Getting Ready...

I can't believe my journey to South Africa begins in less than 2 days! So if you’ve come this far, you probably already know that I will be going to Pretoria, South Africa on a Summer Project with Campus Crusade for Christ, a group that I love to be involved in at MIT.

Check out this 3 minute video that a team made back when this project was composed mostly of Harvard students.

 

We will be working in the black township of Mamelodi, just outside one of the nation's largest cities--Pretoria. Even though Apartheid ended in the 1990s, this country still struggles with a lot of racial tension. Many young, white college students in Pretoria have literally never stepped foot inside a black township. Because of the educational and economic disparities, many black students are struggling with poverty. Education can lift the youth of the black townships out of poverty, but their schools lack resources. In South Africa, the total admission to the University of Pretoria  from all seventeen schools in the Mamelodi township is about 200. The total admission from one regional white school is also about 200.

Our team is made up of college students, and we will focus our efforts this summer to work together with the University of Pretoria to launch a sustainable tutoring program for high school students in Mamelodi that the white students can continue when we leave. The goal is to get more black students out of poverty and into college.

I’m so excited for this trip! I can’t wait to meet the whole team in Boston on Sunday before we head off together. I’m excited to see God work in the lives of the students that we encounter, as well as in my life and in the lives of the other team members as we work for His kingdom. 

Stay tuned!

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16

In Christ,

Tati