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Why Social Services should go Mobile »

It has been one month since we’ve re-launched our Angel support service a partnership between Reconstructed Living Lab (RLabs) and MXit. Since then the service had over a 100,000 subscribers with just over 47,000 regular subscribers. Organisations who are working with youth should consider the use of Mobile phones as part of their programmes and [...]

RLabs Vision and Mission Statements »

Last week the RLabs team went on a day retreat to plan for the future as well as looking at the Vision and Mission of this vibrant and growing movement. Below is the Vision and Mission of the Reconstructed Living Lab that captures the heart of what we stand for:
Vision:
To impact, empower and reconstruct local [...]

JamiiX: Our baby is growing up »

Tonight was one of the most amazing experiences we’ve had in RLabs where we saw our little baby JamiiX growing up and taking its first step. JamiiX is a web-based platform that has been incubated in RLabs for almost 3 years and having the opportunity to make it public was a memorable one. Not only [...]

Exciting Week awaiting RLabs »

This coming week is one with so many exciting things happening at RLabs. Expecting many new innovative events happening this week:
- Monday the Social Media Factory will be doing training with a national non-profit SCAT implementing their Social Media Strategy.
- Tuesday the team will be running a Social Media training session for Small Businesses as [...]

Social Media in Khayelitsha with our partners Silulo »

Today the RLabs team was at Silulo Ulutho Technologies out in Khayelitsha (Cape Town’s largest township). The RLabs team was divided into two groups to co-facilitate with the Silulo Ulutho Technologies staff at two of their training centres. This was the follow-up of last week’s session.
The trainers did their first Socail Media session [...]