past BMWfanatics Gauteng Charity Event

Supporting Compass,

Hi All

We will be supporting COMPASS, 23 June 2013. Please join us in supporting to those trying to make a difference.

BACKGROUND
Compass is a non profit organisation which is currently caring for approximately 93 babies and children, aged between new born and 13 years that are often abused, abandoned, terminally ill, impoverished and previously disadvantaged.

With help from Compass and sponsors they create and provide food, security, education and a place of safety.

A nurturing and uplifting environment.

Currently it costs Compass R1200 per child to sustain that child for a period of three months.

HOW IT ALL STARTED
The founder of Compass Mr. Jude Martin struggled with alcoholism and drug addiction and after tragically losing his 4 year old son in a pool accident ended up living on the streets.

During this time he befriended a group of homeless children and through helping them find food and shelter he eventually turned his life around.

With only a hundred Rand and a cellphone a box on the conrer of the street he started what today is Compass.

Compass has recently opened their 4th home and are currently based in Edenvale, however people come from all around Johannesburg and surrounding cities for shelter, food and an opportunity to recover their dignity.

Whilst in Compass's care women are placed in two year training programmes that gives them the tools to find employment and get back on their feet.
Training includes childcare, computer skills and basic office administration.
Children are placed in school and given stable loving environments.

TRUE STORIES
A mother and her three children walked all the way from East London, she has been so badly abused that she lost all her front teeth and had a broken jaw, due to her appearance she was not able to find employment which made it impossible for her to look after herself and her three children, Keagan 2, Jo-anne 6 and Kiara 8.
With help from sponsorships Compass is trying to place the two older children in school and the mother is currently in the two year training programme.

Donovan is a young boy who has cerebral palsy, through sponsorship he now has a special wheelchair.

Lee-Anne who is 90% deaf in both ears has now, through sponsorships, two hearing aids. Both with speach and physiotherapy are starting to thrice.

GOALS
Compass is trying to establish a village which will eventually look after a 1000 abused and ill children, but costs are huge.

In the last 8 years Compass has nurtured and helped over 1200 women and children back into the mainstream of society, where they now in turn live productive and complete lives and complete and strengthen the socio economic cycle by becoming tax payers, who can now fend for their own children without the interference of abusive fathers and husbands........

So here is my plight to you Fanatics.....

THE MISSION (should you decide to accept it)

Sunday the 23rd of June 2013
12:00 Meet up at the Greenstone Mall Parking Area
Couple of Group Photos if we can find a photographer

13:00 Escorted trip through to the venue which is at
The Orion Building
Boeing Road
Edenvale
GPS Coordinates -26.160330, 28.157066[/font]
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