Miss Soweto 2020 spearheading shoes and stationary drive
For her reign in 2021, Miss Soweto plans to ensure that more young people continue to go to school.
Reigning Miss Soweto, Thobile Steyn introduced a charity dive which aims on bettering the lives of every school child in Soweto.
The initiative of donating school shoes is set for two months, from January 25 until March 31. Steyn was encouraged to start the school shoe drive due to the experience she encountered while growing up. She knows first-hand what it feels like to not be able to start the school year on the right footing.
This led to her mother convincing her to enter the White Star sponsored beauty pageant, even though she would often struggle to find enough money to make sure her daughter went to school with the proper shoes and stationery.
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“Young people deserve to be allowed to be able to do their very best at school and that starts with making sure that they can step into the classroom with pride and the dignity they deserve,” explains the Diepkloof-born beauty queen. Children from the Rena Le Lona Community Centre located in Diepkloof Zone 6 are set to be the first beneficiaries of the School Shoes Collection Drive.
Meaning, “We are with you,” Rena Le Lona is a healing Centre for orphans and vulnerable children which offers 117 children in the area a safe place to spend their afternoons with coaches harnessing the medium of art to allow them to deal with loss and allow them the chance to lead meaningful and fulfilled lives.
For her reign in 2021, Miss Soweto plans to ensure that more young people continue to go to school. Her goal is to decrease the number of school dropouts this year and has already begun work on this by starting a shoe and stationary drive.
She also plans to conduct several talks in her community schools to motivate and empower scholars to stay in school, get an education and create opportunities for themselves to get a better life. Steyn continues to be an advocate for education and states that “It is the only way to help create generational wealth and triumph over generational curses that hinder black youth from success.”
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