Een keer per maand nooi Anne-Marie Watt, bestuurder van Meals on Wheels in Parow, iemand uit die gemeenskap wat \u2019n lewensveranderende ondervinding beleef het om met die senior burgers daaroor te kom praat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Einde verlede maand het Brenton Swartz (43) van Durbanville sy lewensverhaal kom deel en daar was nie \u2019n dro\u00eb oog onder die seniors nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy is vergesel deur sy vriend Martin Sodoms, \u2019n mondskilder, en hul versorger, Tandiwe Rhojie. Albei is lede van die Mond- en Voetskildervereniging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Swartz is die afgelope 27 jaar \u2019n kwadrupleeg nadat hy in \u2019n skietongeluk van sy nek ondertoe verlam is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het voor die skietongeluk in Atlantis gewoon, waar ek tot graad 10 skoolgegaan het. In September 1994 het ek n\u00e1 my skietongeluk in die hospitaal beland en agt maande daar gebly, en is as \u2019n C4-C5-kwadrupleeg geklassifiseer. Ek is toe na \u2019n skool vir fisiek gestremdes en het my matriek in 1998 voltooi,\u201d s\u00ea hy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Swartz het toe \u2019n inwoner van Huis Andries Olivier in Durbanville geword. Die huis was toe \u2019n drieslaapkamerhuis en hy moes in die motorhuis woon en nog \u2019n persoon in \u2019n wendyhuis, sodat die huis toe vyf kwadruple\u00eb kon akkommodeer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1999 het hy in teken met rekenaarhulp gestudeer en twee sertifikate verwerf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNadat ek my twee sertifikate verwerf het, kon ek nie my studies voortsit nie weens tersi\u00eare inrigtings wat nie rolstoelvriendelik was nie. Ek het ander kwadruple\u00eb ontmoet, wat kunsklasse by die Bellville-biblioteek bygewoon het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het niks gehad om te doen nie, en het saam met hulle die kunsklasse bygewoon. In 2001 het ek na \u2019n groter huis in Durbanville getrek, wat 12 kwadruple\u00eb kon huisves, en het daar my studie in argitektuur voortgesit. Ek het in 2003 daarmee begin en het my nasionale diploma as \u2019n argitektegnikus in Desember 2006 verwerf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk was gelukkig om vir 18 maande by \u2019n argiteksfirma te kon werk en daar ervaring opgedoen. Ek het ook vir \u2019n maand by \u2019n ingenieursmaatskappy gewerk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn 2008 het ek heeltyds begin skilder omdat ek geen werk kon kry nie en het verskeie uitstallings gehou. My raad aan my medemens is om nooit op te gee nie \u2013 nie op die lewe, jouself of ander mense nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs jy \u2019n swak hand deur die lewe uitgedeel is, onthou dat niks altyd dieselfde bly nie. Net soos die goeie dinge kom en gaan, geld dieselfde vir die slegte dinge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cGebed het my regtig deur al die donkerte gedra, en ek glo dit sal dieselfde vir jou ook doen. Harde werk word altyd beloon; sommige kere mag dit net langer neem as wat jy verwag het, maar dit sal kom. As \u2019n gulde geleentheid hom voordoen, gryp dit met albei hande aan en hardloop daarmee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOnthou ook altyd waarvandaan jy kom sodat jy nederig kan bly, en as jy kan, gee terug aan ander wat in nood is; daar is meer geluk in om te gee as om te ontvang,\u201d s\u00ea Swartz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bel Brenton Swartz by 072 293 1424 om vir \u2019n praatjie te nooi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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