The Karabo Mokoena Foundation, recently launched by family members and close friends of the young woman who was murdered earlier this year, aims at helping women leave an abusive relationship safely. The foundation was launched in honour of Mokoena and what she stood for.
Her family says that before her death, Mokoena was in the process of starting an organisation that would specialise in women empowerment and assist abused women and children.
It's been almost six months since she was brutally murdered and her burnt body found in Lyndhurst, Gauteng. Her ex-boyfriend Sandile Mantsoe has been accused of killing her, and his trial is set to continue in March next year.
Michelle Daka, foundation director and close friend of Mokoena, told MorningLivepresenter Leanne Manas on Wednesday that it was always her friend's dream to start the foundation.
"We just took from the footsteps that she has already left us with. Karabo was a woman of substance and she was working with a couple of foundations, including the orphanage house group," said Daka.
She said they'd managed to put together a few sponsors to donate a car. "She actually wrote it in her diary. She says one day I'm going to have the foundation and this is the name that it will have," Daka added.
The foundation will help bring sponsorship and attention to other foundations until they're in a space where they can fully manage themselves on their own, and gradually provide counselling.
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