Children host women’s breakfast at Marietjie School

SECUNDA – The Stedu VI Club hosted a women’s breakfast at Marietjie School on Saturday, 21 April.

This was the club’s first annual breakfast and Videlle Pieterse, a learner from Laerskool Oranjegloed Primary School, welcomed the women.

Videlle is also the president of the club that she and her friend, Isabella Stromvig, began last year.

“When Isabella and I began the club, we decided that we wanted to make a difference in the lives of other people,” said Videlle.

She quoted a few verses from a poem that read: “People are illogical, unreasonable and self-centered, love them anyway.

“If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies, succeed anyway.

“The good you do today, will be forgotten tomorrow, do good anyway.

“Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable, be honest and frank anyway.

“People favour underdogs, but follow only top dogs, fight for a few underdogs anyway.

“What you spend years building, may be destroyed overnight, build anyway.

“Give the best you have and it will never be enough, give your best anyway.

“In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and anybody else anyway.”

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Tshegofatso Nyathela, the club’s secretary, said the club’s focus areas are to believe that readers are leaders and have a book club, to help learners from the Osizweni Combined School with reading, to do science experiments for their peers, to help less privileged people and support the Santa Shoebox project and to work with people with disabilities.

Videlle and her club members decided to begin with the deaf community and they learnt sign language and also had an interpreter at the women’s breakfast.

This was the first of more events which they will be hosting to promote their focus areas.

Ms Tessa Stromvig, Isabella’s mother, was the guest speaker and spoke about the club and the four committee members and said though they are still only children, each one taught her something.

“They taught me that children can do more than what we expect from them, they have a lot to teach adults, if we would just listen to them and even young children can be mature and wise.”