By Amy Stokes | Founder, President and CEO
Resilience is one of the earliest skills our Net Buddies learn to develop. Along with making the discovery that every obstacle they meet on the way to achieving their goals (no matter how painful or frustrating) can be an opportunity for them to grow.
It’s certainly been a useful life skill for our 2023 cohort of Grade 12 graduates to draw on as they begin their college/university careers. For them, qualifying for tertiary study and earning a place on a degree course has been both the start of a bright new chapter... and a fresh set of challenges!
Thankfully, after a couple of stressful months, they have all finally settled into their classes at universities across South Africa including:
They will be studying for Bachelors Degrees in:
We’re not the only ones who are proud. When we shared this information with our corporate partners, Vaughan Pierce from Pick n Pay responded: “These stats are phenomenal! Well done to you and your team as well. We can all share this success. These students are also going to great tertiary institutions to study a myriad of specialty areas, all of which are much needed in this beautiful country of ours.”
Your gifts boldly invest in teens growing up in the most difficult circumstances and prove they can all succeed. Thank you for strengthening South African teens, families and communities.
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