February 2012
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10 Days. 10 Questions. What young Africans think...
YoungAfricaLive (YAL) has taken the temperature of young Africans – and found their attitudes to love sizzling hot, but surprisingly mature.
Over the past 10 days, YoungAfricaLive users in South Africa, Kenya and Tanzania were given the chance to cast a vote each day on a broad spectrum of polls that covered everything from straight-up love to what’s going down with sex.
Those who doubt the...
January 2012
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Award-winning YoungAfricaLive youth mobile ...
YoungAfricaLive (YAL) launches in Kenya today, adding substantially to the award-winning mobile community portal’s presence in East Africa which commenced when YAL Tanzania launched in December 2011.
In bringing the vibrant mobile community to Kenya, Praekelt Foundation has partnered with leading integrated communications firm, Safaricom. This partnership allows young Kenyans to share and discuss...
December 2011
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Award-winning YoungAfricaLive youth mobile...
YoungAfricaLive launches on Vodacom Tanzania today, marking the start of the award-winning mobile community’s presence in East Africa.
Young Africa Live is a mobile community that entertains and educates young people on topics of love, sexual health, gender and relationships which are issues adversely affecting the youth in Tanzania.
The portal intends to give the youth a platform to speak...
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Today we Remember: World Aids Day Wall of Tributes...
Last year on 1 December, World Aids Day, YoungAfricaLive became a space for users to pay tribute to and remember those lost to Aids. It all began with a blog story called ‘Today I remember the people I lost’ and evolved into a very moving series of posts from users naming and remembering those they had lost to Aids.
This year, we are creating a real Wall of Tributes on YoungAfricaLive, inviting...
November 2011
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Praekelt Foundation scoops prestigious global...
Praekelt Foundation has been named the first South African winner of the Social Impact category of the 2011 Mobile Marketing Awards for Innovation, Creativity and Leadership.
At a ceremony in Los Angeles last night on November 17th, the Johannesburg-based foundation was honoured with the Global Gold Award for its YoungAfricaLive project.
“We’re really thrilled at the recognition given to...
Praekelt Foundation announces the appointment of...
The Praekelt Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Colin Abouchabki as the Chief Operating Officer of the Praekelt Foundation. Colin will be taking up the reigns from the 1st of November, ushering in a new chapter for the flourishing non-profit organisation.
Chairman of the Foundation’s board, Gustav Praekelt, welcomed Colin to the growing team:
“With the incredible...
October 2011
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TxtAlert wins Tech4Africa Innovation Award for...
Praekelt Foundation’s appointment reminder system, TxtAlert, was recognised as the winner of the 2011 Tech4Africa Innovation Award, at a ceremony in Johannesburg last night.
TxtAlert was one of 11 finalists nominated for this award. One of the other projects that the Praekelt Foundation is also very involved in, Project Masiluleke, was also a finalist, but this time, TxtAlert came out on...
TxtAlert-PMTCT launches in KwaZulu-Natal
Praekelt Foundation’s TxtAlert appointment reminder system now being used to help pregnant mothers in KwaZulu-Natal during their pregnancy and until their babies are 18 months old.
Monday 24 October was a great day for the improvement of maternal health in South Africa, when a new project was launched in KwaZulu-Natal - the province where almost 40% of the population - and therefore 40%...
August 2011
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Full YoungAfricaLive Youth Sex Survey poll results
Earlier this year Praekelt Foundation released the recapitulated results of a groundbreaking Youth Sex Survey, conducted on its YoungAfricaLive mobile platform, that gives fascinating insight into the sexual behaviour and beliefs of South Africa’s youth.
Following the interest in the results, Praekelt Foundation decided to make public the full poll results.
Based on over 50 revealing...
Queens MBA group partners with Praekelt Foundation...
The Canadian Queen’s School of Business picked Praekelt Foundation as their partner of choice for the Global Business Project.
Consisting of 7 MBA students from Queens University in Toronto, the group will donate 500 hours of work to help us build out our YoungAfricaLearn concept, into a fully-fledged mLearning solution for South Africa.
YoungAfricaLearn is a mobile community where young...