OUR FOUNDER
The WAS Foundation was founded on the 27th of October 2009 by Esmarelda van Zyl, rescuing animals from local townships and re-homing them into loving approved homes.
In 2011 Esmarelda won the Nedbank’s Hero of the Year Award and was donated R10 000, which she promptly decided to give back to those who helped her in achieving the award, the community! That was also when Coronation Park was discovered, a white township in Kurgersdorp.
Soon it was not only about helping desolate animals. Esmarelda decided to give a voice to the people who could not speak for themselves; our starving community!
Esmarelda and her team of volunteers have been working non-stop since that day to uplift the communities that they touch.
OUR VISION
Our vision is to uplift and provide hope to impoverished communities so that they can become self-sustainable. We will achieve our vision while treating each family within these communities with dignity and respect.
OUR MISSION
- To create safe places for families and children where no one goes to bed hungry or cold and are treated with love and care.
- To provide basic resources to those who go without life’s essentials.
- To protect the innocent children from harm and to teach them necessary life skills realise a better life as they grow up
OUR VALUES
Our values are founded on Christian principles
- Help those less fortunate that us.
- Treat each person that we help with dignity and respect.
- Perform these duties from the heart with love and and care.
- Perform these duties unconditionally without expectation of reward.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.