joza Youth Hub. Every Friday when the robotics lessons take place, learners from several high schools in Joza Township come to enjoy the nice environment and to learn something fun. In the first Robotics session on the 24th, the learners were taught about the different components of the LEGO Mindstorms robots while in the following lesson they were taught to assemble the robots. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589290-X18UTQJMO69DB5AYE8NR/RX109976-scaled.jpg NEWS - Full action in Awarenet's computer labs! - Mathematics lessons with the OLICO maths programme are taking place in the labs every Wednesday and Friday for one hour each. The learners from the Seventh Day Adventist Primary School use our lab or our tablets to access the online learning programme. We are happy to see that the Open Labs are being used frequently and that they are full most of the time. Seeing that our computer labs really make a difference in the community is something we are very proud of! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589294-NE5P5HKYY0CJMICCD1X6/RX103842-scaled.jpg NEWS - Full action in Awarenet's computer labs! https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2025/02/04/first-robotics-and-coding-lesson-of-2025-at-n-v-cewu-public-primary-school-hxrpz-863x6-l7wdj monthly 0.5 2025-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589261-CJMQTP8GO9XMUZJWQ4BQ/RX109927-scaled.jpg NEWS - First Robotics and Coding lesson of 2025 at N.V. Cewu Primary School - A new year means new classes and new learners full of excitement and energy. Today was the first Robotics and Coding lesson at N.V. Cewu Public Primary School. The new learners were introduced to the different components of the LEGO Mindstorms robots and were instructed to learn about them in different groups. Each group learned about different parts of the robots and their functions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589266-L1DE4B412ZNNHASNCZ92/RX109923-scaled.jpg NEWS - First Robotics and Coding lesson of 2025 at N.V. Cewu Primary School - After about 20 minutes, each group presented their results in front of the rest of the class. Some learners were a bit excited and found it difficult to speak in front of about 25 peers. Others were chatting and laughing too loud while the other groups were presenting their results. However, after the tutors intervened and restored order, the atmosphere was noticeably much more focused. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589271-WDYPQQUIOYRJT1D08UQA/RX109913-scaled.jpg NEWS - First Robotics and Coding lesson of 2025 at N.V. Cewu Primary School - Once the theoretical part is completed (in 2 to 3 weeks time), the learners will be able to apply their knowledge and be allowed to operate the robots in full action. That's when the fun for the learners really begins! Overall, the class did well considering it is the first they are exposed to robotics and coding. We are excited to see how this group will evolve and especially how this year's Robotics competitions will pan out! https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2025/02/03/first-olico-maths-lesson-of-the-new-year-at-tantyi-public-school-8fe4a-t8rxc-8tmya monthly 0.5 2025-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589238-24Q3YB4X9RAOOUT0UTJ4/RX109888-scaled.jpg NEWS - First OLICO maths lesson of the new year at Tantyi Public School - After that, the learners were shown the basics of working with the OLICO programme and each learner got their login details. Quick calculations and basic arithmetic operations are the topics for the first few weeks of the new term until we move on to multiples and factors. The learners, who have had little exposure to ICT in their schooling career so far, had a lot of fun using the tablets on which they do maths exercises in the Olico program. They therefore will not only acquire better maths skills but also improve their computer literacy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589243-1V16L767E53CELO7DJNM/RX109878-scaled.jpg NEWS - First OLICO maths lesson of the new year at Tantyi Public School - Within the next weeks and months we will focus on guiding the learners through the OLICO programme and to make sure that we cover all of the relevant topics for the grade 7s. However, since maths can be tough for learners at times, Awarenet always strives to design the lessons so they become exciting and fun. We can achieve through the implementation of little games, competitions or other challenges where the learners can be creative with numbers. That way, the learners will also find it easier to memorise the learned content and won't find the lessons too monotonous. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589248-QF74UK46RVER06YJK7VJ/RX109828-1-1024x684.jpg NEWS - First OLICO maths lesson of the new year at Tantyi Public School https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2025/01/24/work-readiness-program-in-preparation-of-a-new-year-tmllg-c4j4c-wwafr monthly 0.5 2025-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589225-5244D7W9ESVC1G2RBJEV/IMG-20250122-WA0037-scaled.jpg NEWS - Work readiness workshop in preparation of a new year - At Awarenet, we are driven by the belief that access to knowledge can transform lives. In line with our mission to empower individuals, we hosted a Work Readiness Workshop for the organisation's Social Employment Fund participants at the Joza Youth Hub in January. This three-day event was tailored to support individuals in gaining the confidence, skills, and knowledge they need to embark on successful career journeys. The workshop was a resounding success, offering practical tools and insights for participants to navigate the workforce effectively. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2025/01/23/7709-7rx7n-35r4d-xk6c8 monthly 0.5 2025-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589214-WWTF19G6HLAQ3NVPASPX/RX109806-scaled.jpg NEWS - Loyiso Dyongman's story about himself and the Open Labs - Loyiso Dyongman is a journalist and author for Times Media (Pty) Ltd writing articles for both local and national media. Born in Grahamstown he now lives in the Enkanini Informal settlement with his mother and little sister. After studying at T.E.M Mrwetyana Senior Secondary School in town he passed his matric in 2003. After that, he had to take gap years due to lack of money for further studies. He started to study for his national diploma in journalism at Walter Sisulu University in East London until he graduated in 2012. Straight after that, he started working for Grocott’s Mail for almost seven months. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2024/12/09/social-employment-fund-interview-sd-card-project-group-ffary-5wphe-8fgze monthly 0.5 2025-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589201-6VVIBW23UAX78LI72LSG/SD-Card-Project-Group-scaled.jpg NEWS - Social Employment Fund Interview: SD Card Project Group - Aphiwe, Zukhanye, and Kamvelihle matriculated from high school together. They completed their matric in 2020, where they received SD cards to assist them while studying. Just like they now curate the contents of SD cards for the learners doing their matric. After graduating, they were invited to be part of the project. Lindani is currently studying part-time at Rhodes University and has always loved giving back to his community. This project was his way of doing that. He loves the environment and the community around him, which is what originally led him to be part of the project. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2024/12/09/social-employment-fund-interview-lindokuhle-maraba-bfgcc-g8nss-gspes monthly 0.5 2025-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589188-TBZQ5MPOJ8DHWNJJ0ZVL/Lindokuhle-Maraba-scaled.jpg NEWS - Social Employment Fund Interview: Lindokuhle Maraba - While being a learner in high school, Lindokuhle Maraba was actively involved in NGO work. During her high school years, she and a friend also started a community initiative called “Global Levels”. Through the initiative Lindokuhle was helping schools in Soweto with basic infrastructure and hosted learning workshops for children to enhance literacy and revision of school content for learners. She also hosted reading activities with the learners in the local park. After high school, she joined the organisation ‘’AIESEC” which fosters leadership in youth through cross cultural exchange programmes. She was introduced to SEF when she attended a conference of The Learning Trust in Johannesburg early this year. At the conference she was inspired by a story of a SEF participant who was able to volunteer as well as start her own business while in the programme. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2024/12/02/social-employment-fund-interview-siyanda-manana-ltz7c-dx9a2-drtye monthly 0.5 2025-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589162-E5QROAU87AZF06BGL6E3/Siyanda-Manana-scaled.jpg NEWS - Social Employment Fund Interview: Siyanda Manana - After he graduated from high school, Siyanda Manana used to work as a salesman at a second hand shop in town. However, he lost his job ending up in a difficult financial position. But he did not give up and obtained a new job at a hardware store. Before joining the SEF programme, Siyanda was also a volunteering narrator at the South African Library for the Blind, a job he still does today and greatly enjoys. Last year in August a friend working at the Joza Youth Hub told him to drop his CV there because of the interesting job opportunities. After he followed his friend’s advice, Siyanda received a call for a meeting with three other applicants. At that meeting he got interviewed and first heard about the SEF programme. Because it went well, he got called two days later and was told that he could be a tutor for Robotics and Coding within the SEF programme. Happy to receive such a commitment, he joined the programme instantly. Because he had no prior experience regarding Robotics and Coding, he attended a two week training programme where he was taught all the basics of coding and programming. Siyanda started to enjoy teaching robotics very much - resulting in him winning the final competition the applicants had to absolve. As he was very interested in this completely new thematic area he was now working in, Siyanda started to do research online. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2024/12/02/social-employment-fund-interview-thimna-tembela-cn7h9-e9mml-sy4fm monthly 0.5 2025-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589176-ON82086V47SMC858Z8NB/Thimna-Tembela-scaled.jpg NEWS - Social Employment Fund Interview: Thimna Tembela - When Thimna Tembela was still a learner at Mary Waters she attended tutoring sessions at Ikamva Youth Programme. After she successfully matriculated from Mary Waters High School Thimna was a tutor at the Ikamva Tutoring Programme. That's also where she was introduced to the SEF programme for the first time. In addition to that she got the chance to be a tutor in various subjects such as maths, physical science and life science teaching at four different high schools throughout the Joza Township. Thimna still continued volunteering at Ikamva after her contract ended until Awarenet's Lab Supervisor Thanduxolo Royi met her at Ikamva in October last year and told her that Awarenet needed tutors. Because she really enjoyed teaching at Ikamva, Thimna instantly applied for the job. Thimna used to tutor grade 11-12 until the OLICO maths program was introduced to her. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2024/10/16/world-robotics-olympiad-provincial-competition-rcxb7-3y6hx-n5945-s4kyb-awfd4-2f2gs-6fxhz-r9gra-kb5p7-8es99-kzw5f-kdwj6 monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589145-VEXVCESP37WUBEY233X1/r1.jpg NEWS - World Robotics Olympiad Provincial Competition - One of the goal of the learners is to move different objects on the mat to their correct destination using only the robots which acquires not only a lot of focus, concentration and communication but most importantly teamwork and mutual agreement. All of the learners from each team have to work together as all share the same goals and only through consultation it is possible to really raise the odds of winning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589149-FRCE59JA5UTP7A8LXF2W/r2.jpg NEWS - World Robotics Olympiad Provincial Competition - Our tutors train the learners to sustainably improve their skills and knowledge and to have fun doing so. While competitions are a great tool to bring the newly gained methods to the test, they are only a part of the training pathway of the learners. The main goal of Awarenet when it comes to Robotics and Coding is not to get the learners to win every competition but to provide fun and educational courses where all learners can explore the exciting new world of coding which might provide many opportunities for them in the future. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2024/10/11/the-olico-maths-program-in-action-32g2d-nbjks-esm8c-kadk6-cj7fe-6esmb-ts2ml-6zdy5-tl2d9-3rn9l-rtw3g-ebwlc monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589127-QIQ56SZ26CQPSISWM6NR/RX103698-1-scaled.jpg NEWS - The OLICO maths program in action - After a school holiday the afterschool activities are starting to come into action again, one of them being the OLICO maths program. On the 2nd of October the SDA primary school was finally able to participate in the program again, using the computers in the Open Lab at the Joza Youth Hub. The two German volunteers were using this as an opportunity to help out the tutors and to make pictures to document the program. This afternoon program is usually very full and that day was no different. The group is so big that they occupy both open computer labs at the Joza Youth Hub. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589132-JFRMPR3FGCP7FQ6L34PN/1.jpg NEWS - The OLICO maths program in action - The OLICO program represents an amazing opportunity for learners to prepare for upcoming maths tests, get a friendly introduction to new topics in maths and presents an opportunity for those who are struggling with their maths to be on an even level with their peers. It also allows the learners to learn maths in a more stress free, low stakes environment, where they don’t have the pressure of upcoming tests weighing on them and instead can concentrate on understanding the content of the maths lessons at their own pace. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2024/09/19/robotics-in-full-swing-at-makana-public-primary-school-5sk3y-zbyl7-z8sj3-wmr3c-jbf75-6xakb-sf9fw-7wxe2-32eda-dgk6f-r826x-677mg monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589110-0NUXK7W8CLSNHFAPHUIN/Robotics-Makana-3.jpg NEWS - Robotics in full swing at Makana Public Primary School - Robotics lessons at Makana Public Primary School are being carried on successfully as new learners join the course regularly. On Monday the 16th of September, the two new German volunteers of Awarenet visited the course for the first time and were surprised that so many students were there, especially completely new ones. It was noticeable that the atmosphere was diverting yet focused at the same time, resulting in the fact that the learners did not only learn something new but also had fun doing so. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589115-QRKR88T7IKHMZYJ1YUCX/2.jpg NEWS - Robotics in full swing at Makana Public Primary School - The robots need to be assembled, coded and aligned properly on the floor to name just a few tasks the learners need to follow. Every time before the robot is programmed, the learners have to calculate the path the robot is going to take - this acquires not only concentration but also strategic thinking. Our Robotics courses also highlight the importance of teamwork and communication between each other as it is simply not possible for one learner to complete all of the tasks alone. All of the learners can share their suggestions and need to accept others' opinions. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2024/09/16/our-first-week-at-joza-e4yzg-hstde-trh9j-834c5-ca7d7-b2bza-agp27-xe6zx-neddk-c52eb-tf8lm-e62be monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589096-AQYYW4BY2JV0XJXXU342/RX101177-scaled.jpg NEWS - Our first week at Awarenet - We are Benjamin Wilhelm and Benjamin Wertlen, the new volunteers from the German government-supported "weltwaerts"-program. Both of us are going to do voluntary work at Awarenet for a year. We will also be assisting the staff in various tasks and taking care of online communication including for instance uploads on the Awarenet facebook account and helping learners with the OLICO maths program. In the following we are going to give a little insight about our first week in Makhanda and at the Joza Youth Hub. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2024/08/08/new-round-of-social-employment-fund-sef-new-opportunities-tflgw-aymm9-96kxe-exy56-ydxzl-g9gxy-r6epa-f5t58-69wxd-ftapg-ystbz-8efbn monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589073-5N1W4VITGHDA4OVC8U86/a.jpg NEWS - New round of Social Employment Fund (SEF) - new opportunities - Twelve SEF participants started their new work at the Department of Health in Makhanda doing data capturing. During their work time they work on medical files from clinics from and around Makhanda. This is an important job since changing from physical medical records to digital ones is an important step in improving the infrastructure of the health system in the Eastern Cape. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2024/08/08/tablets-for-olico-maths-program-6afcs-lct26-6tary-bnx93-7tkgm-p6t6a-7czcg-dha97-x5pg7-95ppb-7222d-9xfhz monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589085-8SMDXOBJ3TW50ESYIJI9/a.jpg NEWS - Tablets for Olico maths program - Last Thursday we took a site visit to see how our Social Employment Fund participants incorporate the tablets during their maths tutoring lessons at the George Dickerson Primary School. Instead of working with the Olico maths paper booklets the tutors now tutor the learners on the same topics, but digitally. While a booklet can get lost at home or easily damaged, the tablets are safely stored at school and only handed out when used for accessing the Olico maths website. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2024/07/01/robotics-trial-competition-xrp3s-s92gg-2lwp6-xlmws-22mj6-xj8tp-fca9c-cr3tp-e74sc-x62mt-t3596-k53ce monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589054-YHY5IIOSUIOFEVTBT5O8/4.jpg NEWS - Robotics Trial Competition - On the 25th of May Awarenet hosted another fun and exciting robotics competition at the Joza Youth Hub. This Competition was not a friendly one this time around it was a trial competition to choose teams that will represent their schools and Awarenet at this year's World Robotics Olympiad S.A Provincial competition. We had a turnout of 12 high school learners as this trial competition was more for them this time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589060-CR05O4HPA0J3JIMUVL5H/5.jpg NEWS - Robotics Trial Competition - The learners were excited and focused at the same time as neither of them wanted to lose the chance to be chosen to go to the Provincial competition. We had judges for that day and coaches with the help of our Social Employment Fund participants who also teach these learners robotics. Out of the 12 learners, we chose 9 learners that will participate in Provincial Competition. The WRO Competition will take place here in Makhanda on the 2nd of August 2024. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2024/04/22/free-sd-cards-for-the-community-gdhac-hrnr4-tddfm-zf95z-5ek6c-99bzf-mjbpe-6xsnc-kbpbr-f459g-6h7gm-4pj4s monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589036-ZCANCDTE88FG863VTBH5/7.jpg NEWS - Free SD Cards for the Community - One of Awarenet's current projects involves the distribution of SD cards in the community of Rhini. These SD cards have been packed with audiobooks, learning media and other entertaining media for children and young teenagers. The goal of this project is to encourage the youth to read and offer them a free opportunity for extracurricular education. Earlier this year, the project ran a test with 5 families with multiple children around this age. After successful results, we are happy to announce the second run of this project including around 150 families in the community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589041-D6ZHQ0MHLON2ILVDIW6A/8.jpg NEWS - Free SD Cards for the Community - We recently met with some families to introduce the media that has been downloaded on the SD cards and to hand over some of the SD cards. What makes this project so promising is, that the families will not just get the SD cards handed over but also get the opportunity to get help introducing the SD cards into their homes. Participants of our Talking Technology to Power project will be visiting thefamilies in their homes and will offer help by explaining how the SD cards work. This also allows us to see the results of this project and also hear from the families first hand how the SD cards influenced their lives so far and also allows us to know if there are any improvements we could strive for. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2024/03/28/friendly-highschool-robotics-competition-k5fs7-h2yhm-46587-74rcd-4ypj9-ggy95-6jtb8-dxkah-j5tz9-5757y-gnx85-hya3y monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589010-FU7S1A5CDKYOYM1CY9TD/9.jpg NEWS - Friendly High School Robotics Competition - We recently hosted our second friendly competition of the year. Seeing how many learners showed up to watch the competition and support their participating friends was great. In this competition, learners from the Ikamva Youth were competing against a group from Awarenet. Both teams consist of learners from different schools around the area, but all participate in our robotics program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589015-PJ9LJVW5HLMLU003DS7U/10.jpg NEWS - Friendly High School Robotics Competition - After the competition, we asked 3 learners aged 13 and 14 some questions about the competition. They told us they knew about the competition through friends and because some of them are participating in the robotics program themselves. All learners agreed on the fact, that they'll definitely attend the next competition as well. What they liked the most about the competition was how interesting and fun it was to watch their friends competing. The three friends we interviewed also mentioned how proud of their competing friends they are. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650589021-BC5ZHBECIJZO0PX6YM70/11.jpg NEWS - Friendly High School Robotics Competition - The winners of this friendly robotics competition were Asemahle Mancam (14), Lindokuhle Adam (15) and Anathi Khelekethe (15) also known as Team Awarenet. The learners are in grades 8 and 9 of Nombulelo Secondary School and Mrwetyana Secondary School. After their incredible performance, the learners were proud of their success and enjoyed how challenging the competition was. According to the group, especially coding the colour sensor of the robot was the hardest part. Team Awarenet are no amateurs but rather robotics competition veterans as they have been to many competitions before this one. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2024/02/16/expanding-the-robotics-program-in-joza-8lp2b-gf9ra-zj2s5-94569-exy44-yk7ee-k7gfw-rn2ky-3667k-827wf-6ph9k-86jyb monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588997-6BCQTIP4XNGDE2WV1EW7/IMG_9902.jpg NEWS - Expanding the Robotics program in Joza - The Robotics program allows learners to learn about simple coding by teaching them how to code a small robot to fulfil certain tasks. While introducing the program in the new classes of our partner schools we were happy to see that almost all learners were interested in signing up. So far, our robotics program has included 5 primary schools: C.M Vellem, Tantyi Primary School, Cewu Primary School, Archie Mbolekwa Primary School and Makana Primary School and two high schools, Nombulelo and Mrwetyana SSS. The Robotics program has allowed some outstanding learners to obtain enough knowledge to participate in country-wide competitions. Besides that, the learners will also be able to participate in the in-house competitions we organize occasionally. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2024/01/26/annual-general-meeting-fnn8r-8mdht-dmp4t-cys7a-xe23w-fb46d-jm9e7-bl296-rran4-kpe3j-4954m-tddg3 monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2024/01/23/talking-technology-to-power-2-pmwlt-scs78-m4ppa-ycwjn-4h7tc-sn3rw-s6kxt-nz285-pnpbj-lwjzx-jkejy-2xp84 monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588963-BY9IRHONM2MNUW7W91WD/13.png NEWS - Talking Technology to Power - Remember when our parents reminded us of the uses of Social Media?? How would they constantly warn us of the dangers these popular Social Media platforms pose to us as their kids and how we’re expected to conduct ourselves and the content we post? It makes you think, doesn’t it? Well, today we are not going to be your parents or teachers. We are here to remind you of the dangers AS well as the good side of Social Media and the way you represent yourself on Social Media. Let us first talk about one of the most used applications(Platforms) in Southern Africa: Facebook is the first platform I am going to be briefly going into. A whopping 30 Million citizens of Southern Africa. That is 21.4% of the users being your age group. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588968-O70QU5VEOH5ZM0MWVZ6S/14.png NEWS - Talking Technology to Power - Another group that flourished was our Media/Lebone group. One of the aims and objectives of this group is to introduce certain households to the use of enriching programs as well as educational material as well. Last year, the group introduced 5 households, households that live in a semi-urban neighbourhood, to the program, giving the parents 64 and 32 GigaByte memory cards filled with content the young ones could consume. The group this year aims at increasing the number of five households to 50. The group is quite excited about this initiative as it's another year of doing what they love. Another cluster that TTP has and is on the ground doing revolutionary work is IQONGA. This group works hand in hand with some researchers at the Environmental, Learning and Research Centre at Rhodes University, taking up space in the hopes of translating some high school textbooks to IsiXhosa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588974-MGONNO6HRXSQOF4C2ISR/15.png NEWS - Talking Technology to Power - Another group that does astounding work is the TTP Research, Advocacy and Media Club. It comprises mostly of three members and they would be in charge of the Media surrounding the group: The Research that the group aims to use and finally Advocate on the digital divide our quaint little town is subjected to, more specifically the location. The group has a series of podcasts ready to be released this year and a few more in the works. Focuses on topics related to the digital disparities the community faces, the inequalities that are being perpetuated against our schools and the disregard our leaders have. The separate clusters make the big group, TTP, a group of young active citizens of Makhanda. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2023/10/31/the-podcast-of-our-learners-and-us-students-78fll-z2yfc-2nexk-k7hyg-tc7xp-mker9-msbda-ycmxs-eykj5-cbd9s-fmxps-ahyam monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588939-ELCQ5HHTAJIY800BWALD/16.jpg NEWS - Youth find common ground across the Atlantic - High school learners from two very different countries - South Africa and the US - shared their experiences of school and life during a marathon two-hour Zoom organised by Inkululeko and supported by Awarenet's Talking Technology to Power project. Eight learners from a technical high school in Syracuse, New York, met with 12 learners from Ntsika and Nyaluza high schools. The atmosphere at the School of Journalism and Media Studies venue was chill and relaxed. Before the meeting started, we enjoyed the pizzas, chips and soft drinks. In the first half of the meeting, the learners asked the students in the US questions they collected beforehand. These questions ranged from what after-school activities the US students are offered to how safe they feel in their schools regarding gun safety and the too often occurring school shootings in the US. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588944-EWEHO1IUIG8DJ10S7I5J/17.jpg NEWS - Youth find common ground across the Atlantic - It was noticeable, that the learners of this group were very concerned about the safety of the students and had many questions regarding that topic. However, the US students assured them that they know of the safety concerns but still would not say they feel unsafe at school for that reason. All schools and universities have safety measures like metal detectors at entry points and on-campus security guards. The learners were also interested in the experiences of black learners in school and the wider district. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588950-Z7V0M3D8EG10IGQDKZIY/18.jpg NEWS - Youth find common ground across the Atlantic - That topic was a smooth transition into the second phase of the meeting, in which learners now answered the questions the US students collected. A huge part of the second phase of the meeting revolved around social issues the South African learners face in their schools. Peer pressure, drug abuse and teen pregnancies seem to be the biggest issues the learners face. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2023/10/18/wro-robotics-in-house-competition-38hmz-ht7b2-rkglg-kjhys-hybmb-rz8y8-3srrn-lxbzk-8hsfn-gxrk6-lsa66-rd87e monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588915-COJLBI8AVPFQJ7ANMG4L/19.jpg NEWS - WRO Robotics In-house Competition - On Saturday morning we hosted the first WRO Robotics (World Robotics In-house Olympiad) Competition this year. A lot of learners from different schools around the neighbourhood and friends of the participants also attended the competition to root for their favourite teams. The three Robotics groups came together on Saturday and worked in groups of 4-7 to make their robots fulfil certain tasks. For example, figuring out how to push a ball off a ramp at a specific angle and strength or how to push cubes into posing as containers into the Ships printed on the competition mat. During the tasks, the participants work on their own and without the help of their tutors. It was unbelievably impressive to see how well they operated their robots and how they corrected their programming mistakes on their own when needed. At the end of the competition, there was lunch for everybody attending. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588920-PRTDNW5RC3HA15JWT0ZW/20.jpg NEWS - WRO Robotics In-house Competition - The winner of this last competition was the group from Cewu Primary School. The 7th graders Liyabona Balani (12), Avethandwa Adam (13), Chuma Adam (13), Mahle Mvalo (13), Meleza Zweni (13), Lindokuhle Adam (14) and Olwethu Tesana (13) successfully programmed their robots to fulfil all given tasks. After their victory, they told me how anxious and nervous they were before the competition n, even though they all had multiple robotics lessons together with their tutor before. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588925-IE2OBFNBXILZAO4N4PK0/21.jpg NEWS - WRO Robotics In-house Competition - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2023/10/02/social-employment-fund-part-2-647wf-xs9xw-3j6yf-jjjwe-8hp5h-77822-w6lrx-t29hw-g8a4l-xayer-gj24w-4rsgy monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588895-M5IKRFRKNUDPOOGR3ZWQ/22.jpg NEWS - Social Employment Fund - part 2! - Awarenet has for the second year in a row been contracted to coordinate the Social Employment Fund among 17 non profit organisations in Makhanda! The project provides government funding for previously unemployed community members to work in a multitude of organisations which primarily work in the after-school sector; among other things helping learners achieve academic, sport and musical skills. Overall 200 people are being employed in this round of the project which started in August and will last until the end of May 2024; 40 of these work at Awarenet proper while an additional 160 are being administered by Awarenet but have their workplaces in other organisations such as Access Music Project, St Mary's Development and Care Centre, Inkululeko and Child Welfare to mention a few. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588901-PDA8LVKANRHCNFZOK85E/IMG_1055-scaled.jpg NEWS - Social Employment Fund - part 2! - We are happy that our long-time funder and supporter the Learning Trust again has shown us the confidence and trust to manage this demanding but impactful and exiting project which gives us the opportunity to both combat unemployment and to increase the resources offered to local school learners and youth. It has been inspiring to see the employed participants of the project make use of their talents and abilities and also gain new skills for the larger benefit of the community. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2023/10/02/my-first-week-at-awarenet-ezws5-5g8fc-4fhj8-ck9eb-rb47j-ze8hn-p2bzx-8e4yd-g9zym-d6tmb-jxm8l-kw4xa monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588870-CF2S5VIYYP8OW1ULYUCH/a.jpg NEWS - My first week at Awarenet - On Monday Thanduxolo - the Awarenet robotics coordinator started training our new members of the robotics team. By giving them various tasks on what the robot should do, the trainees coded the robot accordingly. Having more trained coding specialists as part of the Robotics team means that Awarenet will be able to offer the robotics program extensively and allow more children to take part. The Robotics and Coding Program is a fun way of introducing children to the world of coding and IT, we are therefore happy happy to welcome our new trainers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588875-1WP2J2KSICMG382GQYA5/s.jpg NEWS - My first week at Awarenet - The Robotics and Coding Program recently recruited the youngest learners so far to the program. At the Makana Primary School, a group of enthusiastic and motivated 4 and 5 graders were introduced to the world of coding. Together with the help of the trainers, they found ways to make the robot operate certain tasks like moving forward or taking a turn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588881-OL3306WPMBYRY5GXI4M5/a.jpg NEWS - My first week at Awarenet - At the Olico maths training, 8 graders took part in a nationwide online maths competition. During the competition, the learners had to solve 15 multiplication tasks as fast as they could. Unfortunately, the nationwide record of 11 seconds was not broken, but I was still impressed by some of the learners results. The maths training took place at the Ikamva Youth Computer Lab at Nombulelo High School. Learners of multiple schools around the neighbourhood and the host high school came together to attend the training. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2023/09/19/rejuvenating-rivers-awareness-event-2n4db-c55y4-h9w7b-46by5-p8h8g-7y84w-z7lf7-h38w3-ryxfz-s5m2t-xz75k-syw66 monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588858-5WRRH9OESZV6Q2JHG4GV/f.jpg NEWS - Rejuvenating Rivers awareness event - On the 9th of September 2023, Awarenet and Inkululeko co-hosted a Rejuvenating Rivers awareness event at Vukani location. Learners from our after school programs as well as the community of Vukani Location were all invited to join the event. The purpose of the event was to inform the community about the project as well as to ask for their assistance in cleaning the river that we chose to adopt which is the river that runs through the area down Belmont Valley. We also invited the Ward 13 councilor to the event as he helped mobolise the community members. The crowd was also addressed by Ms. Helen Hollerman who has a passion for the river rescue project. Issues such as water and sewage problems were addressed as well as the impact the river has on Vukani residents. The event was more of an information sessions were discussions were had to note issues as well as come with solutions on how to help solve those issues. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2023/08/31/wro-robotics-competition-d7l7n-3e226-llggf-5tskx-ga5ka-kespd-3kxww-kybmj-swl2l-rld4c-fbppr-sfmae monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588840-W19ANSZXSTVWQ810FX1S/IMG_1463-scaled.jpg NEWS - WRO Robotics Competition - On the 5th of August, Awarenet took 9 learners to a World Robotic Olympiad competition at Kingswood College. The competition serves as a qualifier for the national competition in Gauteng which in turn qualifies teams for the international Robotic Olympiad. The best of the Awarenet robotics teams took part in this competition which was the first official one for our learners - hence they were all very excited. The teams they competed against came from Makhanda and other towns in the Eastern and Western Cape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588845-6BV0Z82UTTDIFNOSYP05/h.jpg NEWS - WRO Robotics Competition - In order to win the teams had to show their coding skills by programming the robots to move in different objections on a mat and move objects in the process. Unfortunately, our learners couldn't make it to the national competition, but one team managed to get a bronze certificate for the high score they got as a team. We are looking forward to host more in-house competitions in October for all our learners who are part of the Awarenet robotics in the 5 schools we currently teach the robotics and coding programme. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2023/08/17/awarenet-matric-class-outing-m346e-3fy5c-wcbdk-87zg8-8m8yb-wwe8y-z3rdw-48xaa-m8rzm-5yywf-2xykf-4pfr8 monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588820-7QFJ8EQX8A1SFYA343RR/j.jpg NEWS - Awarenet matric class outing - On the 7th of July 2023, Awarenet took its Matric class for a day outing to eMpekweni beach resort. The purpose of the trip was to reconnect with our learners as we had not really seen them regularly this year. The learners had expressed that they have their normal classes daily, afternoon classes as well as catch up classes during weekends so they barely had enough time to come for sessions or even focus on other things except classes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588826-XP3Y6E6TRFVO00L0A3S4/k.jpg NEWS - Awarenet matric class outing - All learners spoke about furthering their studies next year so we were helping them with university applications. Three staff members were there assisting the learners with various applications at most of the South African Universities that had not reached the application deadlines. After the applications were done, we had a nice buffet lunch at the resort's lounge and thereafter learners were free to partake in any activity that they were interested in. Some of the activities included swimming, canoeing, volleyball, squash as well as playing snoeker. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2023/07/05/robotics-competition-aeezw-pdj8a-bfzyz-t2rwd-hs5mx-zf9w7-y77be-e9xn8-6846t-pf7h2-6km2k-yap8g monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588806-LYJ2RLRYVWCRU8P59Q3G/l.jpg NEWS - Robotics Competition - 10th of June Awarenet hosted its first Robotics in House competition at the Joza Youth Hub. We had learners from five different schools of our schools that we trained who attended the competition and our trainers who assisted with judging on the day. The competition we had was helping our learners for preparations for the Robotics Provincial Olympiad competition that will take place at Kingswood Collage on the 5th of August they will be competing against other Schools in Makhanda that do Robotics. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2023/06/09/exciting-new-collaboration-for-the-olico-programme-bfjrt-6jk2a-femay-dbxm7-reskd-cbw8b-wmsla-kmfts-4ebe5-g77p4-3gzf9-cwkf3 monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588793-XMOZLG68220X924K2XIQ/w.jpg NEWS - Exciting new collaboration for the Olico programme - The Olico program is in its 2nd year of implementation at Awarenet and it is still going well. This year we recruited new grade 8 and 9 learners from surrounding high schools and we had many learners sign up at the beginning of the year. As the program began in mid January, we saw a large number of learners attending and we even encountered a space issue and had to outsource the venue. As the program continued, we started to see a drastic decline in attendance from grade 9 learners which saw a decrease from 15 to 5 learners. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2023/05/31/new-core-group-orientation-camp-5dwwn-n5yc2-n7l6w-2fgr3-dmchs-2eaz7-88j33-fmmr6-n584d-mksh6-cf8wr-jrjdf monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588774-XY2QJ9TO8EJGUPXC52D8/IMG_0236-scaled.jpg NEWS - New Core Group Orientation Camp - Awarenet has recruited a new group of grade 8 and 9 learners to their core group programme. Last week, on the 27th of May we invited 23 learners from both grade 8 and 9 to a camp at the DSG Monastery which is located in the magnificent Eastern Cape countryside, a mere 10 km from Makhanda. The former monastery is now run by the Diocesan School for Girls as an outdoor educational centre. The weekend was designed to welcome the new learners to the Awarenet programme and also enjoy some time away before preparation for the June exams for the learners, providing beautiful views as well as physical exercise and education about nature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588780-NEHBDPOUFIL99JLC19KF/r.jpg NEWS - New Core Group Orientation Camp - On Saturday, the kids did a 6 km hike where learners were taught about the Southern Cross which helps to determine or detect the location of South at nighttime. We also passed wind turbines on the hike and therefore gained knowledge about how these generate electricity. Furthermore we also learnt how greenhouses can contribute to food production. Later on, the kids finished off the day by playing educational games and meeting some Kenyan visitors who work at another non profit organisation in Nairobi. