How did a South African farm girl who started smoking marijuana at nine and was a teenage mom overcome her past to set up a soup kitchen from her home that feeds thousands?
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She was a single mom about to lose her income from ironing people’s clothes. How did Lizania learn to keep trusting in a world of wrinkles?
Why has a British guy called Pete Portal been living for over 10 years in Manenberg, a part of Cape Town that many South Africans prefer to avoid? And what has it taught him?
Why is midwife Katie Wade supporting a hospital in Cape Town’s challenged Khayelitsha township? And how has she progressed through a season of personal disappointment to one that fulfils her deepest longings?
He lied, he stole, he smoked weed and was drunk while writing a Matric Afrikaans exam. Impressing people was his priority. But now he’s found a healthy way of living that’s impacting so many people for the good. How did he get there? Meet Cape Town’s Thobelani
Trauma led her to a heartbreak decision and an eating disorder. But she’s now calling on those very experiences to empower the moms, babies and senior citizens of Westlake, a challenged Cape Town community. Meet Louette!
How did a London youth ‘without much vision’ end up mentoring South African prisoners using coffee and football? Plus get through some weighty family challenges?
Dr Michelle Meiring works at the coalface with terminally ill children and their families, yet finds light and beauty in the darkness. How?
How did Colleen Lewis, a school dropout from the suburbs of Cape Town, overcome drugs and a parenting crisis to establish a powerful organisation that has turned around the lives of many thousands of homeless people?
How did a nurse called Thandi end up as mother to 15 children who give her joy she can’t put into words?