Growing up in Hanover Park has its challenges: gangsterism, substance abuse and theft. A lot of these things overshadow the fact that there is so much potential in this community and I want to make[…]
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Tag: Community
Giving With A Purpose
Melanie Beukes is a 25-year-old female, born and raised in Strandfontein. She matriculated in 2010, then studied Administration. As soon as she ended her studies she started working in retail. Her mother then introduced her[…]
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Celebrating our Youth, Celebrating our Future
This month we are celebrating our youth & their future, and what better way than to pay tribute to some of our past students who came and did training with us, whether it was the[…]
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RLabs to join community members and organisations in march on Youth Day
RLabs to join community members and organisations in march on Youth Day Today, 16 June 2016, RLabs will join community members and organisations in Athlone, to commemorate the anniversary of the 1976 youth uprising.[…]
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RLabs Academy: Cape Town registration overflowing with HOPE
It was another exciting registration for the RLabs Academy in Cape Town. For the first time we’ve offered more than 40 courses in total making provision for more than 1,000 people. The registration started a[…]
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Let’s Grow Open Design Event
Thursday, 5th December 2013, two of our champions which is also known to be South Africa’s young Global Shapers spearheaded a project that this time round brought together almost 30 youth from and out of[…]
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Community Development: Honours to the Seniors
“Ubuntu – motha ke motha ka batho. I am because you are and since you are, therefore I am”. A phrase taken most seriously by the patrons of Impact Direct Ministries (IDM). IDM, established in[…]
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South Africa – Project Management Team executes their first Project
RLabs Academy is offering a course called Project Management Principles which is one of many other free courses that can be accessed by the community . The 10 week course was structured with a theoretical[…]
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Guidelines to Engaging with your community
We want to share some guidelines and lessons that we’ve learned through what is required to engage your community. These are some of the steps we followed to ensure beneficial community engagement: IDENTIFICATION PHASE:– Identify[…]
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Community and Academia Engagement
Bradley Naidoo sharing with students from Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), researchers in the Reconstructed Living Lab, how change is possible no matter what the circumstances. He is one of our Reconstructed Members who[…]
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