Eden Campus : Africa’s first Rural Enterprise Campus

Jade Williams

I was born on 4 March 1989 in a town called Oudtshoorn. Grew up in a little town called Calitzdorp, about fifty kilometres from Oudtshoorn. I live with my mother, sister and two other girls who are in my mother's care. I matriculated in 2006 at Calitzdorp High, where I studied for nine years.

When I first heard about the opportunity to study at EDEN CAMPUS I had no doubt that this is the place where I had to study. From the first time I heard about what we will be doing here, my heart was here already. Growing up in a poor community this is my chance to make a change in my community and thereby make an improvement in the rest of South Africa.

Student life has its ups and its downs, more ups than downs; which means that we are on our way UP: Uplifting the whole of Southern Africa.