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Group to walk from Durban to Pretoria to raise R1 million for students in need
By Lethu Nxumalo
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A group of university students are making their way from Durban to Pretoria on foot in the hope of raising over a million rand which will assist struggling students with registration and accommodation fees as well as cooked meals.
Walk4Access, consisting of individuals from different institutions, began their walk on May 4 at Durban Girls’ High and expect to arrive at Pretoria High School for Girls on May 12. They encourage servant leadership, positive activism, and to girls in particular, the importance of access to higher education.
Students trek to PTA to help peers struggling financially Updated
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A group of university students are hoping to raise about a million rand for their peers who are struggling with historical debt.
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Thand Olwethu Dlanga is the chairperson of Walk4Access and a postgraduate student at the University of Pretoria.
He says their goal is to get 50 000 people to donate R21 each. Fundamentally the important issue of historical debts, registration fees, hunger and accommodation crisis. In 2019, when we started, we started by walking from Cape Town to Pretoria over 21 days. We raised about R100 000 even though our target was R1 million.
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from the 2019 walk for access
In 2019, Walk4Access, a group of people from the University of Pretoria (UP) walked from Cape Town to Pretoria. Their aim was to raise funds for students who needed funding for higher education. Now, in 2021, they are undertaking the walk again as a registered non-profit organisation (NPO).
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Thand’Olwethu Dlanga, one of the members of the NPO, spoke to The Daily Vox about the initiative. He said it was started to raise funds for students with historic debt, registration issues and also to provide food for students.
“We saw that the majority of the time when students participate in protests – they are seen as wanting things for free. So we said we wanted to use our energy to walk and raise these funds to assist students,” Dlanga said.