Mamelodi is home to nearly 400,000 people. Yet many youths, particularly young women, are not given the opportunity to access educational opportunities that can literally transform the world within which they operate. Mamelodi is challenged with high dropout rates, low matric pass rates, and extremely low university attendance rates. The Mamelodi Initiative has chosen to implement their programs to equip young people in Mamelodi with that “most powerful weapon” so that they can change their world. Eventually, with the hope to spread across South Africa. Katlego Legodi was joined by Thato Mafokoane, executive program director at the Mamelodi Initiative.