Welcome to Freedom Shaper Your Community Trade School

SOUTH AFRICA (KZN)

Striving for a Better South Africa

Community Leadership Training and Coaching

Below are just a few of the Course types and modules that we will cover.

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Business Training

  • Business Analysis
  • Management
  • Project Management
    • MS Project
  • Community Leadership
  • Time Management
  • Time Management using Outlook
  • Financials
    • Basic accounting
  • Budgets
  • Goal Setting

Technical Training

  • Introduction to Networking (IP Addressing)
  • Microsoft 365 (in person)
    • SharePoint
  • CompTIA (in person)
    • IT Fundamentals
    • A+
    • Network +
    • Server+
    • Security+

End User Training

  • Microsoft Office
    • Word
    • Excel
    • PowerPoint
    • Outlook
    • Power BI Desktop
  • Desktop Applications
  • Time Management Using Outlook
  • Home budgeting

The two most powerful warriors are Patience and Time.

The three C’s of life: Choices, Chances and Changes.

You must Choose to take a Chance, or your life can never Change.

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  • Desire

    Desire carries a static charge, and this can either attract or repel the object of its desire.

    The moment you stop needing something is usually the moment it shows up. Almost everyone has lived this at least once and then forgotten the lesson immediately afterward.

    An example:

    • you loose something and you hunt all over for it, eventually you go out and purchase a new one and then amazingly you find the lost one.

    The wanting doesn’t just fail to attract what it’s after. It actively repels it, because need broadcasts scarcity, and scarcity is not an attractive frequency to anything.

    Desire, in its ordinary form, carries a kind of static charge. It pushes outward, grasping, checking, waiting, and that pushing changes how a person shows up in the world. Someone who needs a relationship reads as needing one, in ways too subtle to name but too obvious to hide. Someone who needs a result grips it so tightly that the grip itself becomes the obstacle.

    Letting go of desire doesn’t mean becoming passive or indifferent. It means removing the grasping quality from wanting, so that a person can still move toward what they care about without the desperate undertone that makes most pursuit exhausting for everyone involved, including the one doing the pursuing.

    This is a completely different posture. It is engaged without being needy, present without being attached to a particular outcome arriving on a particular schedule.

    What replaces the grasping is spaciousness, and spaciousness is exactly the condition under which things tend to arrive. A full cup cannot receive anything poured into it.

    A person whose life is already crowded with need has no actual room for what they are asking for, even if it showed up today. Emptying the grip is not a loss. It’s what makes the receiving physically possible.

    Nothing arrives at the hand that won’t stop reaching for it.

  • expensive to be poor

    It is expensive to be poor

    The phrase “it is expensive to be poor“ means that low-income individuals face higher relative costs for basic goods and services because they lack the upfront capital to access cheaper options.

    Why It Costs More to Be Poor

    • Bulk purchasing barriers: Lacking cash means buying small packages, which cost significantly more per unit than buying in bulk.
    • Predatory financial services: People without traditional bank accounts rely on check-cashing services and payday loans with exorbitant fees and interest rates.
    • Deferred maintenance: Postponing car repairs or healthcare leads to catastrophic, far more expensive emergencies later.
    • Late fees and penalties: Inability to pay bills on time triggers overdraft fees, reconnection charges, and hit credit scores, raising future borrowing costs.
    • The “poverty premium”: Low-income areas often lack major supermarkets, forcing residents to buy overpriced groceries at convenience stores.

    How to Combat the Issue

    Combating this systemic cycle requires a mix of structural policy changes and targeted community interventions.

    Systemic & Policy Solutions

    • Expand banking access: Ban predatory payday lending margins and promote fee-free, accessible community banking or postal banking options.
    • Strengthen social safety nets: Implement robust public transit, universal healthcare, and subsidized childcare to eliminate sudden, crippling expenses.
    • Affordable housing initiatives: Build stable, energy-efficient affordable housing to prevent high utility bills and frequent, costly evictions.

    Community & Institutional Support

    • Micro-loan programs: Provide low-interest, small-dollar emergency loans through credit unions to bypass predatory lenders.
    • Buying cooperatives: Establish community-run food co-ops to give low-income neighborhoods bulk-pricing advantages.
    • Financial literacy and legal aid: Offer free legal defense against unfair debt collection and accessible guidance on building credit.