Bridging the Sea: Rezaan's Story
Meet our May Featured Student of the Month, Rezaan Mansoor!
(Rezaan, far left, with SA Program Director Elizabeth Benniger and TNHF Scholar Busisiwe Mutlaka)
Rezaan Mansoor speaks with an enthusiasm and hope that will drive him to his dreams and beyond. This 19 year old, has no lack of ambition when he comments, “I want to build a bridge from Africa to America!” Rezaan began attending the University of Western Cape in the start of 2011 with a TNHF academic scholarship. If you didn’t pick it up earlier, Rezaan is studying to be a civil engineer. He talks with confidence of entering into his community, employed, to rebuild the clinics and schools.
“I will build houses, more service centres, and,” he emphasizes, “community centres to make sure every child can eat for the day.”
Rezaan comes from the township of Lavendar Hill. He remembers the first few years of his childhood fondly, but as he entered early adolescence he recalls a turn, where his community began to be influenced by drugs, alcohol, and gang activity. “It was hard growing up in this place.” Rezaan is the eldest of five children, and the first not only in his immediate family, but also out of his cousins to go on to higher education. 
However these hard situations have motivated Rezaan to strive to reach his goals.
In communities where food has become a luxury to most, and unemployment and crime is rampant, Rezaan works for the day when he can go back to his community and help stand against the discouraging statistics.
Join us for the month of May in getting to know Rezaan! Get to know his fun-loving, playful personality and learn from him how These Numbers Have Faces has influenced his life. Be on the look out in the following weeks for fun facts, pictures, quotes, and even a joke from Rezaan!
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I wish to share knowledge with people in Africa (and around the world), such as how to produce your own;
Clean Water, Safe and Clean Electricity, Building Materials (Like Bricks, from dirt), and other valuable commodities from nature itself (and re-purposed materials).
I with to raise people out of poverty by sharing the simplest inventions of Humanity with them.
If you wish to discuss such things, please contact me...
harleyborgais@gmail.com
P.S. I also like answering deep, impossible questions like How We Exist, Why we are here, what is time, God, energy, magnetism, etc... so ask we anything.
Ha ha, oops, ask 'Me' anything. Sorry for the typo.