MEET 11 YEAR OLD STACEY FRU, AFRICA'S YOUNGEST AWARD WINNING AUTHOR, AN INSPIRATION TO CHILDREN ALL OVER THE WORLD.

Stacey Fru has demonstrated to each child in Africa and everywhere throughout the world that it's never too soon for a kid to discover his or her motivation in life and seek after his or her dreams as they grow up to adulthood.

She has likewise demonstrated that age is never an obstruction to accomplish greatness particularly in the educational sector and today she has written her name in the books of history, in Africa and everywhere throughout the world, 11 year old South African writer Stacey Fru, a writer of two books who additionally runs a YouTube educational channel is been commended as the youngest award winning author in Africa.

Stacey is a fun loving and bubbly young girl born on the sixteenth of February 2007 in Johannesburg. She is the second of four children and the youngest South African Author who wrote and published her first book; 'Smelly Cats' at 7 years old. This book was approved by the South African Department of Basic Education as appropriate for young students from Early Childhood through to Primary School.

Stacey is the youngest numerous award winning author of Chapter books on the African continent, if not on the planet. 'Smelly Cats' was distributed when she was 8 and she won 3 awards for the book before her second book 'Bob and the Snake' was published.

By Age 9, Stacey's Multiple Awards and Recognition included; 'Smelly Cats' as the 2016 NDA 'Best ECD Publication 2015: Special Mention Category', prize gave by UNICEF, 'Young Leader 2016' for her driving motivational and persuasive roles, and 'Scholastic Achievements and Initiatives 2016'for her writing at the East Wave Radio Nelson Mandela International Community Day Leadership Award.

Stacey was the youngest establishing individual from the Wits University Center for Multilingual Education and Literacy in 2016. She was equally mentioned as Mail and Guardian Top 200 Young Most Influential South African in the year 2016, she was a Runner up at the Victor Basadi Awards in the Young Dignitary Category for 2017, and a finalist for the "Gauteng Premier's Women of Excellence Awards 2018" in The Girl Child Category, Stacey won in the Category of Skills Development and Education in the "Gauteng Premier's second Youth Excellence in Service Awards 2018;" Stacey is simply not just a writer, she's likewise a motivational speaker.

With a solid establishing in reading and writing, Stacey intends to compose 12 books when she's in Grade 10. The young writer has diverse messages that she conveys through her writing. She wants to get more kids to read and write as well as everyone.

Stacey is a moderator at the Children Television South Africa (CTVSA) a station that instructs and engages youngsters. She imagined the station a few months after the Stacey Fru Foundation was built up. Her vision for CTVSA is to develop the minds of children like her.

The young writer was named by the Mail and Guardian as a part of the best 200 influential young South Africans in 2017. She is a motivation to kids everywhere throughout the world. Her accomplishments as a child likewise goes far to support other kids on the need to always read, write and achieve sets goals regardless age and background.

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REFERENCES

• https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/drum/20160728/281616714719290

• http://nalibali.org/news-blog/literacy-issues/the-9-year-old-author-makes-waves-stacey-fru

• https://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/news/listen-young-author-stacey-fru-aims-to-inspire-in-city-11633118