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Year Beyond Holiday Programme
The Year Beyond programme has just had its very first successful winter school for 300 learners run by a group of 36 highly motivated volunteers. Winter school is a way of introducing our young learners to a wider world of opportunity through targeted career advice...
IkamvaYouth Ebony Park 2015 Winter School Week 1
There is nothing quite as fulfilling as a group of leaners, working in solidarity; striving to feel the warm embrace of their dreams. Despite the piercing cold of the Gauteng Winter mornings, and the weight carried on the backs of the learners because of the several...
From Actuarial Science, Bio Tech and Computer Science to Zoology
In January, along with hi-fives and star jumps, the ikamvanites were proud to announce an 82% pass for the class of 2014. Now, after finally gathering in the results for those writing supplementary exams, we’re thrilled to announce an overall 84% pass, with 85%...
Ebonites Study skills workshop with Dr. Welcome Khubeka
Ebonites welcomed Dr. Welcome Khubeka to grace Ebony Park branch with study skills and career guidance talk. Ebonites had a chance to experience Dr. Khubeka just like their brothers and sisters did in 2014. Dr. Khubeka has been faithful in giving IkamvaYouth Gauteng...
Ikamvayouth Chesterville SPW
Friday 24 April 2015 marked the kick start of a much anticipated annual strategic planning weekend for 2015 at the Chesterville branch. The day boasted with a positive attendance of excited new and old tutors, learner representatives from grade 9 to grade 12, as well...
Year Beyond
It’s hard to believe we are already into the second school term with Year Beyond and the 8 schools we are working in! While there have been challenges and stumbles along the way, there are 8 schools in new communities where tutoring is actually happening, where...
Makhaza SPW 2015
Alan W. Watts once said, “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” This proved to be true when the staff, volunteers and learners of IkamvaYouth Makhaza came together to bring the 5 IkamvaYouth...
Call for interested after-school education organisations working in the Western Cape?
Are you an after-school education organisation working in the Western Cape? Do you want to receive funding, training and support to run a high impact tutoring programme? The Learning Trust and IkamvaYouth are partnering to offer capacity...
Umlazi SPW 2015
SPW Blog Umlazi On the 1st and 2nd of April 2015 Umlazi held its 4th annual Strategic Planning. The two day event is used to come up with strategic plans for the rest of the year at the branch. The event was attended by 17 tutors and learner reps. ...
Student Expo in Cape Town. Johannesburg and Pretoria
Our 2015 dates: 17th-18th April – The Clock Tower Conference Centre, V&A Waterfront – Cape Town 23rd-25th April – Fourways Mall – JHB 7-9th of May – Kolonnade Mall – Pretoria 23-25th of Jul –...
World Read Aloud Day Umlazi
World Read Aloud Day The 4th of March 2015 was World read aloud day. IkamvaYouth Umlazi held a small ceremony to celebrate this day (on Saturday the 14th of March as a late commemoration) with the learners as reading is a fundamental habit to the growth of...
2015 Strategic Planning Workshop
The beginning of each year at IkamvaYouth is always an exciting time for IkamvaYouth branches across the country as we usher the previous year’s Matrics into post-school opportunities, welcome new learners and tutors and together decide on the goals and outcomes...
IkamvaYouth Ebony Park 2015 open day
On the 17th of January 2015, IkamvaYouth Ebony Park opens its doors to new ikamvanites. New applicants form different schools across Tembisa came to see what IkamvaYouth is all about. A total number of 358 learners and parents were present for Ebony Park open day. On...
A moment with Dr. Welcome Kubeka – University of Johannesburg
Ivory Park grade 10 learners on the 7th of March 2014 benefited from a Study Skills Workshop facilitated by Dr. Welcome Kubeka of the University of Johannesburg. Dr. Kubeka has been running these workshops since 2012, focusing mainly on grade 10 learners with the...
The 1st Black Girl Code by Thought Works
The 2015 First Black Girl Code at Wits sponsored by Thought Works On the 7th of March the Ivory Park Branch was invited to the first Black Girls Code sponsored by one of our partners Thought Works at Wits. The workshop started with the motivation from the...
2015 mentoring begins at Ebony Park
The year 2015 has already started with an exciting new twist as the Ebony Park mentoring programme got a huge boost by partnering with Coaches and Mentors South Africa (COMENSA). This very valuable partnership will help to answer a lot of questions we have had on how...
Ivory Park branch gets support from CAFSA
On the 23rd of January 2015, the IkamvaYouth Ivory Park branch entered into partnership with Charities Aid Foundation Southern Africa (CAFSA), which would see the Ivory Park branch and its host, Kaalfontein Secondary School benefit from development initiatives offered...
Moving a step towards excellence!
IkamvaYouth joined various stakeholders on the 26th of February 2015 in a Community Engagement meeting organised by the University of Johannesburg’s Community Engagement Department. The stakeholders meeting, attended in representation to IkamvaYouth...
CAF SA & Shell Volunteer Day
It's not often that our volunteer tutors get the opportunity to attend skills workshops that have been arranged exclusively for them. The Shell Volunteer Day, on the 4th of March 2015, was therefore a much appreciated occasion, where employees from the company...
Ivory Park parents meet to support IkamvaYouth Programmes
“It takes a village to raise a child… IkamvaYouth has been a second parent to my child, guiding and mentoring him to become disciplined and improve his marks. ”, said Mrs Khumalo, a parent for Mbuso Khumalo, a grade 11 learner who won a school bag...
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