What a great year we are experiencing at Ikhaya Labantwana Montessori Early Learning Centre – and this is thanks to all you kind people out there, who keep popping donations into our bank account, allowing us to grow and develop
Marhenene boys’ turn into film-makers…watch this!
Originally a bit of a fun after school project with them, it’s developed into a really inspiring story about how the surfing has actually changed their lives and given them an incredibly wonderful way to express themselves. I stood back
Ikhaya Labantwana 2011: Our first weeks back
Molo to all of our brilliant and devoted friends, and, thank you every day for your consistent best wishes and wisdom. While Dawn is busy with absolutely everything else you read on our blog,,( and much more!), I thought I
An Ikhaya Labantwana star was born – 2010 end of year celebrations
I just wanted to share a few of our last magic moments from Ikhaya Labantwana 2010, before we throw ourselves into this new year. We resolute that our little school and its magical beginnings will be bursting with new greatness and discovery in 2011. May the
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
Boys blossoming beautifully…..
Thobile, Lukholo and Mbulelo are all doing really well! Since the beginning of the 3rd term, I do homework with the 3 boys from 3.30 – 5.00pm Monday to Friday. Our first 3 days were not good, as the boys
3rd term update…
Hi everyone, Apologies for not updating the blog for a while….Kate, our wonderful gardener and photographer is the UK doing fundraising for us, and I had not mastered the use of digital cameras and transferring photo’s…..However, this changed on Friday
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
The last day of the 2nd term
As the last few days of the 2nd term drew closer, our attendance dropped more and more (due to the older brothers and sisters not attending the local JSS school) and on Wednesday, 9 July we only had 2 children,
BIG thank you to Vilakazi.org
Wow, what a super day we had at school today. Our partners and friends, Leigh, Carrie and Mia Jacobs from Vilakazi.org in Oklahoma came and spent the day with us. Vilakazi.org has partnered up with Sustainable Coffee Bay and they