Visiting Ingwavuma

Visiting Ingwavuma

Two and a half years after leaving South Africa, I touched down in Johannesburg airport with Felix (now my husband) and set off on a road trip to visit our schools in Ingwavuma and Howick. The mission: to gather information, share some quality time with our children...
Misty Meadow’s Makespace

Misty Meadow’s Makespace

Thanks to an amazing fundraising effort by Palmer Park Velo in October 2018 and monthly contributions from our current sponsors we were able to launch a new project at Misty Meadows school. The project aims to create a permanent makespace at Misty Meadows, a workshop...
A look into the life of Misty Meadows

A look into the life of Misty Meadows

The Zoe Trust works alongside Misty Meadows, a school on a farm in Howick. This multi-cultural school has an organic learning pedagogy which creates a child-led environment. Three of our sponsored children attend the school and we set up and finance their computer...

Can Syrian refugee children homeschool?

Discovering homeschooling in an agricultural camp In August 2016, I found myself in a Turkish Syrian refugee informal agricultural settlement nicknamed “Big Daddy”, after the patriarch leader of the large extended family living there at the time. After delivering some...