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The Matric Ball: More than just a school dance!
Life is made up of monumental moments. From your first step to your last breath you can identify a series of ‘landmarks’. In the last 2 weeks the Matric Ball has been one of these landmarks for many Ikamvanites. The event marks the end of a long and...
Ikamvanite Shelton Chadya wins 1st Place in Regional Accounting Olympiad
There was reason to celebrate once more this week as resident accounting genuis and Ikamvanite Shelton Chadya achieved 1st Place in the Regional Competition of the SAIPA National Accounting Olympiad. Shelton has been one of Ivory Park IkamvaYouth's...
Makhaza and the Khan Academy
Over the next few weeks 20 students from Makhaza will be embarking on a pilot programme by the Khan academy. This academy is on a mission to provide free world-class education to anyone anywhere. The Khan Academy, an educational NGO created in 2006 by...
Mural at Makhaza
People speak of our IkamvaYouth in Makhaza as being a beacon of hope and light in the community, a safe place for learners to come and learn, a place where people become agents of change in their own lives, a place where learners can be safe from the other factors in...
Masi Ikamvanites Clean up Kalk Bay’s Act!
In an attempt to raise awareness of the environment and the fundamental reasons why we need to respect our surroundings we took a small group of grade 9 and 10 to the Kalk Bay beach clean up on 17th September to celebrate International Coastal Clean Up...
Masi Drama Club in demand!
'We're really going places' Drama Club The drama club started in Masiphumelele several months ago and with their performance of a scene from Broken Promises, an exciting new book launched by non-profit Cover2Cover, they have found local fame....
Chris Hani learners making it happen in Makhaza
By Liesel Bakker It’s been hard to ignore these past few weeks the coverage at Chris Hani High School in Makhaza involving a brutal attack leaving Malibongwe Melani, a grade 12 student, severely injured in hospital. (See articles in the Voice of...
The Village Raising a Nation
The fifteen people who're ensuring that hundreds of South African youth pull themselves and others out of poverty through education finally got to work together in person. For an entire week! Being an IY natcom member isn't easy. It's a huge amount of...
Meeting an astronaught
Last Wednesday 80 Ikamvanites had the chance to come face to face with a NASA astonaught - Dr Catherine Coleman, and to learn first hand about her experiences living and working in space. They were shown what life is like at zero gravity, see what the earth looks like...
IkamvaYouth Ivory Park Winter School Report
As is becoming a tradition at all IkamvaYouth branches around the country, the Ivory Park Winter School was once again a roaring success. Special thanks to African Bank for helping fund the winter school programme. Click on the image below to download the full report.
I-k-AM-va-YOUTH
This is will be a blog from the Makhaza branch... For now you can view the pictures from our "Phoenix" office party... To view them go to the IKAMVA YOUTH home page and go to the flickr icon to see the goings on of the day... Enjoy! ...
IkamvaYouth Careers Indaba 2011
As the rain poured down, there was a fear spreading amongst us that no one was going to turn up; left with an empty library with rain tapping depressingly at the windows… Thankfully, our fears were completely unfounded. More than 2500 students braved the...
Masi learners rebuild their homes after the fire
Following the devastating fire in Masiphumelele on 2 May which destroyed over 1000 homes, ikamvanites have been juggling their schoolwork and IkamvaYouth tutoring and winter schools with having to rebuild their homes and recover after losing all their...
Women’s Day Reflection: ‘Mothers of the Nation’
Mothers of the Nation. While men go to work, they stay home with five children and seven month's pregnant, they move up and down the whole day looking after the children and the whole house because their love is splendid, courageous and unconditional. ...
TB is no match for me
In January I started coughing, losing weight, sweating and I got sick until I was very weak. When I went to the clinic, the worse news I got, came as a shock to me that I was diagnosed with TB. I was immediately started on treatment. I visited the clinic again...
IkamvaYouth Gauteng’s first Intern
I am currently about to start my third year at Amherst College a small liberal arts college in Western Massachusetts in the United States as a Black Studies and Women and Gender Studies double major and German as my language focus. This is a completely different path...
Masiphumelele Careers Indaba 2011
Since Susan Alexander began the Careers Indaba (winter school) in 2008 it has become an annual event at all 5 IkamvaYouth branches. This year 500 learners across the country were engaged in these 2 weeks programmes. At Masiphumelele 68 learners...
IkamvaYouth and EwB Yes We Can Maths
IkamvaYouth and EwB joined hands to build future Mathematicians. Knowing that pass rates are low in mathematics at grade 12, a closer look has been taken to understand why learners perform so badly in maths. One of the major points that came up is...
Nian
The children’s radio foundation with Nyanga learners
During Winter School the Nyanga Branch was honoured by the presence of Nina who facilitated workshops for a week on Radio broadcasting and production.The learners took part in sessions where they were required to share life experiences and learn more about life from...
Lloyd Lungu