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Apr62017 by Andrea ReesNo Comments

Preparing to volunteer in South Africa

[caption id="attachment_1942" align="alignleft" width="300"] Andrea teaching mobile photography to the ladies of eKhaya eKasi[/caption] Having been to South Africa 8 times now, with five trips specifically for The Heart of a Woman Project, this is a blog to help prepare you for a volunteer trip to South Africa or if you're spending extra time before or after. Most of this information will of course work for any trip to South Africa. Check your documents This is high on the list because I've heard stories of people not being able to board their flight and being turned back in South Africa. You don't want to be that person. Make sure that your passport is valid for no less than 30 days after your intended…

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…