Heneke: from addiction to community restoration

FROM the streets of addiction to the heart of community restoration, Constance Heneke is on a mission — and she wants Mitchells Plain to hear her cry.

- TRACY-LYNN RUITERS

For over a decade, the 37-year-old mother, wife, entrepreneur and woman of faith lived in the grip of heroin and tik addiction.

Today, she’s 13 years clean and raising funds to help others find their way out of despair — just like she once did.

“Do you hear the cry in Mitchells Plain?” she asks with urgency. Do you see how we need to live in fear?”

Heneke knows this fear intimately — not just from her past life on the streets, but from what she sees daily in her community: young people lost to drugs, families fractured, and hopelessness growing under the shadow of violence.

“It's for this reason that I’m raising funds - not for myself, not to make myself look good,” she said..