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2023/03/30/awarenet-adopts-a-river-hwe9r-2asdz-g29ml-fjfyr-bsp8g-jgbgj-tza7p-lcc6b-r5rjr-n727w-h5tck-236nt monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588735-5CGS55ODY4DEP5BZYL72/a.jpg NEWS - Awarenet adopts a river! - On Saturday mornings they have been out helping clean the river together with learners from Inkululeko as this is a joint project between the two organisations. Joined by a group of local children, the learners spend their mornings removing various kinds of litter in a muddy surrounding, posing a challenge to maneuver in rubber boots. Materials such as plastics, metals and paper trash are removed from the river in the East of Makhanda, giving a practical example of environmental education. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588739-GN2YG0BE7GPRXO4QS0RF/s.jpg NEWS - Awarenet adopts a river! - The learners will also attempt to create media stories about the clean-up operations and also interview local community members about past and present use of the river as a means of livelihood. They are particularly keen to learn from older community members who lived through the times when the river was much cleaner than what it is now. The goal is therefore to restore the river to its former glory! https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2023/03/30/visit-to-awarenet-by-german-sister-organisation-m9rl4-w5pwh-z4szb-ewy8b-xyrwh-tsmya-at6zd-s8y5k-g8efh-yr24c-wxspj-x7ss3 monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588752-DA2NFZE8J7EPW2UJZOFP/Girl-with-globe.jpg NEWS - Visit to Awarenet by German sister organisation! - In February this year my husband and I came to South Africa where we used to live some 30 years ago in Grahamstown - now Makhanda. It was a unique journey for us full of old memories as well as new discoveries. I am a board member of the German Village Scribe Association (which supports the Awarenet program) since almost the beginning and so I was certain to take the opportunity to visit the Joza Youth Hub, the community center in Makhanda where Awarenet is based. Kjetil Torp, the director of the Awarenet team took us to the site and showed us around. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588757-IVJ3GXPMLMK4I9CMOKNI/a.jpeg NEWS - Visit to Awarenet by German sister organisation! - We arrived there on a Thursday afternoon and were quite amazed how busy the place was. Many things were going on not only at the Awarenet open lab , but also at the other sections of the Youth Hub. The computer labs were crowded, not one terminal unused, the room neat and tidy and fairly quiet. The kids were concentrating on their home work or school projects and some were playing games all supervised by a staff member. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588762-WZOCEDRO9ZWD6ON7L5NU/s.jpg NEWS - Visit to Awarenet by German sister organisation! - Further down the corridor we got to know the new Awarenet robotics team which has just kicked off for 2023 and visited NV Cewu, one of the 6 primary schools where of the many sites where robotics is taught at NV Cewu. It was fantastic to watch this new way of learning through coding and hands-on building a robot. The kids were really excited and not least was the teacher. As a surprise to me, there was no fighting over the Lego material provided. Later on I asked Kjetil how this can be. He explained that sharing is a principle that the children learn from scratch in their families. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2023/03/27/awarenet-helps-combat-unemployment-in-makhanda-sehfr-62f66-pejf6-z8nac-4643c-ajjjz-fesbs-4m7c5-9dzge-4ysgw-mz7nc-ngxbe monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588716-TXQEDKN4AOY14BXSA91G/IMG-20230321-WA0026.jpg NEWS - Awarenet helps combat unemployment in Makhanda - Awarenet administer around 250 local people who previously have been unemployed and place them in 16 non profit organisations in Makhanda. This includes Awarenet itself which currently has 44 people working for its organisation through the Social Employment Fund in its Robotics, Core Group, Open Lab and Talking Technology to Power programs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588721-472SAABQ3PADSMPMI5CJ/a.jpg NEWS - Awarenet helps combat unemployment in Makhanda - The Social Employment Fund is open to all previously unemployed people between 18 and 60 years old though due to the sky-high youth unemployment in South Africa the majority of those employed are in their twenties. The participants in the Social Employment Fund work part-time 60 - 80 hours per month and receive the legal minimum wage from the government. In a community where one of the main challenges is the high unemployment rate the infusion of these wages makes a difference to livelihoods and life quality. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2023/02/27/olico-maths-training-2023-cc56e-hj65l-w453n-z746n-nswcr-hxywb-emag6-6jb82-patyd-pz4xb-9fafa-dblte monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588700-3AVM8FCSOY4HWJSNEIPF/IMG_0696-scaled.jpg NEWS - Olico maths training 2023 - Awarenet is also in 2023 giving learners in Makhanda the opportunity to participate in the Olico mathematics program. This program was a great success in 2022 as grade 8 and 9 learners dramatically improved their mathematical skills through the Olico program's well-proven method of combining online training with the presence of tutors who use innovative methods to make maths fun. To kick-start the program in 2023 Thabiso Simelane from the Olico program in Johannesburg visited Makhanda to train new and old tutors from Awarenet and partner organisation Inkululeko in various methods in making maths interesting and relevant for learners. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588705-31QPIET2B3ZJZVBS2J1Q/a.jpg NEWS - Olico maths training 2023 - The emphasis of the training was on promoting genuine understanding of numbers and mathematical concepts - moving away from the rote learning of formulas and focus on exams so prevalent in South African schools. Tutors from the program really enjoyed the two-day training and got all fired up for the task of making learners see maths as interesting and challenging instead of grey and daunting. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2023/02/21/awarenet-robotics-2023-tbama-ps7dy-zcxks-62j56-wgmby-k4f5y-6xwfr-fcs6w-ma3kg-bsndb-5df9a-g399s monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588682-1N79GNX8S7JNT1A8XVUU/IMG-20230209-WA0003.jpg NEWS - Awarenet Robotics 2023 - The Awarenet Robotics program has just kicked off for 2023 with more learners than we were training last year and more interns to help out in schools. We recruited 5 new schools for robotics training for learners at the school premises. This program is implemented in order to help learners be prepared when Robotics and Coding is implemented as a subject in schools, Awarenet therefore targeted schools that don’t yet have this subject. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588687-L1WXA53HFRWIQQWJB0HM/a.jpg NEWS - Awarenet Robotics 2023 - The new schools from the township of Makhanda are Archie Mbolekwa, N.V Cewu, Makana, Tantyi Lower and C.M Vellem. In all these, we managed to sign up about 141 learners including the previous learners we trained last year. We therefore train kids every day from Monday to Friday. We will be working with Grade 6-9 learners which all will be taught with the help of our ten Lego robotic kits. We look forward to working with many teachers and learners from all the schools that offer robotics. There will be robotics inter-house competitions this year, this will help our learners to learn from other learners from different schools in Makhanda and also take Robotics in Makhanda to a whole new level and make it grow. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2022/12/16/annual-general-meeting-2022-gtr53-kpjfs-snn6l-f27s5-55es2-97dzx-jm89b-ns9dr-nm6ee-np8g3-6g9wg-mrzey monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2022/09/21/rejuvenating-makhanda-rivers-nw4m7-9bkab-s3wah-sx6pn-p2wr9-dyf4m-4ep4d-ycd9k-rymhn-9rk7n-xd2rr-ycpdr monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588656-ETO1XTH94E3SWNPXSPOQ/PXL_20220730_081145963-small.jpg NEWS - Rejuvenating Makhanda Rivers! - Learners from Awarenet and Inkululeko are helping rejuvenating Makhanda's much-neglected streams and rivers! Through a project sponsored by the United Thank Offering of the Episcopal Church in the United States the project aims to make a group of high school learners into environmental change makers in their local communities. Working closely with local river organisation River Rescue the learners are cleaning up the many waterways of Makhanda which are polluted by the dumping of refuse and general environmental degradation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588661-DOK99CQKV2JP6XS4379K/a.jpg NEWS - Rejuvenating Makhanda Rivers! - Digging up discarded washing machines, plastic bags and old clothes from the streams is hard work but rewarding when the learners see with their own eyes that the effort of many can make the rivers run again. Through this practical process of cleaning up streams the project aims to conscientise the learners about the importance of local efforts in fighting mankind's possibly biggest global challenge; destruction of our natural environment. The project also seeks to make use of inter-generational learning and indigenous knowledge to make learners take ownership of the environmental situation in their local communities. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2022/09/08/talking-technology-to-power-hw4f5-3fsbg-25xbh-egtr3-szztg-rz5mp-smskf-jax8d-nnxk8-xyrxj-8mjeg-jw7nk monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588642-QC3Y9GRQRBI6DHJDVZX5/Talking-Technology-.jpg NEWS - Talking Technology to Power - 21 participants who are all out-of-school youth with an interest in technology were therefore recruited to take part in the Talking Technology to Power project after initial community meetings in May and June. The youth are currently receiving training in media creation by Rhodes University School of Journalism and Media Studies and in laws and practices around government accountability by the Public Service Accountability Monitor. Based on the knowledge acquired in these courses they will create digital stories and media which will be published in local and national media and on social media platforms. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2022/07/14/national-arts-festival-2022-ttmww-fp9k2-ydlkh-7cjth-a56b2-54wzb-kg8rn-c2y8y-j498h-ew2r5-lknz7-e2sxc monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588624-FT2BICXVLNV3R158WRMT/PXL_20220703_101806891.MP_.jpg NEWS - National Arts Festival 2022 - Theater, music, comedy … the variety of performing arts during the National Arts Festival was huge, and Awarenet used the opportunity to invite learners to shows in these very different genres. It is not only Makhanda's most characteristic annual event, but even said to be the biggest arts festival of the whole continent. However, as live events were cancelled due to covid, the last NAF took place only in 2019, and everybody – locals, visitors, and of course artists – was keen to experience real interaction, culture without masks, sold-out venues and the busy Village Green market area again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588629-OQ1N3FE4SPBL4IASC7JM/a.jpg NEWS - National Arts Festival 2022 - Our first own excursion led the learners to a comedy show about the everyday life of a stepfather with his family, and the laughter from the audience showed that the humour about the weird situations in family life was relatable to many. The second show on our program was literally called "Kak", taking place in a community having to struggle with landfill, but also the consequences of the drastic government measures tackling this. Strong pictures and a lot of action on stage made the performance a lot more lively than the often dusty charme of classical theater plays. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2022/05/27/autumn-excursion-to-hobbiton-on-hogsback-8c9yc-9l5t7-ejjht-sd9lm-5hhxb-x2xn4-4pw3b-33l4k-tlhax-s5rah-xcd88-tft4f monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588534-A6A6TYBQGCBOLX2ZRRSQ/DSC08850-scaled.jpg NEWS - Autumn Excursion to Hobbiton-on-Hogsback - Last week, Awarenet invited 15 of its learners to Hobbiton-on-Hogsback, an outdoor education center situated in the Amathole mountains 1,180 meters above sea level. The weekend was a welcome time away from long and exhausting days in preparation of the matric exams for the learners, providing beautiful views as well as physical exercise and education about nature. Despite the weather not being on the group's side on Saturday, everybody dared to take a ride on the 100 meter zipline, sliding through rain and fog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588590-OVDUCKDUZC5LQUQWIDG9/a.jpg NEWS - Autumn Excursion to Hobbiton-on-Hogsback https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588551-IKMIB1N6W0YL5RNASPPF/f.jpg NEWS - Autumn Excursion to Hobbiton-on-Hogsback https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588581-E7M8VR63JD1RW84IJUAG/e.jpg NEWS - Autumn Excursion to Hobbiton-on-Hogsback https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588561-TRNVFSBZO2GKVYCN9FT4/d.jpg NEWS - Autumn Excursion to Hobbiton-on-Hogsback https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588600-0Y49DWNZ4DGJE0V5JTFS/c.jpg NEWS - Autumn Excursion to Hobbiton-on-Hogsback https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588571-A4Q1YNXD10KYF9QSZG76/b.jpg NEWS - Autumn Excursion to Hobbiton-on-Hogsback https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2022/04/20/exciting-new-course-for-our-learners-mzsll-m8hxt-4rwhd-2rmnl-8y9g6-s3a27-7chlx-rlf38-msslx-xhkg3-malrx-n3s2w monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588522-NAYTB1FHW5OVFEEE0NUA/a.jpg NEWS - Exciting new course for our learners! - On the 14th of March 2022, Awarenet started a new Green Business Skills Course in collaboration with Inkululeko. The course is funded by the United States Consulate General in Cape Town and therefore also aims to strengthen links between South Africa and the United States. The main focus of the course is on entrepreneurship and the opportunities offered by the green economy. The Awarenet and Inkululeko team, in collaboration with US partners worked together to develop a curriculum for the course which consists of lessons, activities as well as outings to various local businesses. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2022/04/08/100-pass-rate-for-awarenet-matriculants-h2gzy-tz2c5-wlpmj-p2xm4-ycxfb-3nt6j-r47n3-gw667-pms7z-z3chn-mfdkj-32xsz monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588509-XYF3I9WRQFBENU2FGV0M/274460464_3159296151016303_5744066958382743315_n.jpg NEWS - 100% pass rate for Awarenet matriculants! - Top performing Awarenet learner Sive Teyise who currently studies Mechanical Engineering at the University of Cape Town. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2022/03/22/awarenet-at-masicule-9y9xn-abytz-tp337-p3y8e-t52yy-g5z7s-dpddm-94jln-2sjly-smhwm-dpwxf-2ecae monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588497-C3I96ZMWG993YHQDAGFM/PXL_20220314_190157793.MP_-scaled.jpg NEWS - Awarenet at Masicule - Expectations were high when the curtains opened and the voices of Makhanda's choirs started to fill the air at this year's Masicule event. Awarenet made sure not to miss out on this great demonstration of local talent and took 25 of our learners to the monument to enjoy the show. The learners were very excited about the event and gave overwhelmingly positive reviews. "It was great to see so many different people come together and bless us with their musical talent", one awarenet learner said and Martin, our current volunteer from Germany, even described it as a "musical experience unlike any other he had had before". https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2022/03/07/maths-programme-underway-5tbjp-m2n89-phz83-2bwyw-nm8yg-h6m6c-nj6eh-dgm3p-kzcrh-gyfd2-7rpkk-3pyl4 monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588485-WMYYDJE88OB7OM5ZW35P/olico.jpg NEWS - Maths programme underway! - The Maths programme that Awarenet and Inkululeko are collaborating on has officially started and it has seen a very positive response from learners, teachers as well as parents. The programme started on the first of week of February and is being implemented at three different venues on a daily basis. We are using our computer labs at the Joza Youth Hub and after having spoken to principals, we managed to secure a classroom at Nathaniel Nyaluza High School were we make use of tablets, and we also using the computer lab at Ntsika Secondary High School. All three venues have a good internet connection, which is very vital for accessing the Olico website. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2022/02/03/grand-opening-of-video-portal-to-syracuse-f3jl4-7e5wr-bptx5-6tyj8-ebk5b-ebwg2-nh9tb-ez75h-53dz6-5wdxj-9sk45-7x757 monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588459-4UONFOD0H0QZX21EWBJF/a.jpg NEWS - Grand Opening of Video Portal to Syracuse - Awarenet learners celebrated the opening of our video installation, connecting Awarenet in Makhanda to ITC High School in Syracuse, in US over more than 13.000 km. The excitement and joy to connect to another continent via the portal gave a great kickoff for the global learning project. The technical transmission is based on Zoom, but instead of the tiny boxes on the screen characterizing the pandemic times for so many, our portal offers a big mirror-like format, enabling an experience in true-to-life dimensions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588465-58OSBYKE3TWF39CDRM92/b.jpg NEWS - Grand Opening of Video Portal to Syracuse - Learners from both sides shared insights into their everyday life by going into vivid group discussions. The immersive fascination of the format became clear when the learners shared musical impressions in real time and real size – dance performances from Syracuse's side and South African songs by Awarenet's learners. We are happy to see Awarenet's learners enthusiasm which we also experienced from Syracuse. Based on this positive experience, we will build up a learning partnership and explore the possibilities of intercultural learning through modern techniques. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2022/02/03/vsa-annual-general-meeting-in-2021-2txfs-harm4-s8jp7-ayt74-yjhtt-rnzta-963ms-m8r5a-gb3rz-d8bp9-yxj6x-z7p32 monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2022/01/19/olico-maths-education-training-m65h6-nhwjx-bezmz-5c77l-xw6z5-awb7h-n9r4c-29za8-j726r-z9xpf-rgzxg-gn9bm monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588447-TLV2BV9E620H5IHGOEW1/20220113_090954-scaled.jpg NEWS - OLICO Maths Education Training - Awarenet staff and volunteer tutors attended a three day training in Cape Town hosted by OLICO and The Learning Trust. The training was based on running a Maths programme for grade 8s and 9s using the OLICO website. Awarenet will be collaborating with Inkululeko on this project. We will be recruiting learners together as well as sharing resources. The plan is to involve all the six local high schools which are Nombulelo, TEM Mrwetyana, Ntsika, Kuthliso Daniels, Nathaniel Nyaluza and Mary Waters. Both organisations have already established relationships with the schools from the core programmes that they run. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2021/12/07/it-all-adds-up-for-awarenet-n3ejr-337hh-cd4j8-hdkfy-bh7gk-8y33f-r2sl5-czchd-nk5kn-btr5x-mdjfh-ywbsx monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588435-8OV28654ZE7QD1PK1YOS/IMG_20211014_124842_009-scaled.jpg NEWS - It all adds up for Awarenet! - Awarenet has been accepted to be part of an exiting maths program run by Olico, a South African organisation with an impressive track record in improving the maths skills of learners across the country. Awarenet will receive funding and training for maths tutors to teach groups of grade 8 and 9 learners using innovative technology and teaching methods. The trainers will teach the children with the help of an online platform with interactive maths questions and videos. This chimes well with Awarenet's practice of blending technology and human interaction in its learning environment. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2021/12/02/grade-8-10-end-of-year-camp-y9mh6-94fp6-kjhkj-dge6g-24ysk-tma52-8k32p-y4hj8-hs722-nx2tg-lh7k6-msmx7 monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588418-1OLGRH6TZFDB2MKCS9AU/IMG_20211120_081928_691-scaled.jpg NEWS - Grade 8 - 10 end of year camp - On the 19th of November we took our grade 8 - 10 core group learners for a end of year camp at the Monastery Diocesan School For Girls outdoor education center. It was a weekend long camp where we did both physical activities and a fun educational workshop. On Friday evening we had a games night were learners participated in games such as 30 seconds, Monopoly, Word Scramble and Chess. The next morning we took the learners on a 5km hike where we went to see an ancestral cave. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588423-AL712N1IQP6YP106SGEL/a.jpg NEWS - Grade 8 - 10 end of year camp - The learners were very excited about that. One of our grade 8 learners, Luphawu Roji said that "the hike was very tiring but it was one of the best experiences of my life". We also had a Maths Kahoot quiz on Sunday morning which was fun because the learners enjoyed competing against each other. The camp was our special way of ending a very challenging year for our learners to enjoy. We hope to see all of our returning learners in new grades in 2022 and look forward to our new grade 8 learners who will be joining our core group programme in 2022. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2021/11/03/awarenet-course-in-robotics-and-coding-for-kids-9es7l-zjjxa-7n2sx-byfac-2jtc6-j73km-lfwbr-99t94-ypmdk-jf2p2-sf23z-yh47s monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588406-YWBW13CGV9OPWRBEFADY/a.jpg NEWS - Awarenet course in robotics and coding for kids! - On the 15th of October Awarenet started its first robotics and coding course! Five tutors who earlier this year went through professional training is teaching a group of grade 8 and 9 learners every Friday at the Joza Youth Hub. The learners enjoy the course very much as they the learn the ropes of coding through making robots made of Lego bricks move around. We have found this is a great approach to learning to code as instead of theory the coding is learnt by solving practical problems. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2021/10/22/rhodes-university-high-school-quiz-r8f46-3ga84-tx9ra-pg5xf-jnp53-fbfsm-c75jy-lhrak-az2na-2zwft-e5nx9-nnfy7 monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588393-IQ9HMYX7NXB1OJLEFVRE/a.jpg NEWS - Rhodes University High School Quiz - On the 14th of October 2021 our learners participated in the Rhodes University High School Quiz which was held online via Zoom and Kahoot. Awarenet had two teams in the competition which consisted of grade 8s who were in the Junior team and grade 12s who were in the Senior team. It was the first time for both teams to participate and they were very excited to be competing with other teams from all over South Africa. The focus of the competition was on Maths and Science. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2021/09/27/rotary-leadership-event-at-awarenet-a5htz-jbh6k-d8nsd-llfsb-w32rf-4b77g-7w5pr-d3rbp-wmcr2-jhwah-w4atn-8pnsn monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588381-CG1CDZ57YISUGYXZPQ1Z/IMG-20210927-WA0007.jpg NEWS - Rotary Leadership Event at Awarenet - Awarenet grade 10 and 11 learners took part in a leadership event organised by Grahamstown Sunset Rotary on Saturday the 18th of September. Through the use of a brand new monitor which forms part of our Video Portal Project the learners could interact online with speakers and fellow school learners throughout South Africa. The day-long workshop touched upon seminal topics such as how to embrace leadership in changing times, the relevance of women in leadership and the challenges of leadership for young adults. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2021/09/09/robotics-course-in-makhanda-dbxrl-membt-fzm6y-n2z54-y4p8d-5gth8-hky39-ytrsd-9n5h2-lp3ha-hep6e-jx9hn monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588367-HQY8JQ8IKVCQCTL3WPM0/a.jpg NEWS - Robotics Course in Makhanda - On the 26th and 27th of August 2021 Awarenet hosted a two days robotics course which was run by Mr Danie Heymans from the Care for Education. The purpose of this course was to teach community members to become robotic trainers for local children. Through learning how to make a robot and control it, children will be able to learn the basic principle of coding. An important part of this is using LEGO bricks to make the learning process fun for the children. For us who took part in the course it was an amazing experience to be able to control your own robot with a LEGO Education programme on our laptops. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2021/09/07/makhanda-electricity-saving-project-n8hac-7efrs-9aprn-bfy4b-nnhsz-ndp98-rgc7w-kzct3-r8673-7abkp-k6p6y-xkshm monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588355-45J8V9906JUXITMGCPU1/IMG_20210825_161855_305-scaled.jpg NEWS - Makhanda Electricity Saving Project - Awarenet learners as well as others from different surrounding schools attended a documentary screening which was held on the 25th of August 2021. Scifest Africa in collaboration with Rhodes University and the Makhanda community worked together on producing a documentary which is aimed at promoting household electricity savings using user-driven and co-designed electricity-saving tips. The Scifest Africa team held various screenings of this documentary around Makhanda, including at our own Joza Youth Hub. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2021/07/28/covid-relief-food-parcels-2021-36a8d-bcxrr-fh2dg-tmds2-xb3ab-882y6-xt5sw-tpz8w-thtwe-c2see-6alsr-drdac monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588338-QK2E77DMSWX9I5XH545Q/IMG_20210721_153124_633-scaled.jpg NEWS - Covid-relief food parcels 2021 - Last year our former volunteer, Paula Lambeck, initiated a fundraiser in Germany in an effort to help our core group learners with receiving food parcels. This initiative came about because of the economic challenges faced by many people in South Africa, more especially Makhanda, due to Covid-19. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588344-0135E6VUAAU9K6L4WHQ2/a.jpg NEWS - Covid-relief food parcels 2021 - On Wednesday 21 July, we braved the cold front to deliver these food parcels to 30 beneficiaries. The families were very happy to receive the parcels because many had expressed to us how much Covid has affected them financially. We would like to say thank you again to Paula Lambeck for bringing some relief to the families of our learners. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2021/07/23/makhanda-south-africa-meets-syracuse-new-york-dx444-we7f5-cym7a-9sb88-dkc25-n45zl-xaee5-whz3r-72n5m-5g9mm-7dy35-3lmhp monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588321-TZ137CU6NYZ0BNB6TEQZ/a.jpg NEWS - Makhanda, South Africa meets Syracuse, New York! - A sequel to this initiative sponsored by Syracuse University was the Race, Space and the Environment Symposium held online on the 23 April with participants from both South Africa and United States. Awarenet learners from grade 11 and 12 also took part in the online discussion after the symposium, being present with laptops in different rooms at the Joza Youth Hub. Our high school learners were thrilled to be able to take part in the event, and asked the "big-shot" panel guests many probing questions around issues such as capitalism, colonialism and racism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588326-6OVY27VXL728GXTND00L/b.jpg NEWS - Makhanda, South Africa meets Syracuse, New York! - They are all looking forward to interact with high school learners in Syracuse, in spite of the pandemic and restrictions on travel the use of technology still allows us to meet across continents! A special thank to Professor Ken Harper at the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University for initiating and carrying forward this project. We will tell you all more about this transcontinental cooperation once the video portals are up and running in September! https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2021/07/15/tablets-help-awarenet-learners-during-covid-lockdown-x3g2p-a7g3m-tkp4l-n6br8-txlt3-jagsn-a7r3k-wlj8n-a23t5-fyb88-x736g-sgdfg monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588308-DGZFL1A6ECOHGB8UASAU/CoverTabletsBlog-scaled.jpg NEWS - Tablets help Awarenet learners during Covid-lockdown! - Our learners have found that the tablets we lend out to them have proven to be a great tool in assisting with their learning during these challenging Covid times. The tablets have been pre- loaded with a variety of educational apps that can be accessed both on and offline. We have also loaded the tablets with educational videos and past exam papers which they can make use of when they study. Our core group learners are very excited that they get to take the tablets home and continue learning, despite schools being closed. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2021/07/14/awarenet-grade-11-and-12-camp-gbd58-kd3gp-4saw5-2t3l9-5nw3n-7ha45-lrtal-yeegz-xnprg-5jg9r-n5phs-e6llb monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588289-9PUHGHOBL1HDT4M3DB65/a.jpg NEWS - Awarenet Grade 11 and 12 Camp - The awarenet grade 11 and 12 core groups took a weekend off to go to educational camp at the end of May. The camp took place at the "Monastery", an outdoor educational facility and spiritual retreat run by local Diocesan School of Girls at a former Anglican monastery. At the camp the learners learnt to master new challenges, among other things they climbed up and down a 10 meter rock! Though scary, even those with fear of heights learned to face their fears, being safely fastened with ropes by a great crew from a local climbing group. The learners also did a hike through the beautiful valley surrounding the monastery, enjoying the serenity of nature only 10 km away from the busy urban streets of their homes in Makhanda. In addition to the physical activities the learners were also tutored by Awarenet staff and volunteers in the subjects of Mathematics and Mathematical Literacy; subjects which can often be challenging and that many learners request additional help with. The peace and calm of the Monastery certainly made it easier to concentrate on the mathematical equations and formulas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588294-KG1YJK823QO7CX7JKA2Y/b.jpg NEWS - Awarenet Grade 11 and 12 Camp - As learners in grade 11 and 12 are at a stage in their life where they will have to choose further education at university or jobs of their choice they were also given a career guidance talk by Rod Amner, a lecturer at Rhodes University who is also the chairperson of the Awarenet Trust. The learners bombarded Rod with a multitude of questions about university life and career opportunities, leaving the camp with a better understanding of how to proceed after their matric exams have been written. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2021/05/20/awarenet-visits-local-ngos-from-egqeberha-pe-7paa4-6eehs-kc9ga-b9hy2-rdg7x-k7abc-rrl6k-fky9t-mh3gs-ey7f4-88kc3-g9mdd monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588270-SW49DPL2ZDEA6R8HWI87/IMG-20210519-WA0002.jpg NEWS - Awarenet visits local NGOs from eGqeberha (PE) - On the 18th of May 2021, Awarenet, alongside other NPOs from Makhanda visited fellow NPOs in PE, Masifunde and Masinyusane. Inkululeko, Access Music Project, Joza Reading Club as well as Aspire Psycho Social Support joined Awarenet in a tour of the premises of these interesting organisations. At Masinyusane, we visited one of the local primary schools located in Kwazakhele where the Masinyusane team runs its Literacy program. This program focuses on both Early Child Development (ECD) and Primary school learners. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588277-7659H0WZXQA2DXJTEIBV/a.jpg NEWS - Awarenet visits local NGOs from eGqeberha (PE) - Our next visit was to Masifunde Changemaker Academy at Walmer township. Masifunde has a variety of programs of great interest to all the visiting organisations from Makhanda. We visited their computer lab, where they do academic courses and also their Montessori pre-school. They also run drama and choir groups which we were fortunate enough to witness live. It was exciting to see them practicing and witnessing the developing youth talent in Walmer township. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2021/03/24/awarenet-gets-new-tutors-for-core-groups-cr66y-rlxns-g69tz-8ks7g-s6z5k-4pwg9-ph4m2-f5r4j-gwlrh-n79pd-tb7w3-2cpm6 monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588258-EGC9U7QTKN8P7RADTRRE/IMG-20210324-WA0009.jpg NEWS - Awarenet gets new tutors for core groups! - This year we made use of social media to recruit some volunteers who would assist us in tutoring our learners in the different subjects set out in their curriculum. We got more than 30 responses from interested individuals, a few locals and mostly Rhodes University students. At Awarenet we started our academic year on the 27th of January 2021, this was the original date as set by the Department of Education, which was later changed to 15th of February 2021. Our learners were very eager to start with their school work and were happy to get a head start on the academic year. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2021/03/23/awarenet-program-receives-funding-from-north-south-bridges-foundation-shz89-fyc5a-befnj-9ne93-3g6bd-z6tm7-d869x-pjrca-sb5ky-rs94n-rebsk-bhrej monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588245-55MMEBMHBFSGOEE5Q65Q/IMG-20210315-WA0002.jpg NEWS - Awarenet program receives funding from North-South Bridges Foundation! - The funding is meant to support our core group learners in their quest for both digital competency and academic excellency by providing them with access to tablets and connected learning support. The North-South Bridges Foundation has graciously provided funding for 30 tablets in addition to funds for the expansion of human resources and running costs at awarenet. The tablets will be preloaded with educational content such as apps, videos, study guides and previous exam papers in a variety of academic subjects. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2021/03/08/awarenet-free-computer-courses-bh8dy-mfmng-6a85t-pwy7z-pn5b9-meh2k-zhaan-d2t7e-3wb3f-fy94c-5w3td-p5skf monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588233-22EKCBVF7TZRIOMZ094Z/IMG_20201016_133517.jpg NEWS - Awarenet Open Lab Courses - The awarenet open lab has introduced new open lab courses for the year 2021, this is to help the learners of the schools in Joza and adults that are not familiar with computers. Now they will get an opportunity to know how to use a computer as some of them have never had the privilege to use a computer before in their lives. On the 27th of February, we started with our first computer course both the learners and adults liked it. We do the courses every Saturday from 10 till 1 pm at the Joza Youth Hub. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2021/02/09/new-grade-8-core-group-for-2021-zz95b-sg7sb-eyyn2-39egs-daeeb-hm67w-w425m-29aa7-r54fe-ghssx-z98r6-x7sb6 monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588220-7Q244IZ9VTW125JR48YE/IMG_20210201_114301-scaled.jpg NEWS - New grade 8 core group for 2021 - On the 1st of February 2021, we welcomed a new grade 8 core group. These learners were in grade 7 in 2020 and we recruited them using the open lab register. We asked learners if they would be interested in getting academic support and computer skills and those who showed interest then signed up to be part of this year's grade 8 core group. These learners will be starting at different high schools in the surrounding area including Mrwetyana, Nombulelo, Ntsika and Kuthliso. In our first session, we helped the learners get Google accounts because we often use tools such as Gmail, Google doc and Google spreadsheet to deliver our lessons. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2020/12/11/vsa-annual-general-meeting-in-2020-9z853-xy6de-f2zbb-rsph9-gxe3j-2n4k3-z7azd-rbd6h-hz53d-5fw8a-m77ez-t29s3 monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2020/12/09/living-with-the-pandemic-at-awarenet-3eylg-l3pzy-ld9wm-prybx-8cnlk-me6ek-z897z-8wt3k-yrj8d-d6l88-nsspb-tajbs monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588200-8TT1Y9QLKIH5TU1JWYG8/IMG_20200605_134007.jpg NEWS - Living with the pandemic at awarenet - A time of crisis also means a time where change seems more possible. At awarenet we have tried to use the crisis to change our programmes in a meaningful way for the youth and children attending. After a bleak lockdown of most activities in South Africa from the end of March until the end of May where we were all confided to our homes awarenet reopened on the 1st of June, the very first day it became possible under the new regulations. In order to do this we had to set up a new stringent system with access control at our gates where every learner in the program is screened for Covid-19 on a daily basis by the use of medical questions and temperature-taking. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2020/12/08/re-opening-of-open-lab-5ry74-l7az9-lzbkg-as7bm-8mgzk-wjxpj-m6fmp-fmr3r-ffa7c-bdlzs-ckb3f-pk9dp monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588186-QWRX4EAQ9Q3NWTLFJ7K7/a.jpg NEWS - Re-opening of Open Lab - All the kids in the Joza community who use our open lab for school-related work were really happy to hear the good news that the awarenet open lab was reopening. When we reopened we could no longer allow the maximum of 15 users in our labs because we have to follow strict covid-19 regulations. Now we just allow a maximum of 6 learners in each lab, every second computer is unoccupied so the users sit 2 meters apart from each other. However, this did not sadden the kids they were happy and excited to be back at our computer labs. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2020/12/08/2020-core-group-finishes-year-nrs66-dbzxg-5sj8b-yzdej-cwsp6-32a8l-9jtlm-7jjnc-n9ddw-yl94m-6ds9g-3wmyy monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588172-MEUW79IJ2ECNMYZXB1S8/IMG_20200602_132631.jpg NEWS - 2020 Core group finishes year - We started the year with 65 learners and after we reopened in June, we had around 30 learners attending sessions. Our learners struggled to adjust to the new school timetable and were also overwhelmed with the workload. We acquired tablets in efforts to help them catch up on their school work when they are at home. Learners were given access to the internet so that they can download educational resources. We also organized extra tutors that helped them with extra school work. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2020/09/30/tablets-for-awarenet-learners-5dm9m-6aezs-h6e4m-matp2-3sall-6nnpg-g2hhb-n5gry-brwyp-kgygg-4a66t-zt3mn monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588159-Y9MQ1LQAQTV9BGF7WOYU/1597402636317.jpg NEWS - Tablets for Awarenet learners! - As a response to the Covid-19 pandemic and closure of schools, in July this year Awarenet purchased a set of tablets for its learners. The reliance on digital learning even in some of the most poorly resourced South African schools has laid bare the digital divide in South Africa, showing how difficult it is for children from low-income households to study from home without access to internet nor proper digital devices. Through grants from both the South African German Network and the Learning Trust awarenet has provided the learners from its various high school core groups in the ages of 12 to 19 an opportunity to borrow a tablet on a weekly basis. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2020/08/20/awarenets-food-parcel-drive-9tn3c-dwhxb-fr7ds-fe4k2-jn5bh-wtcl8-gpcpk-wk7pe-s9fc7-hpx6b-pwb4z-eg2xm monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588143-NA8281DQJOWZLBMGRRXI/IMG-20200818-WA0004.jpg NEWS - Awarenet's Food Parcel Drive - On the 18th of August 2020 Awarenet staff delivered food parcels to its learners at their homes. The Learning Trust was responsible for the donation of the food parcels and it was then coordinated by Ms. Anneliese Maritz from the Lebone Centre. Awarenet had a total of 28 beneficiaries which included more than half of our core group learners. We had asked all of our learners if they needed help with food at home and that’s how we managed to identify the 28 learners who needed some help. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588148-JU1XAGXOKL1APEZR5GGJ/a.jpg NEWS - Awarenet's Food Parcel Drive - The food parcels include: potatoes, onions, carrots, rice, oil, sugar, salt, among other things. The learners and their families were very excited to receive the parcels and their parents could not thank us enough. We are hoping to continue this collaboration together with The Learning Trust and The Lebone Centre in the foreseeable future because there is clearly a need for this community service. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2020/07/03/teaching-in-the-time-of-covid-19-wrkhl-7zy7y-gnx2d-w7dbe-ptexg-y5sfp-8w6l8-yrny5-g2f5s-nxbw6-ldcw6-tmgmb monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588125-KA8UQAPQDRBRA64BFANW/IMG_20200602_132616.jpg NEWS - Teaching in the time of COVID-19 - awarenet was together with its partners at the Joza Youth Hub well prepared for the gradual reopening as the board of the Joza Youth Hub already in May agreed to the new strict COVID-19 rules and the purchase of necessary protective equipment such as sanitisers and a thermometer. The awarenet computer labs could therefore reopen the very first day this was made possible by the regulations; we did not want to waste a day in waiting to see our learners again! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588130-QYQQVBGN3CNEPGO0E7LI/a.jpg NEWS - Teaching in the time of COVID-19 - The first excited awarenet learners thus entered a new environment on the 1st of June; only three learners are allowed in each of our two computer labs at the time, masks must be worn at all times, hands must be washed before entering the labs, everyone must keep 1.5 metres distance and eating is only allowed in the outdoor area. The computer labs and its computer equipment such as keyboards and mouses are sanitised every morning before use. Furthermore, every learner who enters the Joza Youth Hub is screened for COVID-19 symptoms and has her or his temperature measured. