About Us

After more than a decade of informal advocacy against abuse in the religious sector, Sihle Sibisi, the founder of Kwanele Foundation, formally registered the NPO organisation in August 2020.

Having suffered injustice and abuse from men of the cloth, she decided to speak out using social platforms from as early as 2007. To her surprise her advocacy was faced with perpetual and adamant denialism coupled with enthusiasm to protect the religious perpetrator by those who followed him.

This not only fuelled her more but created a need and a base to register a vehicle for charitable work and formally advocate for those whose voice has been silenced.

Kwanele foundation is a Non Profit organisation that seeks to be the voice to the voiceless, a beacon of hope to the hurting vulnerable and marginalised. We are a foundation that is paving and spearheading a global legacy of addressing gender based violence at the hands of religious leaders, in the church. We seek to validate the voice and stories of the oppressed and assist them to start or continue their journey of wholeness.

Vision

To bring restoration and rehabilitation to both the victims and perpetrators of gender based violence through religious, legal, socio-cultural and educational interventions.

Mission

Our mission is to create platforms where victims of gender based violence will be able to attain holistic restoration and perpetrators will get rehabilitation.

To speak out for every widow/widower facing disinheritance, to journey with those widows/widowers that have experienced this ordeal

To educate and empower the boy child from toxic socio-cultural norms that breed and perpetuate gender based violence mannerisms and attitudes, to gender based violence aware men.

To educate and empower the girl child against period poverty and gender based violent acts by creating a resilient and fearless girl child that can say “No!” to gender based violence and can speak out against it.

Objectives

• to create awareness of both Religious based violence and gender based violence respectively.
• To speak on behalf of the Religious Based Violence and Gender Based violence victims, through our social, print, and electric and visual media platforms.
• To assist the victims through this long journey of being whole by providing access to psychological, legal, social and physical solutions and aids.
• To create a platform that can be easy accessible, sustainable and practical for those who have been violated to speak out
• To provide legal, social, psychological and physical rehabilitation to the perpetrator of religious based violence, gender based violence and other unethical crimes.
• To shelter the displaced by various crimes.
• To feed the hungry
• To uplift the community through various projects and campaigns