Tag Archives: Mobile Counselling

How Twitter is changing lives on the Cape Flats and beyond

Over the last two years Twitter had a very big impact on the lives of many in the RLabs community on the Cape Flats. The journey with this micro-blogging platform started in 2008 when a number of young men and women were introduced to … Continue reading

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JamiiX: Using Mobile Phones and Cloud Computing to Change Lives

The last week has been exciting at RLabs as their JamiiX counselling team have been working hard in changing the world one message at a time. JamiiX is a cloud-based solution allowing its users to manage conversations via various Social Network … Continue reading

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RLabs Finalist for International Award

Since 2008 the RLabs team were involved in using mobile technology to provide counselling support services to thousands of youth at risk accross Southern Africa (Read more…). It was with great excitement when we got feedback today that this RLabs initiative is … Continue reading

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Drug Advice and Support hits 100k

In 2008 I was part of a team that launched a online mobile chat platform for drug users. This chat platform gives them an opportunity  to chat with the services’”counsellors” when they feel the urge to use drugs. Last week … Continue reading

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RLabs, JamiiX, MobieG and “The Art Of Mobile Counselling”

Below is a guest blog post by RLabs (Jul 24, 2010) Two of our team members Craig and Brent was out in Johannesburg for 3 days to do training with MobieG. The purpose of this training was to equip  the MobieG team to … Continue reading

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JamiiX used for RLabs Drug Advice Support mobile counselling service

Our young people’s lives are being destroyed by drugs and alcohol and it seems as if there is no hope for them, but here is a story about an innovation that emerged from The Cape Flats offering advice and support … Continue reading

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