Social Employment Fund Interview: SD Card Project Group

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[…]

Social Employment Fund Interview: Lindokuhle Maraba

Last week, several Social Employment Fund participants of Awarenet were interviewed to share their experiences working in the SEF programme.   This part is about Lindokuhle Maraba’s story and the impact the Social Employment Fund had on her life: While being a learner in high school, Lindokuhle Maraba was actively involved in NGO work. During Read more about Social Employment Fund Interview: Lindokuhle Maraba[…]

Social Employment Fund Interview: Siyanda Manana

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[…]

Social Employment Fund Interview: Thimna Tembela

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[…]

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 Read more about Robotics in full swing at Makana Public Primary School[…]

Our first week at Awarenet

We are Benjamin Wertlen and Benjamin Wilhelm, 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 Read more about Our first week at Awarenet[…]

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 Read more about Robotics Trial Competition[…]

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 Read more about Friendly High School Robotics Competition[…]

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 Read more about WRO Robotics In-house Competition[…]

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 Read more about Rejuvenating Rivers awareness event[…]