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In Langa Township near Cape Town, the Eziko School trains township residents to be chefs (and hopefully to achieve self-sustaining careers) through internships in luxury hotels . Four women take us along on this challenging journey through their video diaries. We quickly see determination alone is not enough to ensure a student can climb this mountain of an opportunity. Balancing a demanding job in a totally new environment with undependable child care, scarce affordable housing and capricious transport, they must deal with their personal expectations and control their fears with few peers, role models or mentors to help along the way. Phiona, Fezi, Thandi and Ntombekhaya embody the enormous resourcefulness required of minority women from underprivileged backgrounds if they are to make a place for themselves in today’s professional world, as well as their precarious status on that journey. They take us inside daily family life and share intimate moments, hopes and fears, as they struggle to build middle-class lives on unpredictable and unsteady ground. In Langa Township near Cape Town, the Eziko School trains township residents to be chefs (and hopefully to achieve self-sustaining careers) through internships in luxury hotels . Four women take us along on this challenging journey through their video diaries. We quickly see determination alone is not enough to ensure a student can climb this mountain of an opportunity. Balancing a demanding job in a totally new environment with undependable child care, scarce affordable housing and capricious transport, they must deal with their personal expectations and control their fears with few peers, role models or mentors to help along the way. . Phiona, Fezi, Thandi and Dnombekhaya embody the enormous resourcefulness required of minority women from underprivileged backgrounds if they are to make a place for themselves in today’s professional world, as well as their precarious status on that journey. They take us inside daily family life and share intimate moments, hopes and fears, as they struggle to build middle-class lives on unpredictable and unsteady ground.
