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A massive Response to The Answer Series!!
IkamvaYouth high school students received a massive donation of 125 study books from the Answer Series. Those excellent workbooks will be used by students to develop their knowledge, and stretch themselves. They really appreciate that these books will eable them to...
Luyanda’s Surprise Party
[youtube]fyeq3Fp04aw[/youtube] Here at IkamvaYouth, we are all family. So, when one of our family members has made the decision to go forward with his or her life and start something new, we at IkamvaYouth know no better way to send him or her off than with a...
A New Learner Information Management System
After having the Digital Registry in place for some time now in Makhaza, we are finally implementing this System in our other Branches in the Western Cape. We were able to gather many of the branch coordinators together to have a tutorial session. Mr. Kota the...
9th and 10th Grades Go Electronic!
We are in the Internet generation - a time where being savvy with technology and with all thing "e-" related is absolutely essential. Our reliance on the post office and on print has gone done sharply, and now... we are web-based in almost every way. Social...
Africa Unite Summit
This past Saturday Africa Unite hosted a School Summit on Xenophobia, where they had several dozen learners from twelve schools in the Cape Town area come together and discuss the perils of xenophobia and how to combat discrimination in...
Siyayinqoba
11th Grade Learners at IkamvaYouth Makhaza are now speaking about hate crimes. So what is a hate crime? A hate crime is when a person or group of persons targets a victim because of his or her perceived membership in a certain social group, usually defined...
We Need Your Help for Our Careers Indaba!
We IkamvaYouth and Equal Education are calling upon ALL tertiary institutions, companies, organisations, business, governmental bodies, and volunteers to participate in this year's Careers Indaba. We Need Your Help! We want to make this Careers Indaba a huge...
Siyayinqoba at IkamvaYouth!
At IkamvaYouth we wish to empower students to be successful students as well as citizens. To do this, we wish to make our students aware of social pariahs that can be just as important to them as an upcoming exam. With this in mind, IkamvaYouth at Makhaza has...
FUNDING 101
During my break at the National Arts festival this year, I was able to attend workshops on securing funding for non profit organisations. Although the workshops were designed for arts based organisations, there are some lessons that we can learn. These...
Ikamvanites participate in Girl Fly Programme at Virginia Air Show
Five Ikamvanites had the opportunity to visit the Virginia Air Show courtesy of Southern African Women in Aviation (SAWA). Capt. Refilwe Ledwaba, a helicopter pilot with the SAPS, invited 5 girls with good marks in Maths and Physical Science and an interest in...
24hr FAST FOR SCHOOL LIBRARIES
WHAT IS THE 24 HOUR FAST FOR SCHOOL LIBRARIES? Equal Education (EE) calls on everyone to join our Fast for School Libraries from 6:00 pm on Thursday 29 July until 6:00 pm on Friday 30 July to show government that all...
The Gauteng Experience
IKAMVAYOUTH GAUTENG WINTER SCHOOL HOLIDAY PROGRAMME REPORT 14-25 JUNE 2010 IkamvaYouth Gauteng once again hosted a very successful winter school holiday programme thanks to the generosity of our supporters and the tireless efforts of...
Gauteng Enrichment
XENOPHOBIA—’WHERE DO I STAND?’ IkamvaYouth screened Molly Blank’s thought provoking documentary “Where do I stand?” on xenophobia which prompted much reflective and introspective thoughts from Ikamvanites. Be sure...
To Brazil With Love
SKYPE SESSION WITH BRAZILIAN YOUTH World Cup Fever is of course global and there’s no country better acquainted with world cup soccer glory than Brazil which was just one of a number of topical conversations Ikamvanites had over Skype with CAJU,...
Computer Literacy
COMPUTER LITERACY TRAINING IkamvaYouth’s Grade 10 learners with no previous experience of computers were introduced to the world of IT through Operation Fikelela, our context-specific introductory computer literacy training curriculum. The group will...
Creative Expressions
CREATIVE EXPRESSIONS As an introduction to the winter school we ran a ‘body maps’ workshop on the first day. This is a process by which students trace the outline of their body and then using paint, pastels and found objects such as...
Gauteng Goes Out!
EXCURSIONS Ikamvanites visited the Sci Bono Discovery Centre based in New Town, Johannesburg. Ikamvanites were thrilled with scientific phenomena brought into life on their guided tour. They attended an intriguing public lecturer on...
Guidance and Mentoring
Every Ikamvanite must leave school with a clear plan for the years ahead. For most this means accessing tertiary institutions, bursary opportunities, learnerships, or repeating their matric subjects to improve their marks. Each IkamvaYouth matriculant at...
Gauteng’s Got Talent
On the last day of the winter school we held a talent show and a party. The talent show was a huge hit with learners and volunteers alike; in fact it got everyone up on their feet dancing and singing along to tunes sung by the ikamva ‘stars’ of the moment....
Volunteers and Tutors THANK YOU!
Perhaps the defining feature of the success of all of IkamvaYouth’s programmes—including the winter schools – is the tireless and irrepressible efforts of an amazing and diverse group of the volunteers—THANK YOU to everyone who contributed. You...
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