Student proud ambassador for CEO SleepOut
Tshepo was recently named one of the ambassadors for this year's installment of the CEO SleepOut event.
Homelessness is a circumstance and not a choice.
This is according to an 18-year-old Bedfordview resident, Tshepo Motaung.
Tshepo was recently named one of the ambassadors for this year’s installment of the CEO SleepOut event.
Taking place at the Nelson Mandela Bridge in Johannesburg, the SleepOut will be hosted on July 28 and will see CEOs from different companies braving the cold to raise awareness on homelessness.
They will spend the night on the bridge to raise funds for education.
The volunteers work in the education sector and were selected because of their commitment to long-term, educational solutions, upskilling early development crèche owners to educate numerous children in the future, working with community members to teach leadership skills to the youth and engaging with young people about history, identity, integrity, respect and equality for all.
Tshepo said he is honoured to be involved in the initiative.
“The SleepOut journey has taught me to be grateful for everything that I have and to also to have empathy towards the less fortunate. I am more aware now of what other people go through. I have respect for other people’s struggle. What humbles me is the fact that I can, in some way, help in their circumstances,” he said.
Tshepo is studying towards a BCom Finance degree at the University of Johannesburg.
However, he is not all work and no play. “I am a drummer and BM-er. I am also a self-proclaimed coffee connoisseur who has visited almost every small coffee shop in the city,” said Tshepo.
In the next 10 years the former St Benedict’s College pupil said he would like to be a successful man. “I want to determine my success by the number of lives I have managed to touch and change. I want to break boundaries and make a difference,” said Tshepo.
