My name is Avela Magagasi and I am the founder of Avela Academy and Sports Entertainment.During the COVID-19 pandemic, I wanted to help the parents that are not able to help their kids with their…
Avela MagagasiOctober 26, 2022
I’ve become a huge fan of Sankey Diagrams recently. I find them a helpful way of showing resource flows as inputs, outputs and how much or what flows where. One stormy Thursday afternoon, I ventured…
Ffion AtkinsJune 19, 2020
Amidst the uncertainties and anger, amidst all the injustice and hunger, there is this beautiful certainty about togetherness. Together, we can overcome everything. Noone can take it away from us. The pandemic has given us…
Teresa BoulleJune 17, 2020
NollyI am Nolly, I live with my mother in a new home. I remember the day my mother told me that we will build a new home in a new Area called Xakabantu, it was…
Fundisani RoroJune 1, 2020
It’s Easter weekend. Our group of displaced friends have all been shipped to Strandfontein, there is no break in the need, as most South Africans live on the poverty line and COVID-19 has exposed massive…
Kevin RackMay 15, 2020
I've phoned Avela to find out whether the 25litre buckets are at the community centre for collection. Usually we transfer the soup or veg stew into large pots at the centre (from where they are…
Noleen ReadMay 15, 2020
I volunteered to be a driver for a feeding scheme organized by Muizenberg residents during the Corona Virus Lockdown. My main task is to take food, cooked and in bulk to Vrygrond, a nearby informal…
Paul WeinbergMay 1, 2020
I sit every dawn, in the Flightpath of the Birds. In the space between the setting of the moon and the rising of the sun. And all is well with the world. I breathe in…
Theresa WigleyApril 30, 2020