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2020/04/03/the-awarenet-open-lab-2-p72h7-b3hsg-ghl4w-t55ng-6ere8-httrj-5myw9-lx4rz-aph8m-ggg3k-f8atp-kfxs8 monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588111-3MRFIKJB1T5SVDCQUEVG/a.jpg NEWS - The awarenet Open Lab - The awarenet open lab is always full with school learners in the afternoon, the children of the different schools want to use the computers for homework and research purposes, particularly the high school learners are keen on using the lab for educational purposes. Sometimes it's frustrating to control such a number of learners especially when they all want to do homework and we have a limited number of computers. But we always have supervisors who are there to control them and give everyone a chance to use the computers. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2020/03/12/awarenet-at-singing-extravaganza-masicule-2020-nfjxt-25bsg-35e43-546a8-4xzxk-llkha-tebtf-ntjjk-dpzcp-pgj8b-w4s5w-fyswj monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588093-N1JRLUHP6YYM70K99ZII/IMG_20200309_2039391.jpg NEWS - awarenet at singing extravaganza - Masicule 2020 - Masicule is a concert that celebrates the voices of Makhanda (Grahamstown), this programme was established in 2013 and it has been going on for 7 years. There were more than 500 learners participating from different school choirs. On the 9th of March 2020 40 awarenet core group learners from grades 8 to 11 went to the Masicule concert which was held in the 1820 Settlers monument in Makhanda. The artist this year at Masicule was Miss Nomfundo Xaluva. She is a great performer who has a unique way of connecting to the audience with her songs and her movements on the stage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588099-D8ID505V66Y24C5D7GBS/a.jpg NEWS - awarenet at singing extravaganza - Masicule 2020 - The Masicule concert was full of parents, conductors and children. Seeing the parents supporting their children was a beautiful sight. For those of us who used to go to Masicule it was nice to see that they involved more township schools this year. The concert was mesmerizing and the audience was very happy. The audience was also thrilled that the guest artist used to study in Makhanda. In her days she was in a school choir which performed at the very same stage. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2020/03/05/local-teachers-gather-for-a-teachmeet-session-jb3br-ftj9h-8h6xz-d5hh2-dpkbs-nf6gm-lanyy-a82tt-nd53c-em3pz-wmzrm-ahcae monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588074-O13M0BNZVMGAEWJPYO5B/a.jpg NEWS - Local teachers gather for a TeachMeet session - The three organizations run different training programs but the aim of them collaborating is to ensure that many teachers as possible are reached, and that there isn't any overlap, and that the programs are mutually beneficial. The purpose of the ICT teacher training programs is to assist teachers in utilizing ICT tools/techniques for educational purposes. The aim is for teachers to use ICT tools when delivering their lessons whether it be in their classrooms or making use of their school's computer lab. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588079-RNVM7TSUS03917T77ULQ/a.jpg NEWS - Local teachers gather for a TeachMeet session - There will be four sessions this year, the first one had already taken place on the 27th of February, dates for the next three sessions are yet to be confirmed. In this first session, Dr. Clement Simuja from the RU DoE demonstrated Google Classroom to teachers. The purpose of Google Classroom is to streamline the process of sharing of files between teachers and students in a paperless way. This was an important tool to demonstrate because the purpose of our organizations is to ensure that teachers use online resources in a way that makes teaching more efficient. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2020/02/26/recruitment-of-rhodes-university-volunteers-z2ys6-j6b9w-x4bla-8w2xf-5g6rh-gw4pd-ydlbj-d6e6m-cpkdz-gh7zm-3d4ys-en263 monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588055-NFOO186TZZ94GJA7ULVC/IMG-20200222-WA0017.jpg NEWS - Recruitment of Rhodes University Volunteers - The ECP training kicked off with introducing the various partners to students, with Awarenet being one of them. It then followed with discussions of why volunteering is important as well as how it is mutually beneficial to both the volunteer and partner. Throughout the discussions, the notion of social change and transformation kept coming up. Community engagement promotes social change and transformation for the communities in which we live, as well as for our own personal growth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588060-3NV2EKZT0Y9RSQX7CCQ1/a.jpg NEWS - Recruitment of Rhodes University Volunteers - Awarenet managed to recruit six volunteers who will be involved in various projects such as assisting with the daily core groups and a separate homework assisting program. At the end of the day, the most important principle of community engagement that resonated with both the partners and volunteers was that, community engagement builds relationships. Building these relationships enables change and progress visible to everyone participating. Volunteers were reminded that there is also space to grow both individually, and as a collective. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2020/02/05/new-year-new-core-group-nnh9h-656ad-aa56r-fz3gb-2e8fw-aemef-lylj6-j97mw-t2msa-szlkl-w59s9-53mfa monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588037-7JS82RCNIDX4W8V8CWJ0/IMG_20200127_1543541.jpg NEWS - New year, new core group - In our first session with the new learners we introduced the pillars of our program, the utilization of IT resources for academic purposes as well as general work with modern media. We furthermore familiarized them with the staff and philosophy of our organisation, emphasizing that our learners are part of our support network and are welcome to approach us regarding any problem they might face. Afterward we engaged in the first of many hours in our computer lab at the Joza Youth Hub in presenting a few of the digital tools that we utilize, which they explored with a lot of excitement and fresh energy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588042-YGS6GW40XV6ILHSWLC1R/a.jpg NEWS - New year, new core group - Our second session with the new group took place at the Social Innovation Hub at Rhodes University, which we can visit regularly thanks to our cooperation with their Community Engagement initiative. These sessions not only aim to familiarize the learners with the environment of university, but also offer a refreshing alternative to our usual facilities, with fast internet, a quiet atmosphere and a spacious computer lab. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2020/01/20/local-school-goes-online-zxrw3-n6lk3-e2845-lpa2p-myrsl-hepsa-k3r4l-wplch-pnfbz-ms2w8-jhscr-8xfhz monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588024-BI1JJFSMCWJJBKQV2EAK/a.jpg NEWS - Local school goes online! - Archie Mbolekwa Primary is situated a few hundred meters from the awarenet offices at the Joza Youth Hub and has been one of the main partner schools of awarenet the last three years. Richard Were, awarenet’s maverick IT consultant, crawled into narrow dusty roofs with sauna temperatures and braved dizzying roof and tower heights to install the much longed-for connection to the digital world. Awarenet has also decided to pay for the monthly internet connection fee until the school is in the position to include monthly internet as a budget item. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2019/12/19/core-group-students-review-their-year-with-awarenet-tr956-rymby-t24nj-fk652-tmdjx-z54tf-7c8b4-r82db-lrnk3-w43st-28wp5-jdspn monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588004-0YWBOK56A2MVN6OV0FIO/a.jpg NEWS - Core group students review their year with awarenet - Thanks to our cooperation with Rhodes University Community Engagement we were also able to conduct the sessions in multiple locations, enabling us to either use the Social Innovation Hub at the Rhodes campus or the Learning Lab at the Joza Youth Hub. This variation was highly appreciated by the learners, who highlighted the fast internet, the additional space and quiet atmosphere as great benefits of the Social Innovation Hub. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650588010-PB7JJW79P2G49Q4XFSSV/b.jpg NEWS - Core group students review their year with awarenet - When asked to give their opinion about the year in general the learners described it as challenging on the one hand, since they had not known many of the other core group attendants previous to the project and some who initially enrolled left it again after a few months, but also as a very rewarding experience, pointing out the fun they had with us and how the sessions helped them to utilize digital resources for their education effectively. Many also emphasized how much knowledge about software engineering they had gained during our time. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2019/11/29/awarenet-ends-the-year-on-a-high-note-m2lzh-jgplr-c6j5c-tamch-byall-78ckm-ryxkw-l7cl7-ca22l-apfkw-sb8er-3ddn2 monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587978-BFQOS382HNI2G9SFCFS2/010114610.jpg NEWS - Awarenet ends the year on a high note - After arriving safely in the late afternoon on Friday, the Hobbiton staff started off the program with a couple of icebreaker-games in the gym, including intense matches of netball and hockey as well as activities focusing on concentration and reaction time. Being energized by these exercises, the learners and staff collectively decided to postpone dinner and go on the scheduled night hike immediately afterward. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587984-JUV5X32DQ07R00ZIFFSL/a.jpg NEWS - Awarenet ends the year on a high note - This approximately hour-long walk through the completely dark forest was not only physically and mentally challenging to the learners, as the lack of any light sources was quite intimidating to them and forced them to completely rely on their senses, it also gave them an opportunity to contemplate our impact on the environment whilst looking at the night sky untouched by urban light pollution. Returning to the campsite after this exciting and challenging activity, everyone was relieved to enjoy a nice dinner, prepared by the awarenet staff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587990-113EIOP2B5SGJI7MB9FF/b.jpg NEWS - Awarenet ends the year on a high note - Finishing off the day after a game of soccer with many people from other groups and Hobbiton staff members, followed by a nice braai prepared by the Inkululeko staff, everyone once again gathered in the gym for another great round of physical games and went to sleep afterward, exhausted yet happy. The demanding exercises left their mark on the learners, the motivation to get up the next morning as well as the enthusiasm toward the activities decreased quite a bit compared to the previous day, but Sunday's hike and a low-height climbing course were still enjoyed. In the end everyone arrived in Grahamstown safely and smilingly. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2019/11/14/the-open-lab-in-numbers-hyhl2-fnycp-zkhac-ldryc-p944h-wkewt-wa9me-c4nyz-hamxz-htapb-3wa49-6pmtr monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587958-RXUS0UQVWQKDGGA5E2TC/P1011062.jpg NEWS - The Open Lab in numbers - The awarenet Open Lab sees more than 300 computer sessions over a seven days period! We recently conducted a survey of the usage of our computer lab which is open to the public from Monday to Saturday and is managed by a lab supervisor. The Open Lab concept was introduced in 2017 and is currently the only site in Makana municipality where anyone from the public can access computers connected to the internet. It has been a great success as an increasing number of community members are using this free of charge service. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587963-NFUTB01WD21URBD10LDZ/a.png NEWS - The Open Lab in numbers - 319 users visited the Open Lab in the seven days period of weekdays from the 5th of November to the 13th of November 2019. Of these 300 were school learners and 19 were adult community members. School learners from grade 8 were the most frequent users of the Open Lab with 29% of all users, followed by grade 9 learners with 19%, making the average age of an awarenet Open Lab user 14,2 years. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2019/10/21/awarenet-in-rhodes-university-community-engagement-final-5ejry-ktb75-tjd67-pta5e-fbea9-4hcry-gphnp-r43f3-5njzm-5kk8h-95r6j-yn4tr monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587932-OS3BRHP88AINF37MFQOJ/a.jpg NEWS - awarenet in Rhodes University Community Engagement final! - In the citation for the nomination of awarenet as finalist Rhodes University said that: "Thanks to the efforts of a strong leadership team and committed group of student volunteers, awarenet has seen improvement in interactions between student volunteers and learners (..) which has led to high team morale as well as compliance from learners, this is evident from what the team has achieved such as learners editing and presenting their own video presentations." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587937-952PNE1KNJ4EBOKBT8I7/b.jpg NEWS - awarenet in Rhodes University Community Engagement final! - Representatives of the three finalists awaiting the moment of truth flanked by Makana Mayor Mzukisi Mpahlwa as Unathi Mabukane from Rhodes University Community Engagement is about to announce winner. CM Vellem at the end won the highly contested award, awarenet congratulates the school on this achievement and hope we will be able to work more with its staff and learners at the school's computer lab in the future! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587945-NYL6NZCMZDZ8CZNPVEX0/c.jpg NEWS - awarenet in Rhodes University Community Engagement final! - awarenet received a recognition for being among the finalists by the Mayor of Makana Mzukisi Mpahlwa. The manager of awarenet, Kjetil Torp, also achieved an award in his capacity as student volunteer manager of the Engaged Citizen Programme of Rhodes University. awarenet is grateful for the recognitions from Rhodes University and look forward to working with the university's excellent Community Engagement team the coming academic year! https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2019/10/14/starting-a-little-litter-leader-campaign-7g9wd-eg6xb-swngb-7zntj-m6p5s-kcfa7-7ftgt-w7kcs-989jf-eg3ng-6nlsl-mstxf monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587919-B5SDGMR25Q6QC0UHKNYK/IMG_20190926_105025-1.jpg NEWS - Starting a Little Litter Leader campaign - Taking inspiration from one of the youngest global change activists Greta Thunberg, we decided to make a small step towards global climate change by tackling a locally wicked problem of plastic litter and inadequate litter disposal facilities. The global activism with plastic pollution has seen the issue of single use plastic waste coming to the fore. Litter is a real buzzword at the moment, with plastic litter being the central focus. Thanks to Sir David Attenborough’s recent documentaries, people’s eyes are now being opened to the true extent of the world’s plastic dependence and the related litter problem. An environmental education project to connect the Joza Youth Hub community with litter and pollution issues was envisioned, and saw a “Little litter leaders” project implemented during the schools’ holiday week. The program sought to inform participating young learners about single use plastic and its impact on the environment, human health risks and its impact on global climate change. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2019/10/11/my-journey-with-awarenet-pctrp-2fxk9-rdc3c-dx9pd-n38yf-bgtsw-x8tr5-m2kks-dwhzt-f3ttl-h9n6p-a4xs3 monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587905-D3XUB2MQGYDVNPKBA4EG/IMG_20191010_1345111.jpg NEWS - My journey with awarenet - My journey with awarenet began in 2013, when I attended grade 8 at my school CM Vellem. My English teacher Ms Frans was the one who introduced me to awarenet as a computer project we could do after school hours. In 2015 I started grade 10 at Nombulelo High school. The awarenet project was not working with Nombulelo at that time, so I decided on my own to continue being part of the awarenet project by going to the awarenet computer lab at the Joza Youth Hub each day after school. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2019/09/23/awarenet-learners-at-the-rhodes-career-day-9mn3p-yhafm-hbscf-w64wa-8xc4t-y732w-gheln-zgxzs-zzd5l-xhj5m-clkka-35acm monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587887-HPUXGXP8MCG06A3EV93T/Career-day-3-Sep-2019.jpg NEWS - Awarenet learners at the Rhodes Career Day - The first part of the event consisted of short speeches given by members of the SRC (Student Representative Committee), students counsellors and the anti-harassment-director at Rhodes University. The students were informed about different aspects to consider whilst choosing the subject they aim to apply for, with a particular emphasis on doing what one enjoys, being aware of the requirements of a specific subject and possessing the skills necessary to be successful in it. They were furthermore told about the financial challenges a student might encounter and the funding opportunities to minimize those and, in view of the current crisis regarding violence against women, received information concerning sexual harassment and its counter-measures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587892-59Y5TCF6N7WQDTZYVBTW/a.jpg NEWS - Awarenet learners at the Rhodes Career Day - In the second part of the afternoon the students were divided into groups and rotated around the hall, now being able ask students of different faculties questions regarding the subject they will potentially study themselves. Our German volunteers, Phillip and Paula, participated in this and explained the job opportunities of a computer scientist, as well as our society's dependency on advancements in software engineering and artificial intelligence, which is directly related to the agenda we promote through our programs at the Hub. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2019/09/19/better-together-outdoor-education-at-hobbiton-petgh-3gykp-wsfxm-m6cge-mjyxb-3fef6-klkbg-j8efj-btklx-lm2nd-k2mng-4ak8e monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587864-SSIWDOFLDWAU4PYW0OK7/grouppic-on-climbing-tower2.jpg NEWS - Better together - Outdoor Education at Hobbiton - What is so unique about Fairwood (Hobbiton camp) was that we had enough time to spend with the nature and also interact as peers etc...because there was a lot of teamwork and we were able to bond together. People should go and visit the Fairwood (Hobbiton camp) because they will actually get an opportunity to relax their minds and be close to nature instead of having to live with electronic devices or gadgets all the time. They will definitely also get to spend quality time with their family or friends if they go there with them. They should also offer indoor games and show people how the wild animals live there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587869-5LPGEO54AWGHLOSOUE08/b.jpg NEWS - Better together - Outdoor Education at Hobbiton - The motivation of the trip was to make us move out of our comfort zone and learn how to make life outside doors. My favourite part of the trip was when we made a log bridge as a group and that bridge that we made was stable enough to carry us all as a group. My least favourite part of the trip was when we as a group had to escape from a prison at the same time. It was too difficult and very exhausting. You should influence all the core group learners to come with us because without them there was a part that felt missing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587874-NULD9BUL4FR8CNYO0Y9A/a.jpg NEWS - Better together - Outdoor Education at Hobbiton - It is a natural, peaceful and clean space. It is a very nice place and good for people who love nature. I was sad the Zipline wasn't open. The motivation for the trip was teamwork. I liked the prison game were all of us took part and it was about trusting each other and carrying each other to the next level. Hiking was very tiring but I will probably implement the lessons I learned there. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2019/09/17/food-programme-at-awarenet-with-a-recipe-3sjch-49fsl-4wssk-mh6pf-c83s6-twpej-m3y7p-322zh-gnrkp-pplyb-4hmjr-slm2a monthly 0.5 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587848-U3OTAGLSVLKHSGUFZO4A/a.jpg NEWS - Food program at awarenet - with a recipe! - Our kitchen at the Joza Youth Hub is merely equipped with a microwave, but we find a lot of ways to offer a variety of food. The communal eating is a great social start of our sessions and provides us and the learners with an energetic beginning. It is also the place where we can check in with the learners on a personal basis and see what is going on in their lives. Not only does the food program fill up the belly of our learners, it is also an excellent opportunity to bring in some informal learning. While eating we discuss the healthy values of food, how carbs give you energy and how fruits keep sickness away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587852-G52JDBLHKYGUQ212F9SQ/a.jpg NEWS - Food program at awarenet - with a recipe! - Recipe of Ful Ingredients (for 4 persons) 1 can of Chickpeas 1 can of White Beans 1 kg of Full Cream Yoghurt 3 - 4 Tomatoes Parsley + Garlic + Lemon Juice https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2019/09/02/awarenet-a-new-project-school-cooperation-project-75y9z-eclc9-y6bad-ek9fn-jc9fb-4kbt7-97hnb-dg699-g8ft2-pzrhf-aj8k3-yrklk monthly 0.5 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587835-KAZ2BDA79SYUPILK27MB/IMG_0773.jpg NEWS - awarenet - A new project “School Cooperation Project” - The awarenet-based School Cooperation Project is rolling out to assist teachers with gaining basic knowledge and skills in ICT, and thereby leverage teachers academic programs for educational activities for their learners, and enhance educational work using computer and digital devices. Many teachers are unfamiliar with computer technology and need basic skills training; using the keyboard and mouse to navigating desktop icons, using and applying software program appropriately and building confidence in working with technology. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2019/08/02/awarenet-learners-at-the-art-festival-4ng4f-m73a5-dpfb3-knaye-yftgj-tpd5l-cjcx3-ktmtw-4x79d-9wdfj-kdkj6-ga335 monthly 0.5 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587823-CQK59BYZ9NY5VFMUX8II/artfestival-critics.jpg NEWS - awarenet Learners at the National Arts Festival - Our Grade 10 learners got the chance to visit some of the performances at the National Arts Festival 2019 in Makhanda. The festival displayed a big variety of performances. In our weekly sessions we constantly practice writing English texts. The festival gave us the possibility of writing reviews of the performances we could see at the festival. We also discussed how important it is to have an opinion and to find verification for this opinion. When writing the reviews we try to balance out positive and negative experiences and learn to provide reasons our opinions. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2019/08/01/new-core-groups-at-awarenet-from-inkululeko-hdlnp-6k2fd-zzwhh-39kyj-jm5fg-as34j-gx7yc-y74x4-9trdb-x2fja-wbmjp-cwkp3 monthly 0.5 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587805-C3Y58208296Z0RLOPFOY/IMG_4530_bearbeitet.jpg NEWS - New core groups at awarenet from Inkululeko! - The learners all study at Ntsika high school and hail from the Inkululeko program which we now work closely with thanks to funding from the Episcopal Church and the HCI Foundation. New groups of grade 8s, grade 9s and grade 10s are coming once a week to be taught more about how to use computers in a smart way for educational purposes. Most of our new learners have very little or no previous experience with computers so our goal is to follow them until grade 12 when they will have reached a level of ICT knowledge which can equip them for further studies and job opportunities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587811-JNRPSI2DEAN47PSTRV98/a.jpg NEWS - New core groups at awarenet from Inkululeko! - The next session all the new learners did a computer test we designed in order to assess their current computer skills and also to use a benchmark to measure further progress. The test will make it easier for us to know what areas we have to focus on and which learners need particular help. In the near future we will do exactly the same test with them and hopefully be able to see that the new learners have improved a lot through the help of our program! https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2019/06/24/awarenet-and-inkululeko-receives-us-episcopal-church-grant-m8xfw-aaaz7-m28fx-a66kj-degb5-tg3pn-3mc78-z6cyf-fsrnb-xs4mw-zx3pa-4g58t monthly 0.5 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587793-8BUCFZRK6BFZHSA0TWO4/BishopMadodaKjetil-far-away.jpg NEWS - Awarenet and Inkululeko receives US Episcopal Church Grant! - Crucial to the successful grant application was the Anglican Bishop of the Diocese of Grahamstown, The Right Reverend Ebenezer St Mark Ntlali, who personally vouched for the importance of the project and the difference it will make in the lives of young people in a town characterised by very high levels of unemployment and other social ills. The Bishop also enlisted the official support of the Anglican Archbishop of the Province of Southern Africa in Cape Town, The Most Reverend Dr Thabo Makgoba who also previously served as Bishop of Grahamstown. The Anglican Church of Southern Africa and the Episcopal Church in the United States are both part of the worldwide Anglican Communion. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2019/06/17/new-volunteer-phillip-arriving-in-august-zypb7-gc3wl-cd2mm-3t7t9-wfcj2-5c6m2-5wffl-49923-p6sef-abbhh-tklgl-33zcs monthly 0.5 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587769-KA85K5ZOUK46DL15ER1F/DSC03730-2.jpg NEWS - New volunteer Phillip arriving in August - Hello everyone, my name is Phillip Knaak and I will be joining the awarenet team, arriving in Makhanda in early September. I will be staying in South Africa for a year and work for awarenet during my time there. I will turn 18 years old in July and I am currently graduating from high school in Bielefeld, Germany, which is a town with a population of approximately 350,000 located near Hannover. As I plan on attending a university and having attended school for 12 years without any mentionable interruptions, I decided that I would partake in something entirely different after graduating and before enrolling at a university. Due to my family's inclination of volunteering with "weltwärts", a program supported by the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, in which nearly everyone in my close family who graduated recently participated, doing so has always been an attractive option while growing up. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2019/06/17/paula-lambeck-joins-the-awarenet-team-as-a-volunteer-lt6wf-ml9yy-3zc8h-ex3tx-9jdkh-ajt6h-mnb55-wj4rw-ytc2b-amdng-ccc54-acs5z monthly 0.5 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587781-64QUF1K0IAS3V4ESN8B8/P1050487.jpg NEWS - Paula Lambeck joins the awarenet team as a volunteer - Hi everyone, my name is Paula and I will arrive in Makhanda in August to support the team of the Village Scribe Association for one year. This year I graduated school and after that I would like to explore the world and to learn more about a different culture before I start my studies (maybe veterinary medicine). I spent my whole childhood in Ilmenau, a small town in the middle part of Germany, and now it is time to see the other "end" of the world. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2019/06/03/renewed-support-for-awarenet-from-hci-foundation-dkmy4-dc3r2-nnp3s-89sxg-8l7rm-e5ehe-t8jlj-f2bsc-7jglg-lesl2-w89re-letsd monthly 0.5 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587757-R1JWP1614Q5KTWUI4KXE/IMG_3645.jpg NEWS - Renewed support for awarenet from HCI Foundation! - awarenet has for the third consecutive year received a grant from the HCI Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of Hosken Consolidated Investments Limited which main shareholder is the South African Clothing and Textile Workers Union. The grant will be used for the project "ICT for educational success - empowering a cohort of disadvantaged students". This is a collaborative project awarenet has initiated with fellow non profit organization Inkululeko , an organisation also based in Makhanda/Grahamstown which offers both academic and entrepreneurial support to local high school learners. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2019/05/28/daksha-naran-joins-the-awarenet-team-as-project-co-ordinator-ygwsp-xr937-96yb9-hn4ew-r44l6-sapp8-lplc5-5pp38-t8x3m-tzjtb-3r253-7gnaj monthly 0.5 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587744-XTT3ZBMZ26X6T5JQ8MMU/a.jpg NEWS - Daksha Naran joins the awarenet team as project coordinator - Hi I’m Daksha Naran, I recently joined the awarenet team as a project coordinator. My main role is to develop an ICT skills learning and training program for school teachers. My interest in working with teachers comes via my passion in teaching natural sciences. As there are many exciting teachers support sites, creative and fun learning and teaching resources available through the internet - it is essential to have teachers develop their familiarity with ICT and build their skills. So I am very keen to pass on my knowledge to teachers - and have started to develop lessons that help teachers navigate ICT skills from a very basic level. The advancement in ICT has benefits for both learners and teachers - it opens up a world of exciting opportunities that can easily be tapped into. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2019/05/24/ict-project-intern-at-awarenet-x82nl-jtgkg-5gbk4-rfxey-7h6kb-fykkg-pw2je-tspfw-mmd99-yfwp2-zj9g5-nwcr4 monthly 0.5 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587731-H0LKV3UJ038CH99NT7BS/Zintle.jpg NEWS - New project intern joins the awarenet team! - My name is Zintle Vambe and I have recently joined the awarenet team as an intern for the school cooperation project which will feature different workshops conducted at various schools. I have always been involved in community development projects since my years at Rhodes University, where I got my Bachelor of commerce (Honours) degree. As a learner from a historically disadvantaged high school (Mary Waters High School), I believe that the ICT school cooperation project will not only substantially benefit the teachers, but the learners also. There is an urgent need for ICT workshops in these types of schools because education is leaning towards using ICT for learning therefore everyone needs to start making use of the various ICT tools available. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2019/05/23/luvuyo-finds-job-and-inspiration-to-community-project-through-awarenet-ajrne-zwbmr-gszsd-phxbf-ecmdx-cmna8-9934r-zasw8-6kd7t-lkrh9-9nb8j-f5fmx monthly 0.5 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587718-R9K8F1C33BWW786DFAAT/IMG_4403.jpg NEWS - Luvuyo finds job and inspiration to community project through awarenet! - Towards the end of 2018 Luvuyo was looking for a job but had nowhere to access computers and the internet - vital 21st century tools to get full information about the local job market and to be able to email applications and CVs to prospective employers. Luvuyo's problem was a classic catch-22. As he was jobless he didnt have money to pay for accessing the web at an internet cafe but in order to get a job he needed to access the internet. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2019/05/22/joza-youth-hub-open-day-2019-7m77x-n3bm7-rb86e-t7ct8-lwn6l-4rz72-2l9sw-hlb9g-zptft-6ygrs-dymft-ggex4 monthly 0.5 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587539-6FA4U4FVY6HU57I5S4EK/a.jpg NEWS - Joza Youth Hub Open Day 2019 - Every year the organisations of the Joza Youth Hub get together for a day and showcase their work. The fun-filled day was led by Sindi from Upstart as MC. She guided us through the day with huge enthusiasm and motivated the visitors to take part in different competitions. AMP showed off their band skills and there was singing and dancing. Behind the house children gathered around the Toy Library to play and get their face painted with motives like butterflies and cats. Awarenet challenged the visitors with a computer quiz, while the Reading Club had books to read through and various parties of chess were played. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587586-SHKC4Y74GDW826MSJG1D/e.jpg NEWS - Joza Youth Hub Open Day 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587577-27JEVUEJUEEFBYVSJUVL/d.jpg NEWS - Joza Youth Hub Open Day 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587613-SJSR8DH2P31ECIAAV029/c.jpg NEWS - Joza Youth Hub Open Day 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587687-WZAEERTXDFTNO7LDO74Z/l.jpg NEWS - Joza Youth Hub Open Day 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587604-BISV61LAO799UIVP3AYC/b.jpg NEWS - Joza Youth Hub Open Day 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587649-EF1X011G440VKXNRG7AS/k.jpg NEWS - Joza Youth Hub Open Day 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587631-0F5LBFZR0MBAOS4N6YOK/a.jpg NEWS - Joza Youth Hub Open Day 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587558-PH3ONIPJQJBDPCJQUF0E/j.jpg NEWS - Joza Youth Hub Open Day 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587678-EPDZM0ARIDHUPQKF0AEV/i.jpg NEWS - Joza Youth Hub Open Day 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587668-KW7N673MB8RLBWR4B3YL/q.jpg NEWS - Joza Youth Hub Open Day 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587568-131MOAFDB4W5LUGHV819/p.jpg NEWS - Joza Youth Hub Open Day 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587695-28UUFAD413700YD82P4X/g.jpg NEWS - Joza Youth Hub Open Day 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587622-EG914TW5UDD10LOTDSRP/o.jpg NEWS - Joza Youth Hub Open Day 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587640-C7UZY25H2HN6WNWE33P0/f.jpg NEWS - Joza Youth Hub Open Day 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587659-IJUKN5XN8IJ0FHIO10W2/m.jpg NEWS - Joza Youth Hub Open Day 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587595-8PR1IFUGQXNA4LFE3WEK/a.jpg NEWS - Joza Youth Hub Open Day 2019 https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2019/03/29/with-awarenet-at-the-science-fest-8zpgl-lwkh8-2ggmh-preyr-ks8zc-nnwax-dfp3d-93kch-8tws2-g3mlj-nz3cj-s44tj monthly 0.5 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587489-0CAHEULYIEGX5JNCTA30/making-foam-watching-reaction-awarenet-scifest2019.jpg NEWS - With awarenet at the Science Fest https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587498-KGH8J97USAC0T49R8O8X/mixing-liquid-awarenet-scifest-2019.jpg NEWS - With awarenet at the Science Fest https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587507-VCR5HL9SSKYLM4RWIBMV/girls-with-foam-awarenet-scifest-2019.jpg NEWS - With awarenet at the Science Fest https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587522-3AALX11YSNQ71TSCFXCF/a.jpg NEWS - With awarenet at the Science Fest - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587527-6VYXLRXNM9AIBOL2R3MY/a.jpg NEWS - With awarenet at the Science Fest - This show was run by an American lady who taught us about different cultures and how life could be like on other planets. Each and everyone was given a paper and some pencils and we were told to choose a culture and write something about it. The festival made it possible for everyone in Makhanda to have knowledge about science even if you are not doing science but you can feel part of it. l hope we have learnt a few things about science. I believe that to have knowledge about science you don't need to study science or become a scientist. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2019/03/12/a-trip-to-the-masicule-concert-m2nde-tjjy7-3ascw-5e54r-3faf5-s92ls-sed2k-bfda2-cj4wl-rt8ek-9573b-e6ma8 monthly 0.5 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587433-RKPYSVCXY1WSDVU1NQUH/a.jpg NEWS - A Trip to the Masicule concert - awarenet works with a core group of grade 10 Learners. They come together twice a week to get support in ICT for educational purposes. In February we made an excursion to the Masicule (Let's sing in isiXhosa) concert, an annual event at the Settler's Monument in Makhanda/Grahamstown. This year it featured more than 1000 voices from local schools and choirs in addition to legendary South African singer Vusi Mahlasela as guest artist. After the concert our learners were given the task to write about their trip to Masicule. The following text is a compilation of the learners' writing. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2019/03/12/awarenet-recruits-rhodes-university-students-7rsd8-ex9xh-89zp2-2g534-stcjb-e7h73-ej3mh-e8p9g-chm7a-34n3z-nf688-a6l8z monthly 0.5 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587445-WAM3F66KWDVFEGOKXLGA/52840203_2097432890339469_6662382063015952384_n.jpg NEWS - awarenet recruits Rhodes University students! - Our project manager Kjetil Torp was also part of a panel discussion where he discussed the concept of volunteering with managers of other projects. For us the recruiting was a success! We now have nine new volunteers who will come on different days of the week to help us supporting our core group high school learners with academic skills such as maths and science or play games with the younger learners while they wait for their turn to access our open computer lab. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2019/03/12/learning-trust-support-g4grh-cg6z9-955fa-r3ata-583lb-3763d-nk6j3-gwwpw-xp8be-t7deb-st7nl-8yk86 monthly 0.5 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587458-G0EL0GT8DKLIJYJE7KWO/CoreGroupGrade9Introduction.jpg NEWS - Learning Trust Support - For the second consecutive year awarenet has received support from The Learning Trust, an organisation which provides funding and capacity building to community-based education programmes focused on extended learning opportunities in the after-school space. In other words, the Learning Trust help all those small South African organisations such as awarenet which try to activate and educate kids after they are done with their school day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587463-FJR2RXKASH82SAC17HXO/a.jpg NEWS - Learning Trust Support - The awarenet team is therefore proud that the Learning Trust has found our after-school programme worthy of continued support. The Learning Trust states that after considering all organisations in Makhanda/Grahamstown they "saw an opportunity to support Awarenet as it is the only after-school organisation that provides accessibility to ICT infrastructure and programmes for school learners, teachers and community members, thereby strengthening educational outcomes, enabling technological innovation and creating increased access to information." https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2019/02/05/awarenet-upstart-core-grade-9-group-a-success-t277y-fhkbz-xdhmk-gz7y4-be546-lrysr-h4zyd-klnly-ca228-n8am7-bnaf3-k45kn monthly 0.5 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587414-ZCNGIFEHJ5B6RH8JZ1D0/IMG_3616.jpg NEWS - awarenet - Upstart core grade 9 group a success! - The idea is to conduct a weekly workshop on Saturdays for the Grade 9 learners who all hail from local high school Nombulelo. We want to support their educational journey, both in their school and also within their group. In terms of media production we teach them skills such as video production, photography and recording of radio programs. Through access to computers and the internet the learners also acquire general ICT skills which they can also use to do school projects more efficiently. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587419-0VXD8DXV7T8WOFFT3WE1/a.jpg NEWS - awarenet - Upstart core grade 9 group a success! - The first workshop was a success! It was an introduction workshop which was meant to make participants get to know each other better. We therefore did some "getting-to-know-each-other" games. The grade 9 learners were also given a task where they had to do a interview with another learner and write down the other person's dreams, where they come from, and what the like or hate. In the end everybody presented their results and it was really nice to see how much they found out about each other even if they didn’t know each other previously. