Our relationship with the NDA improved much in March and many, many hours were spent on proposals and budgets for building a big Montessori Early Learning Centre for 60 children, somewhere in the greater Coffee Bay area. The kitchen at
Ikhaya Labantwana Montessori – Jan/Feb 2011 Catch up!
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
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
Reflections on Ikhaya Labantwana Montessori 2010
The last term quarter of the year just flew by, but the best thing ever happened in October 2010 – Nophesnuka and Tobelani started reading! This was a very special moment, I cannot actually find the words to express it
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
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
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
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.
1st Teacher/Parents meeting at Ikhaya Labantwana Montessori
We had our first teacher/parents meeting at school yesterday, and I have to tell you, I was kind of very nervous for the 3 days preceding the meeting……I was not sure how I was going to do it, or which