Things may have looked to slow down over here in recent weeks and we might not have had the best of starts to 2011, but that doesn’t change our passion & energy to contribute to change. Late last year, we successfully launched a niche, Rockstar Foundation-powered adventure – The One Percent Project – to help the learners at Simonsberg Primary in their efforts to get a new computer room to
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07Feb
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The Not-So-Happy Start to 2011by jeanne
The Rockstar Foundation is currently not doing as well as we hoped. We were planning on enrolling another 4 students in 2011, but do not seem to have the financial resources to realise our goal. In exploring ideas to generate more funding, my husband recently suggested that we change the site so that it’s not so “happy” (part of his “V2″ plans). Dumb idea, I thought (to myself). The site
02Feb
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Limbo, V2 & Updatesby adii
So… Guess there’s not much to say when it seems as if a great idea & amazing cause (we’d like to think the Foundation can be classified in that way) is dying a slow and quiet death, which is probably the general perception since our last blog post (a slightly bleak one at that) was more than 3 months ago… The good news however is: we’re alive & well (albeit in
19Nov
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The State of the Foundationby adii
Everything has been going & growing really nicely at the Foundation since the beginning of the year, and this is probably evidenced best in how well both Okuhle & Mariana are doing at school. So whilst there are so many things to be happy about around here, there is also a few things that are cause for some concern. When we released the new website last month, the aim was to start generating
22Jul