Gift
Luthuli Ziphonzinhle aka Gift
Watch a conversation with Gift
Gift is the oldest Gateway School student at 27 years old. She lives in a five room hut with her mum, four siblings, and two nieces. She has a daughter aged six called Love.
Gift says: “Love lives with her father because of the situation at home. I’ve decided to let her go so that she can get a better education because her father is working.
“The one thing that comes first in my life is my family and my little girl who is everything to me. In the future I see myself as a better person, living a better life and able to provide food for my family, education for them and to help other members of the community like employing some of them when I have a business. I wish everyone can have a better life.”
After completing the course and demonstrating excellent skills in fashion design, pattern cutting and sample making, Gift was selected to be an instructor on the course for 2009. It is hoped that she will travel to the UK this year to shadow staff at UCA Rochester.