Work it.

Trying my best! Thanks, sign!

To the left is a sign that I see everyday at my office. My internship is for an NGO that is located at Old Mutual, an international financial services group that provides investment & savings, insurance, asset management and retirement solutions and one of biggest employers in South Africa. It is an organization known for its social corporate responsibility and entrepreneurship.  The executive director of my organization use to work for Old Mutual and took early retirement so that she could give back to the community that she was a part of. 

Mhani Gingi was created in 2006 and strives to provide innovative business solutions which are sustainable and profitable and contribute towards alleviating poverty in South Africa. The work that I am doing is focused on the business training, skills development and mentorship.  I have also gone out in the township community for our social corporate responsibility projects, which focus on education for children from an early age education with informal day care centers or crèche. The work at Mhani Gingi is extremely rewarding and I have learned so much. I would love to work an organization and continue to do this type of work in the future. It's nice is so nice to know what I want to be when I grow up!

L to R: Crazy & inconsistent trains at Cape Town Station, mural in RGG crèche, inside of CWD which houses one of our projects, technical sewing training, sights outside of CWD in Gugulethu, mobile in Nyanga, mini taxi station, pig mural in kitchen in RGG, kids playing soccer outside of an early learning center, banana muffin from Mutual, Tsiba innovation center, which houses one of our garden, and a school that teaches social enterprise, wacky looking pine tree in Gugulethu, visit to RGG, riding back home to Cape Town, RGG mural, and little kiddies at RGG.