A determined African woman, Mponegele Jane who worked as a domestic help has become a University graduate.
Despite the challenges that came with being a single mother of 4 children, catering for them while being a domestic worker, she did not give up her dreams.
The single mother shared her story with Women of Power Africa, where revealed that she didn’t even think she would be able to become a graduate because of various reasons.
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She works as a domestic worker in Centurion near Pretoria, South Africa and struggled to pay her fees, amidst hunger some months for her family.
Domestic help earns university degree
Against all odds, she obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Health Sciences and Social Services degree from the University of South Africa (Unisa)
Her words:
“I am so happy to have obtained my qualification because I never thought I would get to this point, especially with the job I am doing as a domestic worker and needing to take care of the kids, pay rent, buy food, and pay Unisa with the small salary I earn. “I have always wanted to provide a better life for my four children and so I made the decision to further my education with no outside help besides some food handouts from one of my three employers Adele.”
“Sometimes, we would go the whole month without food. Adele would help me here and there with food and bread, and I always made sure to work hard during the December holidays to earn cash that I could pay to Unisa. That is basically how we survived.”
“I would love to work as an Industrial Psychologist, and my ultimate dream is to create a better life for my kids and build them a home of their own,” said Mponegele Jane Tlole.
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Solace Ojotule, a young Nigerian lady who had a tough childhood earned a masters degree after being awarded a Mastercard Scholarship to study in the UK.
Solace narrated how her father’s family abandoned her and her four sisters after his death, leaving them to go through very difficult times financially because her mother had no male child.
Her mother had a hard time putting them through primary school, and she couldn’t go to secondary school initially because of insufficient funds.
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