Girls must focus on education
SANDTON - The importance of educating girls was highlighted at a breakfast hosted by the Girl Guides South Africa organisation.
The event took place at the Hilton Hotel in Sandton and also honoured Nobel Peace Prize winner and education activist, Malala Yousafzai.
Gauteng MEC for finance, Barbara Creecy, gave a keynote address at the breakfast and stressed the importance of education for young girls.
Creecy, who mentioned her mother as a former Girl Guide, said her mother had instilled in her the importance of education.
“As a mother with two daughters, I can relate to what Guiding means to the girls and I encourage young women to go to University or to look for job opportunities,” she said.
Creecy also told the girls that self-respect was the most important trait as they might be judged by their looks, actions and choices in life. She encouraged girls to invest in their own education, as this was the only thing that could never be taken away from them.
Also present at the breakfast were Eugenia Mbekeni, National President and now Ambassador to Guiding, and Thabang Mampana, the chief executive officer of The National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund.
15 girls under 18 years of age, several rangers and guiders, all representing the Guiding’s twenty six regions across South Africa, were present at the breakfast.
