For the upliftment of the Coffee Bay community
The days are drawing near….. very near….. to the opening of the New, Big Ikhaya Labantwana Montessori Early Learning Centre!! It has been go go go since June last year and thanks to Luke and his building team, we will be moving out of our 5m rondawel into our beautiful,… Read more…
WOW! Spring has really sprung for us! There has been such amazing development at Ikhaya Labantwana Montessori, both in the indoor AND in the outdoor enviroments. The children are enjoying their days at school and their developments are all going so well – I am truely blessed to have these… Read more…
7 June 2012 is a date I will never forget! It is the day that the Department of Roads and Public Works (from Grahamstown) came to finish levelling the site for the new ILM - this means that we can now start building!!!!!!! YEAH!!!!!!! SCB would like like to thank Mr… Read more…
ILM’s search for the TLB continues, but it seems like DoPW (Department of Pubic Works) from the Mapuzi road site is going to help us to flatten the site……a few more days till head office gives approval (fingers crossed). In the meantime, things at ILM are progressing well. One of… Read more…
2012 started with a bang with 8 new children joining our pre-school of 15, and 5 of them were 3 year olds….. this was going to be very interesting and challenging!!! The other major challenge for us was going to be organising a TLB or Bulldozer to come and level… Read more…
As the year started drawing to an end, we got ready to say farewell to some of our children. They were progressing onto new pastures, sad for us to lose them, but great for their next phase of development We ended our school year with the children and their… Read more…
Spring definitely sprung in Coffee Bay………flowers were blooming, puppies and kittens were being born and the children at Ikhaya Labantwana Montessori were blossoming into amazing little human beings! The waiting list of children wanting to attend the pre-school was also growing and growing……. THEN I answered a phonecall in early… Read more…
After a good mid-year break, we opened school ready for the 3rd term……We had new globes for the environment, a Sandpaper Globe and a Continents Globe – Excellent! We returned to school on a Monday, after having been open for 2 weeks, and what greeted my eyes was very sad………our… Read more…
Charlene Quest, a friend of S.C.B’s did a fundraiser for us in Madison, in the USA in May 2011. It was a night of make-up, hair and fashion – to make some dollars for the Coffee Bay community. Charlene and Angela went all out and produced a memorable night…check out… Read more…
Our relationship with the NDA improved much in March and many, many hours were spent on proposals and budgets for building a big Montessori Early Learning Centre for 60 children, somewhere in the greater Coffee Bay area. The kitchen at ILM, which had been sponsored by Stichting Obonto (www.stichtingobonto.nl) in… Read more…
Sustainable Coffee Bay is an initiative of Coffee Shack Backpackers, a traveller’s hostel operating in the area for over ten years.