Water My Roots- Mantate’s 25th Birthday Campaign

Hey, my name is Mantate and I’m turning 25 on the 26th of June 2020. As a way of expressing gratitude to my childhood neighborhood, and everyone there that contributed to the amazing young woman I’ve turned out to be, I am running the “Water My Roots” Campaign.
The campaign name carries the truth that I was raised in a community that believed in me all through my childhood. Even in moments when I doubted the greatness in myself. From the women selling vegetables and fruits in local shops, the parents that told their children that they should learn from Mantate and the little children who would always scream and point fingers at me, some brave enough to approach me and tell me that they saw me on TV and thought that was cool. The look on their faces remains a priceless reminder that every time that I achieve something, it’s for them too. I would like to ask you to partner me in giving back to that community a gift by donating towards the drilling of a borehole in the neighborhood.
The city has an ongoing water crisis that is greatly inconveniencing a lot of people. It’s even made worse by the fact that there is the Coronavirus and a constant reminder to social distance and wash hands with running water frequently. While built on good intention, these regulations are exposing the dangers of limited water supply in which communities have to queue long hours for water, thereby rendering almost impossible the idea of social distance where everyone is trying to push to the front of queues to ensure that they get water. One borehole may not reduce the burden significantly, but I believe that it will make a difference to those that will have access to it.
As I step into my birthday month I want to contribute to the smiles of the old women and men that I remember to have been supportive in my growth. The idea of them having access to clean water in their proximity, the idea of them not having to queue for water and risk contracting the Coronavirus. The idea of easing their lives inspires me to believe that God has deliberately given me a network of people that believe in my vision for developing communities. As a member of that network, either directly or through someone else, or even by virtue of you resonating with the vision I have to Water My Roots, I challenge you today to help me celebrate my 25th birthday by donating to this cause. It doesn’t matter how small the amount is, because the little streams make the ocean.
This is by far the most daring of the fundraising campaigns I’ve done, and this age to me comes with the conviction that there’s nothing that I put my mind to that I cannot achieve. I believe that we can drill a borehole in Nkulumane, we can Water My Roots so that more children can get a chance to understand why it matters that they grow up to channel back resources into the communities that believed in them.
Thank you for not just donating, but sharing this too.