Beulah Faith Kleinveldt - Founder of The Campio Burns Group

Beulah Kleinveldt with PASASA (Paraffin Safety Association of South Africa Director Patrick Kulati (back) and members  during the Barcelona winter campaign, Guguletu, Cape Town, South


"A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.” Nelson Mandela.

Beulah kleinveldt (AKA Jambiya and Beulah Kay - published poet/author/international literary activist) has served for over three decades in various leadership capacities as youth worker, christian minister, skills developer/assessor, international Music Minister and missionary - the list is seemingly endless.

 One struggles to define the impact of her international mission that has touched diverse cultures and nations. She is an extraordinary communicator, theatre practitioner, playwright, gifted crossover soprano and an endearing speaker.



Beulah has a passion for youth development and the upliftment of women. She's appeared on numerous television programs over the past years; received outstanding media reviews for vocal performances as well as having won the United Kingdom all round poetry competition in 2008.

This dynamic community servant currently serves The Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport through a portfolio that connects her to young people from previously disadvantaged backgrounds that assists her to understand their socio-psycho challenges. She is indeed a humanitarian and visionary who grows dreams, empowers and inspires people.

Her added passion is to use Culture and Arts as well as recreational sport as a medium to integrate South African burn survivors with mainstream communities and thereby, see them become more visible and healed; their rights identified, recognised and upheld.

In the words of Siyabulela Twani, President of UK based organization, African Connections: "Beulah is an inter-cultural and transformational agent". The wider Beulah's path grows, the more her heart and passion does all the talking.

Compiled by Euton Murphy - (updated 2012)

Beulah explaining the alternatives available during fire hazards and burns

Beulah Kleinveldt births

The Campio Burns Group

"Approximately 6 years ago my life changed when I was introduced to the world of burns and burn survivors.  I had spent more than 30 years of my life in humanitarian music missions.  I had travelled across the world working amongst nations and learning about cultures and spiritual underworlds; witnessed the evidence and manifestations of some of life's most inhumane activity.  

I witnessed how the gift of music and the arts could be used as a channel for soul wellness and healing - music was a therapeutic element that was able to transform the broken hearted and give the hopeless a dream where only darkness once lived.  

I have first-hand experience in witnessing the effects of the occult upon a human life.  I saw babies born who looked less than human; where the worse and most depraved were saved from a life of curses and witchcraft.  

Upon my return to South Africa after having lived abroad for some years, a friend who is the father of a burn survivor felt I needed to take a closer look at burns.  He believed that given my experience in humanitarian missions and music that I would be touched by and drawn to a community of people who have been tragically burned and disfigured through fire accidents and in many cases, abuse.

I researched burns and what I uncovered changed my life forever.  Suddenly I became aware of what it was and quickly realised that my own mother was a "burn survivor" who suffered 3rd degree burns as a child.  I grew up seeing her faded yet visibly scarred chest and nothing seemed strange - and of course neither did I know her story, until then. 

Burn survivors are a forgotten community of people who fearfully hide from society.  A people who live their lives in the "shadows" too afraid to be seen.  Children who have become familiar with bullying and mockery to such a degree they cannot go to school and therefore unable to learn like every child should.  

After speaking to burn survivors, visiting the burns unit at the Red Cross Childrens hospital, speaking to doctors and social workers, I could not sleep for days and a vision to utilise my creative  skills as a tool for soul healing, reintegration and awareness was born. I wanted to do something. I knocked on doors to offer my help but was turned away and I sadly discovered that the world of organisations and charities was a protective and defensive one.

I saw myself as a missionary amongst burn survivors yet realised that it would take more than my volunteer service to accomplish what I believe was blossoming inside my heart.  I wanted to see burn survivors emerge from burns compounds and be integrated into normalised day to day living - I wanted to reconcile burn survivors to mainstream communities. The only way I could do that was to bring communities into a circle and educate them, then introduce burns into that circle,  one survivor at a time. It was a strategy that would enable all round, inclusive development and growth. 

Campio was established out of my passion and calling to raise champions.  

I would be the first to admit that it is a difficult and slow process.  But if Campio can touch one life at a time, we could possibly shift a nation.  We would alleviate the sadness and frustrations and hopelessness of one burn survivor who pleads, "help me live a better quality of life and be a significant member of society".  While another says,  "I have scars on the outside but on the inside I'm just like everybody else, I also have dreams".  

May God help us bring to fruition this mandate he too carries so close to His heart.

I trust that something of my heart will encourage and inspire you to put your hand to the plough and sow into a field that is ripe unto harvest yet where the labourers are few. 

Perhaps you too, as I did, will look more closely at burns and the lives of those it so severely affects.

I am committed in believing that my life is steered by a God who orders my footsteps. Upon this I am entirely focused. I pursue wisdom and understanding. Therein lies the mysteries to my gifts, my skills, my peace, security, confidence and God ordained success.

I must work the works of Him who has called me while it's day - for when the night appears all work will be done away".

Beulah Kleinveldt

Beulah's Personal Mission

"I consciously, with courage and faith desire to use my creativity, love and compassion as a channel to inspire and awaken the greatness and beauty in others and establish a legacy they desire to follow