The Sylvie Lining
The Sylvie Lining “I was very curious about coming to Cape Town,” says Sylvie Amagna Assara, YMCA Cape Town’s 2018 intern from Cameroon, in her usual, earnest fashion. “But the trip was very long,” she allows. “I spent a whole night at the airport in Nairobi. “ Sylvie – ever inquisitive, and buoyant, at heart – is from Yaounde in Cameroon, where she passed a “very comfortable” childhood as one of nine children to two loving parents. Human life, though, can be jarring. Sylvie’s idyllic family weathered a body blow when the company her father worked for sacked him after [...]
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