White River girl set on keeping the environment clean

A nine-year-old girl, Kenya Mabunda, is making a stand to keep the environment clean by conducting clean-up campaigns around her home in White River and encouraging her peers not to litter.

On Saturday April 27, she led a clean-up campaign at a taxi rank in White River along with some other enthusiastic community members. She often conducts talks at her school to inform her schoolmates about the disadvantages of littering.

Her mum, Precious Nkosi, said Kenya is quite passionate about conserving the environment, which will benefit future generations as well. Besides conducting these campaigns, she uses her modelling aspirations as a platform to advocate for environmental conservation and collects story books to donates to local orphanages as well.

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Kenya is a finalist for Miss Preteen Grand SA. “I think being in pageantry is fitting, because she enjoys engaging with people and loves looking pretty. She is quite shy, but I believe modelling and pageantry will help her gain confidence to advance her environmental programmes,” Nkosi said.

Kenya aspires to be Miss Universe just like Zozibini Tunzi. “The first pageant she watched was when Zozibibi Tunzi was crowned Miss Universe. She just fell in love her and told me that she wants to be like her when she grows up. At that time, she was too young to enter for pageants, but her zeal drove me and the rest of the our family to support her fully,” Nkosi said.

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“Kenya dreams of winning the Miss Preteen Grand SA crown so that she uses the platform to continue educating and giving back to communities.”