Sosh teenage girls encouraged to lead purposeful lives
Tumelo Mashabela established the Girl Live Your Best Life organisation to guide and mentor young girls in Soshanguve.
A local organisation reached out to teenage girls in Soshanguve to encourage them to live a purposeful life on Saturday.
Girl Live Your Best Life, based at Soshanguve Christian fellowship centre in Block BB, empowers young girls.
Founder, Tumela Mashabela said the aim of the event was to empower and equip young girls with skills and the necessary information for them to lead meaningful lives.
Mashabela said the organisation founded in 2015 had achieved what it set out to do.
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“Girls struggle most with identity. They live their lives without a sense of purpose. Since we started, we have made sure that we plant a seed in these teens,” said Mashabela.
She said the organisation mentored young girls and ensured that they were aware that no dream was too small or too big.
“We are also thinking of going out of Soshanguve to reach more young girls who need direction to pursue their dreams and talents,” she added.
Accountant and trainee auditor Thatohatsi Letlape said it was important for them to teach young girls to pursue their dreams and not suppress their talents.
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“I also suppressed my talents and dreams before because of fear. I do not want that to happen to other people. It is very helpful to mentor young people at an early age, because they will grow up with the seed inside them,” said Letlape.
Resident and parent, Elizabeth Manala said the organisation helped fight social ills in the community.
“I really support this organisation and what it is doing for our children. It is planting a good seed into the minds of our children, which us as parents are unable to,” said Manala.
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Nonhlahla Mangwale (18) said: “I am happy that I was part of the event. The mentorship and words of encouragement changed my life completely. I was personally living a life of fear, because of the negative response to other people. Fear would stop me from using the gifts and talents that God gave me.”
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