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2018/12/14/2018-awarenet-highlights-rltdy-y8zhc-snn6b-kmaln-662ke-t7sbl-tlhc6-srmgc-kbjlg-y9pnd-djx6p-n9bfb monthly 0.5 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587346-90D6R6A66Q2NECRPNYK8/a.jpg NEWS - 2018 awarenet highlights - 500th member of awarenet Open Lab! The awarenet Open Lab registered its 500th member last week! Aphelele Pama, a 13 years old grade 6 learner from local school CM Vellem became awarenet Open Lab member number 500. Asked why he decided to join the awarenet Open Lab Aphelele says the main reason is that computers can help him do his homework better. He can also… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587351-EODH7FRRHXKEBZCR0ZHU/a.jpg NEWS - 2018 awarenet highlights - awarenet Teacher’s course accredited! The awarenet teacher’s course which started in 2017 now has official recognition in the South African educational system! Through the 21 Sector Education and Training Authorities (SETA) relevant bodies of authority in different sectors of the… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587356-WBWWHAHYI3LEB8I7YZL6/KjetilPDClecture5097.jpg NEWS - 2018 awarenet highlights - awarenet lecture on PowerPoint in the classroom PowerPoint is a powerful tool and as all technology has its uses and misuses. Earlier this month I presented a lecture and did a workshop at Rhodes University for teachers in how to best use… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587361-HJ7XGUJNUWBRPP2UZZB8/c.jpg NEWS - 2018 awarenet highlights - The Joza Youth Hub opens its doors! On the 26th of May we invited the community to take part in the annual Joza Youth Hub Open Day. The different organizations based at the Joza Youth Hub were showcasing their work in form of competitions and… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587366-TK0ZL9XCSL8OKPD87B0G/a.jpg NEWS - 2018 awarenet highlights - Afrofuturist Animation Workshop! awarenet learners got a chance to learn how to make advanced computer animation during the Grahamstown National Arts Festival. The learners took part in the Afrofuturist Animation Workshop run by Alette Schoon of the… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587371-Z1JZMK0PG7ML8FK8V823/a.jpg NEWS - 2018 awarenet highlights - The Xhosa Chronicles During the Grahamstown National Arts Festival which took place last week we took some of our learners out to see "The Xhosa Chronicles", a play about Xhosa culture and what difficulties modern Xhosa people face whilst looking back at their history. Kjetil, Xenia and I were accompanied by our lab supervisors and a… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587376-HDVCRO7HO1VFKKSNUFW9/a.jpg NEWS - 2018 awarenet highlights - Opening of the awarenet Learning Lab This Wednesday we officially opened the second awarenet computer Lab! All the people who put in effort in establishing the lab were invited to share some cake and admire the progress. This Lab will… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587381-T7CA38Y5YJ94GQ2U7RYL/Mcvay.jpg NEWS - 2018 awarenet highlights - Mcvay and his year as a volunteer in Germany Former awarenet learner and intern Mcvay Boko just returned from an exciting year as a volunteer in Germany! It has been a long journey with awarenet for Mcvay who first joined our program as a… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587386-1KV3K0OEFV3ORVWL952N/VolunteerManagersAwardsWinners.jpg NEWS - 2018 awarenet highlights - Recognition for awarenet at Rhodes Community Engagement Awards 2018! awarenet and partners received awards for community engagement at the 2018 Rhodes University Community Engagement Awards! Sudo Soc, the… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587390-6CY998K9VYNBMG6URXXC/a.jpg NEWS - 2018 awarenet highlights - Joza goes Hollywood A few weeks ago we reported about our movie making course. Within this blogpost we want to show you the final version of the short movie. We are incredibly proud of our learners and what they have accomplished. They shot the film with their mobile phones and edited it themselves with the… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587395-H34C75PNOF5HJO8YAXM8/IMG_20180804_113636.jpg NEWS - 2018 awarenet highlights - Photo walk in local township The colours of the grey streets of Joza came alive for awarenet learners and other local youth who took part in the Photo Walk organised by local newspaper Grocotts Mail. 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Mcvay told me that the flight to Germany was his first flight ever, therefore he was really nervous about the trip. Everything worked out well though and he arrived safely in Germany. To go from the airport he had to travel with „Deutsche Bahn - DB“, the national German train company, and it surprised him it was not on time. He didn’t then know that it's a kind of joke in Germany that the DB is not on time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587214-MN8E17C0EC7LO08B6391/a.jpg NEWS - Mcvay and his year as a volunteer in Germany - He felt that was a little bit strange as he later experienced that Germans in general are among the most punctual people he has ever met. Nobody in Germany ever arrives late, he said. It was very difficult for him to be on time in general because South Africans have a more lax attitude to time than Germans. Until the end of his stay in Germany he had problems with being punctual, however now being back in South Africa he has become more German, finally embracing punctuality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587219-J09N3YL5E3792IEGB3R0/b.jpg NEWS - Mcvay and his year as a volunteer in Germany - The security situation was also different in Germany. He experienced that he could walk trough the street the whole night without problems. In the beginning though he was also afraid that something could happen to him. He was slightly afraid when waiting for the bus or the tram. However, he told me that he was surprised when he once lost something in the tram but got it back. He never knew there was such a thing as a "lost and found“ system where you can go to an office and query whether they have found what you lost. In general he told me he feels the public transport system works very well in Germany. During his time in Germany Mcvay also had some typical German winter experiences. He saw his first snow ever and built his first snowman. He also joined his colleagues in visiting a traditional German Christmas market. He was very excited about these Christmas traditions and had great fun at the Christmas market. His work in Germany was otherwise very different from the work he did with awarenet. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2018/11/29/new-faces-on-the-board-pa3xt-6z5pa-32z6d-bzjnf-zytt3-fffcj-kdwe3-88397-9a2ab-4myjm-dpgaa-d6kfg monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587191-4PXJFHKU765WLM1ZU43C/a.jpg NEWS - New faces on the board - Clement Simuja The awarenet program first became aware of Clement after hearing about him single-handedly running computer classes for teachers and unemployed youth in our local township on a voluntary basis. His enthusiasm for both ICT and community engagement therefore made him a natural choice to act as trustee for our organisation. Clement has a Phd in Information Systems and is currently working as a senior lecturer in the field of ICT in education at the Rhodes University Education Department. Asked about why he wanted to join our board he responds that he loves to be part of initiatives which promote ICT as a tool for social development in the wider Makhanda/Grahamstown community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587197-58T7MTKX2GFKZZ1IWM11/b.jpg NEWS - New faces on the board - Gerald Accom Gerald Accom has a long history of involvement with the awarenet program during his service as a teacher at the local Mary Waters High School. As a committed ICT enthusiast he was instrumental in creating opportunities for the awarenet team to teach learners in the school's computer lab. Currently retired from teaching, he maintains his zeal for ICT and education by lecturing part-time to students in the Bachelor of Education ICT and Bachelor of Education Science programs at Rhodes University Education Department. To further belie the notion that he has retired he maintains a website focusing on the technology learning area in the senior teaching phase. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2018/11/23/the-new-board-of-the-german-vsa-refgj-xc75d-5mxfr-rbzs9-x966t-ebdpf-c2yfh-7ltza-tp2jn-7shzh-el36m-kkgbt monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587149-JZ7QTZE2MGLZ9UE69JO3/a.jpg NEWS - The new board of the German VSA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587159-VSV4BB3I7C4Q5S3HZYEC/b.jpg NEWS - The new board of the German VSA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587167-7AIXC1J5IT0KVT42FLUE/c.jpg NEWS - The new board of the German VSA https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2018/10/25/recognition-for-awarenet-at-rhodes-community-engagement-awards-2018-njlal-wd943-2jclf-3lxlk-f7kj8-9exk6-dldyr-cef5z-36g53-drtn2-6k2zn-p8h8w monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587088-H8EWMOCA3HBK3LQS46NG/VolunteerManagersAwardsWinners.jpg NEWS - Recognition for awarenet at Rhodes Community Engagement Awards 2018! - awarenet and partners received awards for community engagement at the 2018 Rhodes University Community Engagement Awards! Sudo Soc, the computer society at Rhodes University, were among three finalists for Rhodes Society/Sports Club of the Year for their work with installing the new awarenet Learning Lab. Richard Were received the award from Rhodes University vice-chancellor Dr Sizwe Mabizela on behalf of Sudo Soc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587114-6JVV5WVBNOKDG2T093YP/b.jpg NEWS - Recognition for awarenet at Rhodes Community Engagement Awards 2018! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587105-QPTHDRTIPKAGU8RWQAFG/a.jpg NEWS - Recognition for awarenet at Rhodes Community Engagement Awards 2018! https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2018/10/22/hci-foundation-workshop-wzxen-l5tw2-jna7m-jrw9a-lafgt-zapkx-9cs8c-28cxe-22bj8-c55jx-72j7t-nfcm7 monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587070-V262ZHS16X2NFD5CX4RO/HCI-Foundation-Workshop-Thando-Kjetil-Jonas-wider-pic.jpg NEWS - HCI Foundation workshop - Last Thursday the awarenet team took part in a great workshop organised by our funder the HCI Foundation on how non profit organisations can collaborate to achieve sustainable social change. Lab supervisor Thanduxolo Royi and project coordinator Kjetil Torp joined a multitude of representatives from other non profit organisations from all parts of the Eastern Cape who were gathered in Grahamstown for the day. Through the discussions is was clear that most non profit organisations have similar kind of challenges such as access to funding and optimisation of programs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587076-3Q8570KLSK05714W5OGS/a.jpg NEWS - HCI Foundation workshop - Dr Ashley Westaway from Gadra Education shared his experiences in increasing the number of students from its matric school which enter university. He emphasised that the success of Gadra in doing this is largely due to it being a data driven organisation. He said that a non profit organisation can achieve better outcomes through vigorous analysis of both quantitative and qualitative data, thereby getting better knowledge on how to adjust its projects and interventions. Jonas Schumacher from Masifunde Learner Development gave an insider talk on how to grow sustainable and effective non profit organisations. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2018/10/17/photos-from-the-awarenet-photography-workshop-24ns4-6wwc6-k4gh2-9ntff-bcb57-e8sl4-g6yww-n5cnl-rjhep-sg9f5-wpclm-7h46d monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587042-O0S6IOSWS9WHJIJ3ZVG0/h.jpg NEWS - Photos from the awarenet photography workshop! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587028-RUJN04GC4FI5MFS91EAA/g.jpg NEWS - Photos from the awarenet photography workshop! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586982-PT52C7BXJVDBB3TN8O7I/f.jpg NEWS - Photos from the awarenet photography workshop! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586991-RBJINTAYBPWRLQMGMXA1/d.jpg NEWS - Photos from the awarenet photography workshop! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587019-WZCSVA68JVMXGB32VI37/c.jpg NEWS - Photos from the awarenet photography workshop! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586973-PDIMX54UJP89N66XK53P/b.jpg NEWS - Photos from the awarenet photography workshop! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587000-3WO2VSYZ9QPPUB6KLHOL/a.jpg NEWS - Photos from the awarenet photography workshop! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587010-CKSCAHJFB9W6H65V9X42/e.jpg NEWS - Photos from the awarenet photography workshop! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650587058-PS97TX2NGMNV399YXRUA/Collage.jpg NEWS - Photos from the awarenet photography workshop! https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2018/10/09/awarenet-october-holiday-fun-yt5lc-4mcff-5ss3x-dlkhd-f9cjk-3zads-hekkt-rcrwg-72nam-5tlk5-acs9d-g59hs monthly 0.5 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586941-N2T5UHW5C08FWU05L55V/a.jpg NEWS - awarenet October holiday fun! - The awarenet team were busy doing fun things in and around the computer lab at the Joza Youth Hub this October school holiday! School holidays mean a lot of free time. Instead of laying in bed all day kids from our local area were invited to join our media workshops in the Joza Youth Hub. Tuesday last week we started with a basic introduction to our computers. We showed them how to use the mouse and keyboard and how to open a document and insert pictures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586947-2O684RYM27IFUSUUKXZI/b.jpg NEWS - awarenet October holiday fun! - On Wednesday the children created their own radio show. With the help of some external microphones and headphones they became news speakers, reporters and music hosts. They even created their own music for the show. Wednesday we offered a photography workshop for the learners. It was fascinating to see how much joy the young participants could have when creating their own pictures. The workshop became possible thanks to camera donations received from Germany. We ended the week with an awesome screening of a movie. More than 30 kids enjoyed watching Moana the Disney Princess on her journey to save her village. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2018/10/04/rhodes-university-students-share-skills-p527j-wz24d-enc75-bmcfz-8yhra-mebn7-2dmka-z7pfn-8rcgr-jx4hm-dpt8d-8lc4b monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586928-R3FJFL0N7FB3ZEJ9FOHU/a.jpg NEWS - Rhodes University students share skills - Through its Community Engagement program Rhodes University sent us a group of students who come every week to teach our core group of grade 9 learners. This group of learners have been selected to be in our support program until the end of their school career in grade 12, the long-term goal is to increase their ability to access higher education, the job market or other post-matric opportunities. The Rhodes students play an integral part in supporting the core group by conveying both computer and academic skills to our learners. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2018/09/21/opening-of-the-awarenet-learning-lab-wdtwc-lbcd5-tfp5z-2hk5h-hmb53-jkzfx-lhny4-z3c43-gt4zt-4sma7-zxde5-4hzng monthly 0.5 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586916-PTO4FTB89ERF39T4A5D4/a.jpg NEWS - Opening of the awarenet Learning Lab - In addition to being taught by awarenet staff the learners will also be visited by students from Rhodes University specialized in their subjects who will share their knowledge in a fun and communicative way. The origin of establishing a second computer lab was that our Open Lab in the Joza Youth Hub was highly frequented by both learners and community members. So there was the need of a second space, particularly for learners who participate in the more structured part of our program. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2018/08/14/photo-walk-in-local-township-ckn8f-ja3wk-s8pn7-dda3n-a3gye-a6tyy-6dmrs-f9wxs-4tlea-jl728-ptfep-aplxz monthly 0.5 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586860-NAY40IUWRAFBIYFUILKH/IMG_20180804_113636.jpg NEWS - Photo walk in local township - The colours of the grey streets of Joza came alive for awarenet learners and other local youth who took part in the Photo Walk organised by local newspaper Grocotts Mail. Grocott's Photo Walk is a joint cooperation with The Stand community newspaper in Syracuse, New York where the two distant communities share photographs and stories. After an interesting introduction on photography composition and colours by Grocotts' photo journalist James we were all let loose on the streets of local township Joza and its unsuspecting passers-by. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586864-LGNCRLOSDO90Q4OLYI19/a.jpg NEWS - Photo walk in local township - We saw funeral participants draped in formal black attire with white clouds in the background. Married women in patterned blue makoti dresses walked by balancing green vegetables dignifiedly on their heads. Saturday revellers in suits and rags drank whiskey next to newly washed upmarket cars, water drops still shining on their surface. Boys and girls sat in couples behind curled barbed wire in front of houses painted in all imaginable colours, chatting nonchalantly about life in the bright sunshine. Mothers hang small, big, pink, blue, yellow and red clothes on lines while their children played on the ruins of half-demolished neighbouring houses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586892-FCRFJYEYNENEHB6AJKQH/a.jpg NEWS - Photo walk in local township https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586882-SCBLVL21I0AVEGHGJXK4/b.jpg NEWS - Photo walk in local township https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2018/08/14/a-trip-down-memory-lane-t8dls-std8k-wy5tg-y6ywy-b46kw-p8an9-y7erk-hzw4m-m9r4d-yjnex-rwz3n-alma3 monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586834-XO0J9D5FDBY0JH0QV84W/4.png NEWS - A trip down memory lane - Back in December Kjetil came up with the idea of doing a work-trip to the former Transkei, Coffee Bay to be precise. We stayed in a backpacker called "Coffee Shack" just next to the ocean. Max and I slept in a little hut which is used as a shared bedroom, so we had the chance to meet a range of different people during our stay there. The mornings started with fresh orange juice and a work session at a nearby bistro where we became regular customers. During our stay we set up a plan for the next year, the emphasis lied on all the activities or clubs which we wanted to tackle. After working for a few days we really deserved a day off. Clearly, we didn't want to spend it at the backpacker so instead we hiked to the 'Hole in the Wall'. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586839-U9OV71QV5SGJ0SY1XM5K/a.jpg NEWS - A trip down memory lane - One of our first great adventures was on Heritage day, a public poliday here in South Africa when everyone can freely celebrate their heritage. In order to celebrate our heritage we clearly had to go on a little road trip to Port Alfred with a short stop in Bathurst. In Bathurst we tried the best milkshake in the Eastern Cape, everyone who begs to differ will be shown his place once he tried the delicious Oreo milkshake. Afterwards we reembarked on our little journey and drove through a little game reserve just a few kilometers away from Port Alfred. There we met the kind giraffe Gambit. He was brought up by two local giraffe enthusiasts after his mother did not accept him. Due to his upbringing he is not scared of humans, resulting in some very nice close-up pictures of him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586843-3O06HYXCYGFFAY2HZXO5/b.jpg NEWS - A trip down memory lane - Both Xenia and I decided to celebrate both Christmas and New Year's Eve together with some other German volunteers, to make that plan work we spent some days in Port Elizabeth with some other Eastern Cape volunteers and once Christmas Day arrived, we totalled 20 volunteers from all over SA. After Christmas we travelled along the Garden Route in our own car and arrived in Cape Town after a few days. On the 31st of December we decided that it would be a great idea to hike the Table Mountain, in retrospective I don't really see why. The weather was horrible, it rained for the first time since April, the fog was so thick that one could barely see and the mountain did not want to end, at least that is how we felt while climbing this monstrosity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586848-DH4U691ZLMCWLSJUH0R5/c.jpg NEWS - A trip down memory lane - Joza Youth Hub Open Day 2018. What a day! Surely, this has to be on our top list! Max and I were really keen on planning that annual event happening at the Joza Youth Hub. It was a fun process although it became quite hectic a few times. We had to organize activities, sponsors, competitions, prizes and so much more. Luckily everyone was responsible for a different task and the other Joza Youth Hub members were very supportive and helped us where they could. Advertising was in our hands and soon we created flyers, posters, a newspaper article and online posts. We wanted to spread the event as much as possible. When all partners gathered around for one last meeting we realized that everything was set - we were ready! https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2018/07/30/village-scribe-association-annual-general-meeting-eb7ks-7eche-a2rk9-2c3zp-tkm5r-ly6lt-4srm2-8gptc-tgmaf-ln5kf-xg9k6-b323w monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586822-0O57OY4FJEM7Y069B7PG/IMG_7908.jpg NEWS - Village Scribe Association Annual General Meeting - The Village Scribe Association Trust, which runs the awarenet program, held its annual general meeting on the 21st of July in Grahamstown, South Africa. Present were trustees and management of the organisation, learners and lab supervisors participating in the awarenet program and external partners such as Sudo Soc, the student computer society at nearby Rhodes University. The diversity of perspectives represented at the AGM made for an interesting debate when the future of the awarenet program came up for discussion. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2018/07/24/awarenet-is-paypaling-3bafd-f4ydh-hay7z-exrfg-ln4g7-3tzkc-69jyt-mdbr6-8a2jw-f6j7m-xgyle-bz9al monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586808-1989WEPL58I7Y1RVQ4XP/a.jpg NEWS - awarenet is paypaling - All donations received will be used on site in Grahamstown, South Africa. All our books are audited and since the inception of our organisation in 2011 we have always received a clean audit. The last audit was done in June 2018. Feel free to contact us in order to learn more about how we utilise donations or join the newsletter. The awarenet program is run by the Village Scribe Association Trust which is a Public Benefit Organisation registered in South Africa and your donations are therefore exempt from tax. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2018/07/13/bringing-awarenet-to-the-world-population-day-kwmh2-7ttwp-yfd2b-herrf-jtnlh-faee5-zjs5k-7ggdk-zsh6t-me3xg-xk6w8-372ja monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586796-0CXGTNYMRWSAOT8F0OBY/a.jpg NEWS - Bringing awarenet to the World Population Day - Every year on the 11th of July, the United Nation's World Population Day is the day to reflect upon population issues concerning people from all over the world no matter their background. This year's topic was sexual reproductive rights. The programmes run by awarenet try where possible to include the subject of reproductive rights and the obstacles women in particular face in accessing these. It was therefore natural for awarenet to participate at the World Population Day event organized by the Department of Social Development in Sarah Baartman District. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2018/07/10/the-xhosa-chronicles-rkfel-p6shn-w9p2x-ww9be-4p63m-ar8cx-zhxcr-m2zab-rfxar-f5b9h-z5ky9-zaj7h monthly 0.5 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586778-WGP0XVZHJE19FAOH8L30/IMG_20180702_120137.jpg NEWS - The Xhosa Chronicles - During the Grahamstown National Arts Festival which took place last week we took some of our learners out to see "The Xhosa Chronicles", a play about Xhosa culture and what difficulties modern Xhosa people face whilst looking back at their history. Kjetil, Xenia and I were accompanied by our lab supervisors and a member of the awarenet Journalism Club. After organizing transport to town we all met in front of the Victoria Girls High School, which also hosted this years' market, waiting eagerly in the queue to see the play. The play itself, whilst directed in a very modern and minimalist way, looked at the troubled history of the Xhosa people and their interactions with the British in particular. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586783-8LIH70DTSSZ7C4VSP6PE/a.jpg NEWS - The Xhosa Chronicles - Unfortunately, the play was tainted in a clear black and white contrast, white people being the devil themselves, whilst the Xhosa were innocent souls being poisoned by the western lifestyle. Now the topic itself is interesting, however the directors and writers seem to have forgotten that the greatest pleasure of watching political plays lies in understanding the message that is being told discretely. Some of the greatest drama masterpieces like Gerhart Hauptmann's "Vor Sonnenaufgang" or "Before Sunrise" show the influence that alcohol has on the German society in the 19th century, a topic similar to the "poison" used in "The Xhosa Chronicles". https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2018/07/10/afrofuturist-animation-workshop-a4p3h-zk9ct-9zhxn-etj6h-gntfd-74bk4-k5s35-dbfam-8t6r2-pxzxr-8syty-8km78 monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586718-KH1RUDC89R51ZQ5VHNFM/a.jpg NEWS - Afrofuturist Animation Workshop! - awarenet learners got a chance to learn how to make advanced computer animation during the Grahamstown National Arts Festival. The learners took part in the Afrofuturist Animation Workshop run by Alette Schoon of the Rhodes University School of Journalism and Media Studies. The excited young workshop participants all created their own moving and talking cartoon characters which were displayed live the following day at a festival exhibition. awarenet lab supervisor Thandoxolo Royi made his cartoon character out of images of fruit and kitchen items. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586746-7DBXID7SZGSSQPV8GH7N/b.jpg NEWS - Afrofuturist Animation Workshop! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586755-1K2SEEENIKFMXKXTYIUG/c.jpg NEWS - Afrofuturist Animation Workshop! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586737-V8KRTL5U1OMF9R01NA8Y/b.jpg NEWS - Afrofuturist Animation Workshop! https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2018/06/24/new-volunteers-are-coming-in-september-57b58-j4gdc-yw68j-rk86g-k2n9t-bcby3-pc5kb-7zmxy-ttr8l-prgwl-sc7x6-9ryxg monthly 0.5 2025-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586700-KMS93A96JNWS66BIVT3U/a.jpg NEWS - New volunteers are coming in September - There is first Annika. She has just finished her training to become an assistant in media design. She loves to take photographs and is happy to listen to rock music. Annika grew up in a small city in the west of Germany close to Cologne. She was also an active Scout member and enjoys camping with her group. "I want to go to South Africa because I want to explore the world. Learn new things, learn from different people and learn for myself and grow on these experiences. I hope I can get to know the country, the people, the culture and explore the nature. I am really looking forward to the person who will come back. Because I think she will be a different person. A person with a different view of the world and with more practical knowledge." Annika, 20 years old from Netphen (Germany) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586705-4I1KRH5AQSZM5KNKJKTM/b.jpg NEWS - New volunteers are coming in September - Secondly there is Meike. She worked 2 years in a media house in Dresden. This is a city in the east of Germany. In the media house she taught how to produce movies and radio to school children. Prior to that she studied culture and media education in Ludwigsburg. Meike loves to move and explore places. On weekends she is hardly found at home because she is probably hiking somewhere in nature or visiting friends in nearby cities. Meike also loves to listen to rock music. "I want to go to South Africa to improve my professional experience in media work. I am super happy to learn from new locations and people. In my opinion media education needs to be more supported because it helps a lot to understand the world." Meike, 25 years old, from Hamburg (Germany) https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2018/06/21/the-joza-youth-hub-opens-its-doors-gmem2-zmeer-sss6h-zfhee-kf3zx-2fjbg-bsafa-blzj6-yn3y8-r4dad-bcygw-jzfna monthly 0.5 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586665-ZPEIYOKAQIIH3T99FR2B/Group-of-Learners.jpg NEWS - The Joza Youth Hub opens its doors! - In case you are not familiar with the Joza Youth Hub, here's a short description: The Joza Youth Hub (JYH) is a collective of six NGOs from Grahamstown operating on the premises next to the Makana Housing Department in Joza Location. One of the Youth Hubbers is Access Music Project (AMP), who give free music education to young people from Grahamstown and try to empower them through the use and studies of music. There are the Joza Chess and Reading clubs who focus on smaller children and try to interest them in playing chess and reading for leisure purposes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586671-2EX0QT4A5YS0QFKTTBXE/b.jpg NEWS - The Joza Youth Hub opens its doors! - The Toy Library, which is aimed at supporting pre-school and kindergarden-aged children, lends out toys with which the children can play on the premises of the Joza Youth Hub and help them develop cognitive skills more easily. Last but not least there is awarenet, we are an organization that aims to improve computer literacy in the underprivileged areas of Grahamstown by giving community members free access to a computer lab as well as Internet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586676-KQ4JB0MKZRB5MV70GAJ6/c.jpg NEWS - The Joza Youth Hub opens its doors! - This years' Joza Youth Hub Open Day was organized by my fellow volunteer and friend, Max Resch, and we tried our best to make this event as memorable as can be. The event structure itself was quite decentralized with each JYH member organizing their own competitions, therefore the main task was to organize a time schedule working for everyone while keeping the action constant so that the visitors would not get bored after a while. Another main task during the organizing phase was marketing, different JYH members agreed to use their community outreach to attract as many visitors as possible. After the organization phase all members were eager to see how the Open Day would work out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586682-9TFQFRSZRQQDVA1ONQF0/d.jpg NEWS - The Joza Youth Hub opens its doors! - The Joza Chess Club held a puzzle as well as multiple chess tournaments for their members as well as for the visitors. The Joza Reading Club was giving and raffling away books and other great prizes. Upstart was holding multiple competitions, a poetry competition resembling poetry slams normally only to be seen in metropoles, as well as a singing and dancing competition. awarenet was running multiple computer competitions focusing on general IT knowledge as well as local and national history and international polititics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586687-KGGF8KM2089HYYW9J3QS/e.jpg NEWS - The Joza Youth Hub opens its doors! - Almost all competitions were offering prizes and among them were books and airtime slips with the goal of empowering the local youths. We also want to thank our sponsors for offering prizes as well as discounted food and drinks. In conclusion one can say that the 2018 Joza Youth Hub Open Day was an all-out success with 250 to 300 visitors actively involved and lots of fun being had. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2018/05/15/radio-interview-with-awarenet-9658y-f8bj5-mx6al-r6h2g-r4fc4-jj5jg-agmkp-fl4wx-wngyy-lb5al-7frja-4j7r9 monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586652-JDVRBIE5VE81U9E49X73/RMRLogo.png NEWS - Radio interview with awarenet https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2018/04/26/awarenet-lecture-on-powerpoint-in-the-classroom-87hsy-cecjn-gd7gf-2cyfc-m9d6f-hny72-lz8l8-bxkp9-df98g-gggdx-cjw5r-yxb8r monthly 0.5 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586639-OMI2RL0GI70KM6J858V2/KjetilPDClecture5097.jpg NEWS - awarenet lecture on PowerPoint in the classroom - PowerPoint is a powerful tool and as all technology has its uses and misuses. Earlier this month I presented a lecture and did a workshop at Rhodes University for teachers in how to best use PowerPoint in the classroom. The teachers I taught hail from schools both from our home province of Eastern Cape and the kingdom of Swaziland and are studying towards a Bachelor of Education in Information and Communication Technology, attending sessions at Rhodes University during school holidays while still working as full-time teachers at their schools. At the lecture I outlined some of the positive educational outcomes of the use of PowerPoint and related programs like Libre Office Impress and Google Presentation such as better structuring of learning content, increased visual impact and heightened classroom interactivity. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2018/04/24/computer-clean-up-by-rhodes-computer-society-54e72-z7arz-r58sd-tebfc-f9ky3-rpxrs-ryz8z-jajb7-6pcae-phl5z-pynz8-l4psx monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586590-WLJTFBT5NWCYSQB09JKF/IMG_8995.jpg NEWS - Rhodes students fix awarenet computers! - Sudo Soc, the student computer society at Rhodes University, lent awarenet a hand in maintaining the computer labs at Joza Youth Hub. With the skilled use of an air compressor the team from Sudo Soc delicately cleaned the dusty insides of the well-used awarenet computers without damaging a single processor, hard drive nor motherboard. Sudo Soc also helped us install a larger hard drive on our server, thereby making it possible for us to save bigger files for our offline educational content such as Mindset Learn videos covering the South African CAPS curriculum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586607-WC2BK1W3CQGL21D0N044/a.jpg NEWS - Rhodes students fix awarenet computers! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586616-GXEN4G2F745F15WA50MT/b.jpg NEWS - Rhodes students fix awarenet computers! https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2018/04/20/sage-net-seminar-2018-bse9t-3n4nl-htydk-byz35-jh7cc-6s5b3-fwst9-ns7wk-3mlne-42j7k-zehry-6tjdg monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586524-7PUE9YYNLA86AB346A4V/gruppenbild.jpg NEWS - SAGE-Net seminar 2018 - During the last month Max and I were meeting again in little Wortelgat (near Hermanus) in the Western Cape. I was already on leave and enjoyed some time together with my parents when we had to meet for our SAGE-NET. mid-term seminar. We have not seen the volunteers since New Years Eve so were both looking forward to see all of them again and spend some time together talking about our experiences so far. More than 7 months are over and everyone was packed with stories waiting to be shared. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586558-5VH8O5SKMHSOZ7PGMOUG/a.jpg NEWS - SAGE-Net seminar 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586541-2OBEYUP4YGQSRRM7OH3Q/b.jpg NEWS - SAGE-Net seminar 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586550-C7RYR7OO8VO0LID7UL88/c.jpg NEWS - SAGE-Net seminar 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586567-3ULOGKLWTBD4ZACHZ8QU/d.jpg NEWS - SAGE-Net seminar 2018 https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2018/04/13/peace-songs-on-soundcloud-4r76g-jgk28-9hd39-2xsj3-yg2mr-kycef-t5knx-sx56f-47sl8-sb3hn-ldaym-k4cty monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586512-53MDHTBI72JCKDJKD78H/PeaceDayConcert2016-2.jpg NEWS - Peace Songs on soundcloud - We finally uploaded the songs from the Peace Day Concert 2016. 6 different schools participated in the Peace Day Concert 2016. Every school wrote their own song and performed it on stage! After such a long time we are proud to announce that we have the final versions of the songs uploaded to our Soundcloud channel. Ntaba Maria won the competition but have a look at them and decide which one you like the most. Find the songs on our Soundcloud Account: https://soundcloud.com/vsaawarenet https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2018/04/07/open-lab-expansion-yxngz-shhwr-f6rn6-tj5al-a3mbn-e5tfh-6zbnz-y547t-86z95-wsjns-b2wwb-esrp2 monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586501-IVFVBL0KQWPGTH7RJ4IY/IMG_4902-2.jpg NEWS - Open Lab expansion! - Every afternoon, particularly just after school hours, we experience long lines of awarenet Open Lab members patiently waiting to access our single computer lab containing only 13 computers. We are therefore happy to announce that a new additional computer lab will be established next to the old one. Having two computer labs will give us the opportunity to run clubs and other organised activities in one lab while simultaneously leaving the other lab open for members to choose their own activities such as school work, job searches and games. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2018/03/01/2017-review-of-an-awesome-year-pr23k-arfsj-za4dn-nrj2a-lcnfp-pwfmm-2swwn-x4r6j-63sma-85ddf-5ngt4-byf33 monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586484-YITDRS5VWQKTP49VDRGJ/a.png NEWS - 2017! Review of an awesome year - It has been a very important year for the VSA and awarenet in which we were able to increase our community outreach and continued our good relationship with Rhodes University . Successful projects! That is the first thing that comes into my mind when I am thinking of awarenet 2017. The last year was definitely a good one for our organization. The biggest accomplishment was probably the awarenet Open Lab. It gives Joza community members access to computers and the internet free of charge. Registered members can use the computer lab in the Joza Youth Hub to do their homework or research, communicate and learn. After they have registered they receive membership cards and whenever they want to go into the lab they have to identify as users. We invented the Open Lab in May 2017 and since then we were already counting more than 500 (February 2018) registered users from different age groups ranging from 7 to 70. Opening hours are weekdays from 3 to 5pm and Saturdays from 9am to 5 pm. Former learners and volunteers supervise the lab and take care that children do not access any websites which aren't meant for them. The Open Lab project was organised with the help of Rhodes University, especially with the help of Rod Amner, a Rhodes lecturer and VSA trustee. The lab consists of 12 computers fully equipped with mice, keyboards and headphones. During the whole time the children get supervised through awarenet staff. We are counting 8 supervisers including four former awarenet learners. The lab was open from 3 to 5pm on workdays and from 9am to 5pm on Saturdays. The first opening hour is meant for learners doing homework and school research but after that specific time everyone is welcome to use the computers for private research, gaming etc. Within the Open Lab we often create projects. A very popular project was the coding course. We invited special guests from the Center for Information and Communication Technology at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Italy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586489-UJUGGB7O60LPWZRWRCTM/b.jpg NEWS - 2017! Review of an awesome year - On the 1st of April, the second JYH Open Day took place. Community members came to the event and spend some time together to end the term in a good way. Every partner prepared an activity showcasing what the organization is offering to the youth. awarenet showcased the computer lab with a typing competition. Unfortunately, the annual Peace and Music Project during the third term had to be cancelled half way through the project. Most schools did not attend well and were not able to perform their own song on stage, which is the goal of the project. In 2017, we realised that we had to change the way we offered combined IT training and project work to the learners in the community. It was no longer economical to travel to schools and group learners by school. At the same time, no other organisation in the Joza Youth Hub used the computer lab any longer for their projects, so the VSA decided to make stronger use of it and offered all their annual projects at the hub. Of course, this circumstance requires the learners to be more reliable and self-organised. Many of them failed due to different reasons, often beyond their responsibility. Instead, other interested community members approached us. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2018/02/23/movie-making-course-part-2-wcs8x-xbhdt-rxmxa-pm3np-tpmeg-ddyhe-9ny53-5p7pc-3693s-s8whb-5y6e5-kd7d2 monthly 0.5 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586472-PTU1G9AY5LC77TCA4YA4/a.jpg NEWS - Joza goes Hollywood - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2018/02/19/500th-member-of-awarenet-open-lab-hems8-rydpl-7pcl6-t94kd-mhltf-w4zda-5r5d2-w5jml-ffhr5-rsp2z-jr7s4-wyd5t monthly 0.5 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586460-A5ZILUAKIRJR5JX9L2VR/IMG_20180213_142936.resized.jpg NEWS - 500th member of awarenet Open Lab! https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2018/02/09/the-awarenet-team-at-the-agyi-conference-2018-mmgr9-7efzr-7nktb-sy9le-x9c6r-2e2f4-8eef4-t7pns-arwnl-x5gab-8jg2y-xj75n monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586442-TVPJPVP9UKW2F32QBTLH/IMG_20180124_125601.jpg NEWS - The awarenet-Team at the AGYI conference 2018 - The AGYI-Conference Kjetil and Max have been attending a conference hosted by the AGYI, the "African German Youth Initiative". Its goal is to make youth exchanges between African countries and Germany easier as well as more accessible. The AGYI is sponsored by "Engagement Global", an agency of the German ministry for economic cooperation and development which also administrates the weltwaerts-Program, as well as the African Union. The focus lay on improving an existing "manual" for successful youth exchanges. After three hard days of workshop that consisted of reading through the manual and criticizing it, as well as giving existential feedback, the manual transformed into a guideline which is designed for both sending and hosting organizations of volunteers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586447-0UM0H75YB1JAP2UQOTQW/a.jpg NEWS - The awarenet-Team at the AGYI conference 2018 - We also met some old friends, such as Manelisi Billy from Masifunde and former weltwaerts South-North volunteer, who was dedicated to achieve more support for alumni. Carola Blendermann from Sage Net was also attending and we also met other Sage Net partner organizations, such as Cape Mental Heath and Sparrow schools. Apart from working on the guideline, we also talked about how to attract funders and what is important to funders: regular reports about where exactly money is going to. Talking to bigger NGOs also lead to us getting new ideas about how we can attract funders from the VSA. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2018/02/09/awarenet-teachers-course-accredited-neaad-6a3r7-94af8-rg5fp-l3aga-myynp-tjs9s-nhzce-62dnf-ks9pw-5wdta-ll9wx monthly 0.5 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586429-7V7AVGHVRPZMTYINJR7U/IMG_20170907_152240.jpg NEWS - awarenet Teacher's course accredited! - The awarenet teacher's course which started in 2017 now has official recognition in the South African educational system! Through the 21 Sector Education and Training Authorities (SETA) relevant bodies of authority in different sectors of the economy approve courses on offer in South Africa to improve the skills of the workforce. These recognized courses are embedded in a comprehensive framework where each course is awarded a certain number of points. