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| Lynn Stefano, the Director of the Family Literacy Project, Loretta van Schalkway, an organisational development practitioner and eight facilitators from the Family Literacy Project based in Underberg, KZN, met at the Tre Fontaine Guest House in Mariannhill, KZN, on Monday and Tuesday the 7th and 8th of April for mentor training. When the facilitators return home, rural Communities in Loteni, Underberg, Donnybrook and Bulwer, where the Family Literacy Project operates, will have the opportunity of putting down their stories. Publishing of great rural stories could result. |
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| A Mountain of rice was delivered by Spekko Rice to the projection room of the Estcourt Library on the 11th January. Mentors from eight Dancing Pencils Writing Clubs in the Ladysmith District met to each take 120 kgs of rice back for their club members. This was part of a prize in a competition, run by Spekko Rice and the Oprah Magazine which Michelle Kemp won for Felicity Keats with her entry into the competition. The results came in the November 2007 issue of the Oprah Magazine. Thank you Spekko Rice, Oprah magazine and Michelle Kemp! |
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| Sandi Langton launched her book, "A Girl, A Bike, A Dream" in Wordsworth Book Shop on the Cape Town Waterfront on 28th February. Sandi made an epic journey from London to Cape Town on her motor bike, taking eight months to do this and arriving home in early 2007. This book is an amazing tribute to an extraordinary young woman. The book has many tips for bikers and is an excellent read for those who don't dare to make journeys like this! The book is available on www.kalahari.net. |
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| Sunday 29th February saw Nancy Richards, Sandi Langton and Felicity Keats visiting Hazel Makuzeni at her home at Khayelitsha in Cape Town. Nancy and Hazel are, respectively, announcer and producer of the women's programme on SAFM called "Otherwise." They had started a group called "Khayelitsha Dream Girls" where young women with disadvantaged backgrounds are dared to dream about a better life. Sandi went there on her motorbike to share her achieved dreams with them which included a slide show of her travels. Felicity did a right brain writing session. Phuthi Shale is training as a mentor so the Khayelitsha Dream Girls can publish their stories. |
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| On the 4th and the 5th March Mitchell's Plain Acting Director, Mr Rachart Job, Dorothy Prins and Marlene Schwartz from the Metropole South Educational District met with six selected educators, previously trained as Dancing Pencils mentors who trained, over these two days, with Felicity Keats as Master Trainers. Through their efforts, right brain writing will be happening in some Mitchell's Plain Schools. We look foward to their published stories. |
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