Last week, several Social Employment Fund participants of Awarenet were interviewed to share their experiences while being in the SEF programme. This part is about Siyanda Manana’s story and the impact the Social Employment Fund had on his life: HOW HAS THIS PARTICIPANT’S LIFE BEEN IMPACTED? (What is their background / what were they doing prior Read more about Social Employment Fund Interview: Siyanda Manana[…]
Last week, several Social Employment Fund participants of Awarenet were interviewed to share their experiences while being in the SEF programme. This part is about Thimna Tembela’s story and the impact the Social Employment Fund had on her life: 1.HOW HAS THIS PARTICIPANT’S LIFE BEEN IMPACTED? (What is their background / what were 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[…]
The Social Employment Fund in the Makhanda Coalition of after-school organisations is heading for a third round thanks to Awarenet being contracted to lead this work by The Learning Trust. After lots of planning and organising we are happy to announce that SEF will keep going. This third round also comes with new working opportunities Read more about New round of Social Employment Fund (SEF) – new opportunities[…]
Awarenet has expanded the Robotics program to include twice as many Makhanda learners as before, going from 80 learners in 2023 to 160 in 2024. The learners are from grade 6 to 9. The Robotics program allows learners to learn about simple coding by teaching them how to code a small robot to fulfil certain Read more about Expanding the Robotics program in Joza[…]
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[…]
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 Read more about The Xhosa Chronicles[…]