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Education
The Paternoster Volunteer Project Educating and Uplifting the Children of Paternoster
In today’s world, getting a proper all-round education is more important than ever. Not only can educated people seize better opportunities for themselves, but they also enrich others with their successes and perspectives. Although almost every parent wants to see their child equipped for the future, often there are uncontrollable circumstances which prevent this from being the case. In Paternoster, a fishing village on the West coast, there is urgency for better education for the children to ensure they face a brighter future.
A Day in the Life of a Care Volunteer Changing Lives Through Love and Play
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to volunteer at a crèche? And not just dedicating your time to the local crèche but rather caring for children in another country far from home? Cape Chameleon visited Butterfly Way Educare in Vrygrond, to find out how the staff and overseas volunteers spend their day with the children.
Nutrition Project Cooking Competition Graduates from the Project Show their Skills in a Cook Off
Let’s admit it, we all love food. However, how aware are we of what we consume and put into our bodies? According to Sweet Life magazine 1 out of 5 South Africans over the age of 35 have type 2 diabetes and more than 50% of them are unaware of it. Not only is diabetes consuming us but so is obesity and malnutrition. Projects Abroad’s nutrition project recently held a cooking competition in the community of Vrygrond. The aim of the competition was not only to cook delicious meals but nutritious food as well.
The Cape Town Central Library A Cultural & Dynamic Place for Anyone from Anywhere
In a digitised world where libraries suffer from budget cuts and are often undermined, the Central Library in Cape Town still manages to attract a broad public. With its various sections, its many organised events and different partnerships with other institutions, it is one of the most important cultural places in town.
Inclusive Schooling for Disabled Children Providing Access to Meaningful Education for All
In South Africa, 600,000 children with disabilities are not in school, a figure that is detrimental to children, their families, and society as a whole. Since education is the key to opening many doors, the difficulties faced by disabled people are further compounded by their lack of schooling, making this statistic catastrophic.
The Communiversity of South Africa Promoting Skills Training and Development for Young People
Education is a vital tool for the future, and yet a 2016 analysis reveals that 44.6% of high school pupils in South Africa either drop out before reaching Grade 12 or have been kept in a lower class. Failing to complete school negatively affects a student’s chances of finding a job, especially since unemployment rates are at an all-time high amongst those not passing matric. In order to support young students further their education, The Communiversity of South Africa has designed a two-part programme to not only educate but also to deliver transferable skills for the job market.
Hot Higher Education in South Africa The Continuing Struggle for Equality of Opportunity
Sixty years after the ANC’s Freedom Charter envisioned a universal education policy, hordes of disillusioned students marched outside the gates of Parliament, burning Zuma’s effigy and chanting ‘Fees Must Fall!’ – How far has South Africa come in advancing opportunities for higher education, and what more can be done?
Learn to Earn Helping Unemployed to Help Themselves
Founded in 1989, Learn to Earn (LtE) is a non-profit organisation which assists unemployed people not just socially and economically but emotionally and spiritually too. The organisation takes a holistic approach in their training and has helped more than 13,000 people to find jobs and support their families.
University Fees in South Africa Many Questions, Lots of Anger & Fires to Fight
South Africa’s Minister of Higher Education and Training Dr Blade Nzimande has announced it is up to the country’s universities to ‘individually…determine the level of (fee) increase that their institutions require…’. But he cautioned that no university’s fees should be raised by more than 8% for 2017. This follows a blanket freeze on fees in 2016 that left a number of universities on the verge of financial collapse. The Conversation Africa asked Professor Suellen Shay to unpack Nzimande’s announcement.
Bonnytoun Teaching Life Skills to At-Risk Youth
There are eight of us in the car; myself, five Projects Abroad volunteers from the human rights office, our coordinator and our driver. As we drive through the gates of Bonnytoun we are met with high walls, barbed wire fences and uniformed officers, and I begin to feel slightly nervous at my decision to visit this boys’ juvenile detention centre.
