Miss SA and Miss World South Africa 2018 visits Alexandra
ALEXANDRA– Young girls will have unlimited access to Internet at Ratang Bana Choma Dreams Café
South African beauty queens recently visited Alexandra’s Ratang Bana Future for Children non-profit organisation.
Miss South Africa 2018 Tamaryn Green (23) and Miss World South Africa 2018 Thulisa Keyi (26) together with cellular network giant Cell C and HIV South Africa (HIVSA) visited Choma Dreams Café in Tsutsumani on Tuesday 12 June and donated some goodies to the community.
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Choma Dream Café is a HIVSA’s project intended to provide vulnerable adolescent girls and young women with HIV prevention and social asset-building programmes in safe, fun, girl-friendly and new ways. Choma Dreams Café received a sponsorship of 100GB of data from Cell C data for a period of two years.
Speaking at the event Juliet Muhango, Cell C’s chief of HR said her organisation has been for the past 16 years at the forefront of young women empowerment with its Take a girl child to work day and other initiatives aimed at empowering young women.
“As an organisation, we feel that this partnership with Choma Dreams Café will afford young girls with access to life-changing access to information that they wouldn’t have had before. With this 100GB we will be donating every month we want to connect young people to information and so much more,” Muhango said
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Both Miss SA 2018 and Miss SA World 2018 urged the business community to lend their helping hand in fighting poverty and gender inequality in society. They also urged young women to use Choma Café to learn things that will make positive change and to progress their lives.
“Far too long the exclusion of women has been normalised in our society and girls have been forgotten. Throughout my Miss South Africa journey, I was quite vocal about the economic emancipation of women and youth and empowerment through education,” said Keyi.
Ratang Bana founder Ingrid Maredi thanked HIVSA and Cell C for their contribution and investing in the future of the country.
