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I learned that education is very limited and you have to be able to pat the schools fee
and uniforms to be able to attend, and there’s a lot of family’s that don’t even have money
to eat. So education would be just a dream for them.
2. What were some of the obstacles students like zodwa and Mahlatse faced every day
just to attend to school?
Some of the obstacles are that they don’t have money to pay; they live in dangerous
neighborhoods, and loosing a family member.
4. Did you know how many south Africa women between the ages of 15 and 24 can’t
read.
1 out of 10 women can not read because they didn’t attend school.
5. What does an education mean to the girls like Lesego and Thando?
Lesego sees school as their destiny, and Thando feels like she has to do her best to make
it because there’s other girls that have a lot of potential. Education means every thing to
them because that’s how there going to build the future.
7. How are they similar or different from the dreams you have?
The similar dreams are that we both want to help our countries and become some one
important in life. The differences are that you have to attend school until the age of 18,
and any one who wants to attend a school is able to, and that financial aid is available to
help you pay for school. Over there it takes a miracle to happened for children to be able
to attended a school.
10. What are some of the ways the aids/hiv epidemic has personally touched some of the
girls’ lives?
It took some of there parents away leaving them to be raised by other siblings.
11. How has it inspired Zodwa and Sade?
Zodwa was raised with her grandparents because she lost her mother due to aids/hiv,
and Sade lost her mom over a argument she had with her dad. Her dad shot her mom and
then shot his self. But that didn’t stop them from dreaming it motivated them to become
some one and make there parents proud of them.
12. Oprah said, “ LOVE IS IN THE DETAILS.” How did she include pieces of south
African culture into the leadership academy?
The Oprah Winfrey leadership academy is filled with murals and other artwork all over
the school to inspire children to celebrate African cultures.
13. Does anyone know what apartheid means? How did it affect south Africa?
Apartheid means racial segregation , they were affected because they were separated and
taken away from there homelands. Education, medical care, and other public services
were segregated and those available for blacks were generally inferior.
15. How is the Oprah Winfrey leadership academy for girls a unique opportunity?
She wanted to create a school for powerful girls who would lead the country into glory.
Oprah thinks that women are going to change the face of Africa.
16. Oprah said she was looking for girls to attend the leadership academy who had a
special quality she calls “it.” What are the quality’s a girl with “it” has?
A girl with “it” has no opportunities and is part of the apartheid. And has a
leadership mind. It’s a girl who could work toghter and solve problems. It’s the kind of
girl that has the energy to show what girl power is made of.
17. Are these important characteristics of a good leader? Who do you know that has it?
Yes, they are very important and Oprah was searching the energy and strength the
children have inside to become a good leader. All the girls in the school have the energy
that you can feel coming from them to become a good leader and be important in the
future of there country South Africa.