Good Morning Angels: Giving young Jean his confidence back with a perfect smile

Good Morning Angels: Giving young Jean his confidence back with a perfect smile

When Jean was 11-years-old, his dad was murdered in their home by intruders.

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BACKGROUND: Jean is 18 and in matric. He has not had an easy life, but at the same time, he feels blessed. When Jean was 11, his dad was murdered in their home by intruders. This incident ripped their family apart. He doesn’t really have contact with his mother anymore and has been living with his uncle, Johan, and his wife, Angelique, and their three children (two daughters aged 10 and six, and a son aged seven). There is no financial help from his mom.

Jean describes himself as an Instagram influencer. He uses social media to uplift others and to post positive messages. He says he was bullied in primary school and at the beginning of high school, but as more people saw his posts, the attitudes towards him changed.

Besides everything that Jean has lost and endured in his life, there is one thing that he really desires: straight teeth!

Jean has written to Good Morning Angels on the advice of a teacher at school, to ask for assistance with his teeth. Jean says the problems started when he was nine and only got worse. There is no way that he or his family can pay for dental work - and that’s why Jean wrote to Good Morning Angels.

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REQUEST FOR: Jean Pretorius 

ANGEL 1:  Dr Walter Reynecke from The Dental Spa 

SPONSORING: Dr. Walter will assist Jean with all dental work and cleaning needed

ANGEL 2: Dr Herman Uys from Smiling Orthodontics 

SPONSORING: Dr Herman will assist Jean with all orthodontics needed to sort out his smile

ORIGINAL REQUEST: 

Goeie dag, 

Ek is Jean Pretorius. Ek is gebore 2003/03/16 (18). Ek gaan skool by Die Hoërskool Wonderboom ek is in Gr 12. Ek stuur hierdie boodskappie aan julle en Hoop dat julle my sal kan help. Ek het 'n probleem met my tande al vanaf ek Graad 2 was toe dit moes begin wissel het. Dit het nooit op die regte tyd begin wissel nie en so het al my voortande uit plek uit gegroei. In 2011 was ek by 'n tandarts om meer uit te vind oor hoekom ek so laat wissel en my voortand baie uit plek is, toe was daar vir ons gesê dat alles reg is en my tande mooi sal uitkom. (Die foto's is in 2012 foto en 2020). In 2012 het ek weer teurg na die tandarts toe gegaan. Hulle het vir my gesê ek’s nog te jonk vir draatjies - ek was toe 9 jaar oud gewees. 

2013 het gekom en toe is my Pa oorlede. Hy was vermoor in ons huis in Glenharvie Gauteng. Mense het in die huis gekom en my Pa het geveg teen hulle om ons te beskerm. Verder het die jare aangestap en toe het my Ma al klaar al die erf geld spandeer en verder nie meer belanggestel in ons kinders nie ...Ek bly tans in Pretoria Wonderboom by my Oom Johan en Tannie Angie -  hulle het self 3 van hul eie kinders wat jonger is en hulle kan regtig nie bekostig om my tande te laat regmaak nie.

Ek het al van tevore by 'n onderwyser by my skool gehoor van Good Morning Angels en sy’t gesê ek moet 'n epos stuur aan julle. Dit was verlede jaar en ek dink nie ek het baie mooi alles verduidelik nie. Toe vra die onderwyser my weer toe die skool oopmaak of ek toe die epos gestuur het aan julle, Toe se ek, ek het maar ek sal weer ene stuur aan julle en toe vanaand toe dink ek weer aan om vir julle te stuur met meer verduideliking. Ek is/was 'n sosial media influencer en het mense baie keer geinspereer, maar ek verloor heeltyd confidence en twyfel en is bang om goed te maak want ek’s bang oor wat hulle gaan se oor my en hoe sleg hulle komentaar sal wees. Almal weet hoe sosiale media raak... Ek was reeds geboelie in my laerskool loopbaan asook die beginvan my hoërskool loopbaan. Maar verder na Graad 10 het mense my minder geboelie, want meer van hulle het my raakgesien in wat ek doen op sosiale media en hoe ek mense opbou.

Baie dankie :)

Jean 

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