Light Providers, South Africa
Vusi Kweyama is a student on the current Closkelt Discipleship Training School and is finishing up his Lecture Phase here and leaving with a team for Belfast next week for two months of outreach into schools and the local community. He is originally from Valley of 1,000 Hills outside of Durban, South Africa, and he’s also the founder of Light Providers, a non-profit organization working in the region of KwaNyuswa, offering life skills courses, youth initiatives in sports, rehabilitation for criminal offenders, and many other programmes. Vusi has an incredible testimony of how he came to his faith, happening shortly after enrolling in a life skills development course run by World Changers Academy in Durban as an ex-offender with the intention of looting some of their computers (Read more about Vusi in the YWAM N.I. spring newsletter (416kb). Right-click and ’save as’ to download.).
More recently, Vusi is known in his community as an entrepreneur, community activist, and strong man of faith, and was even featured last year in a documentary by MTV Australia. In the last few years, Vusi has also been a friend and a resource to DTS outreach teams from Belfast. As well, Renee and I were hoping to bring a team of locals this August for a couple weeks to Durban and work with him and some of his partners (as some of you may know), but that is looking somewhat unlikely at this point.
Anyways, here are some videos you might find interesting:
Light Providers promotional video
A music video by Australian hip-hop group Bliss N Eso to their track “Bullet and a Target” inspired by a trip they made to South Africa. Vusi briefly comments (about 0:08-0:22). Profits from this single benefit The Oaktree Foundation, a partner of World Changers. Good track!
How you can help: Consider partnering with Light Providers financially to foster empowerment in KwaNyuswa (bank transfer info is available on the Light Providers blog). As well, Vusi has expressed much interest in having someone design a website for the project. If you’re a skilled designer or even have some server space you’d like to donate, check out the links below and get in contact with Vusi.
Related Links
- Light Providers blog | YouTube page
- World Changers Academy site | on Wikipedia
- Newspaper article excerpt from South African newspaper on the WCA website about Vusi
- VukAfrica Tours – a community owned and run tour company started by Vusi.