by AdminWRBI | Mar 23, 2012 | All projects, Education
The BI is an active supporter of Equal Education, an NGO based in Cape Town, which is in the forefront of the campaign for good education for all South African children. We were therefore delighted to welcome the Equal Education team when they visited our remote area...
by AdminWRBI | Feb 17, 2012 | All projects, Education
When Karen Kievit, our ECD expert and volunteer, worked at the Preschool last year she taught the kids to play Rhythm Sticks – simple but fun tunes using drumming sticks. Karen’s back home in the States now but we did her proud with a great music and dance...
by AdminWRBI | Feb 6, 2012 | All projects, Health & Nutrition
In April last year we started an HIV awareness and voluntary testing programme (see previous Health blogs). The programme was run monthly, throughout the year, in each of the 4 villages of the Xhora Mouth Area, in which the BI operates, namely: Nqileni, Mgojweni,...
by AdminWRBI | Feb 6, 2012 | All projects, Education
The Jujuhra Education Centre, which opened in June 2009, has been offering excellent early childhood development (ECD) education to the children of Nqileni Village, library services, an after-school programme and, over the past year, formal training for ECD...
by AdminWRBI | Feb 6, 2012 | All projects, Sustainable Livelihoods (Rural Skills Centre)
Nqileni village is soon to be home to its own hair salon. The idea of opening a hair salon in Nqileni follows on the success of Masizakhe Hair Salon in Mgojweni village. The entrepreneurs, Moses Khanyisile Gashe and Noma-indiya Qondovu, are young and energetic...
