Last Sarturday tutorial session , our tutors stood infront of everybody to share their personal experiences moments before the exams and shared the most encouraging and motivating words to our matric class of 2010 –
- Take exams as just another writing session, where questions will be asked and you will be expected to answer
- Keep focussed
- Exam time is not time to study from scratch but to revise , don’t be hard on yourself
- Manage your time effectively between the subjects, more especially those written at close proximity to one another, etc
- Make us proud
- we love you
Use this time and space to air your good luck wishes for our Matrics class of 2010, you can even mention their names or school or area or just Ikamvanites matric class of 2010, it will mean a lot to them.
Ikamva has two new volunteers from a Global Exchange Program run by the British Council. Francisco Armenta is a young graphic designer that works with a HIV testing agency and uses media to inform the public about HIV and AIDS. Francisco Armenta is currently one of the youngest HIV testers/counselors in Los Angeles, California. He will be helping the young adults of IkamvaYouth KZN with English, Computer Literacy, and STD’s and HIV awareness.
The second volunteer is from right here in Durban, South Africa Ayanda Chamane. She is a performing artist focused on poetry. She started professionally reciting poetry in 2006. Ayanda performed all around Durban in high schools, local radio stations, The Department of Arts and Culture, and The Centre of creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu Natal. Currently she helps organize poetry shows for the BAT Centre every 3rd Saturday of the month, where she invites poets from all around the country.
These two volunteers are extremely excited to work with the young adults in the IkamvaYouth program.
IkamvaYouth and SiyakhulaComputerSchool hosted guests from LeedsUniversityBusinessSchool (CIHM)
The University of Leeds Centre for Innovation in Health Management (CIHM) is pioneering innovation in health and public service management systems. A group of social entrepreneurs, community leaders, health system leaders, academics from Asia, Africa, Europe and USA visited IkamvaYouth and our sister project SiyakhulaComputerSchool. The primary purpose was to help their international network develop a shared way of understanding how systems work and evolve in order to improve their collective capacity to support value driven change around the world…
We took our visitors to Philani Support Group, Tumelo Home for the Disabled Children, IvoryParkMethodistChurch, Lord Khanyile Youth Centre and drove them around Ebony and IvoryPark and unfortunately out time was up before we could take then to the local Chisa Nyama called Imbizo Busy Corner. The day was ended in style with a dinner at Troyville Hotel, where guests were dinned and wined until late hours of the night. I had an hour to accept an envelop from Dr Becky, as a gift to the organization. The time of goodwill is just around the corner, I will be waiting for more envelops to come, keep them coming!
Wits Volunteers Programme – giving credit where it is due
Wits Volunteers programme honoured with certificates students that are making the institution proud
in the nation building projects in and around Johannesburg.
“Are you the change you want to see in your community?” – Moipone
“Volunteering is changing the future by making a difference today – act upon what you think is right.” – Peter
IkamvaYouth volunteers had an awesome evening.
As the regular followers of our blog will know, IkamvaYouth’s national committee met for a full week at the Grail Centre to reflect on the last 12 months, plan for the next, and share our skills, knowledge, and experience.
Thanks to Marie Sutherland-Lawless and Catherine Scott, the notes that were made throughout the week have been transformed into a beautiful report, available to download here. The appendices include our financial controls, performance reviews policy, and IY-in-a-box presentation.
SPW_Report-1.pdf
SPW_Report_Appendix.pdf
The report provides a comprehensive overview of all we covered, and outlines our plans for 2011 and beyond.
Watch out education crisis…here come the Ikamvanites!
Saturday the 18th of September 2010 was dedicated to a 3 hours cleanup on Long Beach in Noordhoek.
12 learners from the Masiphumelele branch, fully equipped with yellow bags, have been tracking abandoned rubbishes from human activities. Last year, they counted 3 600 different types of objects. Among those items they all found products that humans denigrated to put into a bin.
From glass bottles to heaters, passing through cotton buds, or lollipop sticks, plastic bags, wood logs, are the daily life of migratory and local birds.
“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors: we borrow it from our children” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Lloyd Lungu