Sisonke.com
ACHIEVEMENTS
Sisonke e-community forum is improving day by day. This year the facilitators they are busy giving classes to the community members, classes of Microsoft Word, Excel, Basic computer concepts, Powerpoint, File Management. The programme is for six months after they are done every member of the community who passed the tests will be issued with the certificate. We are aiming july month for the graduation of the community members.
This is an innovative programme that is under premiers office western cape in Cape town.
Beaufort west e-Community forum, Sisonke.com is a community development through technology programme. The forum was launch 12 april 2008, and is based at Beaufort West Secondary School. Sisonke.com meaning 'We All Together' is about to unite our communities through free access to computers, internet, information and most of other communities in the Western Cape. The forum consist of members in the communities which fulfil different roles in the forum to sustain the aims and objectivesof the forum and also cape access. 'The aim for the start of the forum is to drive information society projects on behalf of cape access at local level and also to manage the e-centre where it is going to operate from. it's also an initiative to create an information society amongst our disadvantage, unemployed, able\disable citizens in our Beaufort West community'.
We as Sisonke.com also aim to foresee the development in our community through technology. We further also want to contribute to above mentioned citizens, helping them in any capacity we able to in order to contribute to the betterment of our broad Beaufort West community. As a forum we intend to concentrate not just on able and healthy community members, but will also put on our emphasis on disable and people affected with HIV\AIDS.
'To achieve such compliment we need the cooperation from our organization who also initiates development programmes in our town and also a broad infrastructure e.g. more computers'.
Operational Hours
Mondays: 15h00-18h00
Tuesdays: 15h00-18h00
Wednesdays: 15h00-18h00
Thursdays: 15h00-18h00
Fridays: 15h00-17h00
Saterdays 08h00-12h00
FORUM MEMBERS
Alfred Pheiffer (Chairperson)
Celeste Snyman (Vice-Chairperson)
Songezo Mpeteng (Facilitator)
Johlen Swartz (Facilitator)
Audrey Jonas (Community Researcher)
Charlene George (Community Researcher)
Zuzukuphila Zibani (Webmaster)
Evangeline Lottering (Chief Administrator)
