Laptops for Africa!

Laptops for Africa!

Writer and Photographer Hedda Mittner

Theo and Angie Krynauw, the founders of Sparkle Kids, were very excited on Friday to hand over repurposed laptops to four of their most sparkling students who are fast on their way to becoming responsible, educated adults with a bright future ahead.

The lucky recipients were 21-year-old Solethu Sitiki, a third year law student at the Free State University; Sibongile Khala, also 21 and a third-year tourism student at CPUT; Asiphe Memani, now in her third year of business management studies at CPUT; and 18-yearold Oyama Mfiki, who graduated from Qhayiya last year as the school’s top matric pupil and is applying to study medicine next year.

The handover of the laptops took place at the Sparkle Kids House in Northcliff, where several other Sparkle Kids gathered to congratulate their friends. All of them had attended Qhayiya Secondary School in Zwelihle and have been mentored over the years by Theo and Angie, who are very proud of “their” children’s accomplishments.

This latest donation again came from Frank Wardenberg from Bremen in Germany, where he has created a hub for the non-profit global platform, Labdoo, which collaborates with people all around the world to bring laptops loaded with educational software to needy schools and education centres and NGOs.

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