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Creativity as a Tool for transformation

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” —Maya Angelou Give children an open canvas.It can be a piece of concrete wall, water and brushes or sponges. It can beclouds and our imagination, paper and paint or an old cardboard box which canbe painted and made into many magical things

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Creative skills holiday Program

Thank you to all of our supporters and our amazing facilitaton team for a very successful, colourful and energetic holiday programme. Thank you for all the donations of art and craft materials and collection of recyclable materials.Thank you to the Grootbos Foundation for providing fresh fruit for the children every day. Welcome to the third

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Workshop with David Krut projects in Stanford

Thank you David Krut Projects and Roxy Kaczmarek for the wonderful print techniques workshop you shared with the Creative Works facilitators this week. We look forward to using these skills in our workshops with the children. Read more about this below: https://davidkrutprojects.com/64532/dkw-and-the-creative-skills-factory

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stanford festival 2021

We are proud to have been a part of the wonderful Stanford Festival 2021. A huge, hearfelt thank you to all of our sponsors and collaborators for their help in making this such a successful, enjoyable festival.Thank you to the Amani Harmonic Foundation for sponsorship of the music programme, which the children in our community

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Early learning with colors

We are offering our early learning program currently at die Bron primary, Masakhane primary and Funimfundo pre school. The aim is to stimulate grade r children on all levels of development towards school readiness. We work with small groups of children enhancing perception, sensory awareness, fine and grossmotor skills as well as conceptual understanding. Over

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Youth Day

Collaboration on themes that matter to youth on 16. June 2021. On Youth Day, the 16th June we participated and collaborated with Michelle Baker, Food-4-Thought NPO and the Wortelgat Outreach Trust sparking conversations about how the youth of today can become game changers in our communities and leaders of today and tomorrow. We want to

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Riding high

Emerging programmes – riding high. Collaboration with the African Horse Company and Stanford Hills farm on our nature and horse interaction program. Small groups of children are hosted weekly while learning valuable skills in horse managment and riding. We are excited to see this initiative grow using local resources around us for learning and skills

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Personal Growth for young People

Our story…how it all began: Die Bron Primary School in Stanford, MichelleBaker(MEd Design Thinking Practitioner) and Regina Bronner(Occupational Therapist) ;collaborated to provide training and support to 17 assistants who were placed at the Die Bron Primary School. A four-week course with focus on inter-personal skills and personal growth was put in place to run from

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Funimfundo Parents workshop at Wortelgat Farm

We collaborated with the Funimfundo team for a parenting workshop that was held at Wortelgat farm near Stanford on the 20 March with the theme of the day “learning can be fun”. The parents were introduced to brain gym techniques and muscle testing , we did educational games , talked about healthy food choices and

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Early Learning Program

Early learning programme at Die Bron Primary School in our beautiful room sponsored by Mike Gibbs. Every day we are grateful for this wonderful space, which was established in collaboration with the school to offer a perceptual programmme to the Grade R learners. Play-based activities are at the centre of our programmes and we are

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