Life Changers Foundation

03/02/2023

February is here and we are excited with our new project moving forward amidst all the challenges we are facing.

We at Life Changers Foundation believe that when our entrepreneurship & skills school is up and running a big gap will be filled in the unemployment rate as we aim to educate, up skill and see many new successful businesses opening.

Continue to pray for us as we put our hands to the plow on this very big LCF dream.

Thank you to all the amazing people who have been believing with us since 2005.

09/01/2023

Happy New Year and a super successful 2023 to everyone!

2023 is here and we are excited to see what the year holds, we believe for many lives to go from hurt to healed, for relationships from broken to restored and more than ever to see unemployed to skilled, equipped and employed.

As we embark on our new up skilling education program, we would like to thank all our partners and friends for the continual support.

Watch our page for further details.

12/12/2022

Life Changers Foundation embarks on a new chapter it’s been 17 years of faithfully serving the communities of Ottery and the greater Cape Flats. As an organisation, we have been involved in countless gang mediations and have saved lives by rendering this service. We ran our court diversion programmes and afforded our clients a second chance at a “Criminal record free life”. Our Wednesday evening support group has restored dignity into many homes. Our feeding scheme programmes has not only serviced the community of Ottery, but has stretched across various parts of the Cape Flats.

Remembering our safe houses which allowed us to see young men and women come from dark/ challenging backgrounds to make positive changes walking into sobriety and flourishing in their new way of living.

Learnerships and programmes enabled employment were we offered free computer courses to the community.
Our partnership with the Education Department allowed us to have an evening school where learners obtained a National Grade 12 certificate. Many other accredited programmes saw people opening up their own businesses, some of which are successfully rendering services and providing employment to people.

Our kids after care, holiday programmes, kids social care and counselling has given children a chance to be children in a safe, love filled environment.

Sadly, Life Changers Foundation will be moving out of Ottery as the Word of faith Baptist church are no longer able to accommodate a shared space. We have been offered 3 available spaces on the outskirts of the Cape Flats of which we will communicate to the public by 20th January 2023. We have equipped other organisations to run support groups and we now can safely say it’s time for us to embark on Life Changers’ next phase as we evolve into two organisations.

Life Changers Skills Development Centre where we are partnering with Education Department and other accredited tertiary institutions as well as NGO’s. Our focus shifting from addiction to Training & Development.

Secondly our new NPO birthed out of Life Changers Foundation KIDZ.COM will solely focus on providing preventive programmes for kids under 16 years old. We will also see the international programme“my body is my body” program implemented here.

We would like to thank everyone who has journeyed with us whether by serving, donating or affording us the opportunity to walk alongside families over the many years. We encourage people to stay connected and to watch our page and website for further developments.

A blessed Christmas and a prosperous 2023 to all our amazing friends and family.

May God continue to hold us together when we are not able to do so ourselves.

www.lifechangersfdn.org.za

07/11/2022

https://www.dailyvoice.co.za/news/dimes-madatt-wiped-out-ex-americans-dik-ding-shot-dead-in-alleged-gang-hit-in-rocklands-3e132680-32e6-42d6-a956-d4f474c0250e

Please keep the Cape Flats, especially the people living in the suburb of Mitchells Plain in your prayers. Many families are living in fear and uncertainty of what dangers the latest killing would bring.

Can we pray for the end to the gang wars and killings that has become a norm to so many communities on the Cape Flats.

We are losing generations of young men and woman to this stupid thing we call GANG.

GANG has created generations of cold hearted psychopathic killers and it’s as if we turn a blind eye to the cold hearted brutally we are witnessing daily.

Prayer demands action and since government is failing to take this issue seriously enough, it’s time normal citizens realize that how mentoring one boy or girl on the Cape Flats could change the trajectory of a life that has very little chance of survival if it’s not given the much needed guidance into adulthood.

Former Americans gang boss Kaldimola ‘Dimes’ Madatt died in a hail of bullets on Sunday in what appears to be a gang hit.

07/11/2022

This is what breaking a generational curse of drug addiction & poverty looks like. If you told the little girl in that photo that she would be living the life I am now, I wouldn’t believe it. I wanted so badly to have normal parents & a stable surrounding but felt like I couldn’t ever “get out.” PLOT TWIST!! I did. I got out & I became the stable adult I needed as a kid.

