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World Changers Academy has helped to change thousands of lives
in small and big ways. Below are just some of the lives that have
been changed.
Also see the quotations of some WCA students
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Msizi Gumede |
| Date Of Birth : |
25 April 1972 |
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KwaNyuswa |
| Hobbies: |
Reading |
Msizi, like Vusi --
a very good friend of his-- joined the first life skills
course in KwaNyuswa in August 2002. Msizi was a drug
dealer in the area until his life was changed through
World Changers. Msizi was also chosen to do the first
leadership course in March 2003 and was chosen as the
Best Overall Student among the 25 students. Afterwards,
he was selected by Youth With A Mission (YWAM) Belfast
to do a 10-month Discipleship Training School (DTS)
in Belfast, UK.
He was selected because of his maturity
and quality of character. After returning, he rejoined
World Changers and at the beginning of 2005 he took
the post of coordinating all life skills for World Changers.
Later, he took over as the chief adminstrator of WCA,
a precursor to the current post of Operations Manager.
Currently, he is the Programmes Manager/HR
Manager, and is part of the executive team of the organization
of three members, which also includes the operations
manager and the executive director. Msizi has come a
long way from dealing drugs on the streets to now dealing
a different drug - one with a message of hope, selfless
service, and people empowerment - to thousands of young
people.
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Vusi Kweyama
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| Location |
KwaNyuswa |
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Vusi joined the first life skills course in August
2002, only two weeks after being released from
prison. He had been in and out of prison more
times than he could remember.
Vusi was involved in the 26
prison gang and was a hardened criminal. One of
his original intentions of doing the life skills
course was to find a way of stealing the computers
that were at the centre. Instead, he was so impacted
by the teachings that he turned life completely
around.
Shortly after the course finished,
Vusi started to coach children in soccer and to
teach them life skills. He also drew together
a number of his criminal friends to teach them
life skills as well. As a result of his work,
World Changers selected him to be a part of the
first leadership course in March 2003.
Shortly after he finished this
course, he was asked to take over the KwaNyuswa
training centre in July 2003. He has been running
the centre ever since and has built up a team
of about 10 workers (half are full-time) to run
the activities of the centre, which include the
life skills and computer training courses which
were going prior to his involvement.
However, he, along with his volunteers,
have also started a number of other initiatives,
including sports, drama and arts programmes, a
community library, a regular bible study group,
and several businesses, including a car wash (that
employed 4 people for several years until it closed
down) and a tourism company, VukAfrica Tours,
which takes local and overseas tourists around
the area. Vusi also does a lot of work in prisons
and oversees an offender rehabilitation programme,
which involves a partnership with the Pinetown
Magistrates Court. Vusi has trained hundreds of
people from the community and has impacted thousands
of lives through teaching at many locations around
Durban and through coordinating World Changers'
radio programmes in May-June 2005.
Sunday Tribune
wrote an article about Vusi. |
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