Reabetjoe Mokoko is an entrepreneur, student and aspiring dietitian who decided it is up to her to motivate and encourage the elderly in her community to change their eating ways.
"We live in times of non-communicable diseases – lifestyle diseases such as diabetes, hypertension – diseases that can be prevented by leading the correct lifestyle," she said.
"So if we are able to motivate and encourage people to lead healthy lifestyles, we actually protect them from things like diabetes and high blood pressure which have serious consequences."
The 27-year-old adds that her weekly visits to the Matomba/ Sinqobile Day Care for the elderly has opened her eyes to how little knowledge they have about healthy eating.
