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A trip to the Monkey Town Primate Centre has supported the schoolwork of a group of Grade R students by showing them in real life the wild animals they have been learning about in books. The 23 learners visited the Primate Centre in Somerset West in mid-November, where they met a range of monkeys as […]
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A group of Grade 3 learners are being taught how to knit by the Vision Vlottenburg aftercare team, with the aim of passing on arts and crafts skills to help in their personal development. The 20 Grade R3 students have been learning how to knit on Friday afternoons since mid-2017 and are currently making a […]
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A hike up Table Mountain in Cape Town has shown a group of Vision AfriKa learners that they have the potential within themselves to overcome life’s obstacles, even if they appear insurmountable. The Grade 10 students scaled the iconic mountain at the end of October in perfect weather, with the sun shining and the wind […]
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Parents with learners in Vision AfriKa’s day care scheme have attended training to help them support their children more effectively. The anti-poverty parenting training is intended to take participants out of their comfort zone and help them explore and challenge their own belief systems and parenting styles. It also shows them ways that they might […]
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A maze-running activity at Imhoff Farm on the Cape Peninsula has taught a group of Vision AfriKa learners how to work under pressure and operate effectively as a team. On arriving at the maze for a day at the start of October, the Grade 11 students were divided into four groups of seven and asked […]
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A visit to Intaka Island by a group of Vision AfriKa learners has taught them about natural resources, how to conserve them and how precious they are for all of us. Intaka Island, which is located in Century City just outside of Cape Town, is a wetlands and bird sanctuary in the middle of an […]
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An outing to the ice rink has taught a group of Vision AfriKa learners the value of learning to conquer their fears as well as how to bounce back when things go wrong. The group of 37 Grade 9 students were taken for their first ice skating trip to Cape Town at the start of […]
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Vision AfriKa held two rounds of mock interviews with its Grade 11 learners 12/09/2017 in order to help them experience first-hand the rigours of job-hunting. The group of 11 learners were informed that a new post of Grade nine facilitator at the educational development NGO had opened up, for which they were eligible to apply. […]
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A quarter of all the Grade 9 learners selected by Kayamandi High School to go on leadership training belong to Vision AfriKa’s educational development programme. A total of 12 students attended the learning and development experience, which was held at Stanford Valley Guest Farm in the Klein Rivier valley about 120km south east of Stellenbosch […]
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The Kayamandi township in Stellenbosch held its first parkrun on Saturday 9 September in a bid to help Vision AfriKa’s learners improve their health and fitness while having fun. The idea behind parkrunning began in the UK in 2004 when 13 runners got together to encourage others to get fit by joining their volunteer-led, free-for-all […]
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