By Amy Conrad Stokes | Founder and CEO
Infinite Family is pleased to introduce you, our generous supporters, to the first class of new Net Buddy mentees beginning their journey to self-reliance in March 2017! These 22 Net Buddies are 13 and 14 years old and have just started 8th grade in the rural village of Phola, Mpumalanga. Phola is located 90 minutes to the east of Johannesburg in the middle of South Africa’s coal mining region. Phola’s dirt roads are precarious and full of potholes. Chickens roam the school grounds. The nearest town is 30 minutes away. I share this information as background to the ambition of several of our new Net Buddies.
The closest these young teens have ever been to an airplane is 9,000+ meters, as they have squinted their eyes to see them fly overhead. Yet, in their early Internet searches, even before being trained and connected to their own Video Mentors, they sought information on what they should study to become pilots themselves – girls and boys alike! We applaud their ambition and will accompany their journeys for the next 5 years until they graduate from secondary school and most become the first in their families to attend college/university.
We are so excited to be connecting these 22 ambitious students (a career as “engineer” is an even more frequent future job goal) with Video Mentors worldwide to guide them. Your support is allowing them to begin their challenging but very rewarding work together. Thank you!
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