Miss South Africa Ndavi Nokeri sets R6 million fundraising target for her newly launched education campaign

Miss South Africa Ndavi Nokeri recently launched her advocacy campaign Ed-Unite, which aims to reduce the education sector’s crisis. The launch involved a panel discussion with former Public Protector and current Law Trust Chair in social justice at Sellenbosch University, Professor Thuli Madonsela, Wits SRC President Cebolenkosi Samuel Khumalo and several school students.

When Ndavi Nokeri was crowned Miss South Africa, she shared her aspiration for her Miss SA reign and equal educational opportunities among them. She promised to help ensure all learners in South Africa have equal education.

Ndavi did not grow up on a silver spoon, so she knows the importance of equal educational opportunities for students. When she had a chance to move from a rural Tzaneen village classroom to a better-resourced school in Polokwane, Ndavi realised that education is equal. She had relocated from a school depleted in every way to an environment conducive to learning. Miss SA acknowledges that she would not have made it in life if she had continued to learn at a rural school in Tzaneen; hence she was to introduce equal education in the country.

Ndavi Nokeri sets an R6 million fundraising target for her newly launched education campaign.

By introducing her Ed-Unite campaign, Ndavi Nokeri will play the role of convenor, linking like-minded groups to act in concert as they readdress the inequalities in the past. Ndavi will also serve as the interpreter between big corporations, foundations and schools, ensuring that businesses with services and finances to spend on Corporate Social Investments are partnered.

At an event, Ndavi Nokeri said:

South Africa currently has the highest inequality rates globally. Having been exposed to extreme poverty as a child and thereafter being granted the opportunity to attend k advantaged schools, I witnesses the negative effects of the great and unfair divide in this country. Mty mission is to bridge that gap. I want to set a target and reach a point where R6 million has been donated, spend or reserved for the projects that Ed-Unite is involved in by mid-January 2023

Ndavi Nokeri’s vision to introduce measures to reduce educational inequality in the country has left Mzansi impressed by how intelligent Miss SA 2022 is. Mzansi fully supports her vision and is willing to give her all the support she needs to surpass her R6 million target before 2023. She is not here to wear the crown and look good with it but for serious business and to change lives.