St Johns College students up-date The High School scholarship programme is going very well and we are very pleased and proud to say that St Johns College had a 100% matric pass rate in 2010 and was voted one of
Scarecrows and graduations
Molo friends, hope you are all well. Thank you for your continuing support as always. With the welcome rains, revisiting friends and operation ‘clean and green’ underway, our Coffee Bay canvas is looking lush! Especially too, with the colourful array
Let “the feeling” of 2010 help you make a difference for 2011…
Hi Everyone, While our nation’s Teachers and other government employees are striking, the children in our rural areas are well frustrated! We received a number of good applications for The St Johns College High School Scholarship Programme for 2011 and
Home for the holidays
Fanekhaya is back from university in Butterworth, and is doing well. He wrote 2 exams this semester and had 2 continuous subjects. He will receive his results towards the end of June 2010. In the meantime, he is going through
Pato JSS got electricity!
We received the best phonecall ever from Thuli, the principal of Pato JSS (a junior secondary school half way between Coffee Bay and Hole-in-the-Wall) last week. She called us to let us know that they now have electricity (after the
Tables and chairs for Ikhaya Labantwana Montessori
Ikhaya Labantwana Montessori Early Learning Centre would like to thank the Local School Furniture and Support Fund for purchasing 3 x 4-seater tables and 13 chairs for their school – we are very grateful for this. Hopefully the delivery from
High School Scholars settling in well
Firstly I would like to thank all our high school scholarship sponsors very much for your sponsorship and the positive difference this is making for the children/youth of our community. This year we have 8 students being sponsored at St
Fanekhaya Lili update – December 2009 to 20 February 2010
Fanekhaya filled out 8 bursaries and we posted them off. He had a serious chat with his brother and his brother agreed to help him with money for his registration at WSU. There is an ex-Coffee Shack guest, Kim, who
The story of the High School Scholarship Fund
The Coffee Shack High School Scholarship Fund The Coffee Shack High School Scholarship fund was started in 2004, because the closest high school to Coffee Bay was (and still is) 20km away, and the majority of the families in the
The story of the School Furniture & Support Fund
The Pato Desk & Chair Project This project was started in 2004, when Pato Junior Secondary School approached Coffee Shack for help. Their school, which had consisted of a ramshackle bunch of fallen down mud huts, had no funds to