\u2019n Matrikulant wat \u2019n lewe van swaarkry trotseer en met die kosbare ondersteuning en liefde van sy \u201couma-mammie\u201d streef om bo sy omstandighede uit te styg, doen \u2019n nederige beroep op die gemeenskap om sy matriekafskeid-droom te help verwesenlik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
JP Maasdorp, \u2019n gr. 12-leerder aan die Ho\u00ebrskool Gordon in Somerset-Wes, sien \u2013 nes vele ander \u2013 baie uit na die spesiale geleentheid op Woensdag 18 September om hul skoolloopbaan af te sluit met \u2019n ongelooflike tyd en kosbare herinneringe wat lewenslank gekoester sal word. Sy ouma, Dorothy Hendricks, wat hom en vier van sy sibbe grootgemaak en deur die skool gesit het, is egter nie finansieel daartoe in staat om haar geliefde kleinseun se droom vir \u2019n onvergeetlike matriekafskeid te bewaarheid nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk sal uit my pad uit gaan vir hulle,\u201d deel sy. \u201cMet JP se aanneming kon ek nie \u2019n onthaal gee nie en hy het verstaan. Ander is baie lief vir JP \u2013 ek ook, al maak hy my soms baie befoeterd. Ek is outyds en maak hulle streng groot, nes my ma my grootgemaak het. Maar, hy is my staatmaker. JP doen dit, JP gaan soontoe, JP kom smeer my uit, JP, JP, JP . . . JP is so geduldig.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Di\u00e9 67-jarige van Strand het sedert JP se geboorte ouerskap van di\u00e9 middelkind en sy twee broers en twee susters aanvaar omdat hul ma, wat langer as twee dekades aan \u2019n dwelmgewoonte ly, onbevoeg verklaar is. Uit die drie pa\u2019s wat betrokke is, is JP s\u2019n nie in die prentjie nie nadat hy kort n\u00e1 sy geboorte vir moord opgesluit is. Dit is ook die geval met sy twee jongste sibbe, wie se pa op 1 Januarie 2021 doodgeskiet is. JP se pa, wat twee maande n\u00e1 sy geboorte in Oktober 2006 24 jaar gevangenisstraf opgel\u00ea is, is in Oktober verlede jaar op parool vrygelaat, maar het hom glo afgeskryf as sy kind. \u201cHy dra by tot niks in my lewe nie en dit maak seer, maar ek glo in \u2019n lewende God wat my krag gee,\u201d s\u00ea JP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy ouma is my alles. Sy is my ouma-mammie en my beste vriendin, en ek is onbeskryflik lief vir haar.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die voorbeeldige tiener het sy innige dankbaarheid uitgespreek teenoor sy ouma wat vir hulle sorg, en bid elke dag dat God haar net moet deurdra. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy het haar bedank veral vir haar swaar opofferings, insluitend die aande wat daar geen kos was nie en sy uit haar pad moes gaan om iets op die tafel te sit, of net genoeg vir hulle en sy ges\u00ea het sy het klaar ge\u00ebet. \u201cOns lewe net op haar Sassa-geldjies, en wat dit nog erger maak, is dat borskanker op 28 Desember 2022 by my ouma gediagnoseer is,\u201d voeg hy by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hendricks verduidelik dat sy \u2019n knop in haar linkerbors gevoel het en \u2019n doktersbesoek aan die Tygerberg-hospitaal borskanker bevestig het. Sy is met \u2019n opvolgbesoek verlede Maart meegedeel dat die kanker na haar longe, ribbes en bene versprei het en as vlak vier beskou word. Sy gebruik morfien om die ondraaglike pyn van haar toestand te verdoof en wag op Maandag 4 November wanneer sy \u2019n CT-skandering moet ondergaan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMaar, ek vertrou op God,\u201d meen sy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Asof die situasie nie erg genoeg is nie, is hul Rusthof-tuiste weens die swaar winterre\u00ebn erg beskadig. \u201cDie huis is in \u2019n haglike toestand,\u201d deel sy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie matte in die voorhuis is opgetel, en dit is die plek wat nou moet regkom vir die matriekafskeid. Die ander vertrekke gaan op \u2019n latere tydstip reggemaak moet word wanneer dit warmer is. Ons het glad nie ligte in die huis nie; dit wat hier is, is wat ek so koppel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie rede vir die oorstroming in die huis is die agterste deel wat deur die storm gekraak en water wat weens die probleem ingere\u00ebn het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het toe die agterdeur toegebou met twee lae baksteen sodat water nie meer kan inkom nie. Ek sal ook graag \u2019n deel agteraan wil h\u00ea, maar dit asook elektrisiteit sodat ek my stoof weer kan gebruik, en watertoevoer moet maar wag. Eers is dit die voorkamer wat ek wil reg h\u00ea vir die matriekafskeid.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2019n Nederige JP meen enige hulp word verwelkom en sal opreg waardeer word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2019n Skoolonderwyser wat JP se akademiese potensiaal raakgesien het en sy vasberadenheid waardeer, meen hulle hoop heelhartig dat iemand die lewenslustige leerder kan help. \u201cDit sal vir hom en sy familie die w\u00eareld beteken,\u201d s\u00ea die onderwyser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHy is \u2019n entoesiastiese mens wat glad nie skaam is vir wie en wat hy is nie. Sy kop is reg aangeskroef en hy beeld goeie leierseienskappe uit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die onderwyser meen dat dit sy voorbeeldige karakter was wat hom destyds deel gemaak het van die rolverdeling in die moordraaisel-televisiereeks Trompoppie<\/em> op Showmax. <\/p>\n\n\n\n JP beskou hierdie oomblik, asook toe sy ouma die geleentheid gebied is om sy VRL-balkie vas te steek, as hoogtepunte. Hy hoop om \u2019n naskoolse kwalifikasie in verpleging, drama of onderwys te verwerf, en om eendag terug te kyk en te kan s\u00ea: \u201cDit was my mense wat my ondersteun het, en ek sal ewig dankbaar wees.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2019n Matrikulant wat \u2019n lewe van swaarkry trotseer en met die kosbare ondersteuning en liefde van sy \u201couma-mammie\u201d streef om bo sy omstandighede uit te styg, doen \u2019n nederige beroep op die gemeenskap om sy matriekafskeid-droom te help 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