AYWDN: Nicolette Pieters, Namibia
Channel: PinedaFoundation
Date: 2012-04-17

African Youth with Disabilities: Raising our Voices for Inclusion was a six-day gathering of 50 youth with disabilities organized by the Open Society Foundations to support and foster young disabled leaders in Africa.  In this segment we hear from Nicolette Pieters who says, "I come from a very poor family.  I grew up in a very poor background.  So even the environment in which I grow up, not a lot of success stories came out of it.  But then I just realize that success depends on me and what I do with myself."