Some founders chase glory. Some chase wealth. Uncle Funk chases impact. He doesn’t call himself a CEO, a mogul, or a visionary. He calls himself an incurable altruist and a delusional optimist.🫂 The Incurable AltruistFor Uncle Funk, hardship isn’t something you scroll past. It’s something you carry. He feels it, he owns it and he acts on it. That’s why Operation Safe Place was born — not in a boardroom, but on the ground in South Africa, where children needed food, shelter, safety, and love....

Some founders chase glory. Some chase wealth. Uncle Funk chases impact. He doesn’t call himself a CEO, a mogul, or a visionary. He calls himself an incurable altruist and a delusional optimist.🫂 The Incurable AltruistFor Uncle Funk, hardship isn’t something you scroll past. It’s something you carry. He feels it, he owns it and he acts on it. That’s why Operation Safe Place was born — not in a boardroom, but on the ground in South Africa, where children needed food, shelter, safety, and love....

In the townships of South Africa, where poverty turns playgrounds into peril zones, young girls face horrors that shatter souls: rape as young as 7 for a single sweet, trafficking at age 4, abandonment on roadsides. It's a crisis so dire. Enter Operation Safe Place (OSP) and its powerhouse initiative Every Girl Safe – a gritty, faith-fuelled NGO turning despair into hope, one safe haven at a time. Tired of endless golf days and pleas for cash, founders Uncle Funk and Mrs. Funk flipped the scr...

In the townships of South Africa, where poverty turns playgrounds into peril zones, young girls face horrors that shatter souls: rape as young as 7 for a single sweet, trafficking at age 4, abandonment on roadsides. It's a crisis so dire. Enter Operation Safe Place (OSP) and its powerhouse initiative Every Girl Safe – a gritty, faith-fuelled NGO turning despair into hope, one safe haven at a time. Tired of endless golf days and pleas for cash, founders Uncle Funk and Mrs. Funk flipped the scr...