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Community celebration for the launch of the Jujurha ELC.
On the 22 September we officially celebrated the opening of the Jujurha Early Learning Centre. The centre had been operating from the new premises for 2 months and so the classrooms were beautifully adorned with the children's work. Read more |  |
Jujurha video completed Many thanks to Carlos Francisco of AHB Films for producing this inspiring clip, created to celebrate the launch of the Jujurha Early Learning Centre. It shows a day in the life of the school and includes interviews with Annette Champion and Sonja Giese. Click here to view |  |
Urgent appeal: addressing the water crisis Everyone has the right to water. For most of us reading this newsletter, this right is one which we take for granted. For many South Africans however, especially in remote rural areas, the right to a reliable and clean water supply remains unrealised. Read more |  |
The No-ofisi hall – near completion After months of hard work, the beautiful hall at No-ofisi primary school is finally nearing completion. The building team have laid a concrete floor, hung doors and lime plastered the walls.This monumental structure will not only provide much needed additional classroom space and a community meeting place, it will also enable us to capture large quantities of rain water from the roof! Read more |  |
News from the classroom There was great excitement when the Grade R children spread icing on biscuits recently. They enjoyed the mixing and colouring of the icing and took the greatest care to spread it and then decorate each biscuit with the pretty 'sprinkles'. Read more |  |
Home grown delights We have also made progress with the establishment of our ELC vegetable and fruit garden. The garden has been terraced using stones, collected by hand, and wooden poles left over from the building of the classrooms. So far, we've managed to plant a selection of fruit and nut trees and a variety of veggies. Young shoots are now visible for carrots, butternut, beetroot, spinach and tomatoes. And the banana trees have taken root beautifully. Read more |  |
The Jujurha library With the generous support of the Raith Foundation, the Jujurha Early Learning Centre has just completed the building of a beautiful library. A wonderful space! We have BIG plans for this wonderful resource. Library activities will be built into the weekly routine for the 3 classes at the Early Learning Centre, and we will be using the library during our after-school tutoring programme for children from the local primary school. Read more |  |
Visitors from Cedar House The BI has had a long standing partnership with Cedar House – a school in Cape Town. This partnership includes a scholarship for a child from our village (she has just completed her first year at the school and is flourishing!) and an annual visit by learners, to help out for a few days on one of our projects. This year the timing was perfect and the learners arrived a week before the launch of our Early Learning Centre. Read more |  |
Expanding our sustainable livelihoods programme The BI recently added an additional income generating project to our 'sustainable livelihoods' portfolio. It is one of ten new income generating projects that we will be piloting (and documenting) over the next 3 years, with the support of Old Mutual. The ten ideas were informed by research conducted in the village in 2008. The latest addition is a sewing project –which currently provides an income to 5 families in Nqileni. Read more |  |
Toilets to write home about We recently welcomed the arrival of our long-awaited toilets at the Early Learning Centre! After much deliberation we decided to go with Ecosan toilets – this magical invention comes as a ready made unit which is easy to install, and it converts waste into compost. Read more | |
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