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2017/12/20/mcvay-in-bremen-the-travails-of-an-awarenet-learner-fb8cc-rjngb-yd97s-r46s3-rna5f-p9nlk-s589d-a842t-da69l-3ztkg-pmbwn-cpamj monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586417-TFFATQH5CRNKBYNSU319/21731252_1430871970359254_6881156621737934235_n.jpg NEWS - Mcvay in Bremen! The travails of an awarenet learner - Our former intern and awarenet learner Mcvay Boko is now abroad in Germany for a year. He is taking part in the North-South component of the volunteer program weltwaerts which is designed to facilitate cultural exchanges between countries of the global north and south. The program is subsidized by the German state through the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development. Youth from all over the world get the chance to work in Germany for a year, gain experience and knowledge about a foreign culture, thereby giving them a head start in their occupational future. Mcvay is currently working at a youth hostel in Bremen, a Hansestadt in northern Germany, where he is busy managing essential parts of the daily routine. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2017/12/18/ice-age-in-grahamstown-dk89l-l5xm4-lxaln-32c7r-hclra-f6fhg-32xdb-y2jja-lyn7p-kdabg-37hrg-gymwx monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586399-5ML6DVX0JDP992SQP40K/DSCF6847.jpg NEWS - 'Ice Age' in Grahamstown - On Friday, December the 1st, we introduced the festive season with a movie night in the Joza Youth Hub. After our monthly Hub meeting we transformed the boring communal room into a nice and cozy movie area. We had some blankets and pillows so the children were able to enjoy the movie from a laying-on-the-ground perspective. Rod (VSA board member and Rhodes lecturer) brought his huge speakers and created a real cinema atmosphere. Now it was time to finally start our movie night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586404-CYDZUAXV3AHR4QBN6P1T/a.jpg NEWS - 'Ice Age' in Grahamstown - All hands were up when we were negotiating about the movie. It was a clear YES for 'Ice Age'. After we finished the first movie we decided to have a short break and everyone was able to drink and eat something. The break was over really quickly because all of them wanted to watch a second movie. What a surprise that they wanted to watch 'Ice Age 2'. It was such a nice experience and we're looking forward to plan more movie nights. Let's see what we'll watch during our next movie nights :) https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2017/12/12/the-awarenet-movie-making-course-bkt5l-h335k-ppae7-a8b8m-xa9em-d5hhc-2tpn2-c7n2e-jffzn-xpa8f-g75xd-73yys monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586381-EZJLTBO7QVQP990ZO6KF/a.jpg NEWS - The awarenet movie making course - The school learners taking part in the course were taught to draw storyboards, shoot scenes near the Joza Youth Hub - our base of operation - and finally edit the clips they had done. It all resulted in a lovely short movie that will be posted on our Youtube and Instagram pages. The participants, including one of our Open Lab supervisors, Sinesipho Soxujwa, learned how to shoot clips with their mobile phones, how to transfer them to a PC and how to work with Kdenlive, an open source and cost-free editing program available for Linux and other operating systems. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586386-HCY1Y4YCUSUY9ZPX25NH/IMG_20171205_121943.jpg NEWS - The awarenet movie making course - Sinesipho, our Open Lab supervisor, and Sive Teyise, one of our learners at Archie Mbolekwa Primary School were very dedicated to the project and produced extraordinary work. While busy with their own clips, they helped the others and ensured the success of the project. It was a pleasure working with Alette as she was also able to teach us as volunteers new aspects of movie making with the use of Kdenlive. On the second day of the course, we were aided by Jans de Jager, a former student of Alette, who helped us edit the clips into a movie and sorted out some general network issues. We hope that we can continue with the course next year and achieve an even higher attendance then. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2017/12/04/sagenet-conference-2017-728tf-lfbrz-mdm9r-8mng2-xcj7g-eh275-38tdh-7rnec-rztct-pxtgz-l9kjb-34jgl monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586367-6ZU3T0W8BF7J8TI813BW/sagenet-logo-4c.jpg NEWS - SageNet Conference 2017 - The aim of Sage Net is to increase cooperation and understanding between South Africa and Germany - not the least by participating in the weltwaerts volunteer program where young Germans volunteer a year in South Africa and young South Africans likewise volunteer a year in Germany. awarenet receives two German volunteers each year who work full-time for our organisation - we are proud that we through Sage Net this year for the first time also sent a South African awarenet member on a year of volunteering to Germany. High on the agenda for this year's Sage Net conference was precisely how to deepen and target the support of the South Africans sent to Germany, though still fewer than the Germans sent to South Africa their numbers have increased the last years. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2017/11/28/its-givingtuesday-gn4p4-klka4-mnsej-lh5pn-ksdh5-346ds-pr5t7-bhh23-3argn-femmp-kmab6-37ybz monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586353-7CT4TAK5JGEMKPU6C6M7/6b3mYIHf_400x400.jpg NEWS - It's #GivingTuesday! https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2017/11/21/awarenet-at-public-accountability-event-mmrwb-dy32t-7bdyc-46e25-wybyp-7ew2h-578rs-alw59-wkw4d-z2f8t-rfl4r-rnxb9 monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586336-6OF2KL3QSBIT831B3HDI/IMG_20170915_100202.jpg NEWS - awarenet at Public Accountability Event - awarenet was one of the participants at the Social Accountability Knowledge Distribution Event held in Noluthando Hall in Joza township. The event was aimed at giving the local community information about both governmental and non-governmental services offered in the local community. It also strived to conscientise community members about the available channels to use when lodging complaints or enquires about local municipal services. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586340-7IV3WA7T5M5RQTLZV49K/a.jpg NEWS - awarenet at Public Accountability Event - The event was coordinated by the Public Service Accountability Monitor, an institute associated with Rhodes University which strives to monitor the performance and accountability of different branches of government. awarenet kept a stand at the event and Kjetil held a short presentation in front of the audience about the awarenet Open Lab. He highlighted that the Open Lab is a space for the whole community where through the use of the internet they can be better informed about their rights and opportunities. The lab is open to everyone on weekday afternoons and the whole of Saturday. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2017/11/20/the-vsa-trust-in-south-africa-has-a-new-board-h7lfp-7seag-eg3y6-xzwd8-b6b8p-6rfaa-edkk4-5588l-felsz-7ga8t-lwjlz-llm34 monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586323-OK5LOAECF4DB2C2STXF0/after-board-meeting-2017.jpg NEWS - The VSA Trust in South Africa has a new board - Since Anna and Ron Wertlen moved to Berlin a few years ago, new staff was found and the awarenet program has undergone quite a few changes over the years following the needs of the South African youth and teachers. While Anna and Ron stay on the board of the VSA e.V. in Germany, which is a charity organisation supporting the VSA Trust financially, they have now resigned from the board of trustees in South Africa. While we believe that it makes total sense, it was also a requirement of various funding organisations, which we now follow. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2017/10/31/rhodes-community-engagement-awards-kw36d-3hmlh-6m8ew-gz5mf-fwrrk-ef5ac-l864b-yl7n3-l6arn-charn-j9j7t-wc73s monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586309-IG0S3I9XIGMX82LUXZYV/RUCEawardVCcropped2.jpg NEWS - Rhodes Community Engagement Awards - awarenet has in 2017 been fortunate to have had six Rhodes University students on site who all have volunteered their time and dedication. These students have conducted awarenet training sessions, supervised the Open Lab and helped us create an awarenet database. To celebrate all the students who participate in the programme and the organisations they work with Rhodes University invited us all to a Community Engagement Awards gala evening. At the gala I received a Volunteer Manager's Award for the work I have done with the volunteers. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2017/10/30/programming-course-made-in-italy-ezmpz-57p37-2ljz7-ls2ye-8xg3a-zxzne-kephc-26ync-66gkg-wyfck-khss3-k3wec monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586290-6XWTX7UF9ZEROPP8YGXA/a.jpg NEWS - Programming course made in Italy! - They were at the Joza Youth Hub to train some of our learners in programming, using Blockly games instead of frontal teaching. Despite heavy rain there was a high turnout of children between the ages of 8 and 14 who were interested in this exciting programme which combines play with serious learning of programming skills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586295-NO30GQ9F87MFT2LK4JUG/b.jpg NEWS - Programming course made in Italy! - The two programming sessions were great fun both for the children, the Italian visitors and the awarenet team who were were assisting them. We plan to continue the programming course with the use of Blockly and other tools, hopefully we will then lay the foundation for a future cohort of programmers made in Joza township, Grahamstown! We have now also introduced Blockly games in our other computer sessions at local township schools and the other learners were just as excited about it. Here you can have a look at a video we made about the course. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2017/09/29/awarenet-teachers-course-9xfdz-p8l5z-2yraf-6adgg-cwdxc-948ky-ty9r8-sxex5-jgpxg-exs2d-jghnn-97twg monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586271-HYZLBZR7RRYMU7S120G6/IMG_20170907_152240.jpg NEWS - awarenet teachers' course - Our teacher course coordinator Kjetil opened the course by introducing our e-learning platform awarenet. He also gave the teachers an overview of the state of computer labs and internet access in Eastern Cape schools. He thereafter outlined the central ideas the course will pursue the next weeks; besides the basics such as being more familiar with the intricacies of the keyboard the teachers will be introduced to the use of both online and offline ICT resources in an educational context. The teachers were really patient and attentive straight from the beginning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586276-OXZIQYYOSUKGBT71CE1Z/a.jpg NEWS - awarenet teachers' course - During the first course day we discovered that many of the teachers did not have their own email accounts; we therefore created accounts for them and showed them how to use their new accounts. The next course session the following Thursday 16th of September Rod Amner from the Rhodes University School of Journalism was invited as a guest lecturer. He showed the teachers how they could use social media in intelligent ways to widen their professional network and access additional educational resources. The focus of the sessions the next weeks will be on how to use PowerPoint and Excel and similar Linux - based programs. We will practise how online educational resources can be integrated in the teaching of the regular curriculum in a classroom setting. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2017/09/28/the-awarenet-open-lab-hc7t4-tb6gl-f7xz4-es3d6-gdlsb-hmffm-hal3h-fx3rx-xz82x-nj6xt-z9eak-9jbtc monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586258-FIIDQY9KOF2IPQ8PJFNV/IMG_20171016_154447-e1508496838846.jpg NEWS - awarenet Open Lab - success beyond expectations - When we inaugurated the awarenet Open Lab in May we thought it would be popular but we did not dream about it having more than 400 members just three months ahead! The concept of the awarenet Open Lab is that all community members in the township of Joza can use the computers at the Joza Youth Hub computer lab for free if they register as users. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2017/08/25/goodbye-grahamstown-75twa-snz8z-lh4jb-58cmg-76zre-9bpfl-kmxxx-e85m7-nydfg-bdfx3-yxt7a-6he8d monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586246-6MKW1IMU2NDS0O9PBZAR/DSC06518.jpg NEWS - Goodbye Grahamstown - And it is, just not time-wise anymore. In less than one week Chiara and I are going to be back in Germany. All my German friends I have been in contact with lately told me to enjoy my last days here in South Africa, but that is not as easy as it sounds. It constantly pops into my mind, that this might be the last time I do whatever I am doing at the moment. I am really trying to pay attention to the little details in my everyday life, as those were what I missed the most during my stay here. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2017/08/02/awarenet-champs-were-invited-to-festival-f7rzh-ztn84-a288s-bpjh4-lw45m-4e6t6-w8tt6-nxss7-em88x-zne84-a6gxx-phh4j monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650586234-T3HKUDFKIKFIOT1D7OPH/20170706_122832_HDR-3.jpg NEWS - awarenet Champs were invited to Festival - On the 6th of July, an excited bunch of awarenet learners trekked down the hill to see “Themba's dream”, one of the multitude of shows Grahamstownians are treated to during the Arts' festival. 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While the sun sets over the beautiful beach just a few meters from the place I’m sitting, I try to remember my experiences and describe a year in a few words. This time, it’s neither the English nor the insecurity that hold me back. I rather try to limit myself, to one message and just a few words. It’s not easy to talk about the time in South Africa. To explain how I find it, what my everyday life looked like. To assess what I learned or how I changed. And that’s also what scares me most about returning “home” – to Germany. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2017/07/26/giving-space-for-creativity-awarenet-and-the-fingo-festival-z9nka-jsj56-36tjt-67btc-gnbcj-bmmz7-wpr7b-4fa3n-6dwbc-8a2xl-7tf5p-eah4c monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585917-8N3QM6ARG52LWADJB3FY/fingo-logo-e1501053470542.png NEWS - Giving space for creativity: awarenet and the fingo festival https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2017/07/18/introduction-the-new-volunteers-are-coming-r2cz5-6ta7h-25lmr-wleyy-n7bfg-l8aac-pj7nx-2e8xb-kzc53-cjase-sehwm-mxz9z monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585891-BKSP0O3ST9KE1WH9HSIR/Foto-1.jpg NEWS - Introduction: The new volunteers are coming. - Hello, We are Max and Xenia! This August we will go to Grahamstown in South Africa for 365 days. There we will volunteer at the Village Scribe Association which is teaching underpriviliged children how to use PCs and the Internet. We won't come unprepared though, because we attended the Sage Net preparation seminar in Bad Breisig (Germany) in July where we got a little sneak peek of the South African culture and how it differs compared to the German one. Our days started with a tasty vegetarian breakfast, after which we began the learning phase of the seminar. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2017/07/10/awarenet-health-and-fitness-day-2017-nkjnt-hkkk6-l3yew-99mse-hm65j-apt64-pj5zr-hgy58-7rpgm-9np4h-r3elb-hs9nn monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585862-O6TW7WW2V5JVLQHW7TOD/DSC06052.jpg NEWS - awarenet Health and Fitness Day 2017 - The annual awarenet Health and Fitness Day was held at the JD Dlepu stadium on the 23th of June. awarenet learners from different schools competed for the honour of being the awarenet champions of the year. As usual the boys in the awarenet program took part in the awarenet soccer cup, new this year was that also girls teams were pitted against each other in the awarenet netball cup. The awarenet Health and Fitness Day marks the end of the second term where awarenet learners write articles, blog posts and projects around health and fitness topics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585867-5YCNE4KGLU4H1TZMYYRS/a.jpg NEWS - awarenet Health and Fitness Day 2017 - Ntaba Maria won the awarenet netball cup, crushing all opposition mercilessly. The runners up were CM Vellem who were beaten 1-20 by Ntaba Maria.In the awarenet soccer cup Grahamstown Adventist Primary took the trophy after emerging unbeaten from the tournament. The second placed Khutliso Daniels were narrowly defeated 0-1 by Grahamstown Adventist. The victory of Grahamstown Adventist was rendered even more impressive by the fact that the school mustered the youngest team in the tournament. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2017/07/10/photography-workshop-ncnwd-hx3kt-3ejfy-2fgkc-3gz5d-j3be5-s27hj-lwgcf-ke27k-8kfz8-brgr2-r7pnz monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585879-GZD39R50TAYPPWY4APKJ/The-Best-Camera-is-in-your-pocket.jpg NEWS - Photography Workshop - Since the beginning of 2017 we have a monthly column in South Africa's oldest surviving independent newspaper, Grocott's Mail. You can read more about the project in our blog post about the first school term. Thus, when Grocott's offered a photography workshop for its community partners, we got an invitation. It took place at the African Media Matrix building at Rhodes University and was held by Mia van der Merwe, who is a professional photographer and a photography teacher at the University's School of Journalism. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2017/07/07/rotary-grahamstown-presentation-jsn6n-xascf-sl2t2-eeeb4-gh2dj-xhphs-gcstg-xagkk-5lttg-3e62n-6e73t-cajha monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585850-5NKMOKFSDZSCGZS8XAO2/rotary-picture-3.jpg NEWS - Rotary Grahamstown presentation - In the talk I focused on how ICT in general and the awarenet platform and program in particular can play a role in alleviating some of the main maladies in South African schools. I discussed the state of ICT infrastructure in Grahamstown and the wider Eastern Cape and told the audience how awarenet intervenes to support computer labs without both internet and qualified personnel. I also gave a brief overview of the activities the awarenet program does in connection with its ICT training such as the peace and music project, video documentaries, the awarenet Open Lab and the impending teacher's course. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2017/07/06/rhodes-university-awarenet-lecture-bachn-rghhh-a22fp-knfes-967md-afjzw-k28kr-kkh8w-fxk8e-xnrxw-3hahb-ewl3r monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585837-ZJC2O59U91RCU8X01BOE/pic-rhodes-teacher-lab-3.jpg NEWS - Rhodes University awarenet Lecture - The audience was a mixed group of aspiring yet-to-become teachers and a more experienced lot of old-time educators. The former group belonged to the PGCE program where graduates from different fields learn educational theories and practises for a year before embarking on their teaching career; the latter group were practising teachers who study towards an Honurs degree in Education on a part-time basis. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2017/06/02/funding-for-awarenet-teachers-course-2wwjn-b53sf-jkwgg-xlrrr-yze4r-ytnhb-fxexm-clp52-3wx98-7eh8e-6xbx7-423ag monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585823-7INWBCCB9JTBMSH6VBDV/Teacher-pic-smaller-size.png NEWS - Funding for awarenet teacher's course! - We are proud to receive a contribution from a foundation with roots in an union which historically has played a prominent role in the upliftment of underprivileged South Africans. We hope our new teacher's course ultimately also will help uplift underprivileged South African learners from the Eastern Cape, one of the country's poorest provinces. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2017/05/29/awarenet-open-lab-for-everyone-ekp6t-txlkk-yszms-lhpzn-ad56w-zhlkw-gn3dj-3gx6f-hbax5-c8639-8d6h7-5m68j monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585805-GI0MLSSI2VA68DUHQ2TE/IMG-20170520-WA0004.jpg NEWS - awarenet Open Lab for everyone! - awarenet has officially opened up its computer lab for learners and the community at large. Each weekday from 3 to 4 pm, after the regular awarenet sessions, the Lab is open for any learner from the community who is interested in using it. This hour we call the “learner support hour, as in this time we focus on learners who need to use the computers and internet resources for homework or studying. The next hour between 4 pm and 5 pm the awarenet lab is open for anyone in the community, whether young or old. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585810-5FBK6RHZTOCSII67E8W0/a.jpg NEWS - awarenet Open Lab for everyone! - The lab is also open on Saturdays, the learner support takes place from 9 am to 1 pm and the community is welcome from 1 pm to 5 pm. As the local libraries unfortunately don’t open on Saturdays, for many students the only opportunity to access the internet and educational resources on weekends is the awarenet Open lab. The awarenet Open Lab is an initiative of awarenet and the Pedagogy of Place Project of Rhodes University’s School of Journalism and Media Studies. The idea is to promote digital citizenship in the local community, striving to create a space where citizens from a disadvantaged area can get an opportunity to access modern information technology on an equal footing with other citizens; thereby bridging the digital divide in South Africa. If someone wants to use our computer lab, they just have to come and fill out a registration form. We are in the process of designing membership cards, and those who agree are also going to be members of our facebook and whatsapp groups. That's our way to stay connected with the community. So far, more than 50 members already registered, most of them learners from local schools. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2017/04/27/common-ground-cafe-advert-production-prkhe-6pc93-lzmfg-sketr-m879n-jb47k-k4xkl-n6rx5-t2sn3-pdm5a-l2t9m-839nj monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585786-FZ6NS24C2M1Z0YWOEAVV/a.jpg NEWS - Common Ground Café Advert Production - Instead of a documentary, we quickly decided to make something closer to an advertisement. We started to write a script with our learners and they discussed it with some of the Inkululeko learners who run the Common Ground Café. After attending the Video Workshop that Upstart held for us (I also wrote a blog post about that) they developed a storyboard together and we started shooting. We manged to wrap up the filming by the end of the fourth term and started editing once we were back at work in 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585791-N2GRHM7XHHY0VC01Z3DO/inkululeko.jpg NEWS - Common Ground Café Advert Production - That really was the biggest challenge we faced due to our lack of fancy equipment. Other than that we were impressed how good the material was, that we produced with our small handycam. When Jason Torreano, the manager of Inkululeko, who lives in the USA, came to visit Grahamstown, we met and showed him the nearly finished video. After shooting an ending with him, explaining the mission of Inkululeko and its Common Ground Café, we finalized it and he published it on the Inkululeko facebook page. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2017/04/26/the-2nd-joza-youth-hub-open-day-2017-5c7ft-rcx54-me9al-38lf4-ecleg-kwyxr-kl4zx-9tn2y-gcacd-pp8xy-pnksd-bdagy monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585727-NNH977UQFHUHEG9FSMGJ/a.jpg NEWS - The 2nd Joza Youth Hub Open Day 2017 - Every partner prepared an activity showcasing what the organization is offering to the youth. Thanks to donations from local businesses and the Communicative Ecology project by the School of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University we also had airtime and other prizes for the most successful participants. We were very pleased and proud that so many people came into the computer lab to enter the VSA's typing competition while it was constantly buzzing with activity outside. The singing competition organized by the Access Music Project seemed to be especially popular. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585744-CSGACE0JIENF94QGAOD6/d.jpg NEWS - The 2nd Joza Youth Hub Open Day 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585753-KRPQ5H50I4JXPXGCP4AP/c.jpg NEWS - The 2nd Joza Youth Hub Open Day 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585762-H55P63PDW22E29SVUCP7/b.jpg NEWS - The 2nd Joza Youth Hub Open Day 2017 https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2017/04/25/our-first-term-and-journalism-project-lt3x3-kerna-gwnss-zeymr-dywmw-2pc8x-mf8pj-js3tg-xztd6-f3g24-jgnsw-7pnet monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585715-LJHIIDM4PL4KZLXJ7MKP/IMG_3888.jpg NEWS - Our first term and journalism project - The first term is already over. It was a busy time and because we had a few beginner groups, it was also challenging. Some children didn't even know how to move their mouse, so we stuck to teaching the basics. A lot of things changed during this term, most of them for the better. In Ntaba Maria Primary school, we had some technical issues. The computer lab wasn't really working and sometimes we had to improvise about what to do in the sessions. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2017/04/24/sage-net-mid-term-seminar-2017-h7kk6-zpc5y-mcweg-syfbr-n2fmy-6npfd-2by9s-t8esn-chr9z-3ye7e-te8da-wbbaz monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585699-8XGL2LXZLXCLQTRISSX0/18076578_1517335664966521_5243453655374189662_o.jpg NEWS - SAGE Net. Mid-term Seminar 2017 - During late March, Chiara and I had to leave Kjetil alone at the office to spend a week at the Wortelgat Outreach Trust camp site and conference center close to Hermanus in the Western Cape. There we attended the midterm seminar of our sending organization. While the timing was not very good for us we were both very much looking forward to it. For me the biggest reason was probably just seeing all the people I met and made friends with during our preparation seminar back in Germany. Most of them I had not seen during the last six months in South Africa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585704-IEJCCBYYI5AYTKM4W1YI/a.jpg NEWS - SAGE Net. Mid-term Seminar 2017 - What also made the seminar very enjoyable was how beautiful the landscape around us was. The Wortelgat campsite is located in the midst of the Fynbos in between the Atlantic Ocean and a big Lagoon with picturesque mountains in the background. It is quite interesting to be swimming in a different ocean for a change. As for the negative side of things, the seminar was over far too quickly and reminded us bluntly that more then half of our year in South Africa is already over. There is still so much I want to see! https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2017/04/18/we-were-treated-like-celebrities-puku-story-festival-2017-pkwk7-l8rky-bdx5h-z38e6-h479r-t7gb5-lmp68-7s6jj-zrsga-44ess-2nrdl-hn3gx monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585641-24ODID4L76W6NBT6B966/blogpost-buku.jpg NEWS - "We were treated like celebrities" - Puku Story festival 2017 - It took place from the 21st until 25th of february. The festival is basically about enriching our culture through reading and listening to stories and poetry. We (Andiswa, Sinesipho, Sinesipho) went to the festival with the awarenet group and it was amazing. We got to meet the founder of the festival who is Sisulu’s daughter-in-law, we took pictures with her and we had a little conversation with her about our article which was published in the Grocotts the previous week. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585677-J7JEQJYPYMRVLBYRDHMG/c.jpg NEWS - "We were treated like celebrities" - Puku Story festival 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585668-4GJHTFQ07FCALVVTDCAR/b.jpg NEWS - "We were treated like celebrities" - Puku Story festival 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585659-Y7FG1BHFQVVXZ2N6EGRD/a.jpg NEWS - "We were treated like celebrities" - Puku Story festival 2017 https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2017/04/05/the-vsa-is-goood-kaywh-fs88z-felnj-3wsyn-khbdy-f3m5e-6s8xn-nk6m5-c9pre-6m95l-225r8-klbes monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2017/03/29/the-joza-youth-hub-open-day-2017-2lsxz-y6eha-nlfxr-6s38w-gml9b-fbpby-k3d77-m4jh4-jex5r-palmf-txj4x-zxkt7 monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585582-PNXJ2VX5U1SW9LTYXGCY/17426161_1575052475857309_7487892047634625303_n.jpg NEWS - The Joza Youth Hub Open Day 2017 - On the 1st of April we are going to have an Open Day at the Joza Youth Hub. Following last years success we want to spread the message about the work the Joza Youth Hub is doing for the whole Grahamstown community. The aim of the Joza Youth Hub is to activate and educate local youth trough a variety of after school activities in Grahamstown in general and Joza township in particular. The organisations that will be present are Access Music Project, Village Scribe Association, Upstart Youth Development Project, Toy library, the Joza Reading Club, Joza Chess Club, RUCE: Rhodes University Community Engagement and Communictaion Information assistance Organisation (Ciao!). On the Open Day, the Reading Club is going to conduct spelling and chess competitions and you can win up to 500 Rand in the competitions. The Access Music Project learners are going to perform their music. The VSA will introduce their idea of computer training in the computer lab. The winner group of last years Peace and Music project is also going to perform and present their hip hop song. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585610-I7MBJTZ65V6RV0YT8G5S/b.jpg NEWS - The Joza Youth Hub Open Day 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585600-2KOGVFLN3KKEQJD1YVJF/a.jpg NEWS - The Joza Youth Hub Open Day 2017 https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2017/02/27/impressions-of-the-peace-day-concert-mlm94-5n5re-kslj6-cn8wc-gcp69-5xx7x-mggzf-f4nf7-x4chb-6tgbg-95c55-f58pa monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585152-V1MFH7UPE3LH4RLVANA8/K1024_IMG_1467.jpg NEWS - Impressions of the Peace Day Concert - Last year's biggest awarenet event was definitely the Peace and Music Concert at the 28th of September. We created a video showing the performances of all 5 groups on stage. The background song is the winner song of Ntaba Maria Senior Primary School. It was recorded by Corinne Cooper from the Rhodes University's Department of Music and Musicology. We are now working on creating a music video clip for the winner song. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2017/02/24/hip-hop-recordings-in-awarenet-fkpy3-pd2jt-c9yt6-bwcts-7gbet-zfrdw-mk6nb-d9k4s-wc9hr-xgzj6-mdpdg-y85nf monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585555-7IIKKZRX9VH5AKFI98LH/IMG_3835-2.jpg NEWS - Recordings of awarenet HipHop Songs! - As most of the groups which participated in the September Peace and Music Project were in the last year of their school, we had to find them in their new schools. As they are now scattered across a multitude of schools in town and the township we had to put in a lot of work to locate the learners, make appointments with them, fetch them and bring them back home. Even though most of our learners have smartphones and WhatsApp, making appointments using that medium didn’t work that well because some of them changed their numbers or didn’t have data. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585560-YGJE907RIGKY01KIQZA4/a.jpg NEWS - Recordings of awarenet HipHop Songs! - So we had to concentrate on the most important students: those that performed solos or rapped. We started at the 7th of February and it took 6 recording sessions, it was worth the effort though, we think the CD with the Peace and Music songs will turn out great! Particularly the winning song from Ntaba Maria School we think we could turn into a local hit, it's a hip-hop song with great beat, rhythm and text! https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2017/02/22/awarenet-talk-at-the-university-of-the-third-age-z6bew-ckps3-mh7x8-h963l-c829b-xxwwa-ayrep-rk7tr-8zht3-dh5hd-dgmt2-h8as4 monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585543-KUB74QWOOM7HJ2VCEYAR/U3APresentation.jpg NEWS - awarenet talk at the University of the Third Age - A sizeable crowd listened attentively to awarenet trainer Kjetil Torp talking about the joys and travails of the awarenet programme. Assisted by volunteer Chiara Brendel, Kjetil spoke about how awarenet originated as a response to underutilised computer labs and slow integration of ICT in the South African school curriculum. He further told the audience that the awarenet program helps learners increase their writing, reading and editing skills through its emphasis on independent creation of texts. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2017/02/17/selection-day-for-our-weltwarts-volunteers-for-201718-p45gf-3w8fe-wnm35-db35j-alnj5-lc5dh-e6422-jj8ac-zmw26-g68ez-f484f-rw3ez monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585530-238I7VNWLTF2D8VW8VYQ/Logo_SAGE-Net.jpg NEWS - Selection Day for our weltwärts volunteers for 2017/18 https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2017/02/15/a-review-of-a-life-with-awarenet-4z4wa-2t5cy-neeyw-8bshj-fy7dg-5wxzm-g9k4k-nj2e8-m428a-ry334-96hnx-ghc24 monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585516-7E56431VKIN1DOVJUJH8/14195348_1110257439087377_7056940108036835404_o.jpg NEWS - A Review of a Life with awarenet - Hi World! There is a wise quote that says: “Follow your heart and live passion”. I was born in Grahamstown, the City of Saints. I grew up with a lovely half-a-dozen family (family of six). My father owned a personal computer, which we would explore every day after school. As children at home we would line up and exchange turns at the computer, and I was known to stay the longest and yeah! - they would complain of course. But there was just something I wanted to know, learn and do. In the year 2009, I joined the awarenet classes at Mary Waters High School, a school that had limited resources and limited staff. How did I come to join awarenet? It was through our local teacher there, Mr G. Accom, a very enthusiastic teacher when it comes to technology and the learning of it. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2017/02/06/2016-with-awarenet-a-year-in-review-jt3nn-m9blg-p9nby-e5sby-32xf3-e98mw-jcjde-h5s7p-akz54-z8xwc-byppk-659bg monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585483-5FH96VBHN2QL2KVHN3BP/b.jpg NEWS - 2016 with awarenet - A Year in Review https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585493-JS9IQ1ZWK09O3YT1CND8/a.jpg NEWS - 2016 with awarenet - A Year in Review https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2016/12/23/our-4th-term-project-hkjpc-b97ny-6xwne-rbde4-cnkp6-dm6mm-7r3xm-xdj2j-fc352-5hs6d-hsrdy-hedyj monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585446-JKP7AZY2CZOSVNPZ6592/c.jpg NEWS - Our Social Engagement Project in the 4th term https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585436-3N9LFRNUDV4ETF17XXQ4/b.jpg NEWS - Our Social Engagement Project in the 4th term https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585427-3LMC08O42NP7AAFU48CL/a.jpg NEWS - Our Social Engagement Project in the 4th term https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2016/12/20/video-workshops-with-upstart-4f687-wg87p-7wyhh-m9gtc-ph7ma-6atsp-22efn-yfs3p-7lrd6-jfgp5-ffryn-t895y monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585396-MFNF1NBXSVRFNIAWS1K7/a.jpg NEWS - Video Workshops with Upstart - Even though theworkshops took place on Saturdays, we quickly found nine learners from Ntaba Maria primary school and Khutliso Daniels secondary school, who were exited to participate. They were part of different groups and also had different roles in their productions, which made the workshops very interesting, as we approached the topic from multiple perspectives. Not only the kids, but also me and Chiara learned a lot of useful skills for our project. Still, Shamiel from Upstart managed to keep it fun throughout both workshops. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585401-60YUKDFGEZSK7ZP66T4L/b.jpg NEWS - Video Workshops with Upstart - Between the two workshops, we put our new knowledge into practice and it was impressive to see how well the kids picked it up. In the second workshop we talked about the storyboards the kids prepared and finished up the planning process so we could finally get started with the filming. Once we have done that, we will meet up with Shamiel again to get some tips and advice for the editing. We are very much looking forward to this, as we don't have too much experience with it after all. But we are very eager to change that and hope to be able to show you the results early next year. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2016/12/07/the-vsa-donation-guide-zy3cj-g3srt-zz847-xr52h-kj6pe-7kwmr-57rgh-yc7ak-y9wlg-awpph-wj7xc-xhrn6 monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585362-HVM52J3685YA67FN9MTC/b.jpg NEWS - The VSA donation guide https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585372-WH3REPHH6LNCWE7KIHOI/a.jpg NEWS - The VSA donation guide https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2016/12/01/our-working-environment-the-school-computer-labs-dmyrn-nyh2d-2k3l6-53ms9-grbwt-agytr-el62f-9w4cc-kyaan-2n35m-x583k-xj62e monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585335-074ALBMF6GLEUORAZZDE/LabBlog.jpg NEWS - Our working environment - the school computer labs! - But if there isn't even someone who knows how to properly utilize a computer lab, most probably there isn't anyone who knows how to maintain it. Computer facilities are usually donated to the schools and then set up, but ongoing support is not often provided. This inevitably leads to problems at some point. Coming straight out of school it is definitely quite a challenge to teach a class of teenagers who even chat in a language I still barely understand a word of. We therefore really don't need the computer labs to make it even harder for us to put our lesson plans into practice. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2016/11/29/giving-tuesday-2016-sh4tc-9hc77-jrk7c-eh2b9-6pjf9-zenfx-bsggw-gel99-ppd6d-8zccj-m2snk-nme45 monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585276-SWFN8ZHU35HZ8L60UBMI/SAM_0947.jpg NEWS - #Giving Tuesday 2016 - The VSA was part of the #GivingTuesday campaign again this year. #GivingTuesday gives you the opportunity to help people in need even if you have no time to do so yourself. You can support the people who are engaged in social development by simply donating your year-end gift to an organisation like us. :-) We support underprivileged learners and teachers by enabling them to use ICT tools to master their projects and to become socially responsible citizens. The awarenet programme is designed to connect learners who do not have regular internet access with their peers as well as partners from overseas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585303-O04BORGL8CTVS1KUVPPL/b.jpg NEWS - #Giving Tuesday 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585312-DRYVPY53MZ4IPLPY01DY/a.jpg NEWS - #Giving Tuesday 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585294-BL3DK15VU9VX20WJXBBI/c.jpg NEWS - #Giving Tuesday 2016 https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2016/11/15/my-first-awarenet-group-6mj52-pgcpd-hxbfb-nl6ws-hnbf3-bs7kz-pb9n7-p6kfj-9b8kx-bdg6b-aw6yh-fl2nn monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585259-P0IEEM0DXP71UBU1YGGU/S2320001-1.jpg NEWS - My first awarenet group - I have been assigned with a group of my own to facilitate and work with.The awarenet group I was assigned to is CM Vellem Primary. This is a very tough school to work with, the principal and teacher responsible for the group here are trying their out most to organize that the learners come to the awarenet sessions and attend the stipulated projects at all time. I struggled to have sessions with them due to their absence. Sometimes the students are not interested. Now awarenet has had projects organized to keep them active, projects such as the awarenet Peace Day concert, health and fitness project and a number of others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585264-H8UVKB1LTLEKRONLBO6C/a.jpg NEWS - My first awarenet group - This school is an appropriate school to work with awarenet. They have a computer lab which is in a good standard and internet. The awarenet programme could not have asked for more. Though sometimes I think its too appropriate, given that sometimes we can't use the lab due to teachers using it. I found the teaching experience to be very challenging and difficult. I mean I had no problem with them at first, for they were super responsive given that I'm new. When sessions continued they just got tougher, I couldn't control them when I gave them instructions, they'd just make an excuse and leave etc. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2016/11/01/north-south-conference-2016-xl5e7-hch9m-hjaln-3k9gf-fckbj-he7kl-pn83j-f7ss8-9r9zr-gym4e-d843s-7bk93 monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585237-BVC0HOAFDHVLM8LJYTXX/Conference-delegates-North-South.jpg NEWS - North South Conference 2016 - This year the Village Scribe Association showcased its awarenet program at the North South Conference in Somerset West, Cape Town. The conference, which is in its fifth consecutive year of existence, is aptly named North South as its co-organizers, False Bay College in Cape Town and Haugaland High School in Norway are situated close to the extreme south and north of their respective continents. The conference has since its inception focused on how ICT can be integrated within education and targets South African TVET Colleges , these are tertiary institutions offering vocational and educational training. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585242-C3B5VDTGRDMM4A8M2WLI/a.jpg NEWS - North South Conference 2016 - The theme of this year's conference was "the connected college", coupled with the slogan: "have you found your mojo yet?" As mojo traditionally means a spell or charm, the red thread of the conference was to find that right approach to modern information technology which will make a college attractive to students and at the same time spellbound them enough to make what is taught stick in the long run. