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Global Mentor Walk
IkamvaYouth Gauteng branches participated in the Global Mentorship Walk that took place at the Voortrekker Monument Park in Tshwane to commemorate International Women's day on Saturday the 11th of March 2017. The mentorship walk brought together girls and women...
Runway Career Guidance Workshop @ Umlazi Branch
Slindile Msweli from Runway addressing the learners Waking up in the morning and looking forward to going to the workplace, are one of the key characteristics of a person who has chosen the correct career path in which they can flourish. These...
Nyanga SPW
On Saturday the 11th of March, the Nyanga branch had a strategic planning day. The aim of this day was to plan for the year. The event was attended by the newly elected and eager Branch Committee. The group of learners, tutors and staff travelled to the Cape Town...
Calling all Gauteng After-school Programmes
COMMUNITY COLLABORATION PROGRAMME Do you have an after-school education programme running in Gauteng? Do you want to join a community of organisations working together to deliver collective impact: improved academic achievement, excellent matric...
Giving Back: Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa Empowering Our Communities
Don’t you hate it when big corporate organizations neglect their duty and promise to give back to communities they operate in? Well Coca Cola Beverages South Africa has been showing the community of Ebony Park, Rabie Ridge and Ivory Park that they give back to...
Masiphumelele Open Day 2017
On Saturday the 28th of January 2017 the IkamvaYouth Masiphumelele branch held an Open Day. The purpose of this event was to welcome all Masiphumelele branch Ikamvanites and explain more about the programme to new parents and learners. The event was attended by almost...
IkamvaYouth’s Evaluation Launch
The Western Cape Government hosted the After-School Game Changer’s symposium on the 16th and 17th of February. The two days were packed with interesting speakers who work in different parts of the education and after-school sector. IkamvaYouth was...
Nyanga Mentor Launch
On the 28th of January and the 4th of February, the Nyanga Branch launched its Mentoring Programme for the Matric cohort of 2017. Invited to the event were mentors, mentees and the parents of the mentees. The mentors were given two dates to choose from in order...
Ebony Park Open Day
IkamvaYouth Ebony Park, held the 2017 open day on Saturday the 28th of January. This open day was attended by over 340 people, most of which were IkamvaYouth learners, parents, community leaders, educators and IkamvaYouth volunteers. This magnificent affair...
Mentor Launch
Matric 2017 “You learn something every day if you pay attention” by Ray LeBlond The mentoring programme is a first for the Kuyasa branch as it also hosts its first class of matrics. The branch opened its doors to grade 11 learners only in...
Matric Orientation Day
On Saturday the 21st of January, the Nyanga branch hosted a Matric Orientation Day for all 2017 Matric Parents and Learners. The purpose of this event was to welcome the Matric Class of 2017 and to orientate both parents and learners about how the Matric year looks...
Network of NGOs Ensures that Young South Africans Continue to Beat the Odds
Seven tutoring programmes achieved remarkable collective impact in the recent matric exams, achieving a 92% pass rate. 97 matric learners from organisations participating in the Community Collaboration Programme (CCP) wrote their exams last year, and 84 learners...
Up, Up and Away! KZN Ikamvanites soar fuelled by 41 distinctions
Learners have good reason to celebrate having achieved an 83% matric pass rate. Kwazulu-Natal saw an increase in its matric pass rate from 60.7% last year to 66.4% in 2016. This Province also managed to produce the second-largest number of bachelor...
Western Cape Ikamvanites ride the wave of success!
Western Cape learners & tutors at the close of our two-week intensive tutoring during June holidays (Winter School). IkamvaYouth branches in the Western Cape Province achieved a matric pass rate of 77%, of which 37% are Bachelor passes, and 27%...
IkamvaYouth Learners from the City of Gold Shine
Ivory Park achieved a 100% pass rate! The matric cohort of 2016 had the “highest enrollment of learners in the history of the basic education system of South Africa” as announced by Minister Angie Motshekga in her speech on Wednesday evening....
North-West Ikamvanites forge ahead!
The North-West Province saw a notable increase in its matric results this year. Matriculants in the Province managed to achieve an 86.2% pass rate, which represents a 9% from 2015. The IkamvaYouth branch in Ikageng (situated at the Thembalidanisi Primary...
IkamvaYouth’s class of 2016 achieves an 85% matric pass rate
The Ivory Park branch staff and matriculants celebrating a 100% pass rate 285 learners enrolled in IkamvaYouth’s after-school tutoring programmes in ten branches across five provinces have achieved an 85% pass rate; 69% of which are either...
CCBSA investment in education pays off
Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa (CCBSA) has invested generously in the futures of youth in Gauteng (in Ebony Park and Mamelodi), North West (in Ikageng and Mahikeng), and Kwa-Zulu Natal (in Umlazi). Through enabling the non-profit organisation IkamvaYouth to...
Joza Super Stars Slay Matric!
Time to Celebrate! Some Ikamvanites from Joza with their 2016 Matric results The education system in the Eastern Cape is often described as “in crisis”, and pass rates are highly unequal between privileged and unprivileged schools....
Mahikeng Learners extremely excited
Each year, IkamvaYouth Mahikeng takes over the Danville Secondary School hall to end the year with a Prizegiving event. This is a celebration of the learners’ achievements and efforts across a wide range of disciplines, improvement and academics....
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