SPES Training Centre SPES has become a registered Vocational and Multimedia Centre under the local authority IVTB (Industrial Vocational Training Board) and we await for adequate funding to extend couses to reach out to the socially disadvantaged school drop-outs. We have started “in-house” training” and some consolidation of our
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At the request of some of our International friends we are uploading the story of the SPES pottery activities. The SPES Pottery started training operations in the year 1978, but it was only officially inaugurated two years later. The head potter was Jacqueline Desvaux de Marigny who had acquired
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The Millennium Bug Y2K SPES is placing on line a photograph of its High-tech Unit cables and connections as a friendly reminder that if you have an old computer, you should check immediately with an electronic technician or at the shop where you bought it, to make sure it
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SPES was honoured to have been invited by COMMACT to participate at the 5WCW – Conference on the theme “LOCAL ACTION – GLOBAL CONTEXT – Networking for the New Millennium” which was held in South Africa 19 – 23 April 1999 in the beautiful peaceful Stutterheim town. There were
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As you saw from our last website update in March Christina Preston from the University of London, visited us in February. While she was here, she requested that SPES should use their expertise to design and make some Art Deco style artefacts for the CAL99 Conference that was held
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As usual SPES closed down for the first two weeks of January, hence we decided to combine the month of January and February updates, apologies for this delay. During part of January and the whole of February we were busy focussing on new skills for teacher training in IT
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SPES was honoured that the Selection Committee of the 12th INTERNATIONAL EUROPE AWARD FOR QUALITY, yearly granted by the “editorial office” Madrid publishing house and the TRADE LEADERS’ CLUB, found SPES worthy of receiving this prize in its 1998 presentation. Apparently their decision was based on information provided by
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CYBERCAFE SESSION Our local highlight for Craftspeople was the organisation on 14 November of another special SPES Cybercafé session to create a “Distributed Learning Environment” in view of the need to bookbind the children’s stories of of the 6-12 year old group that were accepted designated as having fulfilled
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During the month of October the SPES limelight activity was the special Cybercafé Saturday morning on 24th October during which 51 children participants of the Crafted Animal Toys Story/Play Competition received handprinted Certificates, designed by 12-year old Martine, and saw the prototypes for printing books with the stories. They
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Cybercafé morning ‘Design 21 Medal’ presentation to A Mauritian Designer A few days ago SPES launched a Cultural / Educational / Vocational Cybercafé morning session. This premiere was a grand success and extremely interactive, as we projected to over 35 proud young Craftspeople collaborators (who produce Designer-products in various
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