WHERE THERE’S A WILL THERE’S A WAY
Determined student sells boerewors rolls to raise funds for his final year studies
In an effort to raise funds for his fourth year at university, Dayne Kenny, 23, has been selling boerewors rolls at the Spargs shopping complex in Beacon Bay for the last three weeks.
He has received an outpouring of support from friends, family and regular shoppers.
Kenny has been working as a junior quantity surveyor while studying at Walter Sisulu University for the last two years, but has to move to Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth in order to complete his fourth and final year before he is a qualified quantity surveyor.
While his employers Brewcon in East London are funding his studies, Kenny will have to take care of his living costs in Port Elizabeth.
“This is essentially me moving out of the house and trying to relieve my parents so they don’t have to support me financially while I’m away at varsity,” said Kenny.
“We went on a youth camp and our pastor, Peter Michell, told us how he had done the same thing to support his children’s sport tours the one year.
“He really inspired me and helped me a lot. He let me use all of his equipment and got me this spot at the Spargs complex. I honestly couldn’t have done it without him.”
Kenny, a former Port Rex Technical High School matriculant, has been selling boerie rolls at his Dayne’s Dogs stand since December 21, between 8am and 3pm every day.
He uses freshly bought ingredients from Spargs and his mother’s homemade sweet chilli sauce and tomato and onion relish.
“I can’t believe how much support I’ve received. There’s one customer who is here every day and I remember a contractor came and ordered 30 boerie rolls once. I laughed at him because I thought he was joking, but he really wanted 30. It was the first day back at work, so he bought his staff lunch,” said Kenny, beaming.
“Christmas Eve was my best day. I sold more than 170 boerierolls that day.”
He said some people had even offered him donations.
“Even people who couldn’t eat bread or just weren’t hungry, supported me. It’s amazing, it just shows the Lord’s pro- vision,” said Kenny.
His parents, Terri Victor and Shaun Kenny, have been supporting their son on a daily basis, helping him to man the stand and assist customers.
Victor said she was extremely proud of her son for taking initiative and showing so much dedication.
“I was preparing myself to
There’s one customer who is here every day
help him out at varsity, but he just kept saying that he wanted to do it himself. He just went for it and he’s already managed to pay the deposit for his digs [accommodation] on his own,” said Victor.
Kenny said: “Cleaning all the equipment each night is a bit of a mission, but honestly standing here each day is not that hard. Anyone can do it and if you put a bit of work in, it’s really rewarding and it will help me a lot at varsity.”
Kenny said last week his target was R20,000 and that he was hoping, with this past weekend being his last working day at the stand, he would achieve it.