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Oct52018 by Andrea ReesNo Comments

Our biggest project yet

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It's hard to believe it's already October and it's been over a year since I last visited Cape Town and South Africa. This is the longest I've been away from South Africa, but I will be returning in November 2018. I was last in Cape Town in February 2017 for a project that I couldn't share at the time. In September of 2016, I was contacted about the possibility of the project with an organization visiting Cape Town from Europe. As these things go, a lot of emails were sent back and forth, a site visit took place and the next thing we knew we were working with an Internationally well-known beauty company from Germany. The scope of the work from our end changed from a presentation in Cape Town to…

Dec12016 by Andrea ReesNo Comments

Three years of women’s digital literacy in a South Africa Township

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November is an important month for The Heart of a Woman Project, a women's mobile photography and digital literacy initiative. It is the anniversary month of the project in South Africa (#thoawSA) that was based at eKhaya eKasi Art & Education Centre, a non-profit organization in Khayelitsha, a township about 30 minutes from Cape Town's CBD. [caption id="attachment_808" align="alignleft" width="300"] thoawSA women at Table Mountain[/caption] It has been three years. It hasn't been easy, and not much has been happening with thoawSA mostly due to lack of funding. ONE, an advocacy organization to end extreme poverty and preventable disease wrote 'How Internet access could help lift women and girls out of poverty' and released the report 'Making the Connection: How the Internet can help end extreme poverty'. ONE calls for an…

Nov232015 by Andrea ReesNo Comments

Heart of a Woman Project South Africa Turns Two and a Mandela Monday Hero

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Hard to believe November is here again. It's always a special month for me as I think back to that first day I walked into eKhaya eKasi on November 15, 2013, to launch The Heart of a Woman Project South Africa in Khayelitsha. I also think back to last year and our 1st-anniversary exhibition and celebration on November 22, 2014. It was also my family's first visit. Thanks to 'Facebook memories' I get to re-live my time in South Africa and all the wonderful memories that have been created there these last 2 years. Often times when 'volunteering abroad', you don't get to see the results of the work you've done and whether that helped or hindered. You also don't get to reunite with the people you've met unless you take the…