World Changers Academy

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World Changers Academy was founded in August 2002 by Sizwe Mthembu (a pastor, former teacher, and businessman from northern KwaZulu Natal) and Joe White (an American who lived for five years in KwaNyuswa, a semi-rural Zulu community near Durban, doing community empowerment work). As a result of their diverse experiences with community work, Sizwe and Joe both came to realise that individual emp... read moreWorld Changers Academy was founded in August 2002 by Sizwe Mthembu (a pastor, former teacher, and businessman from northern KwaZulu Natal) and Joe White (an American who lived for five years in KwaNyuswa, a semi-rural Zulu community near Durban, doing community empowerment work). As a result of their diverse experiences with community work, Sizwe and Joe both came to realise that individual empowerment had to be based on a combination of social, spiritual, and economic efforts in one holistic project. Thus they decided to found World Changers Academy. In August of 2002, the first programme started with a three-month Life Skills empowerment course for 100 unemployed youth. Since then, many thousands have been trained through hundreds of WCA's courses in more than 75 different communities. read less

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