Friends. Where would we be without them?
Daisy Verburg arrived for coffee just when we needed her. One thing led to another, as tends to happen with CBN, and she has
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The books, the books, the books! When we decided to give the children hard-back books instead of loose papers to write and draw on,
Friends. Where would we be without them?
CBN’s Administration person is one totally reliable friend! Arriving for any meeting precisely 30 seconds before start time, she is unfailingly organized, calm and
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In an age of television and instant switch-on, children find it hard to get to the heart of a story or a text. We
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This project has been enormous. It has also been enormous fun, enormous amounts of work, enormous amounts of hope and a strong belief that
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My favourite kind of people are the ones who say they are going to do something, ignore the muttered voices saying it isn’t possible,
Friends. Where would we be without them?
Lisa Witherden arrived like a lucky bean at just the time we needed her. Within two weeks of introducing herself, lockdown began and she
Friends. Where would we be without them?
Keeping us on the straight and narrow – Elsa Gebhard It is way beyond time that we recognized the immense amount of work that
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This week, the first unit of the Happiness Project has reached the children we work with in De Kop informal settlement. It is the
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This project has been in our minds throughout lockdown when it was imperative to get material out there as fast as possible – and
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‘Never waste a good crisis’ Memorably said by Winston Churchill, this remains a very significant way of looking at things. This has not been
General Reports
A summary for those who are short of time… Children’s Book Network approaches 10 years of working with children without books or a love
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Introduction Soon, it will be ten years since CBN began to work with children from poor communities who had little interest in books and
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If ever we needed it, it’s now! But we have been forced to admit that it is not possible to achieve all we wanted
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We have been very fortunate to receive funding from Rotary Rotweil that will enable us to continue our reading programme for children out of
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We are glad to report that the eight weeks of Lockdown Learning is extended for another week and that Vuyo reports a really good
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Children’s Book Network has nearly completed an 8-week reading programme called Lockdown Learning with children in De Kop and Stanford South. Circumstances are not
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We are really thrilled that three long-standing friends of CBN are joining us internationally to raise funds for the continued work of CBN at
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Now in it’s fifth week, with daily activities, reading, writing and illustrating as well as games and songs, we hope this is making a
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Each week since the 11th of May, we have distributed CBN Lockdown Learning Booklets to our children in De Kop settlement in Stanford. Each
