Last week, several Social Employment Fund participants of Awarenet were interviewed to share their experiences working in the SEF programme. This part is about Aphiwe, Zukhanye, Lindani and Kamvelihle from the SD Card Project. They will elaborate on their story and the impact the Social Employment Fund had on their life: Aphiwe, Zukhanye, and Kamvelihle Read more about Social Employment Fund Interview: SD Card Project Group[…]
Last week, several Social Employment Fund participants of Awarenet were interviewed to share their experiences workin in the SEF programme. This part is about Siyanda Manana’s story and the impact the Social Employment Fund had on his life: After he graduated from high school, Siyanda Manana used to work as a salesman at a second Read more about Social Employment Fund Interview: Siyanda Manana[…]
Last week, several Social Employment Fund participants of Awarenet were interviewed to share their experiences working in the SEF programme. This part is about Thimna Tembela’s story and the impact the Social Employment Fund had on her life: When Thimna Tembela was still a learner at Mary Waters she attended tutoring sessions at Ikamva Youth Read more about Social Employment Fund Interview: Thimna Tembela[…]
The World Robotics Olympiad Provincial Competition took place this year in Makhanda and Awarenet didn’t miss the opportunity to bring the newly obtained skills of the learners in coding programming to the test. Teams of different schools and organisations from across the province including Awarenet learners from CM Vellem Primary and Makana Primary School competed Read more about World Robotics Olympiad Provincial Competition[…]
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 Read more about The OLICO maths program in action[…]
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 Read more about Robotics in full swing at Makana Public Primary School[…]
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 Read more about Youth find common ground across the Atlantic[…]
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 Read more about WRO Robotics In-house Competition[…]
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”. Read more about Renewed support for awarenet from HCI Foundation![…]
One year, 12 months, 365 days sounded incredibly long but the time flew by as fast as the airplane that brought us here on the 18th of August 2017. Our year was full of adventures, with positive as well as negative experiences, and daily challenges. Now we are sitting here and will take a short Read more about A trip down memory lane[…]