“Transforming young minds”
Last week I had an excuse to follow up with a selection of this year’s delegates and what I heard simultaneously gave me a reality check and re-inspired me. To give a bit of context, enke was invited to present to the Investec CSI team to explain the project in detail and say thank you for their support. Since Investec enabled 30 learners to be part of the enke program this year I had the...
Read MoreGuest Post: Meghan Daniels, enke 2010 delegate
The enke: Forum truly inspired me to make a difference in my community. I plan on empowering underprivileged teenagers through the medium of photography. I am extremely passionate and eager about my community action project and am trying my hardest to initiate and get it started. During the enke: Forum, I found out that my father had passed away. Although this news left me devastated, I was...
Read More“…and they ‘re totally AMAZING!” So what? We’ve seen this before. Right?
First, as forward thinking and clever as the enke class of 2010 was, there was nothing unique about this particular affliction. During the inaugural enke: Forum (2009), the facilitators were consistently wrapped in clusters exchanging anecdotes about how “AMAZING” their particular group of delegates were; and how they could not believe that grade 11 pupils were capable of holding such mature...
Read MoreStarting a Movement
I’ve rediscovered my love for TED talks recently, and this morning I stumbled across one that made me laugh. I thought I’d share it – it’s only 3 minutes! Whether it’s dancing at a concert, or building momentum behind a shift in consciousness there are two things I take away from this: 1. We need to support lone nuts when we think they have a good idea 2. For...
Read MoreDreams
This time last year I was sitting in Australia, making plans, getting advice and laying the foundations for getting myself back to South Africa, this time for good. The three founders of enke, Tom, Kat and I, were all in different countries, trying to navigate time differences, bad skype connections and limited internet coverage to work out how we were all going to get back to the same place to...
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