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Aadil’s Interview Series: Akhil on Male Mental Health
I while ago, I caught up with my friend from both school and university Akhil. Having just introduced Tanya’s fill-in mental health journal, I thought …
Tanya’s Mental Health Journal
You might recall getting to know Tanya from my interview series blog post from a few months back. I interviewed Tanya about the video that …
Aadil’s Interview Series: Nikhilesh on Education Systems
Nikhilesh has been a friend of mine for a number of years now, having attended school with me. I remember that he particularly enjoyed our …
Aadil’s Interview Series: Iman on a 4 Hour Work Day
A couple of months ago while in London, I caught up with Iman, a student at the University of Birmingham currently on her placement year …
Aadil’s Interview Series: Zuha on Women’s Reproductive Rights
As part of my series, I decided to visit my friend from school time, Zuha. Zuha is a 22 year old British Pakistani studying Medicine …
Aadil’s Interview Series: Bevaan on Prison Systems
Recently I caught up with another university friend, Bevaan, who grew up in Singapore but now works as a trader after having studied Mathematics with …
Aadil’s Interview Series: Zubair on Educational Equality
A while ago as part of my series, I met up with another university friend, Zubair. Zubair is a British 22 year old who studied …
Aadil’s Interview Series: Tanya on Black Lives Matter Movement
Next in my series, I met up with Tanya. Tanya was also a friend of mine from university, where she studied History. She has a …
Aadil’s Interview Series: Yuki on Consumption
First in my series I met up with Yuki, a friend from back at UCL who studied the same course as me, Maths with Modern …
Aadil’s new Interview Series
Having the task of recruiting and meeting new pre-signed up members to the AWAKE movement has been an absolute privilege. In general, I find that …
Magali’s Reaction to the Awakening EP
Maybe it is because I had the opportunity to witness the creative process of the ‚Awakening‘ EP, but I feel like the EP really conveys …
Coming of Angels – Finishing Touches to the Audio
Having seen behind the scenes footage and having been told stories in live time about the process behind shooting the video, I’ve often felt a …
Our World Today
With everything that is happening in the world at the moment, I personally began to feel very overwhelmed. By using meditation and self-reflection techniques that …
Music Releases
During lockdown, when we decided to finally share the music that we had been making over the last year with the world, it brought us …
Aadil’s Advanced Aol Course Experience
Earlier this year, in the middle of the coronavirus lockdown, I was fortunate enough to have participated in an advanced Art of Living Kriya Yoga …
Intellectual Activism
As you’ve probably noticed if you frequently visit our website to read the AWAKE blog posts, there’s a new section of our website called Intellectual …
Kancane Kancane with LEXLEO
At the beginning of 2020, despite having so much motivation to create a better world in a new year, we saw so many terrible humanitarian …
The Launch of the Awakening EP
Finally, after almost a year since hosting Will Gittens, his brother JR and artist/songwriter Breland and at a time where the whole world is on lockdown …
Karishma’s Filmmaking Experience
There are some life-changing experiences that don’t come to us as grand and over-glamorised moments of realisation, but rather over time, through modest reflection. My …
UN SDG Youth Summit Accra, Ghana
Last week we had the privilege of being part of Africa’s first Global SDG youth summit which was held in Accra, Ghana. Aside from AWAKE …
Rae’s busy time on AWAKE’s 8-Week Programme
Wow! Where do I begin. Well, Working at Awake during the 8-week Summer Programme has been an enlightening experience, to say the least. I’ve met …
Take some time to do the things we never had…
Although I was lucky enough to turn my passion into my job, I feel like I’ve always had a strained relationship with my career. Like …
Laurence’s “Set me Free” Experience
Over the last couple of days of October, we’ve been all go here at Awake, shooting the music video for Pragathi’s “Set me free”. It’s …
Pragathi’s Visit
At the beginning of September, we had the pleasure of hosting American/Indian singer Pragathi Guruprasad at our Johannesburg HQ. Pragathi is a South Indian singer …
Hennops River Clean-Up
On Thursday 10th October, some members of our team went down to Centurion in order to clean up the Hennops River. We joint forces with …
Raool’s Visit
Only a week prior to our new 8-week programme intake, our team had the opportunity to host international rapper Raool for a week. Raool, primarily …
Nanga Vhutshilo
One of the main things that Awake has helped me foster is my passion for education. I’ve always known that I want to educate people, …
Ms. Ndileka Mandela’s Visit
It was a complete surprise and incredible honour to have Ms. Ndileka Mandela visit our offices today. During her visit, our team was extremely excited …
Will Gittens Live at WITS
It was an honour to be involved in such an event for our public launch. AWAKE has been in the works for a long time, …
Carmaux: TYP France Programme
During the last two weeks of June 2019, Valavan and I got the chance to run a two-week social entrepreneurship programme on behalf of our …
A World Without Lions.
It has always been my dream to travel the world and meet people. But I never really knew why. I grew up in London, went …
Meet our Sound Engineer!
Here I am in the Awake studios one moment working on voice-overs and the next on awesome new original music. The voice-overs are written and …
A Springboard Opportunity
Working with Awake is an amazing experience that i will not forget. Learning from very interesting and different people from all over the world, with …
Together.
Imagine tapping through your Instagram stories, stumbling across a post for a summer programme in South Africa, applying the next day and three weeks later …
A Better Future.
If there’s one thing that people my age don’t like to think about too much, it’s the future. As a result, it often seems like …
A City Full of Love, Life and Opportunity
I feel like travelling to a new country is never an easy thing to do. It’s not like a holiday when you’re with family or …
Music for Social Change
I’ve always found that my life fits into a hilarious dichotomy. I’m a musician who is genuinely interested in the study of politics. In my …
Will Gittens
Will Gittens has landed in SA. After listening to Weak on a loop the night before, today was the day that I got to meet …
Coming of Angels
In April we had an awesome opportunity to work with an incredibly talented artist called Rushil. He composed a song for us called ‘Coming of …