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September Workshops

Workshops with a heritage theme Saturday Stories: On Saturday 8th September Saturday Stories: On Saturday 15th September Heritage Day Celebration on Monday 24 September Our Saturday Stories Workshops will start, as usual, at 9.30 at Butterfly Centre, with a snack and a hot drink. The workshop begins at 10.00 there is room for 10 children […]

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Farewell to Chantel!

For over two years now, Chantel Oosthuysen has guarded the financial battlements of CBN, fought off the invasions of internet banking complications, written down everything the board members said at their meetings and generally kept our administration on track. It is hard to imagine how we will manage all that without her help, but we

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The Teen Team

We already have a splendid, eager, hard-working team of teenagers – ably led by Nyasha Makwarimba, who has worked with CBN for well over a year now. Now we have an official Teen Team of teenagers who have volunteered to help at workshops. Each has specialized interests: Nash Makwarimba General help in advance with admin

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Little CBN has begun!

We have always believed – and said publicly – that CBN must stick to what it does. That is to work with children of 10,11 and 12 who can read, but don’t. Children who come from book-deprived backgrounds who are hungry, really hungry, for the power of imagination that books can bring. But what to

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Breakthrough in Stanford!

Monday 10th April saw twenty children assembling in the Butterfly Centre in Stanford – early, as usual, with their community facilitator Vuyokasi Siza and helper Patricia. It was the third in our CBN training workshops in Stanford to complete Vuyo’s inauguration as a fully-fledged CBN Workshop Hero. She passed with flying colours. This means that

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It comes from within

On 17 February, CBN held the second of a new scheme of training workshops. This is the extension of our Stanford workshops that includes children from Die Kop and was facilitated by Vuyo Siza with Lesley observing. Eighteen children attended and CBN organised transport for those who came from die Kop. This settlement is 6

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It Begins – CBN’s outreach to Mitchell’s Plain

The first in a series of workshops to be given by Blaq Pearl (Janine van Rooi) and colleagues in Mitchell’s Plain. These workshops will be held in cooperation with community organization NEAD. A long-standing dream has always been to take the experience CBN has gained through workshops, package that in toolboxes full of exciting ideas,

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Son of Toolboxes

It’s here! The new and improved toolbox will hit the streets later this month. When we began this project three years ago, we had absolutely no idea of how much work they would be. That’s the trouble with trying to invent something new … it just goes on and on. In this case, on and

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