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fosters a culture of reading amongst the

learners of Mncube Secondary! Check

out the picture below!

Spread Luv has several interesting

projects and developments in the pipeline

which will slowly be revealed to you

during the course of the year so watch

this space! We thank you again for your

ongoing luv and support and we hope to

see you at Career

Day soon!

Much Luv

Kgomotso

H ey Fam! I trust everyone has been

doing well and that you have all

been cruising through this first half of the

year!

Spread Luv has had an exciting first few

months of 2014. Hopefully you have all

been able to catch the release of our FNB

ad? The ad features the team at a Career

Day last December with the amazing

youth of New Breed Generation. It was a

super exciting day where we were all

happily followed around and interviewed

by Volcano’s production crew. The ad

has shed some light on our work and

we’ve been getting all kinds of luv from

South Africans from all walks of life. A

huge thank you to FNB, Volcano, New

Breed Generation and our fantastic

volunteers who joined us on the day! In

case you missed it, check out the ad here

and help us increase those YouTube

views!

Next on behalf of the entire team, a warm

welcome to our new Marketing Director,

Mpho Mono! Mpho is a professional

marketing manager with Adams and

Adams attorneys and several years of

experience in marketing. We are lucky to

have Mpho graciously volunteering her

time to help Spread Luv grow from

strength to strength! In addition to this,

Lee-Anne Cobus, a seasoned Spread Luv

Director and engineer by profession, has

moved into management of our financial

portfolio. Welcome to your new gig Lee!

This year, Spread Luv also began an

exciting partnership with Wits Roteract, a

student based organisation that does

volunteer work all over the city. Roteract

members will volunteer at all of our

events and assist us with some new

projects going forward. Welcome to the

fam team Roteract!

Recently we had a fantastic career day at

Mncube Secondary School in Soweto.

What made the day all the more special is

a fantastic donation received from Marcia

Love. Love donated four boxes of books

to our learners! We thank Marcia for her

amazing generosity and hope that this

From the CEO’s Desk

Inside this issue:

From the C.E.O’s

Desk

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Featured Career

Day: Memezelo

Secondary School

2

My Experience at

Career Day - A

Word from our

Volunteers

2

Organization we

Luv - Happy Days

Pads

3

About Spread Luv

Movement

3

Contact Details 3

Our Social Network 3

Spread Luv Movement

J A N - M A R ‘ 1 4 S U M M E R 2 0 1 4 E D I T I O N

Newsletter

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Featured Career Day - Memezelo Secondary School

On January 2014, Career Day was held at Memezelo Secondary School in Soshanguve and in conjunction with the good people of Alexander Forbes. The

day started bright and early with the team hopping on the Gautrain to head to Pretoria. From there Alexander Forbes organized transport for us to get to the

school. We had an army of volunteers from Forbes to take the learners through their financial paces. Other than that we had lawyers, doctors, engineers,

accountants and more, all guiding the goals of a very enthusiastic group of learners. It was a perfect summer Career Day, check out all the awesome

pictures below!

This is a new addition to our newsletter where volunteers can tell us a little about their experience at Career Day. Refentse

Mokale, a chemical engineer from Sasol, joined us at Mncube Secondary School and this is what she had to say

“We had a fun time with the learners and I myself learnt some things I didn’t know before then. The session made

me notice the amount of information the learners still lacked and the gaps they still needed to fill. I believe that the

information the learners got from us was adequate for them to start making decisions and taking actions (in terms of

bursary and varsity applications) with regards to the career paths they had chosen for themselves, although they still needed

to make more research of their own. They now know a little more about other career opportunities and can therefore make

better choices. Many of them seemed enthusiastic and very much excited about their future.

I’m thankful for the opportunity to be able to impart my knowledge to the learners and I would most definitely do it again.”

My Experience at Career Day – A word from our volunteers

“I’m thankful for

the opportunity to

be able to impart

my knowledge to

the learners and

I would most

definitely do it

again”

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0837006050

louise@spreadluv.co.za

kgomotso@spreadluv.co.za

spreadluvmovement@gmail.com

The Spread Luv Movement is a growing, dynamic non-profit

organization focused on providing effective career guidance to

learners with limited resources.

A desire for outreach and social upliftment led a group of young

women into different outreach campaigns and eventually to the

Walter Sisulu Child and Youth Care Centre to host an early

Christmas party for the children who lived there. During this visit

we met and spoke to several of the older learners and realized that

many of them lacked information and hope to better themselves.

Passion combined with desire to do better saw the beginning of the

career guidance focus of the Spread Luv Movement.

For more information contact:

Kgomotso Mokoena (C.E.O)

Or

Louise Mokonyane (C.O.O)

Spread Luv

spreadluv.wozaonline.co.za

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There are approximately 2.1 million young women between the ages of 12 and 18 living below the poverty line in South Africa. As is to be expected, these

young women fall in with the vast majority of our nation's youth whose quality of education is frequently negatively impacted by the lack of infrastructure

and economic resources in the townships and rural areas in which they live. Of late, there have been reports of another disadvantage, suffered only by these young women, that further threatens both their right to education and basic human dignity- menstrual health and sanitation.

As is the case in most Sub-Saharan African countries, menstrual hygiene remains a taboo in most parts of rural South Africa. The abject poverty under which these regions subsist also results in households only spending money on basic necessities which normally do not include menstrual sanitation

products. Due to the high cost of sanitary towels, young women often resort to using rags, old clothes, newspapers or leaves as an alternative which can

often be detrimental to their reproductive health. More often than not, at the risk of soiling themselves in public, these young women stay home during their menstrual cycles which means they miss approximately a week of school every month.

Happy Days Pads is an organization that was founded by Brand Strategist and Social Entrepreneur, Ramona Kasavan to combat the high level of school absenteeism due to menstrual health and sanitation issues. The organization not only hands out sanitary pads to young women in townships and rural areas

but also seeks to educate them about female reproductive health through open dialogue. Happy Days has mentors who teach young women about intimate

female issues such as menstruation, HIV and sexual orientation. These mentors also encourage young women to understand their bodies and break menstrual process taboos. It is within the core values of Happy Days Pads that seek to instill a sense of empowerment amongst young women about their

femininity, confidence and self-esteem that makes Happy Days an Organization We Luv! (Click here and find out more on their website).

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