SPAR Superstar winner: Determined Dristi wins SPAR Star 2021 competition
Dristri was announced as the final year winner in the high school division of the SPAR Superstar competition.
DETERMINATION and care for her community are what ensured Dristi Moodley, a St Henry’s Marist College learner, was named as the overall winner (high school) in the KwaZulu-Natal SPAR Superstar competition.
Moodley was all smiles as she collected her prize, a R5 000 voucher from SPAR. Last year, as a Grade 8 learner at St Henry’s Marist College, Moodley was determined to swim the aQuellé Midmar Mile for charity. Despite Covid-19 challenges, she took to her school pool and completed a whopping 60 laps (1 600m) to raise R3 000 for CHOC Childhood Cancer Foundation.
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“I’ve lost a lot of family and friends to cancer, so I wanted to honour them by swimming for CHOC,” said the learner. While swimming, Moodley said she needed to maintain her pace and avoid swimming too fast.
“I’m very excited about the voucher I won, and I’m also excited that I won this through fundraising,” she said. With her winnings Moodley, will purchase some of the international candy imported by SPAR.
The school’s principal, Stephen Leech, commended Moodley on her determination. “She really deserves this prize after all the effort she put in. We are very proud of her commitment and achievement. She swam by herself and put in the work needed. We could see she was really determined to fulfill the commitment. We are really pleased when we see our learners do well in the competition and we will definitely be entering more learners in this year’s SPAR Superstar competition,” he said.
The business manager for Caxton Community Newspapers Durban, Nicole Vosser, said the SPAR Superstar competition was a way to give children, like Moodley, a platform to shine.
“By giving this opportunity to schools and its learners, it really opens up more doors for them. As community newspapers, we need to showcase more of what our young children are doing because they are the future. Through our sponsorship with SPAR KZN, we have a wonderful opportunity to highlight learners’ talents and showcase them to the community at large,” Vosser said.
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SPAR KwaZulu-Natal’s advertising and sponsorship manager, Nozipho Mkhize, echoed these sentiments, and said she was impressed by Moodley’s initiative.
“As SPAR, impacting other peoples’ lives and making a difference is at the centre of what we do as a business. We are not just a food business, we want to support our customers as they support us. Dristi has shown some great qualities in terms of using her talents to make a difference in her com-munity,” said Mkhize.
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Is your child or a learner from your school the next SPAR Superstar for 2022? We want to hear about it. Don’t waste time and tell us what the future leader has achieved, both big and small. Call our office on 031 903 2341 or email southlandssun@dbn.caxton.co.za to tell us about their achievement and they could be walking away with a SPAR voucher.
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