Nosiphiwo is a remarkable girl from the De Grendel Farm who, despite her underprivileged and difficult childhood, has achieved high academic and sports results. Currently Nosiphiwo lives with an elderly aunt and does house keeping, cooking and washing in between her studies and sport.
Recently Nosiphiwo received a full mentorship from the Madrinha Trust in the UK and they are also going to pay for her full university education and related costs. So a very exciting future for Nosiphiwo and it's thanks to Toni Tresadern.
Toni Tresadern runs an NGO and a safe house for special needs children, the Thandanani Care Centre. All the children have mental disabilities of various degrees (low mental functioning) and most are foetal alcohol syndrome children. However they are all functionally well within their various capabilities and currently attending main stream school, although most will go on to completing their education in a skills school.
Toni spends an enormous amount of time trying to educate and empower the underprivileged children in the community as well as looking after all the De Grendel Farm children, the Richwood bush children and a group of 45 from Du Noon.
The last letter from Nosiphiwo's mentor in England had a picture of the London Eye in it and she was amazed at this wheel. When Toni told her that there was one at the Waterfront, she mentioned that she had never been to the Waterfront in her life! So Toni approached the Cape Wheel to ask if Nosiphiwo and her friends could come for a ride.
Of course we were happy to help her dream come true.