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585247-IU8I3VZ9R4I9IBZP3CGS/b.jpg NEWS - North South Conference 2016 - We told the conference participants that by exposing school learners in Eastern Cape, one of South Africa's most deprived provinces to awarenet we feel that we are making a small but important contribution to that goal. Many conference delegates found awarenet attractive because of the relative ease our eLearning platform can be introduced through among other things its offline functionality and its mobile servers. We received some very encouraging requests from TVET colleges in the Eastern Cape who could be interested in future cooperation. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2016/10/12/awarenet-project-poetry-with-harry-owen-a-local-artist-hycd4-tbe2m-bzn8p-xn6br-xmc76-ggrcb-8s7bz-t9jzz-al7k7-ecdk4-p8xc3-96nr5 monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585224-RCFKMNP1Z8GPPWV3QAUK/S2280008.jpg NEWS - awarenet Project: Poetry with Harry Owen - a local Artist - The Grade 6 learners of the Grahamstown Adventist Primary School in the city of Grahamstown have been having poetry sessions organised by awarenet with one of the most well known artists in the Grahamstown community. He has been writing articles, stories and poetry... he is Harry Owen! (You can find him on Facebook or at myspace.) The training sessions have been taking place at the Joza Youth Hub Computer Lab. They have been "remarkable", the learners chorused. They have a number of things they like from being with Harry, such as, he gives "good life advice" and is a "fun teacher". https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2016/10/10/progress-report-of-seta-accreditation-at-the-rotary-club-pirna-r4fyk-m9z83-25bhp-syzdd-md25h-yshsx-8es2m-lpnrn-c83mn-f48dy-4rfrc-me4d2 monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585211-KOLQCIMCVBA33YJ9VH9M/Zwischenbericht_Fo%CC%88rderprojektRotaryClub.jpg NEWS - Progress report of SETA accreditation at the Rotary Club Pirna - The Rotary Club in Pirna funds our SETA accreditation, which we have reported earlier. We have started the accreditation process in March this year, of which Kjetil Torp was the driving force. He has produced and collected a remarkable amount of documents, which are required by SETA, the Sector Education and Training Authority in South Africa. They were all handed in on time for the evaluation. This was a good time to prepare an interim report for the Rotary Club, which was presented by Anna Wertlen on September 28 during the regular weekly meeting of the Club members at the Romantic Hotel in the center of Pirna. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2016/10/05/lets-sing-and-dance-for-peace-829f2-y5dzh-kw9pw-nk7e6-6zrzm-ss2eg-dpxrp-6x6fc-z6gda-y66ep-f836b-gxjzz monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585152-V1MFH7UPE3LH4RLVANA8/K1024_IMG_1467.jpg NEWS - Let’s sing and dance for peace! - The awarenet Peace Day Concert took place at Noluthando Hall on the 28th of September. Since August, our awarenet students have been busy creating their own lyrics, melodies and choreographies for the annual Peace Day Concert. Corinne Cooper from Rhodes Music Department and Zukani Budaza from Sonic Art Studio taught the children musical skills and trained them to sing and perform.It was a great time for the students. They learned a lot and were really proud of the songs they created. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585179-MB2WVB5XPWU86SJVJXXJ/c.jpg NEWS - Let’s sing and dance for peace! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585189-KWFFOX1NIYT9POGBBJKD/b.jpg NEWS - Let’s sing and dance for peace! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585170-6FA7GVMZHVYCIMY90CVR/a.jpg NEWS - Let’s sing and dance for peace! https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2016/10/03/getting-started-ypn2a-p6fpa-8lw62-4wmth-y89mt-572gg-r2amh-6z8dk-8yklr-saf5t-bngky-ebd6p monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585119-A5QB745DLJCZ74EXYAL3/a.jpeg NEWS - Getting Started - Our first month in South Africa and at the Village Scribe Association is already over! While the first week, due to all the new impressions, felt like an eternity, the rest of the month flew by very quickly. Mainly because it wasn't exactly a slow start at work. But let’s start at the beginning. We arrived on the 30th of August at the airport in Port Elizabeth. Unfortunately, even though we hadn’t been on the same flight, we both experienced that our luggage did not arrive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585124-E1VRQLVJYMZN5CH5LXRY/DSC00090.jpg NEWS - Getting Started - It was, however, after numerous negotiations with virtual telephone receptionists and airline offices all over South Africa, delivered to us at midnight on the next day. Our flight was followed by a six hour drive around the Eastern Cape as we brought two of our fellow German volunteers to their new home in a very small, but very beautiful village at the coast called Hamburg. That was on one hand very tiring, but on the other hand great, because we got a first impression of the scenery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585129-FXWZNGJVCVOU3ST2KCJK/b.jpg NEWS - Getting Started - The following day we finally met the South African part of the awarenet team, including our predecessor Larissa. However, she was already leaving one day later. Her farewell party was very emotional and even though we are two persons replacing one, it made us a bit unsure if we would be able to fill her shoes. During our first weeks at work Kjetil showed us everything and took us to all the sessions so we could meet the learners, which was a great experience. We also realized how small the team actually is, and how much autonomy and responsibility we will therefore have. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585135-SM129JE0XT5FVVLBS2GF/a.jpg NEWS - Getting Started - Another highlight was our orientation weekend. Jonas, our Mentor from SAGE Net, picked us up and we spent a weekend in the above mentioned village Hamburg together with all the other SAGE Net Volunteers in the Eastern Cape. We talked about how our first weeks in South Africa had been, how we could address issues that might have occurred during that time and about our regionally specific security situation. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2016/09/01/let-new-adventures-begin-hfgrd-pzmzz-cjdzy-39ptn-yasrg-9xh9y-kcgdf-85tzx-ekf75-eana2-bnrrt-rnbxe monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585099-M7WJGMLE0VXDI8MIVNBB/DSCF2338.jpg NEWS - Let New Adventures Begin - My co-volunteer Kim and I arrived in Grahamstown with the expectation of finding a nice little home waiting for us. It all came very different when we had to move twice before we found our forever home. Or rather before I found it. Just after three months, Kim decided to leave the Village Scribe Association and Grahamstown to pursuit his idea of a voluntary service in Cape Town. Even though I understood his reasons for leaving, it had a major impact on me since I believed that we would spend the year together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585104-7OZ6DXQPMZRFGD4G64T8/a.jpg NEWS - Let New Adventures Begin - One of the good implications of Kim leaving though was that I was forced to make local friends here in Grahamstown and find flatmates to share an apartment with. They made my time here so much more worthwhile and I think it was the best decision for me to move in with South Africans. It has helped me so much more to understand South Africa and its people then if I had shared a flat with a German. It further gave me the chance to travel the country with locals, to spent time with my friends' families and to be a part of very different segments of the South African society. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2016/08/24/get-the-partymp-started-2bb8b-nhfgc-zhr22-b5rtx-7btfb-rp5y4-cgree-5epa2-z7h26-ly3zk-wdd88-mjk8h monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585085-40OR35IWIK02FFIQUHTT/1379546_458665337584299_557302836_n.jpg NEWS - Get The P(arty)MP Started! - In cooperation with the Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology represented by Corinne Cooper and the Sonic Art Studio represented by local hip-hop artist Zukani, a backing will be produced and learners will be trained to perform and write their own lyrics. Over a nine-week period, we will have music as well as awarenet classes before our learners' popstar potential is being tested during the annual Peace Day Concert on the 21st of September. A professional jury and an excited crowd will then vote for the best Peace Day Song and further individual awards will be given to the best rapper and singer. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2016/08/23/namkelekile-k4add-nrwar-6cwtk-wjj9x-r9r3h-brnts-fbt29-fknc4-wmgz6-l9l5e-8jbh5-xms8k monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585072-JQLT29RT31R4A8FCLP50/a.jpeg NEWS - Namkelekile! - With Mcvay as a native speaker and Kjetil being fluent, we decided to take up the challenge and teach the guys from the Department of Human Kinetics and Ergonomics some basic IsiXhosa. All of us had lots of fun trying out the different clicks and showing off whatever we had picked up before. For us, it was quite the experience to teach adults for a change - don't even think they would be more behaved in class: "I thought the learners would be reserved and hold back. But I was wrong, the learners were very active and eager to learn. This motivated me, and I believe the awarenet team too, to do something like this more often. It was an interesting experience." https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2016/08/10/vsa-agm-2016-minutes-6b83e-5hgzk-y68n9-w9zym-dw7xk-pssbd-zxgb2-9kgs2-yw6kn-xwwmm-m6gyt-n68zj monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585059-6V1RGM5AQU4NQCZHRYB6/Screen-Shot-2016-08-08-at-13.12.05-.png NEWS - VSA AGM 2016 - minutes - connected via Skype date: 05.08.2016 time: 14.15 pm locations: Martin-Luther-Str. 78, 10825 Berlin, Germany Joza Youth Hub, Crn Ncame and Sani St, Grahamstown, 6139, South Africa https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2016/08/04/another-new-volunteer-fmrwf-zayy5-bk2bg-fd2mc-fyjmx-zxyf6-mxwr8-tl2ej-97r77-2mlr8-enhmx-ltwda monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585045-FE6JLWW3XY13YIK5BY8W/photo_ChiaraLukas_2.jpg NEWS - Another volunteer - I am Chiara Brendel, 18 years old and I just finished school. Maybe you already know - I will come to South Africa from September 2016 to August 2017 to do a voluntary service for the Village Scribe Association. But first something about me. My hobbys are reading and writing - which is why I might run a writing project, if there's interest for that. I also like working with computers. At the moment I'm administrating the website of an NGO in Germany. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2016/08/03/a-new-volunteer-ep4xj-ysrzg-9zxga-59kws-xws8l-546c3-tnbps-3cka7-hjmgj-5x6z9-d6bye-4b8lc monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585032-B1JKZA97KKC2CURXVOK1/Ich-bei-Anna.jpg NEWS - A new volunteer - Hello, my name is Lukas. I'm 18 years old and I'm from Greifswald, which is a rather small but very beautiful and lively city at the Baltic Sea, in the very northeast of Germany. Well, actually I'm living in a tiny village nearby, called Guest. But it is Greifswald, where I went to school until last weekend, when I got my certificate and had my matric dance. Right now, I'm enjoying my last few weeks at home, before I'm going to fly to South Africa on the 29th of August, to join the awarenet team in Grahamstown. I'm slowly starting to get more and more nervous every day, but since I had my preparation seminar in June, I'm also really looking forward to that day. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2016/07/15/meet-thandu-awarenet-and-karate-champ-hwe7z-yw3kk-s82pn-fhdpr-psmky-yyjk2-2hltk-3w8k4-fsjly-66ct8-6k3gt-2eaz2 monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584998-TCSYE5PCS86QU2BRON6R/13654375_1003440163106811_7021567466843186331_n.jpg NEWS - Meet Thandu: awarenet and karate champ! - Thandu started as and still is one of our awarenet learners, but since he has been part of the programme for more than three years, he has helped us out a lot. "Hi my name is Thanduxolo Royi and I am a 18-year-old boy doing Grade 11 at Nombulelo High School in Grahamstown. I started awarenet at C.M. Vellem when I was doing Grade 8. Since then I have participated in two awarenet Peace Day Concerts and have always loved awarenet. I wish that one day if I cannot do karate anymore, to be like the teachers of awarenet. I like to see myself in an office, doing blogs, writing stories, visiting schools around Grahamstown and to help children to know the computer. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2016/07/15/the-vsa-goes-festival-7gnhx-jzjxc-n7a8n-a2bz2-yby8r-xewrm-lbx8y-9xp7c-drlkw-39sey-ng253-gp7n9 monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585012-JXM821GQJD8ETC48HD92/a.jpg NEWS - The VSA goes Festival - It was then that the Village Scribe Team decided to go with the flow and to get carried away by the creative vibes, seeking inspiration for their own work.awarenet coordinator Kjetil went all out going to at least six shows starting off with "Ilembe", a play about Shaka Zulu: "I was quite impressed! Not just because of its combination of brilliant acting and choreography, but also because it managed to express the fundamental truth that historical events are always open to interpretation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650585018-SPL072GM7LKC1AXL3Y5T/b.jpg NEWS - The VSA goes Festival - "For the upcoming awarenet Peace Day Project and Concert, we were constantly on the lookout for artists that could serve as role models and inspiration for our learners in terms of lyrics and tunes. We came across Nombasa, a local Grahamstown singer-songwriter who sings her own songs in isiXhosa with a thundering yet soft and pleasant voice. Sometimes she was melancholic as when singing about growing up without a father, a sad reality faced by too many South African children. Other times she sang enthusiastically and life-affirmingly about seizing the day and expressing oneself artistically; “write that book, sing that song, paint that painting”. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2016/06/27/3-successes-3-challenges-3-opportunities-xpyjx-s29wf-rd2fw-rcz82-chxz3-xtlyx-zfbd7-pte4l-wznk7-9b46x-l54s9-exwf8 monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584975-KHXIZ6GEGINJQ3CWA7SX/b.jpg NEWS - 3 Successes, 3 Challenges, 3 Opportunities https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584966-GR3Y7G7JYL14A2SIBTHZ/a.jpg NEWS - 3 Successes, 3 Challenges, 3 Opportunities https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2016/06/20/new-exciting-awarenet-teachers-course-in-2017-c9hxe-7xacg-sme9a-2hayn-57ymp-xaa48-yrpz4-h3w5z-4wyg6-8ge8h-9ynne-khyc8 monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584936-M7EUL3SLDYOG8UBSJR2Y/LabKjetil.jpg NEWS - New exciting awarenet teacher's course in 2017! - Anyone who has stood in front of a class of teenagers will know that the biggest challenge is to make the students genuinely interested in the subject concerned, the awarenet course will therefore introduce teachers to curriculum-related content from both the internet and the awarenet platform itself which can be used to stimulate learners who are used to a more traditional blackboard and textbook approach. The teacher's course will be offered separately to teachers in different subjects such as history, English, maths and life orientation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584940-6DKC9D6PZI72I2PTN5BB/a.jpg NEWS - New exciting awarenet teacher's course in 2017! - We aim to register our teacher's course with the relevant SETA (Sector Education and Training Authority) in order for the course to commence in the beginning of 2017. SETAs are governmental organisations in South Africa which regulate the training of skills in different sectors of the economy, thereby creating a uniform framework where only courses which fulfil certain standards are approved. This means that teachers who are attending our course will receive credits for it which will count as building blocks in any kind of further education they are pursuing. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2016/06/14/meet-this-years-awarenet-champions-7e6d7-mxp63-23lam-pml8d-3gpfb-6s96f-bgcf3-j5wkm-wjkw8-7h3ya-n6ybp-42h6s monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584920-547KCYYG1EUB7275R5MI/a.png NEWS - Meet this year's awarenet champions! - It was part of our Health and Fitness Project during the 2nd term and we spent lots of time preparing our learners for it. We learned everything about a healthy lifestyle and diet, googled yummy recipes and created posters with the food pyramid and tips for balanced eating. On other days, we spent many hours improving our soccer skills in the outside area of the Joza Youth Hub and had to nurse the one or other muscle ache afterwards. Since not all of our learners wanted to participate in the tournament, some of them joined our awarenet movie class where we learned how to use a video camera and created interview questions for the soccer players. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584925-035AV8V47VKERSGN85IJ/DSCF3084.jpg NEWS - Meet this year's awarenet champions! - Even though it was freezing cold, they spent three hours filming from the sideline and took some great shots. Having scheduled six games in total over three hours, we started off with Good Shepherd Grade 7 and SDA PS Grade 6. During the tournament, fruit bags, bread, drinks and chocolate were handed out to keep everyone hydrated and at full strength. In the end, C.M. Vellem Primary School's Grade 9 and SDA Primary School's Grade 7 played a nerve-wracking final and we are happy to congratulate C.M. Vellem for winning the tournament and being the very first awarenet champion! Well done! https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2016/05/31/stolen-community-property-laptop-theft-3djg2-5f7l2-rsfdz-8lel6-pcgke-tsezx-9s8rg-79692-pjp9a-3x868-72rbp-fe5ef monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584907-FD937K2T3MRZGRJX4OQD/KINGSMEN.jpg NEWS - Stolen Community Property (Laptop Theft) - Dear Reader Please lend me your time, eyes and ears for a short time. Crime in South Africa has reached the crest of the country, like a volcanic eruption about to explode and destroy this good land. I'm starting to think that the only way to live in this sad country is to be part of this miserable... trap. What I mean by the above statement is simply this: A few weeks ago there was a break-in in my apartment in Grahamstown, South Africa.And a community laptop and charger was stolen only. This of course made me unpleasant and gave me a huge shock, due to the fact that, it was the first time to get a break-in in my apartment and the only thing stolen was the laptop. Let me rephrase that, it was a community laptop and its charger. I am addressing the public about this issue not because of a break-in in my apartment but because of the lost community property! https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2016/05/09/the-awarenet-health-and-fitness-project-2-tbxkw-ca5t7-j58sb-aenml-w5csp-m77gm-m2tb9-sgdt7-7ksbk-zye8p-2x28s-ynw4m monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584888-LXQ6AYUOW94VFQCIC7GC/20160509-133529.jpg-16u5c.jpeg NEWS - The awarenet Health and Fitness Project - The Second term of the school year started of well, we introduced the Health and Fitness project at the schools were I teach awarenet. Schools partaking in the project is C.M Vellem HPS, Good Shepard PS, Ntaba Maria PS, Khulitso Daniel SS. In this project we teach the learners about Healthy eating habits the good in food and the bad in food. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584894-MSRYBN9QAEFGU8KNE1S4/a.jpg NEWS - The awarenet Health and Fitness Project - Once a week we do awarenet and once a weeks we play sport.On awarenet we have been working on different Forum questions about healthy eating habits out favourite sport as well as writing Blogs on fitness. Learners have also been doing research on different forms of exercises they enjoy doing, uploading photos on awarenet and writing a Blog about it. The next few weeks till our Soccer and Netball Tournament we will get fit and ready for the Big Sporting Tournament day in June. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2016/05/05/weltwarts-partner-conference-for-southern-africa-2016-13-april-16-april-2016-9g29y-xr6s9-axd6p-a59re-wlhkk-e87hn-b6kst-4bz72-j2xjy-9b8a2-xhfls-8nhxm monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584851-HWCH714ZT6HV0LTR3VN6/12974346_1145240232176068_619256936551904430_n.jpg NEWS - Weltwärts Partner Conference for Southern Africa 2016. (13. april – 16. april 2016) - Though the words escaping the dark and windowless vaults of the conference centre were unmistakably of English origin, the accents betrayed that the instigators of the words came from a variety of linguistic backgrounds, such as German, Zulu, Afrikaans, Tswana, Xhosa, Sotho, Tsonga and Portuguese. The weltwärts programme of the German federal government, which supports the sending of German volunteers to other countries and the receiving of foreign volunteers to Germany, had drummed together representatives of Southern African and German non-profit organisations which are beneficiaries of the programme. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584856-Y78A7NB7BY0YLI26ZEMO/a.jpg NEWS - Weltwärts Partner Conference for Southern Africa 2016. (13. april – 16. april 2016) - SAGE Net, the South African German Network, which with one organisational leg in Germany and one in South Africa embodies the spirit of cross-continental cooperation, took care of all the practicalities around the conference, its staff diligently leading the proceedings with a winning combination of German time management and Southern African humour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584860-8N4O4VX96KKGQ07DIMSJ/a.png NEWS - Weltwärts Partner Conference for Southern Africa 2016. (13. april – 16. april 2016) - This invigorating morning routine made it easier for newbies to the organisational structure of the weltwärts programme to get through the jungle of Teutonic acronyms they were initially introduced to. Reaching the open plains of enlightenment they realised it is all quite straightforward: An organisation in Germany is keen to send volunteers to Southern Africa, it then finds a partner organisation in Southern Africa which wants to receive these volunteers, this happy marriage between two partners is consequently blessed financially by the weltwärts programme, which in turn gets its money from a higher power called the The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584865-P6AY0YX3Z2CEG050P5DX/a.jpg NEWS - Weltwärts Partner Conference for Southern Africa 2016. (13. april – 16. april 2016) - Following this discussion about German volunteers the conference took a natural turn towards another dimension of the weltwärts programme which is growing in importance and numbers; the sending of volunteers from Southern Africa to Germany or what in the programme is elegantly known as the South – North component. Sarah Fina, a 19 year old from Walmer in Port Elizabeth who newly returned to South Africa after a year as a volunteer in the German town of Oldenburg, charmed the conference with her self-confidence and knowledge of German. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584870-VH7CCHWXAPXMBKTH60RC/a.jpg NEWS - Weltwärts Partner Conference for Southern Africa 2016. (13. april – 16. april 2016) - The controversy and debate soon returned among the delegates though as a panel of representatives from United Nations Volunteers, African Union, South African and German government ministries, South African business and South African civil society debated the role volunteering can play in sustainable development. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584875-AXS4EOJNMP7EZB9H3C84/a.jpg NEWS - Weltwärts Partner Conference for Southern Africa 2016. (13. april – 16. april 2016) - However, at the end of the day everybody in the panel agreed that volunteering can make a huge difference to human development worldwide and that it is necessary for both governments and business to support more such grass roots initiatives for international cooperation emanating from organisations within civil society. The last part of the conference ended on a brotherly and sisterly note with further discussions about the newly established Southern African weltwärts Network (SAwN), an umbrella organisation intended for all the partner organisations of Southern Africa participating in the weltwärts programme. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2016/04/25/annual-easter-visit-to-the-awarenet-team-9zrza-pfmlp-hkz2k-9xwxf-6mahr-rk5kd-wk6eb-b85wx-z7bsz-dx6nr-me2xn-p43rg monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584834-FKAI7E1O63865CLVA98B/awarenet-team-2016.jpg NEWS - Annual Easter visit to the awarenet Team - I have been on my annual trip to Grahamstown to see how things are going on site. It was fantastic to be back and meet my vibrant and motivated team. A lot of new ideas were discussed and I was very impressed at how organised and confident everyone was. I can safely state that the VSA never had the pleasure of such a dedicated and happy team before. We used the time to work intensely at various projects. We discussed the coming year, the awarenet projects with the learners, the accreditation of our teacher training, various fundraising ideas and awarenet enhancements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584839-H4XRV3T9NX4T39NRFLPN/a.jpg NEWS - Annual Easter visit to the awarenet Team - Finally, we even managed to move the whole office from town into Joza, which means we are now permanently present in the Joza Youth Hub. Our own Internet access and a wonderful hub community helped us to take this important step. awarenet team at work https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2016/04/13/are-you-ready-for-the-awarenet-cup-5d4h9-j8lbh-r6lnz-j2ba3-6449z-bptyf-g5xb5-syhxa-2l7r6-9k86r-29f9w-xfe4j monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584823-WFIRAPYNMPBWZGR4ZFNB/a.jpg NEWS - Are you ready for the awarenet cup? - Last term, it was all about cultural differences and similarities between Germany and South Africa. This also included lots of good food and indulging in each other's national dishes. To get rid of the extra kilos we have gained, we are now starting a Health and Fitness project for the 2nd term. We will learn about healthy food, sports nutrition, how to stay fit and try to organise a soccer tournament where all our schools can compete against each other. Now, we just have to find the perfect awarenet cup trophy. Any suggestions? https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2016/03/18/elearning-modules-for-teachers-and-trainers-aa5sz-t5zay-ygeda-edjg8-m5kse-jfwe2-ed4w5-x5sec-6em2b-en58p-r6pzz-zedga monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584811-KB54SY179S6DHJIVJ2UX/DeLA_2015.jpg NEWS - eLearning Modules for teachers and trainers - His Faculty of Business and Economics offered to engage the students in a project that would help teachers and trainers in South Africa to enhance eLearning in classrooms. The students under the supervision of Dr Tawileh have developed eLearning Modules for three different scenarios (life orientation, natural sciences and economic and management sciences). https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2016/03/17/our-cultures-south-africa-versus-germany-slflf-may53-xwnxn-nlbj7-j83bg-npth6-wy3p6-sk5ld-pj5sw-aww8s-cfawl-ydc6t monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584799-UCCT4M43TCZELKJJEIUZ/DSCF2781.jpg NEWS - Our Cultures: South Africa versus Germany - In the first term of school we decided to do a project called "The cultural Differences between South Africa and Germany". Schools involved in this project were C.M Vellem HP, Good Shepard PS, Khulitso Daniel SS and Ntaba Maria PS. During the time we worked on this project, blogs were written about favourite traditional South African food, favourite South African sport and favourite South African Sportsmen/women. Pictures of German and South African food including traditional clothing of South Africa and Germany was added to awarenet where the learners had the opportunity to chose their best traditional food and traditional clothing picture and comment on them. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2016/03/15/its-my-culture-6czfm-nkcl5-6tjtm-w5jwb-wtzhh-9z93f-w32yj-cw9ab-fpaf5-8x5z4-a2ctc-g884x monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584783-EHK2Z9UKB1MELNSTR5DE/a.jpg NEWS - It's My Culture - We wrote blog posts, answered forum questions and uploaded many different pictures on awarenet. For the last sessions, volunteer Larissa planned something special for her students to say thank you for a productive and fun seven weeks: Learners received a certificate for regular attendance and commitment in class and had the chance to try original German food while watching a movie of their choice. Wurstsalat and Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte seem to be quite the hit in South Africa as well and you cannot go wrong with a Disney movie. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2016/03/11/new-volunteers-chosen-for-201617-sat7m-r7nhr-h8p52-3y6t5-sgwr9-axnaf-csac2-8grkh-pjc3n-kgfw6-aayag-jnnws monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584770-S8HS9O3WRZISG8UUW5PV/Team.jpg NEWS - New volunteers chosen for 2016/17 - The selection process is complex and the volunteers are selected very carefully. Our partner organisation SAGE Net. is responsible for the process, but the VSA is always involved. We are especially proud to take part in the very personal selection day, which includes interviews and workshops. On 20/2/16, the volunteers for the coming period of 2016/17 were selected, and we will introduce them very soon. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2016/03/07/the-new-dreamteam-j4e5l-c3c4y-6ssyc-kwa94-gldz9-nsaal-y52m7-r4x79-ldks3-mbjtz-yyagg-6j6hg monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584758-35BFJQ7WEOVRCPX4EJAY/12674664_1139186649432891_887206777_n.jpg NEWS - The New Dreamteam. - Last year in December, one of our two German volunteers, Kim Niemann, decided to leave the VSA to continue his voluntary service at Cape Mental Health in Cape Town. Read more about his reasons to leave Grahamstown here on our blog. Even though we are one person short now, we will still be able to follow up on and realise the plans we had already made for the new year. Our ever helpful intern Mcvay Boko will take over some of Kim's tasks and support and work with our remaining volunteer Larissa as much as possible. They are a great team and already make up the board of the Joza Youth Hub as secretary and chairperson. Therefore, we are happy to announce that since we do not have to pay the initial 2000€ for Kim's stay, we were able to renew Mcvay's contract for the upcoming year. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2016/02/23/meet-the-newest-member-of-the-vsa-family-pnh6a-r2spp-n64d8-2zh29-7je43-xlasa-xrr3t-5sjg5-hxm5a-pcprk-jf3jm-j5wn2 monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584746-5QBNMHQR9DQJ5ZGNE44P/SAM_1784-1.jpg NEWS - Meet the newest member of the VSA family! - Hi, I’m Kjetil, the newest member of staff at the Village Scribe Association. Originally from Norway, I have spent the last decade mostly in South Africa, most recently teaching in some of the most remote but also most beautiful parts of the country on the Wild Coast in the former Transkei. Having seen at close range the challenges facing the education system in the country, I remain an optimist when it comes to our ability to turn it around, things are slowly moving forward and I think we in the VSA on a local level can help by giving that movement a small but gentle push. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2016/02/10/welcome-to-the-joza-youth-hub-fun-day-and-bazaar-t5r5g-trcxe-xmfcy-rdafm-s52bb-crlx5-wl8zz-29kgd-4t6n7-ljzgp-p46zs-edlxk monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584723-DLTIR4O99VIT1Q3BFTG1/SAM_16352.jpg NEWS - Welcome to the Joza Youth Hub Fun Day and Bazaar! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584714-VOEHT7RMZTTFWMVFN1K5/a.jpg NEWS - Welcome to the Joza Youth Hub Fun Day and Bazaar! https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2016/01/26/starting-2016-with-a-bang-69frh-d5yka-gtrsz-xpsh2-nkf7r-3p7zj-dcr2c-k9gwl-r74wn-6s9wj-p5gll-fxf86 monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2015/12/10/going-west-sew3p-86g7r-fmbn4-6dxdw-3ykfj-fz6dy-abyj4-gslmr-geblf-cbw4a-n27ag-k4pxt monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584681-XGDOK8XKTUN80WNI767V/a.jpg NEWS - Going west! - The way to this decision was long and there were a lot of people and discussions involved. This is the outcome.I started working for the awarenet program in the beginning of September.It was quiet intense for me and probably a very unique experience in the whole SAGE Net voluntary program. 5 https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2015/12/09/annual-general-meeting-2015-eax23-aj37s-jj6bn-z5gnl-3wzcl-6657y-7azkf-ex4hz-bcfm7-wlpjr-9crw6-stnzt monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2015/12/07/out-now-the-awarenet-peace-song-collection-2014-music-video-m39ak-h6dtn-fgzka-cp58y-77kyy-kg9yd-7kdyx-dmny8-4m48x-xefge-6yj55-tzy92 monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584657-NECLDRWYPJTQV7CNVTG3/a.jpg NEWS - OUT NOW: The awarenet Peace Song Collection 2014 + Music Video - We finally finished shooting and editing the music video of 2014's winner of the Peace Day Song Concert. Our learners put lots of effort into lyrics and performance and we are super proud of them. Check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyAgTg_osss Also, we finally finished the production of the awarenet Peace Song Collection 2014 CD. Click here to listen to it online. Therefore, on the 3rd of December, we hosted a CD and music video release party at the Joza Youth Hub. Learners from various schools attended and received their free CDs at the end of the event, which we all enjoyed due to good music, dancing and interesting conversations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584662-WSLX45IW0JYXVG4GFDLT/blog21.jpg NEWS - OUT NOW: The awarenet Peace Song Collection 2014 + Music Video - We would like to thank the Village Scribe Association, our partners Sonic Art Studio for their musical know how, the singing lessons and HipHop performing sessions, Corinne Cooper who worked on the backing, Rhodes University's Music and Musicology Department for sponsoring the recordings, Michael Appelt and AppiAppelt Animations for producing and editing the music video and last but not least our sponsor VetVital for helping to finance the project. Working with you has been a great pleasure and we are looking forward to next year's Peace Day Concert and maybe even a Best Of Collection of all the previous Peace Day Song winners. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2015/12/03/cut-music-video-shoot-with-the-winners-of-the-awarenet-peace-song-concert-2014-cz3j8-ey68s-7xpc4-9nbmr-5t53f-mtbhh-2xjm2-enknz-wm4yb-ye8xr-g9szt-cgycp monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584645-ZPPKNLW5HZDM1GM7IMG6/a.jpg NEWS - Cut! Music video shoot with the winners of the awarenet Peace Song Concert 2014 - We spent our lunch break in the Botanical Gardens where we had a little picnic with our learners. We all had lots of fun and are very relieved and proud that we managed to shoot all the required scenes in one day. This was only possible due to our learners full commitment and focus. Therefore, today, we will host a release party at the Joza Youth Hub where everyone involved was cordially invited. Our learners put lots of effort into lyrics and performance and we are happy to present the edited music video and the CD today. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2015/12/02/givingtuesday-hsrjj-662by-sn8wx-ylcgs-pexsb-yrwmx-xrnd9-m2p68-23xfc-s8zz4-za6bs-ayc2y monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584634-VF1XEXWOK8BGB84WKJIY/a.jpg NEWS - #GivingTuesday - This week was #‎GivingTuesday‬ and we wanted to give thanks. We are grateful for all that we have achieved over the years and wanted to give back to the community. #GivingTuesday is a global movement that kicks off the charitable season and unites the world for good. Anyone, anywhere, can make a difference. We decided to celebrate generosity and decided to be part of the movement: Over the past few weeks we have been working on a very creative project and due to Nelson Mandela's death in December, this project was Mandela related. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2015/12/01/looking-back-on-one-year-of-volunteering-fz89t-38ppg-nbrsr-pwjny-2a5f5-2rzpg-9c7ac-sdabs-xbnbb-bryap-db99k-psp27 monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584605-PMJ7634RJXJVJH952D5S/DSC_0216.jpg NEWS - Looking back on one year of volunteering - The most critical thing I take out of my stay in South Africa – besides the satisfaction of my conscience by doing good – is the ability to appreciate the little things and be more grateful for them. In this regard I would like to thank Anna and Terri for their wonderful help and collaboration. I had an awesome time in Grahamstown meeting lots of amiable and enlightening people. The Joza location, the Joza Youth Hub and all my learners grew dearly to my heart. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2015/12/01/southern-african-weltwarts-strategic-workshop-conference-ht2zc-jey8x-2rxa2-katj6-nak5s-y4t2b-kbe7y-nxn55-wtg79-5ypes-rg2tw-jda4y monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584617-4IOCZTUNTTCSTWSVVHWQ/a.jpg NEWS - Southern African weltwarts strategic Workshop Conference: - The Southern African weltwarts Networks (SawN) was discussed, within the weltwarts program, during the Conference in Port Elizabeth from 12 to 15 November 2014. It’s the first program of its kind across the globe and is an Internal community network. The networks first task is to choose a SawN Interim Steering committee. The duties of the SawN Interim Committee will be as follows, to form a network for SawN to strengthen relationships and create an Information Portal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584622-W80TF3IIDZDEIKTZGA14/20151121-160959.jpg-s721s.jpg NEWS - Southern African weltwarts strategic Workshop Conference: - The following day we had 3 workshops where different issues were discussed, the first workshop (lead by Donald Vogel) we attended was about, what communication and market strategies should we consider to increase SawN? The second workshop was led by Claus-Bernard Pakleppa. This workshop was all about the vision, mission and objectives of SawN. The third workshop (by Igrid Daniels) we discussed, how do we structure SawN and enhance fund-raising for SawN? https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2015/11/27/listen-up-kmelt-86bk8-87j99-p42sk-4f35e-em7z5-m7k9r-l7yms-ycbc5-ctp95-pe8w9-hn895 monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584593-CUPV7VY7BKIWPAGIAXFS/a.jpg NEWS - Listen Up! - On the 9th of November, we were invited for an interview at Rhodes Music Radio to talk about the Village Scribe Association, the awarenet programme and the work we do at the Joza Township here in Grahamstown. We had lots of fun and are grateful for the opportunity to talk about our current projects on air. To kick off our future cooperation, the guys from the radio station supported us during the fashion show that took place on December the 12th. They provided us with the latest tracks and amazing beats during the show and made everyone dance at the party afterwards. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2015/11/26/awarenet-madiba-project-2015-swmec-ycb3h-jegml-xejpg-new82-bzj57-y2hbn-s4tsm-3hldt-w5r23-absrz-pn32d monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584576-8B4SALAM8I79YO8R51ND/a.jpg NEWS - awarenet Madiba Project 2015 - To explain the historical context in which all this happened was very important to us. The first Madiba shirt was originally designed by the fashion designer Desré Buirski and given to Mandela as a present when he visited Cape Town. She handed it to his bodyguard with a note attached saying "Thank you for everything you have done and the sacrifices you have made for our beloved country". Mandela wore the shirt the next day to the dress rehearsal for the opening of Parliament, and was photographed on the front page of a local newspaper. Since then, Buirski had made him more than 120 different shirts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584581-60SG2I0RPVQMLGCE1H44/a.jpg NEWS - awarenet Madiba Project 2015 - The next step was to design and paint our own shirts with our learners based on what we had learned before. We ended the term with a little fashion show where our learners presented their shirts. Since this was our last big event before the Christmas break, we decided to donate the shirts to the nearby orphanage “Home of Joy" that we have worked with before for the International Day of Peace. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2015/09/30/the-peace-project-ycdn8-hrgtm-xbajp-4fste-dltk9-p4td8-dx4gn-pymen-r5d4f-rxglx-rxwr6-wj6da monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584563-7GGRPTXY75RZE9VLFJR5/a.jpg NEWS - The Peace Project - We decided to become creative and to write a few poems about peace, the meaning of peace and how to create world peace. The learners were very creative writing their poems down in great expressions. Harry Owen, a local poet from Grahamstown, spent two additional sessions with the SDA learners assisting them in poem writing. The learners found this very educational. The poems were all collected in the awarenet Peace Project on the awarenet platform and one best poem from each school was chosen. