Nolubabalo Mnamata is a Xhosa woman whose devoted mission is to provide a shelter for abused children in the Eastern Cape. Nolubabalo obtained a small piece of land with a shack on it in King William's Town where she wants to open a shelter and call it Uthando, which means love, with the goal of providing a shelter for abused children.

Nolubabalo was born and raised in King William's Town where she experienced continued sexual abuse from the age of seven. There is no shelter for abused children in the area and because of her experience, she is determined to create an intervention so that children can thrive in a place of safety. Nolu is currently working in a beauty salon in Cape Town and her mission is to move permanently to Dimbaza and to convert the shack into a shelter for abused children. Instead of wanting to take as much as she can, she wants to give as much as she can – to her community.

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'For there to be a shelter

in every town in the Eastern Cape...

I want to turn rape victims into warriors'

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