Mamkhulu

DUMISANI KHUMBULA – Thulani Primary School

My Name is Dumisani Candry Khumbula. I live at Mkhuhlu Trust and I work at Thulani Primary School as a Youth Facilitator. I finished my Matric by the year 2007 and then after I went to tertiary to further my studies, by doing B.Com Economics. Due to financial constraints I dropped out in the middle of the year.

I’m a brother to 3 girls and 1 boy and I’m living with my granny.
Both my parents are alive but my mother is not working. She is the one who is taking care of the others, while I’m the bread winner at home for a family of 8 members & no one is working, only me.  After dropping out of tertiary I became a hawker, selling fruits & vegetables at the streets of Pretoria (Tshwane).  I quit selling because of the street situation.

After that I became a hawker at the ShosholozaMeyl.  Even there things were not good, and I got arrested along with 65 other hawkers for selling in the train.  Then I quit and came home to sit and do nothing. I was unemployed for almost 3 years because since dropping out I was sitting at home not working anywhere.  I’m physically fit and can think logically. Life for right now is treating me well, and I love my job.

Before I became a youth facilitator, life was not going well and some of the things were hard for me to get because I was unemployed.  Before being a youth facilitator, at home we lost our bread winner.   Our life became hard.  I did manage to get a driving licence because I had a passion to become a taxi driver so I could be the bread winner.  I became a youth facilitator after doing my licence.

Since I became a youth facilitator, a lot of things have changed in my life.  Being a youth facilitator has helped me a lot because now I know how to handle stress. By doing the counselling sessions it has helped a lot because somehow they helped me to solve my own problems. I learned that I must always forgive others.  Being a youth facilitator already changed my life completely.  It has developed me a lot to work with different people.

I’m still looking forward to working next year as a youth facilitator. Because I love doing what I’m doing now, working with kids, learning how to help them and teaching them how to behave, I am growing as a person and becoming the person I want to be.  I have had the vision of starting an after school care centre for orphans in my community and have found some land.  I am now looking for sponsors to help me build a facility where I can help these children after school and on weekends.