After a long winter with lots of frost and cold wind, Spring is slowly taking over. The first green leaves are visible and in the garden the first roses are coming out. Winter here in South Africa is really tough
Workshop on tuberculosis for home care givers
35 of our Tlamelang Home Care Givers gathered from 06.07. to 11.07.2014 at the Guest Farm outside Mafikeng for their annual workshop in order to get an update on the management of chronic diseases. They had to brave the icy
“A great honour and challenge”
The month of June is celebrated in South Africa as youth month because of the 16th of June 1976, when the youth of Soweto went on the streets protesting against a policy which the Apartheid government had introduced: Afrikaans, the
Montessori for a blind child
In one of our preschools, in Godisang, we have a five year old blind boy, his name is Kaone Mathiba. In 2012 it was discovered that he had cancer on both of his eyes and therefore he was operated on
How to communicate nonviolently in a violent society
On 20.-22.03.2014, 42 peer eduators from our Action Group Tshepanang gathered for their traditional workshop at the Guest Farm outside Mahikeng. The main topic for this workshop was “Nonviolent Communication” according to the famous book written by Marshall Rosenberg. The
Tsibogang in numbers
The impact of the work of Tsibogang Christian Action Group can be expressed also in numbers. The statistics of the current financial year are quite remarkable: The project for orphans and vulnerable children (Godisang) reached almost 1500 orphans and vulnerable
At eye level with children
In the first week of January we had our counselling workshop for the home care givers . This workshop is in it’s tenth year now. The aim of it is to encourage our home care givers in the difficult work
Year end function of Tsibogang
On 07.12. 2013 – few days after World AIDS Day – the members of Tsibogang Christian Action Group assembled to commemorate all people who had died from AIDS and to express their solidarity with all who live with HIV. 102
After School Festival 2013
There was no grass left on the soccer field of the small village of Shiela, 45 km south of Mafikeng. But the children who had assembled here on 23.11.2013 did not bother much about this and were quite content with
Learning in Godisang according to Montessori
Many of the children in our preschools come from families where the children are not looked after well. Many of the children are raised by their grandmothers because their mothers died. I am trying since last year to do regular