My journey started 18 years ago, I know right but Am not that old lol.
At the early age of fourteen I got introduced to Basketball. One day a guy from my community called me and asked if I wanted to go with him and others to the basketball court, I was excited, curious and confused at the same time, I mean what is basketball ? As a young, black female in Khayelitsha, how would I know Basketball Right? Little did I know that’s how my life would change.
I joined the team, fell in love with the sport and all that it taught me, I even wanted to play professionally but life happened. Instead, I became a coach and a facilitator for Hoops4Hope a non-profit organization that was fighting crime through sport. While I was busy with that, I was also a volunteer for LoveLife as a Scamtho ground breaker.
In 2011, I went to study sports management at CPUT and I was involved in a lot of extra mural activities. That’s when a friend of mine told me about Lead for Life, a company that was/is running leadership camps and one day programs for schools. That is how I became a leadership facilitator and mentor. Also my administration journey started with Lead for Life.
In 2015 after university, I got a job as a nanny, I know Right such is life. I was a nanny for 2 years within those two years of raising that beautiful little girl, I got curious and wanted to learn more about child development, so I studied Early Childhood Development and became a teacher at WHWPP and at CKC.
In 2018 my administration journey began, by now I should be called the Jack of all trades because WOW. I was an administrator for Rondebosch United Church, I was unfortunately retrenched due to COVID-19. In 2020 I got a job at Hamadi Laboratories, there I was a specimen receiver, receptionist ,and a data capturer . In 2021 I got a job at UCT as a data capture for The Department of Human genetics and now I am here at VUKA!