Reintegration Centre for women creates a lifeline for those who need it
PRESIDENT RIDGE – Bianca Vosloo shares her story about how a painful past fuels a fruitful future for women who need it.
Bianca Vosloo made her way to the front of the audience at the Angels Reintegration Centre for Ladies fundraiser, slightly fidgety. Vosloo began her address with an acknowledgement of her mother in the audience whose job it was to gesture if she was not loud enough. She paused and said, “Everything we represent is what I have walked.”
Vosloo recalled her life before as a prostitute who was abused by a man who identified himself as her pimp. The owner and director of Angels Reintegration Centre for Ladies publicly thanked her mom for never giving up on her.
After she found herself in a co-ed reintegration centre, Vosloo remembered how she would dissociate as a method to cope in the space. “I became a predator as a form of control”
On the cusp of sobriety, she could not handle the reality of some of the things she had done and witnessed. “Today I stand here and I am not that person anymore… No one owns me,” was the powerful affirmation by Vosloo which inspired attendees to applaud her declaration.
Since darker days have cleared, Vosloo has been sober and focused on other women who have found themselves in similar situations through the management of the centre. She beamed about how she had qualified as an acudetox specialist, her first time she has qualified for anything in her life, two months ago. She hopes to continue the work she does alongside her partners at the centre. Vosloo emphasised that the pain she experienced in her walk has not been reserved from people from certain walks of life.
She also thanked their sponsor VTC Africa and welcomed donations and support from everyone in attendance and for them to spread the word about their organisation.
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