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[…]
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 high school learner in 2009 and through his internship from 2015-17 received the opportunity to volunteer in Germany in 2017 Read more about Mcvay and his year as a volunteer in Germany[…]
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 Read more about The awarenet-Team at the AGYI conference 2018[…]
The awarenet movie making course “How to create a short movie from beginning to end” for young Open Lab users was offered in cooperation with Alette Schoon, a Rhodes University Journalism lecturer. The course took place on the 5th and 6th of December 2017. The school learners taking part in the course were taught to Read more about The awarenet movie making course[…]
Two weeks ago, we had the nice guys from the Fondazione Bruno Kessler, based in Trentino, Italy, teach our learners programming, using Blockly games.