Breaking Walls and Rainbow Dreams Trust will premier their third annual creative writing, performance and peace-building initiative in Cape Town on October 4 through 8 in Noordhoek. The Breaking Walls Program will bring together twenty-four young artists from different backgrounds in order to “break down” their “personal walls” and the walls between one another.The five […]
CONTINUE READINGFinally, after many trials and tribulations… Having to smuggle one of our travelers out of riot driven Imizamo Yethu in the dead of night to make the airport.. Four excited Township youth club members are ready to travel to Warsaw to represent South Africa at the International Breaking Walls project. Breaking Walls, is a writing […]
CONTINUE READINGFor many years now we have tried to have art taught to our youth club members at the clubs. Not easy to find someone who is willing to drive into the different townships to teach… We have finaly found the answer… Her her name is Julan Briant. What a super star this lady is undaunted […]
CONTINUE READINGRainbow Dreams Trust hit the ground running as the new year started. We were kept busy during school holidays, helping where we could with aftermath of shack fires and preparing for the new school year. We were given boxes and boxes of pencils from Rotary Club in the UK. What a wonderful gift. THANK YOU […]
CONTINUE READINGSiyakhatela is an NPO which operates in the grounds of Kuyasa Primary school in Kuyasa Khayelitsha. Siyakhatela is the brain child of Nontsasa….. One of our Khayelitsha Youth Club Leaders. One of Siyakhatela’s main projects is feeding orphaned children, making sure that they have a daily meal at school, for some children, this will be […]
CONTINUE READINGOur youth club Xmas party is always an exciting time not just because of the Xmas gift each child gets or for the food and fun, but also because each club had the chance to perform. They have all been rehearsing like mad for many weeks in preparation. This year Masiphumulele our youngest club […]
CONTINUE READINGWE ARE CYCLING FOR OUR BLIND FRIEND PALESA! At the age of 18 years, Palesa Hlasa an orphan, from Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa whilst studying for her matric, underwent surgery to remove a pituitary tumour behind her eyes, during the procedure, due to a surgical error, she permanently lost her sight. Her future was […]
CONTINUE READINGIt seems as if we had just put our feet down on SA terra firma arriving back from Breaking Walls in Barcelona …when the 2015 Cape Town Breaking Walls first 4 day workshop was upon us. No rest for the wicked, just another exciting challenge to enjoy. Breaking Walls is a writing theatre project, which […]
CONTINUE READINGWhat a way to end a successful year of camping. On 2nd October, we took the children from Athlone school for the blind on a magical camp. Many of these children had camped with us before and the school told us they were counting the ‘sleeps’ until Friday 2nd…finally arrived. The busses arrived at the […]
CONTINUE READINGHERITAGE DAY 24th September 2015 All our ‘to be a child again’ youth clubs celebrated Heritage day in fine style. As you know, in all our Youth clubs English and only English is to be spoken by the children and their leaders. The reason for this rule is simple, when we started the clubs 5 […]
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