We’ve got big plans and need some help! Following on from our last post about Sustainable Coffee Bay’s new strategic direction we’re pleased to be able to tell you much has progressed in the months since, but we need your help to continue! Without further
PART 2: “Are YOU sitting comfortably? Because the kids at our local school aren’t”
We have a long and lovely history with our local Pato Junior Secondary School (JSS) that was the beginning of the Local Schools Support Fund. You really need to check our Part 1 of this story! This is an URGENT
PART 1: “Are YOU sitting comfortably?”
This project originally started back in 2004, when Pato Junior Secondary School (JSS) approached Coffee Shack staff for help. Their school consisted of a ramshackle bunch of fallen down mud huts and they had no funds to rebuild the school.
A busy start to 2016!
Happy New Year from a busy but happy team at Sustainable Coffee Bay! We are incredibly pleased to welcome Marlene Scholtz on board as the new Principal at Ikhaya Labantwana Montessori who comes with over 14 years experience. The start
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
Abantwana, abantwana on Coffee Bay hill, how does your garden grow?
Piece by piece, with love and team power, our baby veggies are beginning to flower. With beetroot, peppers, onion and squash, and green tomatoes absolutely everywhere! Perhaps I should stick to the gardening and let the photos do the talking.
Fences, foragers and farming fellows
Ok, my gardening entries have been at their minimum but work I can assure you has been full steam ahead in “Igada Labantwana” “THE CHILDRENS GARDEN”. Despite missing the presence of inquisitive eyes and helpful little hands over Easter holiday’s,
10 years of Coffee Shack and the community
The latest piece of Transkei magic to happen in Coffee Bay was the Coffee Shack 10th Birthday Community Party – held at Coffee Bay JSS on Friday the 5th. The party was held in celebration of Coffee Shack’s 10th Birthday.
The story of Fanekhaya Lili
We met Fanekhaya Lili in August 2009, when he came and applied for a Receptionist’s position at Coffee Shack Backpackers. He was a very academic applicant and this is his story. Fanekhaya Lili is a 25 year old male who