Rev Muzi Majola of St Michael’s Presbyterian Church opened his church doors on Thursday to provide Hope, Faith and Grace Community Project with a platform to hold their business training event.
The event focuses on men and women in Springs who are homeless or battling with addiction.
“We want to reach out to the youth, to get them off of the streets and get them employed and independent,” says Kerry-Leigh Wright, who organised the event.
Many businesses gave presentations and inspirational talks in an effort to inspire the men and women to start their own businesses.
These included medical and engineering companies.
One company used Oprah Winfrey as an example of how someone coming from immense poverty can start their own successful business.
The speaker emphasized they should be goal driven, find a way to serve the community and believe in their own potential.
One trainee, Clarence Wilhase, says: “I can really appreciate businesses and how they work and can see that I can make it work even though I come from a poor background.”
Street evangelist Wikus Fourie says he wishes to uplift people spiritually so they can learn and spread the word of God.
Fourie also says they are working toward building a homeless shelter in Springs.
Wright hopes Hope, Faith and Grace can grow and reach out to colleges to help them grow their project by gaining sponsorships.
Who would've thought that our youth would be doing a stock take at Petersfield Apteek by Springs Gate Mall. They know how to do manual, excel stock takes and now they got to experience how to do stock take using barcoded scanners, learning how technology can make things easier.
Thank you to everyone for making our golf day such a success, the funds raised will help us with a few months rent, we still on a mission to raise funds for transportation to get our youth to jobs, outreaches and events. Every day is one day closer to our goal.
The Golf day preparation's are coming together very nicely. We have great entertainment, prizes and a huge surprise for all our superhero's on the day. You don't want to miss out. We have a raffle for a Taylormade M4 Driver for R5o per entry. You do not want to miss out!
