For empowerment: Miss SA’s Caylene
With or without a title, Caylene Marais works towards empowering women and children.
Miss South Africa finalist Caylene Marais (24) from Roodekrans told the Record that she “never took it [modelling, pageantry] seriously”.
A friend had signed her up for her first pageant, Miss Western Gauteng, when she was 19 years old.
“I did not do well at all, I was ill-prepared and realising this, I went and found a coach – and won the title the next year!”
Caylene later completed a BA degree in languages and pursued her masters qualification in neurolinguistic programming because, she told the Record, “you’re either a learner or you’re not, and I am”. She had finally discovered what satisfied her – after being coached for pageantry, she understood that personal development was her main mission.
Her campaign for Miss South Africa will be centred around personal development, as she believes South Africans “need a shift in consciousness”. Her work over the past few months has been with World Shakers and History Makers, Brian Walsh and Makes You Think, that has enabled her to do motivational speaking and to plan her coming Empowerment Safari.
“Most pageant campaigns teach and help people to survive, but I want to teach them to thrive,” Caylene explained, believing that through personal motivation and confidence, the world opens up to a person.
Follow Caylene Marais’ Miss South Africa campaign at www.facebook.com/MissSACayleneMarais .
