On Tuesday 14 May, CBN gave a workshop to 21 teacher-librarians in Franschhoek Workshop Reports The venue was the amazing Groenberg Community Library , right in the heart of Franschhoek. The participants consisted of 21 teacher-librarians from all over Read more
Place General Reports Today, Tuesday 2nd July, CBN had a workshop titled Place. The workshop was attended by 32children. Lesley started the workshop off with the reading Read more
Windows General Reports On Friday 21 June CBN hosted a workshop at Enlighten Trust , attended by 28 children. The theme of the workshop was ‘Windows’. It Read more
8 June Workshop Workshop Reports On Saturday the 8th June, the CBN children were once again reunited. Jude Victor came to visit the children which was a great surprise. Read more
25 May Workshop Workshop Reports Saturday 25th May, we had a workshop in Stanford in which 34 children attended. The theme was Friendship. We started of the workshop with Read more
Handover of website during May-June General Reports Lesley will be away for nearly three weeks – and during that time, Nyasha Makwarimba, who is now interning with us, will take over Read more
Easter Saturday Workshop Workshop Reports CBN will offer a workshop on Saturday 19th April with the theme ‘Expressions’ This workshop will be well supported by the Teen Team, and Read more
The March school holiday workshops (4) Statistics Workshop Reports And, by the numbers … We always have an oversupply of children of all ages in Stanford when the call goes out. We had Read more
The March school holiday workshops (3) Illustration Workshop Reports Drawing on experience Especially for children who may not be articulate in English (although all our participants understand if they are Grade 4 and Read more
The March school holiday workshops (2) Reading Workshop Reports Working on the theme of ‘US!’ On 18th March (Stanford) and 19 March Enlighten Education Trust in Zwelihle in Hermanus, we gave two holiday Read more
The March school holiday workshops (1) Songs Workshop Reports Two Day-Workshops on 18 and 19 March On 18th March (Stanford) and 19 March (Enlighten Education Trust in Zwelihle in Hermanus). The theme of Read more
CBN Children sing their own tune and dance to their own drum General Reports 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 Read more
CBN Reading Club General Reports A new development, and a logical one. We have for some time been working on our methods for monitoring and evaluating the progress our Read more
The CBN Choir – Albert Hall anyone? General Reports 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. Read more
Little CBN General Reports 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 Read more
Teen Team 2019 General Reports After the success of the inaugural Teen Team last year, we have regrouped. This year we have eleven names on our list. With the Read more
Music and Story: Saturday 9th March General Reports We had a workshop at the butterfly centre that was attended by 45 children from Stanford. It was conducted by Vuyokazi Siza. We focused Read more
Role models and Mentors General Reports CBN is very grateful to Phumlani Lose, who gives up many Saturday mornings to CBN. He adds both his voice and his example to Read more
New beginnings General Reports For CBN we have a new, New Year when we hit the first of March and begin our new financial year. So, it IS Read more
Sing together – Be together General News CBN started a choir during 2018 because we believed that it would give the children an identity and a sense of community. It succeeded Read more