We celebrated our anniversary thanksgiving with our groups and members. Join the celebration!
20 years of Tsibogang
“Sometimes I feel, we the peer educators are the ones who benefit from this program the most”
Tsibogang is proud to say that the peer education program is over 20 years old. Since it’s start in 2001 every year we had Tshepanang workshops which were well attended by hundreds of young people. This year in the first
The benefits of Montessori education
In one of our preschools, in Lomanyane , we have a group of children who have been in the preschool since January who really benefitted from the Montessori approach. There is one boy , Kesaobaka, who knows all letters of
Youth month
The month of June is called the youth month in South Africa. 16 June is a public holiday in remembrance of the students’ uprising in Soweto in 1976. On this day hundreds of young people lost their lives when they
Summer and winter
Wolfgang and I are in Hermannsburg at the moment and are enjoying the warm weather together with the green trees, neither of which exist in South Africa presently. We are approaching winter, which is expected to be early and cold
First impressions
On January 21, I started my adventure. It was the start of the journey to Mafikeng, South Africa, to do an internship at Tsibogang Christian Action Group. More specifically, the internship will take place in the Montessori Kindergarten and an
Tlamelang workshop – and Covid
With some delay, the three vehicles arrive at the Magaliesburg Retreat Resort on Monday afternoon (03.01.22). There are a total of 26 participants who went to the Tlamelang workshop at the beginning of this new year and thus even one
Evaluation in our After School Centres
Slowly our old Venture hops along the poorly maintained dust road between Welbedacht and Khunotswane. Is is very hot. Inside the car there are two childcare workers from Welbedacht and myself. I have a headache and muscle pain. But despite
Workshop Gender Based Violence
This year is the 20th anniversary that our Action Group Tshepanang conducts a five-day workshop in spring. We are grateful that in the past twenty years there was not a single year where this workshop had to be cancelled. But
After the winter
Now the trees have turned green again after a severe winter that lasted into August. It got really hot this week. Our last blog was in July when the winter holidays had just started. The children have been back in