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Exam Time
As Ikamvanites in grade 11 and grade 12 begin their mid-year exams, the "Each one Teaches one" campaign continues at the Makhaza branch today. Grade 11 learners (pictured below) are working together to improve their knowledge of life sciences as the exams rapidly...
From learner to staff member
I joined IkamvaYouth in 2004 while I was doing my grade 11. In 2005 I was doing my matric. In 2006 I started to volunteer in the organisation while I was doing my first year at the University of the Western Cape. Since then I have been an active member in the...
South Africa mourns the loss of Dave Eadie
Ikamvanites across the country have been deeply saddenned by the terrible news of Dave Eadie's sudden and shocking passing. Dave was instrumental in ensuring that every learner at every branch of IkamvaYouth has the Answer Series guides they need to achieve,...
Masi SPW was a huge success!
On 21st and 22nd May learners, tutor, volunteers and staff joined us at the Masiphumelele Library to talk, to listen and to think, think, think about how to move the Masi IkamvaYouth branch forward. How to un-lock the potentials of even more young...
Sustainably Scaling IkamvaYouth
Ikamvanites don't let a little thing like a petrol bomb derail us from our big vision. In fact, like Zukile and Mphumzi say in the short film about the Freedom Day attack, more power to us! On 1 May, we spent the day at TSiBA brainstorming the first big...
Masiphumelele Drama Club Wows everyone at Franschoek Literary Festival
The Masiphumelele Drama Club wowed an audience at the book launch of Broken Promises on Saturday 14th May. A special request was made for the 4 Ikamvanites to perform a scene from the new book that is making waves in teen literature in South Africa. ...
Snarks Ou talks about how the Makhaza office has helped boost his career
"IKAMVAYOUTH is like a home, a place where I go whenever I need help with anything. It gave me excellent opportunities to perform with well-known artists," said Khayelitsha rapper Snarks Ou. IkamvaYouth is a dynamic volunteer youth NGO established in 2003 that...
We’ve been given the power to go higher and higher
Following a land dispute and service delivery protests in Makhaza, IkamvaYouth's head office in Makhaza was petrol bombed. Although there were ikamvanites in the office when the attack first began, they managed to escape and thankfully nobody was hurt. We're now...
Fire in Masiphumelele destroys 1000 homes, including those of 7 Ikamvanites
Fire in Masiphumelele destroys more than 1000 homes, including those of 7 Ikamvanites In the early hours of the morning on 2nd May, Masiphumelele was ravaged by the angry snapping of fire. The fire is said to have started toward the west of the township and swept...
Urgent call for donations and help
IkamvaYouth lost equipment, materials and resources worth hundreds of thousands of rands when a petrol bomb was thrown into its office on Freedom Day. Everything is gone. Smart phones from our Nokia project; computers recently donated for our programming...
Messages of Support Pour in for IkamvaYouth
Please scroll down to the bottom of this page to send your own message of support. Join us, the community of Khayelitsha and the IkamvaYouth branches across the country, in expressing our complete outrage and disbelief of the events of the past few...
Headquarters in Khayelitsha petrol-bombed on Freedom Day
Less than two weeks after being heralded in the Minister of Basic Education's Budget Speech, IkamvaYouth's head office in Makhaza, Khayelitsha was petrol-bombed. “I thought I was going to die” said Mpumzi Klaas, an ex-learner who has been...
Going to the Top of Table Mountain with Top attenders!
On the 3rd to the 4th of April 2011 the Nyanga top attenders hiked Table Mountain and camped on top for the night The Camp was organised by BEEP (Beyond Expectations Environment Project) which works with kids in disadvantaged areas and help in...
The 100% attendees go wild in the wild!
The Masiphumelele Ikamvanites who attended 100% of tutoring sessions in the first term were rewarded with an amazing trip to the Cedarberg wilderness during the holidays. On Thursday 7th April we set off, and after many, many twists, turns, bumps, and...
Nyanga Strategic Planning Weekend
The Nyanga Branch on the 26 March 2011 held its very own independent SPW which was attended by learners and tutors from the Nyanga Branch and visited by Joy and Zoe This has been a very excitting weekend for the Nyanga Branch as it was two days of...
The IkamvaYouth Foodie Auction was a massive success!
Thanks to the generosity of donors and bidders the IkamvaYouth Foodie Auction raised R48,150 for IkamvaYouth’s holiday programmes. Those who were at The Book Lounge on Thursday 24th March, and those who have seen the...
Ivory Park’s Strategic Planning Weekend Report
The Ivory Park branch of IkamvaYouth held our very first (inaugural) Strategic Planning Weekend (SPW) recently with a view to getting to know each other better and planning the rest of the year ahead. The weekend was an excellent opportunity for volunteers,...
Minister of Basic Education visits Ivory Park Strategic Planning Weekend
The Minister of Basic Education Ms Angie Motshekga visited our Strategic Planning Weekend and sat in on one our group discussion sessions. Ms Motshekga praised all the IkamvaYouth volunteers around the country who give back so...
Social Entrepreneurs – Are the Leaders We’ve Been Waiting for…
“Social entrepreneurship is an evolving space, and yet one of the most profound developments in our world today. Simply put, social entrepreneurship is about correcting an accepted social imbalance for some economic gain. I can just hear the last part of my...
Testing Day
On the 13 March 2011 the Ikamva Youth Nyanga Branch hosted its first tesing day for 2011 Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation partnered up with the Nyanga Branch in educating the learners about the importance of knowing your staus and being healthy, a talk was given by...
Lloyd Lungu