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Today, Tuesday 2nd July, CBN had a workshop titled Place. The workshop was attended by 32children. Lesley started the workshop off with the reading of the book to the CBN group, whiles I took the little CBN outside for fun and games. After the reading of the book and games, they ate their sandwiches and

On Friday 21 June CBN hosted a workshop at Enlighten Trust , attended by 28 children. The theme of the workshop was ‘Windows’. It was focused on what you saw as you looked outside a window and what you see when you’re looking in one. Lesley welcomed everyone and gave a quick brief on the

Lesley will be away for nearly three weeks – and during that time, Nyasha Makwarimba, who is now interning with us, will take over the running of the website. All supportive comments can be directed to nyashamakwarimba083@gmail.com! She will also be handing the day to day admin of CBN and organizing two morning workshops in

When famous hip-hop singer Janine van Rooy (Blaq Pearl) works with our children, they write songs together. It isn’t easy – and the rules are that what they want to say goes in, regardless of the difficulties (as with ‘load-shedding’ in this example!) They work on the ideas, discussing their lives and communities, and then

A new development, and a logical one. We have for some time been working on our methods for monitoring and evaluating the progress our children make with their reading. We can SEE how much more they enjoy it as time passes, but we need a way of monitoring in a more measurable way. We are

Our choir began as a community building exercise,but has grown from there. In Stanford we work with children from two communities and two schools. Singing seemed like a good idea to bring everyone together – and it was. But nobody had any idea how successful it would prove to be. The combined talents of our

OK. This is why we couldn’t avoid forming a Little CBN! They just come along anyway, and during the holidays often have to follow their older siblings, who are baby-sitting. But … honestly … could you resist this? Fortunately, we have an eager team of teenage volunteers (The CBN Teen Team) and they handle the

After the success of the inaugural Teen Team last year, we have regrouped. This year we have eleven names on our list. With the busy school programme, and other activities, it is unlikely that all eleven will ever be available for a workshop, but they will rotate and share the many tasks we have in

We had a workshop at the butterfly centre that was attended by 45 children from Stanford. It was conducted by Vuyokazi Siza. We focused on introducing a new song, ‘We are the world – Micheal Jackson’ and the children loved it. The song was soon perfected once we got past the lyrics and the song

CBN is very grateful to Phumlani Lose, who gives up many Saturday mornings to CBN. He adds both his voice and his example to our workshops. And WHAT a voice! Phumlani was part of an award-winning choir in Eastern Cape and brings with him a sense of discipline and commitment necessary in both choirs and

For CBN we have a new, New Year when we hit the first of March and begin our new financial year. So, it IS the first of March and we have a whole new 2019 filing section to populate, and many plans. The children Are as excited as ever about coming to any workshops we