COMMUNITY INFORMATION NETWORK

By Tarryn Le Chat
15 June 2007

# The Winter Teddy Bear fair will be held at St Thomas Church hall, Campground Road, Rondebosch in support of Childhood Haematology Oncology Clinics (Choc) on Saturday June 16, from 10am to 3pm. Donation of bears or wool for CHOC will be appreciated. For more information, contact Carol on 083 309 5651.

# Living on the fence, Poems by Women who are refugees from various countries in Africa will be launched on Sunday June 17, at small publisher’s stand at the Cape Town International Book Fair and on Wednesday June 20, at the centre for the book, Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town. Email Anne Schuster at anne@kingsley.co.za for details.

# The Motor Neurone Disease Association of South Africa is having a fundraising evening of the musical Hair at theatre on the Bay in Camps Bay, on Thursday June 21, at 8pm. This event coincides with the MND global awareness day. For ticket bookings or for more information contact Roxy on 082 468 8980, or email levy@head-south.co.za

# Animal Rescue Organisation’s charity shop in Kalk Bay is seeking second-hand clothing and bric-a-brac. For more information email liezel@animalrescue.org.za or call her on 021 396 5511.
# The Sultan Bahu Rehabilitation Clinic in Westridge has introduced two new programmes this month, one of which is the Teen Intervene programme aimed at children between the ages of 12 and 19 years old. Contact the centre on 021 392 2945.

# The Disabled Children’s Action Group (DCAG) will have a kareoke fundraiser on July 6 at 8pm, at the Farm recreation centre in Montrose Park, Mitchell’s Plain. All money raised will go to children with disabilities. Tickets cost R15. Call Sandra Ambrose on 021 797 5977 or Senora Carelse on 072 967 4779.

If you have any information for the CIN team regarding events happening in you community, please feel free to contact us on 021 4485450 or fax us on 021 448 5451. Alternatively you can email us on news@bushradio.co.za. If you have missed any of the numbers mentioned you can give us a call.