SY weet hoe dit voel om niks te h\u00ea nie, ner\u00eans om heen te gaan nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die angs van nie weet wat more inhou nie of waar sy kos of selfs toiletpapier vir haar drie kinders gaan kry nie. Al wat sy kon doen, was bid. En glo. En nogmaals bid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maar Carla Smit van Jeffreysbaai het na haar mislukte huwelik, met \u2019n o\u00ebnskynlike voorstaande prokureur van Johannesburg, besluit om terug te veg. En om ander te help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Carla, \u2019n onderwyseres by Pharos Skool en mede-stigter van The Ladies Lighthouse in Jeffreysbaai, het wakker o\u00eb wat jou sommer kan laat sien sy is reg om te woeker. Nie net vir haarself nie, maar vir al die mishandelde vroue en kinders rondom haar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy wil \u2019n verskil maak in die lewens van die mense wat deur hul probleme ingesluk en weer uitgespoeg is. Want dit is iets wat sy goed ken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die fyn plooie op haar voorkop trek saam wanneer sy begin vertel waar alles in haar lewe begin skeefloop het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit is baie moeilik om daaroor te praat . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cKort nadat ons van Johannesburg na Jeffreysbaai verhuis het, het my lewe handomkeer verander. Binne \u2019n kort tydperk het ek alles verloor: my man (ons is geskei), huis, sekuritiet, alles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het die pad van \u2019n enkelma van drie kinders woes leer ken. Ons het bitter, bitter swaar gekry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMet geen inkomste of heenkome het ons 13 jaar terug in Victory Christian Church se huis vir hawelose vroue en kinders beland. Elke dag was \u2019n stryd om oorlewing; as die ander vroue nie my skoene gesteel het nie, het my haardro\u00ebr verdwyn.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maar Carla was vasbeslote om terug te veg. Al moes sy drie werke behartig om weer om die been te kom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vandag bak sy kilogramme pannekoeke vir \u2019n ekstra inkomste. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die silwer randjie? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Haar eie ervaring het daartoe gelei dat Carla, in samwerking met komiteelede Willie en Marie Oosthuizen, Lizette Kemp, Michelle Dorfling en Nazley September, The Ladies Lighthouse, \u2019n veilige toevlug vir vroue en kinders, in Jeffreysbaai begin het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n The Ladies Lighthouse<\/b>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk wou vir jare nie aan my swaarkry-jare dink nie,\u201d s\u00ea Carla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTot wat my vriendin, Melodi van Brake, stigter van The Cradle of Hope in Krugersdorp, my verlede jaar Oktober gebel het. Die plek is \u2019n hawe waar weggooivroue en kinders tydelik woon en bemagtig word om op eie bene te staan voor hulle weer die lewe kan aandurf. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSy het dringend gebed benodig vir 13 vroue en hul kinders wat geen heenkome gehad het nie. Niemand wou hulle vir die nag inneem nie. Nie eers die kerk nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEk kon daardie aand glad nie slaap nie. En die Here het my nie daar gelos nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHy het dit op my hart kom l\u00ea dat ons \u2019n veilige hawe vir vernielde mammas en hul kinders moet oopmaak \u2013 \u2019n plek waar ons hulle kan help om weer regop en sterk in die samelewing in te gaan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSo ges\u00ea, so gedaan . . . al was ek vreeslik benoud.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \n \u2019n Komitee is gestig, die aansoek vir \u2019n nie-winsgewende organisasie is ingedien, en nege maande later is di\u00e9 organisasie by die Departement van Maatskaplike Werke geregistreer.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cVroue moet weet dit is nie reg om mishandel te word nie,\u201d s\u00ea Carla. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHulle moet \u2019n ondersteuningstelsel vind. Vroue bly dikwels om geldelike redes. Boonop is \u2019n vrou so gebreek omdat sy gewoond is aan die patroon van mishandeling.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \n Vroue wat by The Ladies Lighthouse vir hulp aanklop, moet by die ses-weke lewensafrigting- en opheffingsprogram PULSE aansluit.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOns wil di\u00e9 vroue leer om weer voluit te lewe, asook hoe om \u2019n werk te vind,\u201d s\u00ea Carla. \u201cDie doel is om die vroue na drie maande te-rug in die gemeenskap te plaas,\u201d s\u00ea sy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \n Verleen hulp<\/b>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Carla doen \u2019n beroep op die gemeenskap om te help om \u2019n veilige hawe vir di\u00e9 slagoffers te vind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAlmal moet hande vat om \u2019n veilige plek in Jeffreysbaai te vind waarheen die vroue en kinders gebring kan word. 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