Paseka Elcort Gaola, University of Pretoria (South Africa)

Paseka Elcort Gaola, University of Pretoria (South Africa)

Paseka Elcort Gaola is a final-year Bachelor of Commerce in Law student at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. He is the Founding Executive of The Street Store@UP, a programme that assist students in need with necessities such as food, toiletries and clothing. He was selected as one of the three South Africans to participate in the 2020 Study of the U.S Institute (SUSI) for Global Student Leaders on Civic Engagement in United States of America for 6 weeks. Paseka strongly believes that young people, as future leaders, ought to question the status quo and rewrite new narratives.