I was born in fruit country. I am twenty-nine. I lived with my mother, three sisters and one brother. Our school didn't go further than Standard seven, and there was no money to send me to boarding school., I loved school and was very sad to leave. When I left school at 16 I went to work on a farm, packing apples. When I was 18 I went to Cape Town, looking for better work. I worked at a clothing factory there for seven years. Then I met my husband, James at a disco. The factory where we were both working closed down, so we decided to come to his parent's home in Nieu Behtesda.

I love to work at the Centre because I can do what I want to do. I love bright colours, and I love flowers. I like our teacher because she teaches me things I do not know. In the factory you just cut patterns out and sit on a machine. Here I am learning to use my own ideas, cut my own things and work with my own. I would love to study further, and hope to do distance learning from the Centre library.