This 1-day summit was hosted by Future Females Foundation & Susana Kennedy, and designed to support, educate and empower women in topic areas including business, entrepreneurship, wealth management, marketing, mindset and wellbeing. The summit involved masterclasses by internationally renowned speakers, and raised money for the Phakama Centre Project & Safehouse. For more information about this project scroll down.
This summit has now ended and it is not possible to watch the masterclasses.
If you would like to stay up to date on news involving this project, follow Future Females Foundation and Susana Kennedy on Instagram
Phakama Community Center has been a safe haven for the Gugulethu community for almost 20 years - providing nourishment, empowerment through learning and upskilling, counselling, and a safe space for hundreds of community members from birth all the way through to the elderly. Everyone has a warm, loving place at Phakama.
Phakama Community Centre is in desperate need of rebuilding and creating a permanent structure, most urgently to create a permanent Safehouse for the women in its community who have experienced domestic violence and need a safe place to stay.
With this in mind the collaboration between Susana Kennedy, Future Females Foundation and Future Females was launched. Through this partnership, we aim to raise enough money at this Summit to complete Phase 1 of the Project, which involves buying the property, building a wall and hiring security for safekeeping and protection of the property, and then building the Safehouse to house women affected by gender-based violence.
Phase 2 involved building bathrooms, a kitchenette and creating bedrooms within a hall space, each with its own locker and bed, and filling the Safehouse with necessities like bedding, toiletries, food, decor, and more.
Our aim is to build a place of love, comfort, nourishment and safety for the vulnerable and in need.
Throughout their stay at the Safehouse, the women will receive professional trauma counselling, as well as participate in Skills Development training courses and community work within the community center, re-building their confidence, self-worth and trust in humanity.
100% of funds raised at the Empowered Summit will go towards the development of this Project.
EMPOWERED SUMMIT IS A COLLABORATION
Susana Kennedy is an International Transformational Facilitator, Media Personality Speaker and Philanthropist who sits on the Board and is a Trustee of the Phakama Community Center.
Future Females Foundation is a non-profit organisation working to empower women around the world by eradicating gender-based violence and discrimination.
Future Females is a movement to inspire more female entrepreneurs, and better support their success. We provide a platform digitally, physically and emotionally where women can connect, inspire and collaborate with each other, and access the resources they need to succeed.
If you would like to donate to the Phakama Community Centre and Safehouse project, click below