I’m making this post in hopes that it reminds any child who has dealt with family addiction, poverty, & lack of guidance that you don’t have to live the life you were born into. Aim to be the adult you needed & never stop working on that person. It’s far from easy but so worth it. I promise

02/09/2022

The people of Pakistan desperately need our help. Please can we support the plight of the Jesus Evangelical Movement who are trying their utmost to bring hope to what seems to be a hopeless situation for many of the people in Pakistan.

https://gofund.me/6a5a1577

Pakistan is in urgent need of help and assistance during this time of hardship. … Martika Bauer needs your support for Urgent flood and shelter relief appeal

26/06/2022

Monday 27th of June our kids holiday Program kicks off.

Although fun is a priority for kids, we do realize that on the Cape Flats many kids face social ills that often time break our kids.

Kids too can find themselves in a life spiraling out of control.

This school holiday our social worker addresses the cold reality of dealing and still remaining goal and success focused in a home where one or more adults are substance dependent.

19/04/2022

19/04/2022

The past weekend we again witnessed the killing of two innocent people in Ottery, one of the victims being the mother of the 4 year old toddler who who was killed 7 months ago when a bullet ripped through her Mom’s wooden structured house fatally wounding little Scarlet who later succumbed to the wounds.

Last night it was 15 year old Tamika who was killed in Ottery.

The past 7 months Ottery has had 4 innocent deaths due to gang violence, this excluding the total lives lost and the many injuries of innocent people and gang members killed during this period.

The Community of Ottery has tried everything it could possibly do, from meeting with the guilty parties to plea with them to stop the shootings, prayer walks, & even speaking to the Col & station commander of the Grassy Park police station.

Ottery and the rest of the Cape flats needs serious intervention. Help us help our people.

15/04/2022

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/ottery-hyper-shooting-thursday-14-april-three-yuru-cats-arrested-mongrel-wounded-cape-town-gangsterism-breaking/

Three ‘Yuru Cat’s members were arrested for allegedly shooting a member of the ‘Mongrel gang’ in the back in Ottery on Thursday.

08/04/2022

Please continue to pray for peace on the Cape flats💔😭😢

Residents in Ottery have been left devastated after an innocent 17-year-old boy was mercilessly gunned down by two men in front of his distraught mother.

06/04/2022

Just when we thought the violence was over in Ottery. The lifeless, bullet riddled body of a 17 year old lay in Hector Ave with multiple gunshot wounds.

His Mom sits by his side weeping uncontrollably as she realizes her son isn’t opening his eyes again.

Daily the Policing & Justice systems fail the people of the Cape Flats, yesterday was just Ottery’s turn again.

Never would I think I’d be saying this as I’m not an advocate for vigilantism, however I am an advocate for community peace.

If the people don’t rise up we will continue to see the streets pile up with bodies.

04/04/2022

Please pray for peace in Hanover park as we’ve seen an escalation in gang violence over the weekend.

02/04/2022

After weeks of gunfire in Ottery,the area finally has been quite…Unfortunately this was the report of the rest of the Cape Cape Flats today as rival gangs go at a full scale war in Hanover Park and surrounding areas.

19:03 Hanover park
Multiple gun shots fired.

19:03 Kleinvlei
Shots fired in Spandau street.

19:03 Eersteriver
Shots going off in the vicinity of Afrika Siebritz Wes Street, Hillview

19:04 Algoa court and Donegal court it's a war zone in Hanover park

19:11 Parkwood
Shooting in Dove Road
1 person shot
Code unknown

19:39 Hanover Park
Shots fired in Algoa over to Donegal Court

19:53 Eastridge
Shots went off now in Yellowood near Spine road towards the Town Centre

Please pray for peace on the Cape Flats🙏🏾

04/03/2022

Pray for Peace on the Cape Flats. 🙏🏾

02/03/2022

Tomorrow night @6 pm
3 March 2022
The community of Ottery will raise a flag for peace as the community march onto the Bruce road field that divides Ottery A from Ottery B.

We pray for One Community and One Ottery!Down with division and violence.

Please bring white balloons along in remembrance of the many lives lost over this past two weeks and the many loved ones lost over the years gone by.

If u cannot go onto the field stand by your door or gate and make Prayers for peace and safer communities on the Cape flats.

Let's do this Ottery