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2015/09/23/my-culture-my-heritage-my-pride-kb2we-as5fw-gd4dk-9hmap-kasjm-3hjay-mhy7z-8j6wk-7aks2-5dgnt-4n44b-rsclt monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584551-2F3T13GCJ85RZFGMHITQ/Background-gro%C3%9F.jpg NEWS - My Culture. My Heritage. My Pride. - There are many events and commemorations all over the country to celebrate and remember the cultural heritage and diversity of all people who make up the population of South Africa. The school grounds were buzzing with learners, their parents and teachers, who all put great effort into making this day an amazing experience. The festivities started with a powerful opening speech, followed by the school choir, story telling and a drama performance. Several guest speakers were present as well and delivered inspiring speeches about what cultural heritage means to them and to the country as a whole. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2015/09/22/day-of-peace-c9jr6-4dtx5-jreks-wtchm-z4le5-ftpzh-76dak-f9gk2-mnxk7-8chme-tsxa4-htcp5 monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584537-VKN5TVHWL9UAZJ06NOGI/zwei.jpg NEWS - International Day of Peace: Creating a better world - We usually set up a Peace Day Concert where students of several schools participate with self written songs about peace and friendship. Due to some major funding problems, we had to find a different solution this year. We asked our learners from the SDA Primary School if they had any ideas on how to give something back to the community and they had: To cook some fresh and selfmade food and give it to the local orphanage “Home of Joy”, which is only two walking minutes away from our office. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2015/09/17/we-are-here-hld54-akl6x-x7x4s-ykmw7-6xs38-dzstj-63ynr-rahrz-78p5z-59hef-5f6g5-yzgg2 monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584524-1P08J3TBNV1460LTFTZX/a.jpg NEWS - We are here! - 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 had some time to calm down and then head off to Grahamstown. Lukas, who has been the volunteer at VSA for the past year, welcomed us heartily, even picked us up from the airport and explored Grahamstown with us. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2015/09/16/giving-back-to-the-community-3pj5l-b2f2t-pzrfy-8pa8e-564zd-by2la-njymr-6zpxs-jm6f4-xr6ml-ppn9g-sn85z monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584512-PQL2BQM62C2CWIKQK79L/5.jpg NEWS - Giving back to the community https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2015/09/04/2430-pem49-p2wpr-fsba7-p527b-dl9x7-r2zfl-dt455-c5jk2-6a5ka-sd7fz-7xrb6-9lxwz monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584500-HC6A5406J23Q5HPY2RE2/6.jpg NEWS - Peace Day Project 2015 https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2015/08/17/joza-youth-hub-computer-lab-hf3bs-m9m2m-f9946-plxkw-t23ld-gfeb2-ygmze-kbmfk-mfmad-whhfy-k8lwa-zgj5k monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584487-XTETU177JGQNDQ9EHIWK/7.jpg NEWS - The Cripple is healed https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2015/07/15/the-peace-and-music-project-the-last-four-years-j9jf2-7fpw6-rh9kz-6jgys-ghg5y-xfw5d-yw7yc-hfb6b-fwnfh-96r74-pjlex-se6zt monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584470-NQFTGJ2TAZJN2O3WP344/a.jpg NEWS - The Peace and Music Project - The last four Years - Participating schools were Mary Waters HS, Nombulelo SS, C.M Vellem HPS, Good Shepard PS, Ntaba Maria PS, Khulitso Daniel SS, Nathaniel Nayluza SS. Intense training in lyrics and vocal training was given by Sonic Art Studio. After about 10 weeks of preparation it all came together at our annual Peace Day Concert (International Peace Day: 21/9) which is usually held in the Joza location. Teams competed in rapping, singing and performing against each other for the best overall Peace Song. Overall winners so far were Mary Waters HS, Ntaba Maria PS and Victoria Girls High School respectively. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584475-V4WVAI9ST4635TARMELG/a.jpg NEWS - The Peace and Music Project - The last four Years - The best male and female rappers also receive a certificate and a prize for their effort. Another certificate is usually given out for best lyrics. The concerts were well attended by local people. Subsequently, all songs were recorded professionally once by Sonic Art Studio and twice by the Rhodes University Music and Musicology Department. Two CD launch parties took place so far, the third will happen soon. The overall winners (Mary Waters HS and Ntaba Maria PS) of the best Peace Song also had the opportunity to have their own music video professionally made. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2015/06/25/awarenet-projects-2015-6p4zt-3mbzb-c2xej-zexpm-d6359-5d3m9-xxafa-tklsm-ht82s-pl4lz-hs234-c28tl monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584435-WUCFIVOA6JQ3Z16QT9SP/9.jpg NEWS - The awarenet projects of 2015 so far - The schools I decided to work with in 2015 was Khulitso Daniel SS, C.M Vellem HPS, Ntaba Maria PS, Good Shepard PS working with Grade 7, 8 and 9. Lukas worked from the Joza Youth Hub with Seventh Day Adventist School and Archie Mbolekwa SS, Victoria Girls High School and the Upstart group in the first term. Introductions included a general introduction to social media and working with profile pages, friends network, multi-media. The first project we worked on for the term was the Science Project. The theme we worked on was "Life after School", we worked on career choices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584440-QIRGXZIVSPMXBT2BXOGM/b.jpg NEWS - The awarenet projects of 2015 so far - We attended "SciFest" to promote awarenet and to tell people about our project we worked on during the few weeks before "SciFest". Lots of schools visited "SciFest". Victoria Girls HS was also there to promote their school and the project they were working on. Our awarenet learners also had the opportunity to attend "SciFest", namely Ntaba Maria PS, Seventh Day Adventist School, Archie Mbolekwa SS and Upstart. The overall winners of the poster competition had the opportunity to go to the "SciFest" namely Ntaba Maria PS and Seventh Day Adventist School. The learners enjoyed the atmosphere and they had fun walking around and looking through all the different activities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584445-VBWBLYS825MLU22RF0IS/a.jpg NEWS - The awarenet projects of 2015 so far - We had motivational speakers who came to the schools and gave motivational talks to the learners about motivation in sport. Rooi Rikhotso talked about how to keep motivated in sport while still focusing on academics, not to get involved in wrong doings and wrong friends, he shared his experiences with the Ntaba Learners. Seventh Day Adventist School and Good Shepard PS had the opportunity to listen to Thandoxolo Royi talking about his sport, Karate. Chris Tobela motivated C.M Vellem HPS with his Soccer Coaching skills giving them advice how to achieve in Soccer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584451-OREGTO7I0NM4S3BA5S8P/a.jpg NEWS - The awarenet projects of 2015 so far - Blogs were written about the motivational talks. We used the awarenet forum to discuss sporting habits and eating habits. Learners also wrote blogs about good and bad eating habits. We still continued to play lots of sports getting fit for our Health & Fitness Day held close to Youth Day. Our final big day in the health and fitness was held on the 12 June 2015. We played soccer dividing in 5 member teams. The overall winners in the soccer tournament was C.M Vellem HPS. Being the winners of the tournament they each received a water bottle sponsored by Run/Walk for Life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584456-Q495UH9YBZ79M3H4RGND/a.jpg NEWS - The awarenet projects of 2015 so far - Zezuthu Fikani of the S.D.A School and Thanduxolo Rooi of Nombulelo P.S were the overall winners. They each received a sponsored School Stationary (rulers, rubber, pencil cases and pens) from Albany business machines.We were also entertained by a Karate demonstration by the Joza Karate Club. It was a great fun day out learners has fun, the Fitness project was a great. Thank you to all who contributed to our sports day, Run/Walk for Life a R500 donation towards food and water bottles, Albany Business Machines for donating School Stationary and Madhatters for a cake. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2015/06/15/health-fitness-day-2lpga-wbz2a-247cy-7wrnt-c9bwx-g6pyf-5af79-9y2n7-p855h-p65zs-2l5w9-3xncg monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584415-S1D7PM641ZVTLRJUG23E/a.jpg NEWS - Health & Fitness Day - Each year VSA works together with the learners on the topic "health and fitness" including a culmination at the end of the term. During the awarenet sessions we either played soccer, dodgeball or frisbee or we worked on blogs and forum questions. This year the health & fitness day was celebrated on the 12th of June. Learners from five different schools participted in the event. In the beginning after having a little snack the karateka of the Joza Karate Club put their skills on stage and amazed everyone with different Katas and training fights. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584421-6QYF2DMC8IYX9YZYK73I/a.jpg NEWS - Health & Fitness Day - Afterwards the Mr. and Mrs. Fitness were determined within a sports-procedure consisting of pushups, crunches and star jumps. Zezuthu Fikani of the S.D.A School and Thanduxolo Rooi of Nombulelo P.S. won that competition. In the end the schools participated in a soccer tournament which was dominated by the Grade 9 learners of C.M. Vellem. Overall it was an awesome day and we would like to thank the learners who showed up despite being in exam stress. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2015/06/11/the-next-generation-of-volunteers-is-coming-9268a-9fcrd-4lz4h-sc8hk-k4f6p-lrwk8-4hfg6-retaa-jkl6f-bcgnx-5z3n9-74ctz monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584404-8ONGLYN2TJM2908VUGEH/11.jpg NEWS - The Next Generation of Volunteers is Coming! - From September on, we will be working for the awarenet programme and we are totally looking forward to this experience and to meeting you all. We can't wait to face this new challenge and grow with the project. We are 18 and 22 years old and about to graduate from High School and University...hopefully. We both enjoy sports, especially running, rowing and badminton, cycling and going to the gym.Also, we love listening to music (80s trash...just kidding...nah for real) and going to the movies. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2015/05/20/the-awarenet-health-and-fitness-project-6wrth-frewh-5cdc4-93k5x-nkp6t-dmjdy-h4gzs-et5z9-gbse3-4lwzc-e3jmy-3nmab monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584387-P5RAT1LQII2SDY0K4QTK/12.jpg NEWS - The awarenet Health and Fitness Project - Some examples: What is your favourite sport? What training do you do to keep fit in this sport? How many times a week do you train for your sport? Sompani from Ntaba Maria PS said: "Netball it is my favourite sport, because it helps me to keep my joints strong and well working. We do our netball sessions with our netball coach at school and we train four times a week." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584391-SBLFZTR9KVOU6F7A3WZM/a.jpg NEWS - The awarenet Health and Fitness Project - Finally, motivational talks were also given about keeping motivated in sport and how to become the best you want to become in sport. Ntaba Maria PS learners had the opportunity to listen to Rooi Rikhotso talking about how to keep motivated in sport while still focusing on academics, not to get involved in wrong doings and wrong friends. Rooi is a top runner from Grahamstown (originally from Limpopo) and works as a security guard. The learners enjoyed Rooi's talk and found him very inspirational. Seventh Day Adventist School and Good Shepard PS had the opportunity to listen to Thandoxolo Royi talking about his sport, Karate. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2015/05/13/community-engaged-learning-symposium-lj44f-a5wgw-8kjz5-m9dmr-23x49-m7ja8-5bpz3-drbks-4sb75-cte3r-xwwlc-c58sn monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2015/05/12/awarenet-open-day-on-international-girls-in-ict-day-2015-eyscb-7wwlg-fm9f2-nlpxb-dha7h-tcd8b-jc66c-8jcbd-ek73y-8dk6n-7hzyb-lpgrt monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584367-4IPM8UTJLIALE4WLZEBI/a.jpg NEWS - awarenet Open Day on International Girls in ICT Day 2015 - The International Girls in ICT Day is held every year on the 4th Thursday of April on which teenage girls and university students are invited to spend the day at the office of ICT companies and other organisations. The VSA participated for the last three years hosting an open awarenet sessions for girls (and determined boys) at the computer lab of the C.M. Vellem Higher Primary School. Since the VSA office is now located in the JYH where we also have our own computer lab, we invited learners over and spent a whole day with the two most determined ones. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2015/04/27/the-joza-youth-hubs-computer-lab-4njt8-7jlaa-6cfjp-8wa6k-emm6b-3ersb-pk9f2-3s2a9-xg553-jh4xe-y32ar-mrs9k monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584355-SHUCWQEQZ2B5XI0RVWB7/a.jpg NEWS - The Joza Youth Hub's computer lab - I call it the “Brain” of the Joza Youth Hub (JYH); it knows so much, gives so much, and is so much more. The computer lab was sponsored by Rhodes University and has been installed in the JYH for a while, but it was missing an Internet connection for a long time. Improper use also affected the computers. So, we made a effort and - together with our partner eKhaya ICT - we put in some maintenance work at the beginning of this year after another partner in the hub AMP! with our assistance had erected a pole and installed the antenna for the Internet connection. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2015/04/08/scifest-presenting-awarenet-and-our-project-life-after-school-acsje-66c62-c9gxd-3n2s9-8zy6s-zjydl-8t33w-6ts3r-dnpj4-fstbz-wxxks-9hk2h monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584342-R99XN3N69YHNMRG3CIW6/a.jpg NEWS - SciFest - presenting awarenet and our project "Life after School" - Within the project over 20 posters were created. Three posters were chosen as the winning posters and were displayed at SciFest. The groups of the winning posters were from Ntaba Maria and Archie Mbolekwa, as a winning prize they had the opportunity to visit the SciFest and spend a few hours exploring the exhibitors' stands. Additionally they promoted awarenet at our stand telling some people who stopped by more about their SciFest theme and about their posters they created. The VG Girls promoted their school as well together with us showing optical illusions and doing different experiments with colours and separation of colours in water. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2015/03/16/what-makes-me-different-from-others-bnd48-j28th-22ayk-derag-e7p9y-7ebk6-3htz2-payf3-jc2ej-3ndme-dmgsg-flzw7 monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584329-RAJ0CZO5WC2I2SI47K1X/a.jpg NEWS - WHAT MAKES ME DIFFERENT FROM OTHERS - I am Mcvay, the new VSA intern, and I have the following to say about myself. I am a intern for the technical support at this organisation. I provide technical and network problem resolution to by performing a question diagnosis while guiding users through step-by-step solutions. Solutions include, but are not limited to, resolving username and password problems, uninstalling/reinstalling basic software applications, verifying proper hardware and software set up, assisting with navigating around application menus and troubleshooting email issues. Support will be provided by clearly communicating technical solutions in a user-friendly, professional manner. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2015/02/23/on-education-in-grahamstown-eastern-cape-4bwh7-mmac9-pryhw-tgrj9-h9kxz-pda9r-gft5t-jbgn3-rj5ny-bb832-g4pdl-la7f9 monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2015/01/30/community-engagement-partner-meeting-dpxz4-t5xwr-c7gb8-872r3-gy345-hmfjc-4lsfl-229dd-3hgsb-2f7tp-lcw6j-z9jne monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584308-EKFST3KGZUCV0OIAAKY4/a.jpg NEWS - Community Engagement Partner Meeting - 30 people from different schools, NGOs and NPOs attended the meeting. After a warm welcome and an introduction phase we started talking about the "Student Volunteering Programme" (SVP). This programme enables students of the Rhodes University to work with local social organisations and schools. Nosipho Mngomezulu, SVP coordinator, explained the necessities of both sides, the organisations' as well as the students', and gave a lot of input to get the most out of the cooperation with students. Additionally the partners shared their experiences of earlier collaborations. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2015/01/21/preview-scifest-2015-ehlk6-xe452-ggby2-yc5xh-5rkgx-p5rll-re43x-b58b3-hcr4y-m9rgc-abmse-8mr8z monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584295-RQUTYR74H4RIF96NAA5N/a.jpg NEWS - Preview Scifest 2015 - We will present our awarenet programme to the visitors, i.e. teachers are invited to a short presentation and all users are encouraged to log into awarenet and try out its features and tools. There will be laptops present. Learners from various local schools that are involved in our awarenet programme will present the work that they have done using the awarenet platform. It will give visitors a feel of the social learning network. Thereafter, learners and teachers have the opportunity to write blogs (e.g. about their SciFest experience) or comment on other blogs or pictures uploaded by the awarenet users. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/12/19/the-vsa-agm-and-annual-report-of-2014-p9jkp-3jk46-j8zrh-djawp-apswl-zbnzz-r2bmj-m9lbs-h9sgj-6jebb-pr8a6-xtsje monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584233-O7C1T63ZJQK7M4P9KXAS/Slide01-300x225.jpg NEWS - The VSA AGM and Annual Report of 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584243-U4YCL4OOVLORZHE5MS6C/Slide03-300x225.jpg NEWS - The VSA AGM and Annual Report of 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584166-ILGEQG5IJ5P9EKCBA4RB/Slide04-300x225.jpg NEWS - The VSA AGM and Annual Report of 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584262-8I5E31WK5H43ORSKNLUU/Slide06-300x225.jpg NEWS - The VSA AGM and Annual Report of 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584185-HRPIY8PY4GY1KD768OTV/Slide07-300x225.jpg NEWS - The VSA AGM and Annual Report of 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584193-JTERZ6DTGHH0JP6YTPMR/Slide08-300x225.jpg NEWS - The VSA AGM and Annual Report of 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584211-TNN23SFCXJGVHP1O5W45/Slide09-218x300.jpeg NEWS - The VSA AGM and Annual Report of 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584253-523TVL2BS1GR4L941GQI/Slide10-300x225.jpg NEWS - The VSA AGM and Annual Report of 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584175-TLE1NLDO4HP752P0NZ6V/Slide11-300x225.jpg NEWS - The VSA AGM and Annual Report of 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584224-27VLV2IC8HAJK8LQKKEZ/Slide15-300x225.jpg NEWS - The VSA AGM and Annual Report of 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584271-UHUOX2MZM9XOO833N7DH/Slide16-300x225.jpg NEWS - The VSA AGM and Annual Report of 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584157-WLT5HVP1YRLIUGBWJZWE/Slide17-300x225.jpg NEWS - The VSA AGM and Annual Report of 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584201-ARX5ANJ798KMWMVOEYW7/Slide18-300x225.jpg NEWS - The VSA AGM and Annual Report of 2014 https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/12/17/an-end-of-year-treat-for-outstanding-awarenet-learners-and-staff-2j8pn-2h228-jje4e-995sx-fs47f-mr73k-j5ckh-mwnna-57kbx-2m85s-ealn2-cgd5m monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584120-ON959XF80W4DWO8044IN/DSCF69331-300x225.jpg NEWS - An End of Year Treat for outstanding awarenet Learners and Staff! - Due to fact that the school year has come to an end and learners went on holiday, I decided that a treat for outstanding learners would be a good gesture. So, Lukas and I took three learners on a outing to town: Thandoxolo, Zinthle and Anesipho. I chose Thando due the fact that he was so dedicated to the awarenet programme and attended almost all the sessions throughout the year. Now, he has passed grade 9 and will leave his CM Vellem HPS and the awarenet programme. He is further incredibly successful at his sports Karate, which I also support in my private time, so I think it was a great opportunity to spoil him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584125-MR8P0DYZJ3A2FLGA72SW/DSCF6937-300x225.jpg NEWS - An End of Year Treat for outstanding awarenet Learners and Staff! - The two sisters Zinthle and Anesipho I’ve sort of taken in my care due to the fact that they both don't have parents and stay with their Granny. The two little girls are very close to my heart. All three of them come from a very poor background and haven’t been to the center of town very often in their young lives. We picked them up at 9am and took them to Revalations - a restaurant in town - where they each had a huge burger, chips and a cool drink - probably not the healthiest to eat but as the saying goes: "Christmas is only once a year." The meal was partly sponsored by Revalations and partly by myself and Lukas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584129-XIK35KI8R7Q32YFFH2ZP/DSCF6955-300x225.jpg NEWS - An End of Year Treat for outstanding awarenet Learners and Staff! - After this great brunch we went to the Albany Museum where we had a look at the wide range of fossils, skeletons and stuffed animals. They all had so much fun and were amazed at all the different things to be seen and learned about our planet. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/12/16/our-fundraising-campaign-for-the-german-weltwarts-volunteers-sf7fa-xsl79-pd85e-gr7dg-ex7bh-xjw4n-axa46-tnsdw-82hlx-l55yf-pgnx7-ex56g monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584109-3UYDA82WA1REKLL5TG88/Rieke_C.M-Vellem1-300x225.jpg NEWS - Our Fundraising Campaign for the German Weltwärts Volunteers - 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 how to use computers and the Internet by working on hands-on projects on the awarenet platform, a social learning network, especially designed to meet their needs. There are currently about 10 schools in Grahamstown (Eastern Cape) involved. We are working on connecting them with German learners in Saxony, Germany, via the awarenet platform, so that they will eventually collaborate on projects.The vast majority of learners leaving school in South Africa stay unemployed due to poor education. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/12/15/treasures-found-in-the-rainbow-nation-p5ryf-rbz3s-ekxt7-r6dac-jpjfm-9e7k8-fxkf4-ykfed-lkm23-3alzy-3mb5k-9kbwl monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584097-QFB41WUU4DKJZJ9RWRVD/Antje_VG1-300x225.jpg NEWS - Treasures found in the rainbow nation - by Antje Hering. Antje_VG https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/12/12/sage-net-at-the-berlin-christmas-market-46c2d-lwg6l-gca9j-yapw2-l29cf-ywa5d-y826s-rrtx7-74zsb-dr7lr-8yrrt-z867j monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584085-UMXL57Q4EWE9IHELZBJZ/XmasMarketSAGENet-300x224.jpg NEWS - SAGE Net. at the Berlin Christmas Market - 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 and somewhat traditional feel while being set in the remains of the old Rixdorf village in Neukölln and only lit up by gas lanterns as electric light is not allowed. XmasMarketSAGENet https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/12/10/reflecting-on-2014-a-journey-through-the-months-fm6yn-chkbl-dfdeh-z7e2d-sm7h9-z6ams-jt7fe-37cj5-pejsb-jzthz-m2k9w-gfcsl monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584059-GJ21HMDMK0PMU4NNNGRE/Valetines-Day-Spread-the-love-13-300x225.jpg NEWS - Reflecting on 2014 - A Journey through the Months..... - Time to reflect on my journey through 2014 with my volunteers, my learners, the good times, the bad times, positive challenges and negative challenges......Where do I start? Well, 2014 started off with a bang in the month of January 2014, when schools reopened to the first school term. I was filled with excitement to meet new teachers and learners. A new start, a new beginning to the year 2014! As always, the first few weeks were filled with a few hiccups, but as the weeks progressed things became easier and better. The first term of school I always find very busy getting to know the new learners, teachers and meeting up the principles and - yes, to see if computers labs were functional! :-) Lots of planning goes into the first term, but as it progresses and the learners get to know awarenet things ease off. So, this really was a positive challenge to begin with! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584064-PECMUU35S24O61DPBZVA/20140221_135106-225x300.jpg NEWS - Reflecting on 2014 - A Journey through the Months..... - The second term was filled with great excitement being blessed beyond note to do a special day on the 14 February: the “Spread the Love”-Campaign, filled with hugs and hearts. 4 schools were involved in this one day project. The learners and us had to hand out as many hugs as possible and just spread the word ”Love”. Our volunteers Antje and Rieke together with myself started at Good Shepard PS, where all the learners were dressed in white and red. They all received red and green hearts painted on their cheeks, where after they had to hug as many learners and friends as they could to spread the love to often less fortunate learners. Other Schools that joined were Ntaba Maria PS, CM Vellem HPS and Victoria Girls High School. Another event at the end of February, which really meant a lot to me was the formation of a human chain on the occasion of Mandela Day. The chain was 5 km long and reached from the township to the center of Grahamstown. The whole Grahamstown Community came together and held hands to demonstrate unity despite the bad weather conditions. I loved every moment of this. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584069-J76CNJZO4UJHVFDE1T2Z/img-6811.jpg-vrd3q-300x200.jpeg NEWS - Reflecting on 2014 - A Journey through the Months..... - As the term drew to an end it was time for a well deserved Easter break. I usually go to Cape Town to rewind and get ready for the second half of the year. This year, we started our annual awarenet Peace and Music Project already before the famous Grahamstown Arts Festival, to have more time. The project involves music training for 5 different schools (Ntaba Maria PS, CM Vellem HPS, Khulitso Daniels SS , Good Shepard PS and Victoria Girls HS. The learners are taught how to write their own lyrics and compose a chorus to a backing, composed by Sonic Art Studio. Then they have to practice how to perform on stage for the annual awarenet Peace Day Concert held on International Peace Day (21/9). The songs soon sounded amazingly good and learners were ready to perform in the Noluthando Hall in Joza township. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584073-JZOMU282CQ1RNKBQGEUG/P1000193-300x225.jpg NEWS - Reflecting on 2014 - A Journey through the Months..... - We were blessed with a nice big crowd that came and watched the awarenet Peace Day Concert. The spectators thoroughly enjoyed the concert. Our learners performed fantastically, they rapped and danced with great passion! I was really humbled by the way they were performing, giving everything and showing us that all is possible when you put the time and effort into something great like this! Although my favourite school didn’t win, I was still happy with the whole outcome of the concert: a great success, lots of talent and just an overall happiness all around. Lukas and myself also attended the recordings for the songs which was done at the Rhodes Music Department after the concert and soon the CD will be launched. The music video of the winning song will be produced next year before the next round of the project. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/12/08/my-2014-hs445-drhgn-3l9m4-73p8j-5bmfm-w6t47-hxbzs-4gnw4-syhcg-gj2r7-j35x8-ah6n6 monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584035-2LUDEB590YZWRK6M726F/IMG_6830-300x200.jpg NEWS - My 2014 On the 22nd of September, I left Hamburg and flew via London and Johannesburg to Port Elizabeth, where I finally arrived on the 23rd. My first impressions of my new home country were not as radical as I thought. The airport itself wasn't as big as I was used to and the streets within Port Elizabeth weren't pothole-free but in general at first sight there was no big difference to Germany. In the evening, I went to Grahamstown where Terri had organised a charming welcome braai. I met my new landlords and neighbours as well as the rest of the VSA staff for the first time and felt warmly welcomed. My work for VSA started the same week due to the planned awarenet Peace Day Concert in the Noluthando Hall, where five of the awarenet schools participated. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584040-0ZPBOJS80ISBEBBBGM3L/P1000318-225x300.jpg NEWS - My 2014 - It was the first time I realised that South Africa is way different than Germany. Right in the middle of the concert all the overwhelming experiences and impressions of the first days welled up inside of me: the townships, the poverty, the different languages and cultures, the singing learners and the dancing crowd. I realised that the expectations I had built up during the preparation seminar were mostly wrong and coined by prejudices. I spent the next two weeks sorting out my new life and work and started to explore Grahamstown as well as Port Elizabeth and Hamburg (the one in South Africa of course). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584045-S6NP579WRA77M9CBG1WO/DSCF6772-300x224.jpg NEWS - My 2014 - In the middle of September, I started my first project about Mandela and had a lot of fun getting to know all the learners from different grades and schools. In the beginning it was quite hard to warm up with them due to the language barrier, but after a couple of sessions the communication improved and the awarenet sessions became more and more joyful. Besides the Mandela project we started with the recordings of the awarenet Peace Day Songs at Rhodes University's Music Department. During the last two weeks, most of the projects were finalized and the new ones for next year were being prepared. By now, the 4th term of school has ended and the learners are on holiday. I hope to see all of them next year! https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/12/03/grade-r-learners-graduate-from-c-m-vellem-higher-primary-school-x9blf-glgep-87t76-59y9s-6ftgh-a87ay-n8z7c-g3cj2-e4mkf-73x6t-c2r5a-magf5 monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583981-IO7CWF0KQUX0MOEGY9N7/DSCF6856-300x224.jpg NEWS - Grade R learners Graduate from C.M Vellem Higher Primary School - On the 28th of November, the C.M. Vellem Higher Primary School graduated 50 Grade R learners. The VSA was invited due to our various community work in the school . It was a pleasure seeing the learners, who are 5 to 6 years old singing and dancing in the middle of the classroom. Lots of Cream Cake was arranged on a table and a group of parents were cooking delicious meals in classroom next door. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584001-LXVTZHBW1XK075NTSMJ6/DSCF6793.jpg NEWS - Grade R learners Graduate from C.M Vellem Higher Primary School https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650584011-L4RNUHTGZMVEPKLGI525/DSCF6874-300x224.jpg NEWS - Grade R learners Graduate from C.M Vellem Higher Primary School https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/11/27/at-the-weltwarts-partner-conference-58h9r-h47rc-9a3c7-hcjbe-m72ty-w3wcf-8a5p2-mrwdd-9hd68-3j8t3-922n3-lxnn6 monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583955-5JAWFYQIBF7Q2RTGXCQO/DSCF6500-Medium-300x225.jpg NEWS - At the Weltwärts Partner Conference - 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 right over South Africa. The welcoming address was given by Carola Blendermann, the Managing Director of SAGE Net., who introduced us to the ideas and and aims of the organisation. After the introduction, we all introduced ourselves and discussed the proposed topics of the conference. It turned out that the safety of the volunteers and the recent visa issues were most important for most of the participants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583961-FNHLB0DZMWNHSO6RTA22/DSCF6486-Medium-300x225.jpg NEWS - At the Weltwärts Partner Conference - In the afternoon, we were divided into groups to discuss different topics that we face on a daily basis, mainly safety and security, relationships, roles and responsibilities of the mentors. Very interesting was the discussion about how to ”Read the Germans”, i.e. what do people say about the Germans (background: culture and communication)? The following was pointed out about the Germans: They are very inflexible, precise, persistent and rigid. They are always on time like, their food and seem to be very direct when it comes to things in life. The Germans also seem very creative, organised, inpatient and judgemental and a few other things. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583966-KU0GPUL539UPE8723J3J/DSCF6483-Medium-300x225.jpg NEWS - At the Weltwärts Partner Conference - Ms.Teboho Mahlaba from LifeLine gave a key note and introduced us to LifeLine: It aims to be a leading provider of psychosocial support, skills and opportunities to enable individuals and communities to grow and develop. There mission Statement: What they do,with whom and why?: To promote emotional wellness for individuals and communities through counselling, skills development, training, networking and partnership within the private and public sectors. She then explained to us how to become a Life Line Volunteer. In the afternoon, we were divided into groups - the North Group and the South Group - where we discussed how to improve relationships between the two components and how to strengthen the South Group. It was decided to have another conference next year for which a steering group would be appointed. Members in this steering group would set up a database, look at getting more funding for the Weltwärts South Conference and decide on the next communication date.What a great opportunity it was to attend the Conference! Thank you SAGE Net. and Weltwärts! https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/11/25/recording-the-awarenet-peace-songs-at-rhodes-university-xr4af-c3mxf-8lshy-6a5z7-gsm7s-993zl-gblmp-cdb5a-4j3xa-2xtpz-y5nzl-t4jll monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583926-J7CYQCTTV1BASNYRCLSM/IMG_6830-300x200.jpg NEWS - Recording the awarenet Peace Songs at Rhodes University - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583932-PJXMMMG1QYUI16IJF4XI/DSCF6107-300x224.jpg NEWS - Recording the awarenet Peace Songs at Rhodes University - During November, all learners from CM Vellem HPS, Good Shepherd PS, Khutliso Daniels SS, Ntaba Maria PS and Victoria Girls HS got their slot, independently of whether they won the competition or not. They were very excited and spent the waiting time singing and dancing in the lovely garden of the Department. As we entered the recording studio, tensions went up due to the fact that it was the first time for all of them being in a professional music studio. Corinne Cooper, the owner of Sonic Art Studio and lecturer of Sound Technology, gave some instructions before they were ready to start. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583937-AZ28YVOL1BDKW7G1RDWP/recording_2-300x225.jpg NEWS - Recording the awarenet Peace Songs at Rhodes University - First, we recorded the different rappers followed by the chorus. Because most of the children were really nervous, we needed a couple of attempts before their confidence along with a strong singing voice was regained. On average, it took us two and a half hours to record a whole song, which was less than I expected. Finally, we took the learners back home and started editing the song recordings. During the regular awarenet sessions, the learners wrote blogs about their experiences. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583942-V9FH233LHGLTKFWDCMFC/recording_1-300x225.jpg NEWS - Recording the awarenet Peace Songs at Rhodes University - We would like to thank Sonic Art Studio as well as Rhodes University for a great collaboration in the awarenet Peace and Music Project! Without them, the project would have never been possible, never mind so successful!The songs will be linked here as soon as they are finished. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/11/17/c-m-vellem-farewell-grade-9-r7j48-58g2m-6459x-5dk4r-z9z9h-egx8n-fsbhw-sjcfc-z8ccb-wmjwp-rcpbg-jt68e monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583909-YHVIEEHRNGEZJKXCVNSE/CMV-farewell-2014_small-300x225.jpg NEWS - C.M. Vellem farewell Grade 9 - On the 5th of November the C.M. Vellem Grade 9s celebrated their farewell at the Makana resort in Grahamstown. Because VSA worked with the learners for the last three years we were invited to participate in the ceremony. The learners were smartly dressed in their uniforms and even the teachers looked good in smart wear. All the learners were waiting outside nervously anticipating the grand entry walk into the hall. Two by two they walked into the hall where they introduced themselves in choir singing ,they entertained all with abit of choir singing before they took their seats. The MC lady introduced the program of proceedings where after the event was opened in prayer,all talking was done in Isixhosa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583913-SE978ACY30WGA212O8FW/CM-Vellem-farewell-300x225.jpg NEWS - C.M. Vellem farewell Grade 9 - Member of the committee, Mrs. Vamva, the deputy principle, Mr. Mampunye, the class teacher Mr. Planga as well as the guest speaker, Mrs. Bottomon held speeches about the future of the children and the importance of education. After a very motivational speech the learners once again entertained us with their Choir singing. Terri also had the honour of giving a speech about the Grade 9 to their dedication and work on awarenet. 18 learners received certificates in dedication and attendance in sessions during the teaching of awarenet. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/10/27/annual-planning-meeting-ruce-zcbsb-xghaf-kyrd7-zstt5-sjxmd-5mhr6-jlf9d-tb6cx-y5xxe-749dn-6wgpf-6b4f3 monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/10/15/open-session-in-the-joza-youth-hub-with-janet-jobson-ba937-b54xd-c9alk-43bkl-xfx2h-gexdm-pdg4c-s6jxn-hl5aj-whksl-hlsm9-dmeaa monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583888-OYML4HVJOJ5MGO5SPNUG/Janet-Jobson-1-Education-or-Civil-Society-300x202.jpeg NEWS - Open Session in the Joza Youth Hub with Janet Jobson - The Joza Youth Hub hosted an open discussion session on the 10th of October about social work and ECD with the guest speaker Janet Jobson. She is a well known coordinater for the DG Murray Trust in Cape Town. Several delegates of other NGOs (e.g. Ubunye Foundation and Lebone Centre) came to take part in this event - 15 to be precise. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/10/13/a-personal-blog-about-the-peace-day-concert-2014-c8nbs-z2lmc-t2rbb-2xljy-cpsjd-94hez-ygp87-crkb5-l8xj3-775f7-knxlx-e6x66 monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583874-G400EZI6Y1PS6K68YTT3/DSCN9235-300x225.jpg NEWS - A personal blog about the Peace Day Concert 2014 A little entertainment was given from a student group calling them selves Elastic,a very upper class rapping group that preformed.They got the audience singing and clapping along while the performance was on the going on.After a superb performance from Elastic it was now time for The different School groups to preform.Lots of the audience was filled with the family and friends of the learners preforming and they seemed very eager to see the hidden talents these kids consisted off.When the first group came on stage I was filled with pride and emotion knowing the hard work and dedication that went in preparing each and every one of the youngsters for this concert.They went on stage each and every learner from the different schools and sang and danced their hearts out.I knew that deep down inside of themselves they all wanted to win the competition with sincerity. After every performance the crowd would go wild screaming and clapping for their favourite group. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/10/08/the-2014-awarenet-peace-day-concert-a-great-success-yd7h9-kamg6-drgpz-5hxek-6gx7j-d6jra-lj5ra-3tjfr-28kjr-j5cc3-l5xwl-9pwh5 monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583813-86W7UZ80M0DNE1XMS5C8/judges-300x200.jpg NEWS - The 2014 awarenet Peace Day Concert a great Success! - The judges were Elijah Madiba (Manager at ILAM, musician, sound engineer and composer), Tsukudu Moreng (HipHop composer, winner of several contests (classical music and HipHop), co-composer of last year's awarenet track) and Brent Shaw (CS Master student at RU, producer, composer, sound engineer). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583833-YGV0BVPR6YL7G99SHP0T/best-female-rapper_small-300x148.jpg NEWS - The 2014 awarenet Peace Day Concert a great Success! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583843-G3CEOGSCXZN4VFRCYCG2/best-male-rapper_small-200x300.jpg NEWS - The 2014 awarenet Peace Day Concert a great Success! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583860-D1J5DE2H2TDLAD96AT0J/best-song_VGHS-300x225.jpg NEWS - The 2014 awarenet Peace Day Concert a great Success! - Best lyrics were written by Victoria Girls HS, runner-up was Khutliso Daniels SS. The best performance was presented by Khutliso Daniels SS, runner-up was Good Shepherd PS. CM Vellem HPS was awareded for best stage presence, runner-up was Ntaba Maria PS. And finally, the best song was won by Victoria Girls HS (Sisanda Ncetani, Celine Igiraneza and Phelela Seyisi). They will receive a professional music video like the winners of the previous years. The runner-up was Khutliso Daniels SS. Huge congratulations to all of you! https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/10/07/awarenet-presentation-at-the-rotary-club-in-pirna-germany-t6td8-mje9c-pnr3l-dr3xm-5l934-wnhhk-se9c9-xb27j-9mzjy-2w5s9-hldym-y9gkl monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/10/06/may-the-journey-begin-pn9ml-rnn5h-8w33e-26hjw-nm84t-6zxsh-4hdwt-e5dlj-yeyj7-a854l-nejbx-j54sx monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583792-KT4XRT02NABPAVEJ7W5C/Lukas_awarenetPeaceConcert2014-e1412598838496-225x300.jpg NEWS - May the journey begin - 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 to Grahamstown. Having a lovely surprise-braai at my landladies’ place I was able to get to know all my colleges and neighbors – not to forget the two dogs and the cat living with me.The following day, one of my colleges showed me around Grahamstown which is a nice little city. We picked up a lot of stuff and made my new home cosy Then came my first proper work day… I started the day by driving to the townships of Grahamstown, visiting one of the five competing schools at the peace day concert. The kids were quite nervous due to the fact, that this was the last preparation session. For the rest of the day we worked on the certificates which were about to be handed out to the best male rapper, best female rapper, best song, best song lyrics, best stage presence and the best peace day performance.I hope everything will work out the way it’s planned – fingers crossed! https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/09/29/the-joza-youth-hub-has-its-own-aerial-mast-now-kxxbj-tkxgk-jgweg-mswnm-6ccr5-9whc8-ybgeh-7a68p-32mrt-56xt4-tjj7n-pte8t monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583767-X9SIRBIFH9BAUQI25RQ2/JYH_ANT_03-201x300.jpg NEWS - The Joza Youth Hub has its own aerial mast now! - 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 install their antennas for Internet, mesh networks and other purposes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583773-0PNJMBXJX3A3L8II8R0A/JYH_ANT_02-300x201.jpg NEWS - The Joza Youth Hub has its own aerial mast now! