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IkamvaYouth Chesterville: Beautifying Diversity
The idea of a rainbow if you’ve never seen it before, isn’t as beautiful as once you see it. The image of more than 7 colours in one space screams chaos more than beauty. That’s the same thing that happens when one tells people about IkamvaYouth; we are an...
Township Afterschool Programmes in the Western Cape and Gauteng achieve 93% matric pass rate!
National matric pass rate percentages belie the unacceptable reality that for the most part, those who perform well in matric attend good schools and receive the kinds of support that come with being middle class. The majority of South African learners’ destinies are...
We are paving our way to vision 2030
Based on our 2016 matric pass rate of 85%, the benchmark for our matric cohort is now set to achieve above this record. Ikageng’s 2016 matric results recorded a whopping 85% pass rate. To sustain the branch’s positive matric results momentum, since the beginning of...
Invest your BEE spend to change lives
Millions of Rand are committed to Skills Development (SD) under the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) policy every year by the South African corporate sector. This scale of investment holds the potential to substantially impact socio-economic...
IkamvaYouth Mamelodi Library Launch
By: Tokelo Hlagala IkamvaYouth Mamelodi launched its library on Thursday in Mamelodi West D6, to promote literacy and a culture of reading to learners in the community. The Mamelodi Branch Coordinator, Neo Rakoma said: “We decided to open the library because we...
3rd Annual Girllgnite Africa Summit 2017
By: Bongiwe Nkambule GIRLIGNITE Africa Academy is a youthful brand that uses education for social impact and positive social change. The Academy strives to solve Africa’s challenges by bringing together dynamic and driven African teen girls from across the country to...
First things, first program
health and wellness program The IKAMVAYOUTH tutors were also invited to be trained and assist with the health awareness program by the Directorate of Health and Wellness of the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) for 3 days (14th -16th August), the total number of...
Substance Abuse
By: Naledi Mokopakgosi SUBSTANCE ABUSE SEMINAR & FIRST THINGS FIRST PROGRAM: TSHWANE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, DIRECTORATE OF HEALTH AND WELLNESS The IKAMVAYOUTH Mamelodi tutors attended a Substance Abuse Seminar held at the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT)...
Mamelodi Branch team building
tutor training/ team building On the 16th of September 2017 IkamvaYouth Mamelodi branch held a team building session/ tutor training. The team building was facilitated by Zoe Mann, it started at 09:30 to 14:00, the session consisted of the volunteer tutors and the...
Nyanga Tutor Hike
A morning of fun, hard work and victory On Saturday, 30 September, the Nyanga tutors and staff embarked on a journey to hike up Lion’s Head in Cape Town. The Lion’s Head mountain peak is best known for its rocky and somewhat steep hiking trail. It also overlooks the...
A walk through Andy Warhol’s “Unscreened”
On Saturday, 2 September 2017, 45 Ikamvanites from the Ivory Park and Ebony Park branches had the pleasure of being taken through Andy Warhol’s “Unscreened” exhibition, held at the Wits Arts Museum. We are grateful for this opportunity which was made possible by Bank...
Career Link – 67 Minutes in GP
By Respond Nola Anyone would expect a Mandela day to be of physical charity and more. But the founders of the Thekvest group found a far more fun, educational and inspirational way of paying their bid to the 67 minutes pledge of giving back to the community by merging...
Ivory Park Winter school 2017
By Bongiwe Nkambule This year, the Ivory Park branch hosted yet another successful winter school programme that commenced on the 3rd of July until the 14th of July. The programme started off with an opening ceremony attended by tutors, learners, branch staff as well...
Winter School Tales from Danville
This year, IkamvaYouth Mahikeng once again hosted a Winter School holiday tutoring program for 60 learners and 18 tutors which was all funded by our partner Coca Cola Beverages South Africa and made successful through the vigorous efforts of a highly motivated group...
Building a momentum positively impacting perfomance and results
Ikageng set a goal to continually improve our results and maintain positive momentum throughout the year! Ikamvanites Visiting the CCBSA’s Devland Manufacturing Plant Throughout the second term of the year, learners have been partaking in our intensive and hand-on...
#AskAnEngineer
At the GirlEng #AskAnEngineer workshop on 20 May, 23 of our Grade 9, 10 and 11s: Heard first-hand stories from engineering students and engineers about their various fields of engineering and how they decided to choose engineering as a...
Planning to study
Choosing a career and the studies to reach a professional goal is not an easy one for High School learners. Therefore, Matric learners had the opportunity to attend the UCT, UWC and CPUT Open days. The learners were excited and energetic to be on Campus...
On top of the world…
After having spent a week in their respective high schools, the Matrics spent 3 days at the branch practicing together. Thursday was the time to relax and breathe. Discovering about weather forecast, sea rescue, maritime maps and careers ensuring the operation of...
Ikageng Successfully Wrapped Up Term 1 In The Underlay of Learning and Tutoring
During the term, we conducted a few educational workshops for both learners and tutors for their personal and professional development. Tutor Training Workshop On the 25th of March, Zoe Mann (Community Coordinator) facilitated a...
Farewell Lindsay
In the past two months, the Nyanga branch has had the pleasure of hosting Lindsay Vogelzang; a research student from the Netherlands. In her first couple of days at the branch, the learners were surprised to see the unfamiliar face at the office. In just a few...