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
Summer and winter
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
South Africa needs our prayer
Last month two of our long standing co-workers passed away suddenly. Itsholeng Loving booked off sick at the beginning of June. The flu season had just started, it was cold. A few days later Kesentseng Nanyane also fell ill, she
Tsibogang Annual General Meeting
This year’s AGM of Tsibogang Christian Action Group took place on 22 May 2021. 66 members were in attendance. Even though the Tirisano Hall of St. Joseph’s Retreat Center is a spacious room we could not invite all 112 members
Learning to read and write
The public school opened on 15th February, one month later than planned due to COVID 19. On that day our Afterschool programs as well as our two preschools opened. Due to the declining numbers of COVID 19 infections this was
Greetings for the new year
Dear Friends, the new year has already started. In fact, we wanted to have written to you at the end of last year but we were just too tired and exhausted. The new year started with mild rain. That is