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583778-D3OL84W88UDGFX5PRZ64/JYH_ANT_05-300x201.jpg NEWS - The Joza Youth Hub has its own aerial mast now! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/09/08/my-year-in-south-africa-by-rieke-heitmuller-xc3d3-5afxn-rnw87-wrb3g-bl5f7-zerj7-j3ae2-ksnz4-hk4k7-886dw-ejjmp-y8rwz monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583753-T8F4M0ULVRXH87WTY6U2/farewell-dinner-225x300.jpg NEWS - My year in South Africa by Rieke Heitmüller - I never thought this year will change me, but it influenced my choice of study. I am more open – minded and I like to try out new things. I’d never thought about a bungee jump or skydive in Germany before, but here in South Africa, I was happy to try it out. My mentor once said: „You will leave Germany as a child and will come back as an adult”. I don’t know if this is true, but I think I am more independent after living on my own without my parents for a year. I would definitely recommend a voluntary service to everyone who is interested. It is a great opportunity to get to know another country, other cultures, different people and also to learn more about yourself." https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/09/04/the-awarenet-peace-and-music-project-2014-has-begun-578xd-hpen5-nr3hc-mg6t5-3fcyn-dyezr-yydf3-6tfm3-catf6-gxxac-hmrf8-a3wak monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583740-DRMDS57RUF7MV8G10DJV/Good-Shepherd-Song-Writing-2-300x225.jpg NEWS - The awarenet peace and music project 2014 has begun! - by Antje Hering Year after year, we start our awarenet peace and music project. This year, groups from CM Vellem Higher Primary, Good Shepherd Primary, Ntaba Maria Secondary, and Khutliso Daniel Secondary School arealready preparing their peace songs for the upcoming concert in September 2014. The learners aged between 12 and 15 write the lyrics and melodies of their songs themselves. Corinne Cooper of the Rhodes Department of Music and Musicology composed one backing which was given to all 4 schools and the Upstart Programme. Together with Zukani Budaza and Lunga Heleni, she trains the learners in song writing and song composition for ten weeks. The HipHop verses of the songs are almost completed and the choruses are taking form. They will be sung in isiXhosa and English. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/09/01/awarenet-and-lifeplayer-project-successfully-repeated-8zw77-yf4ct-ey9wa-8njnm-m8ehz-rr2b4-54zd2-p9ttp-4et6h-erkcd-4s52j-pf22y monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583727-S2H3KO8LFKQFSWBADTN6/P1080372-300x225+%281%29.jpg NEWS - awarenet and LifePlayer Project successfully repeated 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 afternoon, we used our recorded stories on the LifePlayer to assist and teach grade six learners in reading English. Siphosethu and Yamkela decided to work together with the students on the Aesop fable "The ant the grasshopper". The grade six learners practiced their English language skills in reading the fable, listening to our recorded audio book and answering questions according to the story. At the end of our English lesson, the VG girls recorded the students while reading. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/08/20/new-life-player-stories-recorded-by-awarenet-students-ks3at-2db4d-xah7p-2xy6c-x9aes-clrnk-yywyp-pgaec-5mzyp-jlhw9-3bbfn-59a48 monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583714-MNBM19GNSGD8BHPV9BS3/DSC06973-300x225.jpg NEWS - New Life Player stories recorded by awarenet students - 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 reached our goal and recorded five stories at the Rhodes recording studio. We were assisted by the third year radio student, Candice Therese le Kay in recording the German fairytale “Little Red Riding Hood” and fourAesop fables.The girls were very excited and nervous at the same time about the recordings. We also had to be spontaneous and switch the roles of some stories, because not all of the girls could take part in the recordings. For that reason, I’m very proud of the girls for their patience, commitment and improvement in reading the stories. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/07/28/a-video-about-the-weltwaerts-volunteers-in-the-awarenet-programme-ktbkg-x54kx-df778-5k899-mfc6h-ztnhc-fc9cc-9lyh8-h8pn7-rrl98-3xwgl-chbcs monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/07/25/vsa-takes-part-in-trading-live-for-mandela-day-5sf66-4k644-plbpg-yzhjj-hy5pz-7dpad-23l5p-xestz-zchs7-k6elr-cmb2j-593k9 monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583695-762OTDZXJXRZVDVYPFFC/Trading-Live-for-Mandela-2-300x225.jpg NEWS - VSA takes part in Trading Live for Mandela-Day - 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 offer their own skills, talents, interests or hobbies. Everybody could request to learn from each other. Nosie Mahlaba Ngqwala, Terri-Lynn Penney, Rieke Heitmüller and Antje Hering washed dishes and picked up rubbish for 67 minutes at Samuel Ntsiko Primary School. Everyday the kitchen staff serves food for more than 600 learners. It was a good opportunity to get to know other people's jobs and their daily life. Unfortunately we had to notice a lack of dishes and too little food for everyone. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/07/21/awarenet-cds-are-produced-and-were-given-out-at-the-launch-party-emtx6-3cysy-xbbyf-zcgff-k6473-ffge7-ssahr-wxldx-24997-mcxz8-shkkn-f56dg monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583683-5XF3JYVOD8FQZV377LNO/awarenetPeaceProjectCD_cover-300x300.jpg NEWS - awarenet CDs are produced and were given out at the launch party All the songs of the awarenet Peace Project 2013 are recorded and the CDs are produced. Congratulations! https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/07/17/new-sage-net-volunteers-successfully-prepared-ttybh-2anms-gcran-rtnpl-da9r4-apx95-nhzes-p76t7-ax8k9-abp8z-86deg-9sssa monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583669-Z6N3H5WKU4HGYN23GFZW/SAGENetSeminar2014-300x225.jpg NEWS - New SAGE Net. volunteers successfully prepared! - 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. I have joined the workshop for 24h hours to introduce our project, screen the new movie about the current volunteers, answer specific questions by the new volunteers and casually chat to them outside the SAGE Net. programme. I was impressed again how well prepared the SAGE Net. team is, how thoughtful the seminar was and how motivated and polite the future volunteers were. I am sure that this will be another fantastic group entering their adventure into beautiful South Africa! South Africa, here we come!!! https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/07/15/cminds-integration-into-awarenet-k9paw-b7dmt-r6aht-nw9jw-fbzaw-a9km6-w2llk-bcczj-td5ej-z58j8-x2azf-fs5st monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/06/27/preparation-course-with-anna-kg4b9-4trr9-bg3an-69fg2-w9b26-frse6-zecby-7jef8-6lj4m-skrfg-na33h-5mt8j monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583648-W1H8TGHATJWM1WLICHTZ/Foto-300x225.jpg NEWS - Preparation course with Anna - 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 her work. My name is Lukas and I'm 25 years old. I was born near Hamburg and I'm still living in this area. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/06/18/awarenet-peace-song-collection-2013-cd-release-party-7plzm-gz7l3-xt68a-xtg5s-b2wsk-rzfxy-gpg7n-dshly-jwl8b-tafdm-k3r4w-gr498 monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583634-0U7GXX8V9I3QE39P6IRI/awarenetPeaceProjectCD_cover-300x300.jpg NEWS - awarenet Peace Song Collection 2013 CD Release Party - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/05/30/vsas-move-into-the-joza-youth-hub-and-revived-collaborations-dw4md-9gk92-yxd9a-g9ymr-2cfn6-7sj6t-m8h22-8lfmr-fyg6l-4pcdp-8ydc5-33xd5 monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583620-2R96LD3L0V5B3HTRW3DA/Joza-Youth-Hub-300x225.jpg NEWS - VSA's move into the Joza Youth Hub and revived collaborations - We will have a second office in the Hub, which will be perfect for dropping in in between sessions to prepare for the next one. Like that we will have to travel a lot less. Further, we will use the communal computer lab to reach learners that do not have their own computer lab at their school, but showed interest during our Open Day. Our first collaboration will be with Upstart. The young journalists will get an introduction to awarenet and online collaboration from us. From then on, they will produce their newspaper articles as awarenet projects. They can discuss them in the forum and even store their media in the awarenet galleries. The editor will have convenient access to their content on awarenet, so that hand written articles do not have to be typed out any longer. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/05/16/awarenet-at-community-engagement-week-5pm2w-kx2gd-2y264-k8cnk-22nk7-l935d-6454b-e4h62-4zhp2-njs9f-byk4t-pz5wp monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583606-BOD6CJR08FMHRR5OJDKP/CE-week-2-300x225.jpg NEWS - awarenet at Community Engagement Week More than 50 awarenet learners from 5 schools participated in the awarenet Peace Project and created their own songs for international Peace Day. Corinne Cooper, Lunga Heleni and Zukani Budaza trained the learners aged between 12 and 15 in song writing and song composition for 7 weeks. They presented one song per school at the Peace Day concert in front of 400 visitors in September 2013. Finally learners from Ntaba Maria School won the first prize for the best song and received their own music video shot. Furthermore, all the songs in the competition were recorded by Corinne Cooper who will also produce the CDs at the Rhodes recording studio. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/05/12/awarenet-open-day-2014-fgewp-2d43h-xe9f7-56gdm-3b2f9-8n4rx-cnjt2-tl7y6-skzyf-dgr6w-nkn8a-xd6jn monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583591-AV1P66VL916R3PTNUKPF/C.M-Vellem-1731-300x200.jpg NEWS - awarenet Open Day 2014 We invited IT teachers and students from local and neighbouring schools (Samuel Ntsiko Primary School, S.D Adventist School and Archie Mbolekwa Public School) to get an introduction of the awarenet programme. The idea of the awarenet Open Day is to promote our programme and to encourage the teachers to use awarenet during their lessons and to work together using awarenet, which then hopefully results in more female and male learners to have better access and a better understanding of ICTs. The students and teachers were introduced to the awarenet platform, the most important features and projects by Rieke Heitmueller, Antje Hering and Terri-Lynn Penney. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/05/09/successful-trip-to-grahamstown-n3yzk-raa9t-jy3m4-eret3-tjykp-wfbe6-wxfat-z3mje-n7l8n-5rajm-kn7se-b6p59 monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583578-JXSM54MPWPF3PK4K1FCU/EasternCape-300x89.jpg NEWS - Successful trip to Grahamstown - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/04/09/was-ist-awarenet-und-wie-ist-es-entstanden-prnll-g52b9-2hm58-7kb4w-27xw8-f57an-5g44r-p5r36-5af8n-dj7gl-txxpl-8lrg8 monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/04/08/the-second-awarenet-lifeplayer-project-ger9n-kdz7r-efrcw-k6weg-j2c6c-9xspy-z78yp-7rdyp-82arh-83km8-yk5b4-cspbg monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583551-YHY641AQXFMD8R4F0RTX/RiekeVGlearners-300x225.jpg NEWS - The second awarenet & LifePlayer Project - "The LifePlayer project is my first own awarenet project. I am working together with ten girls from the Victoria Girls’ High School (VGHS) and I am assisted by Antje Hering and supported by Sarah Hanton, awarenet trainer at VGHS. We already started this project at the end of January 2014 and had a few drama sessions together, before we started to prepare and record fairytales and fables onto the LifePlayer in the second school term. The LifePlayer, produced by LifeLine Energy and supplied by the British Council, is a portable solar and wind-up radio and mp3 player. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583557-0ZDFKI0A2IZCD5LL527D/VGreading-224x300.jpg NEWS - The second awarenet & LifePlayer Project - At the end of the LifePlayer project, we will visit primary schools in the township in Grahamstown and will teach students in grade four to six in reading English. The Victoria Girls have to prepare the lessons by themselves and the students in the primary school can listen to the recorded LifePlayer stories while reading the same story. At the beginning of February we started to cooperate with the DSG Drama and English teacher, Chi Ingledew. She taught her students in drama and let them prepare nine German fairytales and African fables. She separated her 40 students into groups and we recorded their stories with a laptop during two days. During the next weeks, we will edit and work on the recorded stories and I am looking forward to the further cooperation between the Victoria Girls’ High School, CM Vellem HPS and the Diocesan Girls private school. The outcome will be recorded on awarenet." https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/04/02/1805-ekpf7-etchm-5zenz-n3ste-2epjr-94xx6-4e6zp-6wkyt-7f22p-ee5d9-42gf3-wg3jz monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583538-4CSG3QZ3VREL26KWXA6E/SAGENet_SafetySecurityWorkshop-300x225.jpg NEWS - SAGE Net. workshop about Safety&Security for overseas Volunteers - On Wednesday the 19 of March, I attended a Safety & Security for Volunteers - Workshop, hosted by Sage Net. in Pretoria. SAGE Net. is an NPO that organises the exchange between South Africa and Germany. They offer a platform for different cooperations to network and long-lasting partnerships. The different organisations that take part in the exchange were invited and arrived from right over South Africa to attend the workshop. The workshop was all about safety and security for our German volunteers while working for the organisations in South Africa. Important topics were discussed, e.g. issues that effect us on a daily basis when we are out and about working in the different areas where we run our projects, such as high jacking, mugging, rape, dangers of public transport and a few other topics. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/03/28/awarenet-recampaign-e7lfh-7jgpe-drf2y-c5rha-bdr9n-9gnx8-gsdfk-jepk2-lhtaz-b367f-49zk3-357ra monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583524-9YYXGBG6UZ6CNCDUQZZQ/prize-300x225.jpg NEWS - awarenet @ re:campaign - There is a great log by Peter, so I do not have to log details here, thank you! :-) Most impressive have been Gesche Joost "Social Design", Turner&Niemann "Data Visualisation", RAPutation and the panel discussion with Anne Roth, Peter Schaar, Wenzel Michalski about "Security and Privacy in the Internet" Everything was intensively discussed on twitter, of course, by a lot of tweeters. Practical tips for the coming weeks and months were delivered by Jona Hoelderle about NGO homepages and by Cornelia Reetz about campaign movies. Thank you so much, guys! Can't wait to get started! :-) And last but not least, I have won the first prize in the Massive Multiplayer Offline Conference Game - a ticket for the re:campaign 2015. Yay! What a successful conference. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/03/19/scifest-2014-review-hah6c-c26wp-rw4k6-nmyss-5f34l-xkxyp-nmppr-sf3fa-t5wct-bhahl-7aj3h-tpdkf monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583492-EGFCG45M4WLI321Z36J5/VSA-at-Scifest-9-300x225.jpg NEWS - SciFest 2014 Review - Village Scribe Association and eKhaya ICT members Terri-Lynn Penney, Rieke Heitmueller, Antje Hering and Richard Strickland with help from CM Vellem, Ntaba Maria and Victoria Girl's learners presented the awarenet programme at the Science Festival Africa 2014. awarenet is a new interactive education and communication platform for schools, designed to create a safe environment where student communities at schools across the country can interact. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583498-5IO5Z3OV214LHXMF0OXZ/VSA-at-Scifest-5-300x225.jpg NEWS - SciFest 2014 Review - The SciFest took place at the National Settlers Monument in Grahamstown, from the 12th of March to the 18th of March 2014. Companies and organizations from all over South Africa and Germany introduced their work to the visitors according to this year's topic “Into the space”. Local schools as well as other schools from the Eastern Cape like Port Elizabeth, East London and Mthatha visited the SciFest and took part in its workshops. The VSA presented the new picture login of awarenet and how the new KaLite (an offline version of the KhanAcademy) was integrated into awarenet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583503-MWWQ0NQ18S3GCW4092FG/VSA-at-Scifest-14-300x225.jpg NEWS - SciFest 2014 Review - Together with the awarenet users - learners from CM Vellem, Ntaba Maria and Good Shepherd School - we presented our project “About personal and public space”, on which we worked for about 6 weeks. It deals with the topic safety & privacy in the Internet, privacy in general and the conflict between safety & privacy. The learners had to write blogs, answer forum questions, interpret a cartoon and create posters and photo stories during the project. As part of the awarenet programme we also showed the awarenet Peace Day music videos, the latest video clip of the awarenet Peace Day concert and a slideshow with pictures of the last six month to get an overview of our several projects. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583508-M8CEOBE8X19G1JM8UQ1T/VSA-at-Scifest-6-300x225.jpg NEWS - SciFest 2014 Review - The SciFest was a great success, where we established contacts with interested teachers, students and other organizations. It was our first time at the SciFest and we had a lot of fun and met people from all over South Africa, which was really exciting! https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/03/13/the-awarenet-peace-song-and-music-video-2014-aksp9-ejdgl-9k4kz-fpxhj-gx3hx-tpebk-h6wrr-s2k6y-kpnn6-4edxs-klzw3-2jfml monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/03/11/vsa-presents-awarenet-at-scifest-2014-in-grahamstown-5pf42-9mxsx-yw6lj-hbfpp-6fdml-lj2aw-7scnn-ycyae-raz9w-zfpzx-ht7bl-e6jmy monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583446-L3UVO71ITFWJRGCP5O9Z/conflict-between-privacy-and-safety-300x225.jpg NEWS - VSA presents awarenet with new features at SciFest 2014 "Into Space" - On the 12th of March 2014, the annual Science Festival starts in Grahamstown. As usual, thousands of learners with their teachers will be there, eager to learn and discover the wonders of science and technology. This years' theme is "Into Space", and the Village Scribe Association will play their part by presenting the awarenet project "Private and public Space in the Internet". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583451-RKBXRZFIN518K20ZBXRK/privacy-and-safety-in-the-internet_final_small-215x300.jpg NEWS - VSA presents awarenet with new features at SciFest 2014 "Into Space" - Learners from various schools in Joza, Grahamstown, have worked on this project together using the online learning network awarenet and it's possibilities of project work, discussions, multi-media galleries and blogs to create posters for SciFest visitors that explain what Internet safety and private space in the Internet means. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583457-VMITSMVZRL8MFWTFPZ1M/Screen-Shot-2014-03-12-at-8.35.23--300x132.png NEWS - VSA presents awarenet with new features at SciFest 2014 "Into Space" - The VSA further presents a new feature of awarenet that was recently developed by it's partner eKhaya ICT: the user friendly picture login. During our work at the schools, we realised that the biggest problem of most users is understanding the concept of and remembering their personal password, which is important for privacy and safety. Usually, if you forget your password, you will be reminded via email or sms. But what if you do not have an email address or cell phone, let alone Internet access? You will have to remember your password immediately and forever! And how do humans remember best? When there is emotion and a story behind a random sequence of letters and numbers. So, we gave the users the opportunity to remember icons rather than characters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583462-VM640DFD9DEBJQ12JDOY/Screen-Shot-2014-03-12-at-8.54.49--300x137.png NEWS - VSA presents awarenet with new features at SciFest 2014 "Into Space" - We also integrated the new Khan Academy Light into awarenet, which is full of science, math and other interesting topics. Learners can watch videos, do exercises and subsequently discuss their questions and results on awarenet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583468-GA6GQ7MR8ZQW8MZ1DP76/SciFest-timetable-300x212.jpg NEWS - VSA presents awarenet with new features at SciFest 2014 "Into Space" - All this can be tested as SciFest this year when you come and visit us at our stand in the monument. Several groups of learners from different schools will be at the stand and present their projects and the new features to you. Have a look at our schedule. Here, you can see when you can chat to whom and which project will be presented when. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/03/06/awarenet-coordinator-mrs-penney-nominated-for-grahamstown-citizen-of-the-year-2013-2nr4e-np5y3-2y437-pcmhp-kpnss-fwh54-w74a6-twkft-5a8fb-44lrm-5mh98-we7j6 monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583432-C4U91B8C8YXW30M63MO5/Penney_nominee2013-225x300.jpg NEWS - awarenet Coordinator Mrs Penney nominated for Grahamstown Citizen of the Year 2013 - The event took place at the Graemian Centre on Monday 23 February 2014 at 6pm where all nominees for the 2013 Citizen of the Year Award were celebrated. Everyone received a certificate, there was time to network and learn more about he other nominees' work. We are very proud of Terri-Lynn Penney, who puts more than 100% into her job. She is very dedicated and we know that without her, awarenet would not be used as it is. She is part of a fantastic and successful team. Congratulations! https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/03/03/rhodes-video-about-the-awarenet-peace-concert-on-peace-one-days-media-channels-rtfyt-9spnx-9jxct-bf444-j7hkg-dtrle-ba2me-eel29-p2c5z-pjs5p-fxepn-cd8we monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/02/26/sage-net-selection-day-for-the-next-two-weltwarts-volunteers-for-the-vsa-4w24c-lyrlk-ks9z5-p6ca6-e5be8-whkrb-kh3dd-z578l-2yw2z-dhlgk-w7r6y-y6st5 monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583410-AOF9184HC71UQKEZ0HJP/Auswahlteam_2014-300x212.jpg NEWS - SAGE Net. Selection Day for the next two Weltwärts Volunteers for the VSA - 24 young people were interviewed and took part in a workshop, in which their team work ability and other qualities were tested. Additionally, the applicants were offered a free space, in which they could approach former volunteers and ask them about their experiences. 4 applicants made it into the next round and will be interviewed again by the VSA to further test their knowledge and abilities, before we will choose two of them to join our awarenet team in Grahamstown. We will inform you about our selection as soon as possible. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/02/24/awarenet-learners-at-the-human-chain-in-grahamstown-8jp2x-b5g6x-jkl38-z2ec7-e85ya-mak7j-jjdrb-dnj7k-ral9d-n5bc6-lay5p-e4txg monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583385-OVT33OTIBS9P26OJWC1L/1798456_525539630896869_1497879246_n-225x300.jpg NEWS - awarenet learners at the Human Chain in Grahamstown - awarenet learners and VSA staff along with many, many others in Grahamstown braved the weather and joined to form a Human Chain connecting poor&rich, educated&underprivileged in the memory of Nelson Mandela and his dream of democracy and freedom. Citizens came out in large numbers to make the first Human Chain event in Grahamstown on Friday 21st of February 2014 a success. Expectations were exceeded and people were not only committed, but also had great fun and made new and motivating new experiences. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583390-YQ4I0HXK250JC7TH67WD/1898238_525543127563186_1102470637_n-300x225.jpg NEWS - awarenet learners at the Human Chain in Grahamstown - A personal comment by Rieke Heitmueller, our volunteers: "Before the event started, Terri and I met our 30 CM Vellem School Grade 9 awarenet learners in front of their school and painted green hearts on their cheeks as a continuation of the "Spread the Love" Campaign. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583396-SDBIEQ5S86ATQGXBNEM6/1920087_525542554229910_11411694_n-300x225.jpg NEWS - awarenet learners at the Human Chain in Grahamstown - Here, we stand together with the two learners, Thawaxolo Royi and Thawodwethu Mcoboki and the awarenet volunteer, Nosie Mahlaba Ngqwala. My personal highlight was to see all the people standing together and holding hands to thank Mandela no matter how old or from which country. Despite of the rain and the bad weather conditions, Grahamstown residents were in a good mood, sang the national anthem and some other songs and started to dance. It was a great event and I’m glad, that I joined the Human Chain!" https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/02/21/the-lives-magic-and-awarenet-love-campaign-cgjhh-nah9z-h8kdg-hbh4a-3de6s-pe4al-37mxg-hjt6k-w476k-hydw9-37j5g-27x3p monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583288-20P8RA2H2W5SMARGZRKN/Nosie_Good-Shepherd-021-300x225.jpg NEWS - The Live's Magic and awarenet Love Campaign About 1000 children from four schools in Grahamstown attended to the project. Early in the morning, Terri- Lynn Penney, Antje Hering, Rieke Heitmueller and Nosie Mahlaba Ngqwala from Rhodes University Community Engagement started at Good Shepherd School. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583314-Q8TVIIXRSTUVARL2E2GK/Antje_VG1-300x225.jpg NEWS - The Live's Magic and awarenet Love Campaign https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583306-QK6QWTF5I83O71U6O11X/Sarah_VG1-300x225.jpg NEWS - The Live's Magic and awarenet Love Campaign https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583340-C623W3054PLECRV6X7WE/Rieke_C.M-Vellem1-300x225.jpg NEWS - The Live's Magic and awarenet Love Campaign https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583350-TY0ETMC2WWEXGEEAK7S3/Spread-the-Love_Good-Shepherd1-300x225.jpg NEWS - The Live's Magic and awarenet Love Campaign https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583367-QK1V3EJKYD9SDUREHKYN/Terri_Good-Shepherd1-300x225.jpg NEWS - The Live's Magic and awarenet Love Campaign - The students were very excited about this project, especially the little ones. Our grade nine awarenet learners from the C.M Vellem School helped us painting the kids the smaller grades, so that everyone got a heart on their cheeks.Furthermore, all the students wore casual clothes in the colors of red and white instead of their school uniform.To complete this project successfully, we have let some students write blogs about the “Spread the love” project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583372-IEIONS7H4TQXBPLQGWKK/GrocottsMail_LoveCampaign-239x300.jpg NEWS - The Live's Magic and awarenet Love Campaign - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/01/31/the-vsa-annual-report-of-2013-sb34k-gr9ba-zbxb6-xjajc-rgs7w-s649m-ej9ka-chy2l-6m5c2-g9krj-n75jr-ejmgg monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583257-GNTU3HW74ZG9AKM4XKUI/Slide11-300x225.jpg NEWS - The VSA Annual Report of 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583266-0TSCD5GYQV3BKU66BMUB/Slide12-300x225.jpg NEWS - The VSA Annual Report of 2013 https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/01/29/report-about-the-ironman-70-3-fundraising-campaign-zsxad-c5e9w-7psg2-tf4sf-zx9wj-4nb8m-m5bag-cl9r2-79erg-3fbbj-yey2t-29ypn monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583219-3F5KWUEG8P3KAOA5VHU1/DSC04010-300x225+%281%29.jpg NEWS - Report about the Ironman 70.3 Fundraising Campaign - by Antje Hering and Rieke HeitmuellerOn the 26th of January, the Ironman 70.3 took place in East London/Buffalo City in the Eastern Cape. More than 3000 athletes came together to swim 1.9 km, to cycle 90 km and to run 21.1km. Terri-Lynn Penney, our supervisor and awarenet coordinator in Grahamstown, was one of them, and she was going to support our awarenet programme with her commitment. The idea was that we had to call attention to her and the initiative and to raise funds for the awarenet Peace Project. We were going to ask spectators to donate for every km Terri was going to swim, run and cycle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583224-AYRT44OSA6KQ8HMYHOZO/DSC04020-300x225.jpg NEWS - Report about the Ironman 70.3 Fundraising Campaign - So, shortly after 6am, we left our backpackers walking to the start of the race while the town was in the fog and people were preparing their stands on the closed traffic roads. We met Terri and wished her good luck and great success, before we went on with our own mission. At a quarter to 7am, the top athletes started swimming in the sea. The water was shallow and the sea was calm - best conditions for a swim! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583230-AJASQVYY6NT82USUE4SZ/DSC04029-300x251.jpg NEWS - Report about the Ironman 70.3 Fundraising Campaign - While Terri was racing, we informed visitors about the fundraising campaign and collected funds. We handed out flyers and talked to a lot of people. For a good start and motivation, we collected a donation of R100 from one couple. Most people donated 10 to 20 Rand, but every little bit helps! ;-) At the end of the day, we had collected R1600, while Terri had finished the triathlon after 6 hours 3 minutes and 58 seconds. Wow! Well done! https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2014/01/24/support-the-awarenet-peace-project-educationliteracy-and-terri-dwd9a-h3y7d-7hana-fjf2b-cgcf9-pyd8h-z5gpy-nncxg-lwjxn-xnx28-6ndk9-plywh monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583200-TL1DZ7DJXTYGFJEPX4I0/549777_473599002701582_418830452_n-300x199.jpg NEWS - Support the awarenet Peace Project, Education&Literacy and Terri! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583206-LKC6H7NM104LVJ84ZMFC/awarenet_Ironman_flyer-212x300.jpg NEWS - Support the awarenet Peace Project, Education&Literacy and Terri! - Account Number: 62285180718 Bank: FNB Branch Code: 21071 Account Holder: Village Scribe Association https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2013/12/20/vsa-germany-now-tax-exempt-donate-now-and-take-a-chance-to-win-a-peace-cd-w4nrw-pls92-nhy5a-n2eyr-tzsjb-zanfd-n46d5-fmnb7-243x5-mrpz3-r9eaw-z3tzf monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583183-4B5QKREKS83SOSIRLXV5/Finanzamt_Anschreiben_small-213x300.jpeg NEWS - VSA Germany now tax exempt - donate now and take a chance to win a Peace CD! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583188-7EB80SJU86FVUHTR9S6B/awareNet-Peace-Song-Collection-CD_front-cover-300x300.jpg NEWS - VSA Germany now tax exempt - donate now and take a chance to win a Peace CD! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2013/12/18/minutes-and-reports-of-the-vsa-agm-2013-bns4c-3w5gp-c34y2-wknjz-b67mj-k5c82-zrhhb-fhran-ppmlm-gg39x-mnfhf-y5szw monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583122-5B8PBXX5DWYPQF6ESWSJ/Slide01-300x225.jpg NEWS - Minutes and Reports of the VSA AGM 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583141-HP8ETYDHSGW7SRREJMHZ/Slide02-300x225.jpg NEWS - Minutes and Reports of the VSA AGM 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583160-BQVKNTIU0O6Z5A9QX01I/Slide03-300x225.jpg NEWS - Minutes and Reports of the VSA AGM 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583132-9F7JE14DTK5G4A63EQEU/Slide04-300x225.jpg NEWS - Minutes and Reports of the VSA AGM 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583151-LR9JQKXCRM79OSNZ7B5E/Slide05-300x225.jpg NEWS - Minutes and Reports of the VSA AGM 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583111-J36KOD9KBTSA5G4LEPM1/Slide06-300x225.jpg NEWS - Minutes and Reports of the VSA AGM 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583079-DWRK35RRZE517ZKF5YZ8/Slide07-300x225.jpg NEWS - Minutes and Reports of the VSA AGM 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583102-6RYLCKBGQAYADUNX6O2P/Slide08-300x225.jpg NEWS - Minutes and Reports of the VSA AGM 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583091-ZLZL4YJRKSPM0JSJERWL/Slide09-300x225.jpg NEWS - Minutes and Reports of the VSA AGM 2013 https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2013/12/13/vsa-agm-2013-masrs-pt9kj-k43c3-nx6nf-snw8z-wwl3w-x5hlw-aneez-wajc6-c7r4c-ytr2r-nd4jm monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583051-TQFNIL7NULAI3I5WXCL5/VSALogo_withouttext-300x228.jpg NEWS - VSA AGM 2013 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2013/12/11/thank-you-nelson-mandela-for-showing-us-the-way-ayb9d-hbhrz-p3e7z-a8kkj-7zf6y-4e6tn-k46wp-ze35z-6kc7t-7h2x5-93tpm-a2j7h monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583040-Y54Y6Q70FM5ORJNVGZYE/mandela02-300x166.jpg NEWS - Thank you, Nelson Mandela, for showing us the way! - As a white person growing up under apartheid, the name of Mandela was the dark face of armed uprising and rebellion. And just as Nelson freed his people, so too his name freed me. I was lucky enough to have several teachers who opened my eyes to the ANC struggle, to the lies of apartheid and to the everyday injustice against which Madiba, and those fighting with him stood against. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2013/12/06/video-documentary-about-the-awarenet-peace-concert-2013-drhyj-gg5h2-cghwa-rcecr-mg4j6-56xay-wt7c6-k6e89-93g3j-67mtw-kc6wl-refmg monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2013/12/04/about-awarenet-a-video-kcdch-yldzl-ty6we-9j9e6-pmmba-zyl5f-ankxz-pzzwg-xcfr9-z7ssg-nsjj9-kn9lk monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2013/12/02/film4change-and-youtube-video-academy-fr2e3-p3pdd-ka9l7-l325d-3lska-9pyh9-jx3cj-5jda6-mphll-fxyh5-ck5yx-3zm7l monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650583013-O56XKA95H6TH4MEOWXRP/Google.jpg NEWS - Film4Change and YouTube Video Academy - The VSA was accepted to the Film4Change and YouTube Video Academy, which took place last week at the Google Headquarters in Berlin. We were very happy to take part in this workshop to learn more about how to present an idea in an effective way, and how to actually use the equipment and software to produce something useful and professional. I thoroughly enjoyed the two days and am very motivated now to start working on the first of a series of short films about awarenet, the platform and the development programme. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2013/11/27/about-open-ideas-and-open-events-73k7f-cbfcp-xas29-dbmpk-e8fk3-p8a2a-yyntg-ajh7k-2f7ay-n9ejt-mwfr2-7n5tx monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650582993-QNX6WMUYS5D3VYC9KNMN/OpenEduBooksprint-300x199.jpg NEWS - About Open Ideas and Open Events - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650582998-LBDN9DRKQGYFSHX9W15A/Logo_OpenTransferCamp-300x61.png NEWS - About Open Ideas and Open Events - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2013/11/20/awarenet-betterplace-fundraising-challenge-2013-z2gam-h53c4-xt9k5-jyrlz-6wfca-j59kg-mpjp4-6eda2-hbe45-a22jh-5jsrr-3aans monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650582978-QDCI5OVJHT2PU8G37S93/Best-Peace-Day-song-31-300x200.jpg NEWS - awarenet betterplace Fundraising Challenge 2013 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2013/11/18/joza-youth-hub-officially-opened-jy9d3-espe9-n8x5r-rd8xb-6we8s-h4paa-9r2n8-an3xr-578d6-5hxs6-fmrdk-6yjl3 monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650582955-ZZU098TL935CWPAQWXYZ/Joza-Youth-Hub-300x225.jpg NEWS - Joza Youth Hub officially opened! - 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 and Dr. Mabizala, DVC of Rhodes University. Congratulations to everyone involved! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650582960-VRVT8IVN4OUVHT9ORJ54/awarenet-information-stand-300x225.jpg NEWS - Joza Youth Hub officially opened! - NGOs that will move into the hub are the Center of Social Development, Makana Science Alliance and the Mobile Science Laboratory, IkamvaYouth and the VSA, Upstart Newspaper, the Access Music Project and Sakhulunthu Cultural Group, all under the patronage of Community Engagement. We all hope to to work together more effectively and be more present to the youth than in our current offices which are widespread and sometimes far from the learners. The hub will have communal rooms incl. a science and a computer lab, which can be used by all NGOs. All NGOs were given the opportunity to present their work to the guests, so the VSA also had a stand to explain what can be done with awarenet and what we have achieved so far. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650582964-EXHCVWF1N7STVZV51SRA/CM-Vellem-Peace-Day-Song-1-300x225.jpg NEWS - Joza Youth Hub officially opened! - Speeches were given by Mr Mcuba, principal of Khutliso Daniels School, and Mr. de la Mare from ABSA (sponsor), but also the youth had their say. The awarenet learners from CM Vellem School performed their awarenet Peace Song, AMP! of the Access Music Project played their music, the Upstart Youth Choir sang and IkamvaYouth recited poetry. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2013/11/06/awarenet-peace-song-video-shoot-yc5wg-g6ys6-e2kzs-e5dmt-fr3l7-t3e74-dcefm-y95fc-dtesh-t9tn4-sc2rc-tjsnh monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2013/10/30/rhodes-universitys-journalism-students-promote-awarenet-hzzs2-98746-aw3a9-5zdwm-xelga-pywfx-g6jbe-36kty-npfa7-e48tb-pfgrd-azz6e monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650582935-XS0LF0FM0HQ4NGLFMSZN/pamphlet-2-141x300.jpg NEWS - Rhodes University's Journalism Students promote awarenet. - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2013/10/28/terri-will-complete-the-half-ironman-for-awarenet-6gs72-nlrt3-nj6ym-b5hgr-39jxe-3jelm-xks2l-6fdye-7pz7z-bg3dm-g5ml9-7pdt9 monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650582917-XTJNZFS3TWMBUQD5IKUU/549777_473599002701582_418830452_n-300x199.jpg NEWS - Terri will complete the Half Ironman for awarenet! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650582922-I0JHTYOEATXUJQTR09NW/554329_473599019368247_1458075565_n-200x300.jpg NEWS - Terri will complete the Half Ironman for awarenet! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2013/10/23/new-awarenet-page-on-facebook-psz6n-fyfka-pn2jn-57g7e-r388z-h4469-g4ac4-fklex-8hhxa-x5gpb-wf664-9fhff monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650582903-8ZDXJVQI3NDZ7SMCHEJO/awarenet-facebook-page-300x180.png NEWS - New awarenet page on facebook - We have given everyone who is in some way involved in awarenet content creator rights, because our vision for this page is that it reflects the work of the awarenet community, which consists of a very large group of community coordinators, teachers, volunteers, IT specialists, content creators, partners, etc. We will constantly add more people who are involved in our work around the software, platform and/or community program. We will post experiences, ideas, work or workshops, projects, interesting news, links, pictures, videos, etc. We would like this page to be a pool of creativity, inspirational thoughts, motivational experience descriptions, a place for collaboration, a site to reflect and present what awarenet is and stands for and also to give awarenet a space for further development. Show it to your friends and colleagues and invite them to like it and follow what we do. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2013/10/16/vsa-awarenet-volunteers-receives-gold-award-for-excellence-at-ruce-2013-awards-zdkwf-8be9k-5swp9-3wabb-h8py6-p6fgc-w5d23-5p2jz-cj65d-3y23w-lhsxw-452cb monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650582886-8FICVJV6JDTAM10NM7OF/101_1668-300x200.jpg NEWS - VSA's awarenet volunteer receives Gold Award for Excellence at RUCE 2013 Awards - RU Community Engagement lists very specific criteria that have to be fulfilled. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650582891-NCKUPD6OX5OCZ2FV8RAW/101_1661-200x300.jpg NEWS - VSA's awarenet volunteer receives Gold Award for Excellence at RUCE 2013 Awards - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2013/10/04/eine-umfrage-zu-medienkompetenz-und-sozialen-netzwerken-im-unterricht-xay4e-gnhl4-8ycgm-zsn93-26j2d-47pp4-ct6gf-dnwbp-wgncz-478ts-8njak-pw29r monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650582874-JJQJT7BHK1AMS1ATJG40/awarenet_logo_red-small4.png NEWS - Eine Umfrage zu Medienkompetenz und sozialen Netzwerken im Unterricht - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.awarenet.org/blog/2013/09/21/the-2nd-awarenet-peace-day-concert-b6b3m-4rcjs-3d454-5rmby-t54p9-yxa9p-n5aa2-x4l2f-rm7lx-gxbl6-3k9rn-by73p monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2292410a007465b54da712/1780650582835-VWW7V3UVXGRA94MO1RKZ/Best-Male-Rapper1-200x300.jpg NEWS - The 2nd awarenet Peace Day Concert - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. 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