<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Irresistibly Fish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://brettfish.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[brettfish]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://brettfish.wordpress.com/author/brettfish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[story of hope &#8211; please take a moment and read, pass&nbsp;on&#8230;]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>wow, someone sent me the link to this article written by helen zille about two matrics &#8211; Asavela Rawe (<em>&#8216;a 17-year old boy, who lives in a backyard shack with his single mother and three siblings, and achieved 7 distinctions in matric, including 97%for Higher Grade Mathematics and the top award in the Western Cape for Life Sciences&#8217;</em>) and his friend Monde Simbosini (<em>&#8216;three distinctions and 98% for Higher Grade Mathematics&#8217;</em>) &#8211; from Masibambane high school that serves the impoverished community of Bloekombos in the Western Cape&#8230; </p>
<p>it is a story of hope for south africa that can be reproduced countless times (i think of Vision K reaching kids from Kayamandi and now Vision V reaching youngsters from Vlottenberg in Stellenbosch in the same way) as people change their mindset and choose to embrace hope and challenge and life-transformation rather than simply going thru the motions&#8230;<br />
<a href="http://www.sagoodnews.co.za/newsletter_archive/outliers_the_story_of_masibambane_high_school.html"><br />
read the full story here and please forward the link on&#8230; this is too good to keep to yourself&#8230;</a></p>
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