Our 12 bursary students, and their parents, have been hard at work at home with both their online studies and doing their bit for their communities. Zaylin’s mom, Ulandi Abrahams, has sewn 300 face-masks for people in the Hangberg community. And thanks to the facilitating of former chelo chairperson, Iris Henkel, all our chelo families

Here at chelo, we depend on the kindness and generosity of our school parents, companies, donors and particularly our volunteers who steer the ship. We’d like to bid a hearty welcome to two such volunteers, Rhoda Kawinga and Norman Chaibva, who will be stepping into the roles of chelo Secretary and chelo Vice-Chair respectively.  

  chelo has recently received a much welcome and extremely generous donation from Southern Hemisphere, a socio-economic development consultancy. Managing member, Nana Davies, chelo’s first chairperson and a former mentor to a chelo child, has asked that the donation be used to support the high school girls in chelo’s program, helping them to successfully graduate

It takes a village, or so the wise proverb goes. Here at chelo, we depend on the kindness and generosity of a host of people – IES who give places to our bursary children, our volunteers who run the organisation, the parents of HBIS, and our donors and sponsors. All of these people ensure that

Here’s a brilliant way to show some love for our chelo bursary kids this Valentine’s Day. Each parent that signs up for a MySchool MyVillage MyPlanet card can help our kids simply by swiping at the tills. It’s one of South Africa’s biggest fundraising programmes which raise over R6 million a month for a host

chelo is starting the 2020 school year on a hugely positive note! Our Christmas Carol fundraiser held in December was a massive success, with enough funds raised to ensure we’re operating with a budget surplus. To all new families who aren’t aware, chelo consists of a group of parents from HBIS who raise funds for our bursary

Ticket sales for chelo’s Christmas Carols on Friday December 6th are going at a cracking rate and we’re delighted that parents and the broader Hout Bay community are buying in with such enthusiasm. Class liason reps have really outdone themselves this year by assembling the most beautiful, interesting, useful and delicious-looking hampers. Luxury Sweets ‘n

chelo (Children of Hout Bay Education and Learning Opportunity) and the Hout Bay Community Christmas Choir are raising the roof at HBIS, Fri 6th December 2019, from 6pm till late! EVERYONE is invited to this fun-filled evening of carols and community, where food stalls, beer, wine, a Xmas hamper auction and goodies for kids will be

A massive thank you to parents and all the ghouls, ghosts, T-Rexs’ and beasties who took part in our Halloween fundraiser. Chelo are delighted to announce that well over R3 000 was raised for our bursary programme and we couldn’t be more grateful! Thank you, one and all. Next up on our fundraising calendar, our sensational

Huge thanks and congrats to school parent Phill Carter, who won 6 bottles of wine for signing up to our MySchool MyVillage My Planet initiative. One of South Africa’s biggest fundraising programmes, it’s an easy, free and wonderful opportunity to raise funds for CHELO, simply by swiping your card at any Woollies, Engen, Flight Centre