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Preparing for Success
Tutoringby Phillip Mcelu This was the best holiday programme IkamvaYouth has ever had from how everything was organized to how the tutors managed their time. With the holiday programme we are able to perform the IkamvaYouth principles the learners ratio to...
Express Yourself
Media, Image, and ExpressionBy Luyanda Kota Once again the Media, Image and Expression programme was well represented at the last Tsiba Winter School. The line up of activities started with Chri Fan getting organised and offering Creative...
Typing to Success
Computer Literacyby Sinethemba Luthango The holiday programme was a great experience, and I enjoyed from the beginning to the end. As a Computer Literacy teacher, I enjoyed my classes. The work that I have done with my learners was very effective because most of...
Career Guidance
CG – Career GuidanceBy Luyanda Kota Winter Schools seems to be dominated by Career Guidance after tutoring to some extent that tutoring on its own is a form of career guidance because working towards any career requires consciousness about marks...
Exploring for Success
Kirstenbosch Excursionby Nkosinathi Baartman IKAMVA YOUTH managed to send 72 learners and five tutors to attend a workshop at Kisternbosch. Ikamvanites arrived at 10am at Kisternbosch and were welcomed by teachers who were going to help...
HIV/AIDS Awareness
HIV/AIDSBy Luyanda Kota Before the winter school, we kind of adopted a slogan that says “if you don’t know your status, then you don’t know your future”. This is indeed correct in every sense of the work and we are happy...
Nyanga Winter Programme
This year’s winter school was a success! We had 55 Nyanga learners and 23 Ikanyezi learners join us for two weeks at the University of the Western Cape. Inkanyezi Learners During the morning sessions, the programme offered learners the...
Nyanga Talent Show
On the last day of the Nyanga Winter Programme, the learners had a chance to showcase their many talents. And they did not hold out! The volunteers and tutors were able to watch the 78 learners perform in any which way they wanted! Some read powerful and moving poems...
IkamvaYouth Winter Excursions
Learners from IkamvaYouth Nyanga recently had the opportunity to visit various locations around Cape Town. The first stop was the Iziko Museum where the students viewed and learned about the artwork in the gallery. They then went to the Iziko Annexe where art work...
Nyanga Gold Ikamvanites Get a Taste of the Arts!
Amidst all the craziness of World Cup matches and Winter School, gold Ikamvanites from Nyanga took a welcomed break from their studies to take a trip to Cape Town City Bowl District for an afternoon of art and theatre. They started off the afternoon by visiting...
FIFA Fever: Can You Feel It? It is Here!
IkamvaYouth is a non-profit organization based in from Khayelitsha, Nyanga and Masiphumelele in the Western Cape, Ivory Park in Gauteng, the greater Cato Manor area and Molweni in KwaZulu-Natal. IkamvaYouth is a for-youth, by-youth leadership organization that...
Fifa Fever: IkamvaYouth’s Talent Show and Photography Exhibition on 3 July
Come feel it! It's here! On Saturday 3 July, ikamvanites from the Makhaza, Nyanga and Masiphumelele branches will be expressing themselves, showcasing their talents and having fun, following weeks of intensive hard work at their respective winter schools. This...
Ikamvanites Unite
A horrible thing happened at the end of an amazing Winter School here in Gauteng - the taxi transporting the even more amazing volunteers crashed on the M1 Highway. Thankfully no-one was seriously injured beyond some cuts, scrapes, bruises and stitches. It was a...
We’re feeling it! It is Here!
IkamvaYouth's annual winter schools launched on Monday 14th June 2010. Amidst much flag-waving and vuvuzela blowing, ikamvanites (IkamvaYouth's inspiring learners and volunteers) are closing the gap created by an unequal education system in crisis. Over 500 learners...
Ikamvanites ask themselves, “where do I stand?”
Today Molly Blank screened her powerful film Where Do I Stand? At the Nyanga branch's winter school at UWC. "When xenophobic attacks broke out across South Africa in May 2008, many found themselves caught off guard, shocked by violence that felt like a...
English Reading Project, Makhaza
South Africa houses more than the 11 major languages spoken here, but English is the prescribed universal for teaching and testing within the faltering educational system. In the Western Cape, a vast majority of our learners are native isiXhosa speakers -...
HIV/AIDS Awareness and Testing in Makhaza
On 22nd May 2010, IkamvaYouth in Makhaza hosted an HIV/AIDS awareness activity in which New Start and Youth AIDS offered their services to our learners and the community. Youth AIDS is an organisation targeting youth in and out of school in the age group between 16-24...
Makhaza Gold Ikamvanites Visit Clan William
On the road to Clan William, we were taught different types of mountains and how old they are. We were taught about rocks, how to make cement, and different factories along Malmesbury. On our way to Clan William there were also rivers, and it was the...
Makhaza Now Has a Digital Register!
After years of taking our attendance manually, our beloved Mr. Kota has created a database to scan our learners' student badges and display their information and attendance every time they show up for homework and tutoring sessions. See video demonstration...
Lloyd Lungu