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Lift As You Rise – 2012 and beyond
On the weekend of 31 March and 1 April IYKZN hosted it’s 2nd SPW at the Chesterville branch. We had the priviledge of being joined by our National Coordinator Zamo Shongwe and our Director and Co-Founder Joy Olivier, who...
More problems, challenges and barriers than solutions
The first day of the Basic Education Conference was pretty exhausting. Ikamvanites were there at the crack of dawn to put up our poster in the rather sad corner we'd been allocated. Thankfully, for those who may have missed us (and the many who couldn't make it to...
Catch us at the Basic Education Conference
Over 320 abstracts were submitted to the SA Basic Education Conference from teachers, principals, academics, government, non-government organisations, and the corporate sector, and IkamvaYouth's submission has been selected as a poster presentation on 2 April....
IkamvaYouth Gauteng Hosts a Strategic Planning Afternoon
To download the report from the Afternoon Brain-Storming and Action Plan Click here. Both the Ebony Park and Ivory Park branches in Gauteng came together on Saturday the 17th of March from 12:30pm to 3:30 pm. The reason for the afternoon Strategic...
Income generation towards self-sustainability
IkamvaYouth is speedily setting about garnering the support and partnerships we need to establish more branches across the country. Our results come with the responsibility to replicate, and while our high impact model is also low cost, scale is nevertheless...
IkamvaYouth Gauteng flies high on Talk Radio 702
702_radio.zipIt was not an ordinary Sunday morning for the Ebony Park Branch Coordinator and three eager Ikamvanites on the 11th of March 2012. This is because by 5:30am the four were at the Talk Radio 702 studios ready to tell South Africa on live radio, how being...
Reviving the Masi Man Club: Take 1
Initiated in July 2010 by the World Teach volunteers, the Masi Man Club’s has been created for answering youth concerns, promoting personal development, supporting collective actions within the Masiphumelele Community. In 2011,...
Nyanga Branch is open for business!
Thanks to the support and assistance from Thabo Bidla, Mxolisi Gontsa, other community leaders, a team of amazing painters; Liesel, Siswe, Busiswa, and Wanda, and the kind donation of 10 tables from Black Sash, the Nyanga Branch has opened its doors at the Zolani...
Makhaza Strategic Planning Weekend
This past weekend of the 3rd and 4th March our Makhaza held their 2012 Strategic Planning Weekend. It was an excellent opportunity for volunteers, tutors and leaner reps to participate in core operational planning and goal setting. The Main goal of...
Masi Strategic Planning Weekend (SPW)
All of IkamvaYouth's programmes are delivered ‘for’/’by’ the youth rather than ‘to’ the youth. IkamvaYouth’s methodology is based on a learner-centred model that values democratic decision-making at the branch and national...
What we do, how we began, our impact and lessons learned along the way
The DG Murray Trust has made a significant investment in IkamvaYouth, towards core operational costs and to enable an independent evaluation of our impact, which Dr Servaas van den Berg is currently conducting. The Trust has also recently published a learning...
African Bank Opens IkamvaYouth Ivory Park
The newest branch of IkamvaYouth in Ivory Park - supported by African Bank - officially opened its doors to 90 local learners in Grades 10 and 11 on Saturday 11 February 2012 and the tutoring sessions were quickly in full swing. The brand-new Ikamvanites were selected...
3 District Coordinator positions at IkamvaYouth
District Co-ordinators IkamavaYouth IkamvaYouth is a township-based non-profit organisation, established in 2003. With branches in 7 townships nationally and a growth plan in place, IkamvaYouth seeks to appoint 3 District Co-ordinators: ...
Nyanga needs your help!
Some awesome news for February 2012 – we’ve just moved our Nyanga branch from the Nyanga Library to the Zolani Centre. Check the pics below for a taste of our new space... we’ve already been busy decorating and are excited to announce that...
Nyanga Open Day
Nyanga branch has kicked off the year on a high note this weekend with an open day held at the library where early on Saturday morning the hall was full with new eager, hopeful learners all looking for a place this year. A few parents also came to show their...
The Empty Office
Over the last few weeks the MasiphumeleleLibrary has been honored with title of Community Library, which promotes it from its position as satellite library of Fish Hoek to a library in its own right. This is a mark of the hardwork and perserverence that has developed...
Grade 8s and EwB at Makhaza
Makhaza branch had an opportunity to pilot a project with Education with Borders (EwB) who aims to provide improved educational opportunities and facilities in disadvantaged regions of the world. EwB focussed on our Grade 8s as the program helps lower...
Makhaza tutor puts his talent to good use
One of Makhaza’s tutors was lucky enough to be involved with Dance4Life and RedZebra Foundation which uses creative facilitation techniques, dialogue tools, bottom up processes as well as music and rhythm to deliver powerful experiences for the young people. The...
EIFL takes IkamvaYouth to Slovenia
In November 2011 Masiphumelele Library in partnership with Edunova and IkamvaYouth became the recipients of an EIFL-PLIP grant. EIFL (Electronic Information For Libraries) is an international organisation that is making a marked impact on the library...
From Cape Town to the University of Free State…
Cape Town Bus station on Saturday the 28th of January at 6.00, 4 excited students left the Mother City to join the University of Free State in Bloemfontein. From left to the right: Buhle Mashiyi is starting a 5 year Bachelor of Law, Zintle Mtakati has been...
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