“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game”
We are all from the same community; your circumstances should not determine what you can achieve
Girl Walk (GW) is an initiative that was started to benefit the less fortunate, especially when it comes to girls who are unable to afford banquet attire, within the Eldorado Park community.
The team from GW hosted a career day at the Church of the Nazarene on July 29.
Sandy Springfield, founder of GW said, “The reason for the career expo that we hosted was to encourage every matriculant that the sky is the limit, to ensure that they can dream regardless of their situation they find themselves in.”
She added, “We would like to see these girls excel in everything they do and move beyond that, we would like to see them prepare for what the future holds and embrace who they are and be opinionated about who they are and believe that we are feminist and we cannot be limited to what society drills in our heads.”
The main aim that they aimed at reaching with the mentorship program was to encourage every girl to work hard and study towards finishing school as well as working towards the career part that they would like to follow.
Keisha Fortuin from GW said, “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”
Britney Links said, “I am here at the career expo because I wanted to be exposed to people that are in my field, to gain more knowledge and understanding.”
A lot of people were present at the career day, in various career fields such as aviation, law, defence force, graphic design, engineering, beauty and much more.
More interestingly, many of the people that were present at the career were mostly from the Eldorado Park community.
Romario de Broize, an engineer, who attended the career day, said, “I’ve set the bar. For me to show other people or students that were in the same position as me, that things are achievable, that there are no limitations to what you can do.”
He then added, “We are all from the same community; your circumstances should not determine what you can achieve.”
Sandy Springfield said, “I would like to thank the colleges Damelin, University of Johannesburg and Milpark Business School for the donations and thank you to the Girl Walk team for assisting.”
She also added that anybody who would like to give a helping hand in more initiatives such as this as well as the Girl Walk initiative should feel free to do so.
For more information contact Sandy Springfield on 072 675 9522.
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