As Good As You Can
“It’s going to sound really cliché … but it really is I want to help people. I’m from a rural community in Limpopo; it’s one of the most rural provinces in SA [South Africa]. There’s one clinic in perhaps a 60km radius. So it’s very difficult for people to get health care, and the rate of HIV is so high because, number one, people cannot afford to go to the clinics every month to get their ARVs [anitretroviral drugs]. Number two, there’s no ARVs; you get your last money and you go to the clinic and there’s no medication. But if I’m in the medical faculty, I can actually be able to get people to kind of recognize these problems because I am on the inside. It’s very difficult to get people to engage, to donate and voice out if you’re on the outside, but from the inside, people actually take you seriously. So it’s more about me getting people to be helped than me helping – two hands are not really much, but if I get more people to engage, it can really benefit a lot of people