About Us

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 Hello, my name is Wayne Russell I'm the founder of the Golden Chances Foundation International. 

This is a quick testimony of my drug addiction and how I came to start the GCF. 

So, my addiction started at a young age when I first went into foster home. 

The home I was put in was next to a park where I used to play at. While I was there, I met some other older kids.  The older kids lived next door to us and one day they invited me to come and hang out with them. I did and ended up trying pot for the first time. I ended up spending a lot of time with them and as I ended up in the system full time things just went from bad to worse. I ended up joining a gang, ended up trying heavier and heavier drugs till I ended up an addict on Amphetamines. there's a lot that happened in between that I don't speak about but needless to say it ended up with me in jail after being charged with deprivation of liberty amongst other things. When I got out, I was clean for a time then ended up back on the Ice.  I ended up back in jail in 2020 and got out in December of 2020 after a 4-month sentence for a stolen car. I tried to stay clean I opened up a restaurant but unfortunately, I ended up back on the meth and had to close my restaurant in September of 2021. Covid 19 didn't help much either and on the 14th of September I ended up leaving my home and went to my friend Richie's house to get clean. I consider the 15th of September to be my sober date. I stayed there for only a few days before I made my way north looking for my children. Unfortunately, that didn't work out as she had taken them 7 hrs. west without telling me.  I found myself living in a motel and trying to stay clean when I came across a TikTok creator. This creator was my saving grace.  He became someone who I respected and admired, who helped me with my Recovery from my Addiction. Unfortunately, on the 7th November of 2021 Max tragically passed away. Max was the founder of the Cyber Outreach and Services, who the foundation still supports to this day. After his death I tried to think of a way to honor his memory, so I started the warfare family worldwide as idea on the social media platform TikTok. I started it with the idea to just give people someone who people could talk to, get advice off or some sit with them while people were struggling. , I decided to try to continue Maxs goals towards making this world a better place as well as helping as many people as  I could, seeing a need for energetic, nonprofit work in this area, we formed our organization to provide sensible solutions, to try to honor Max's memory. So, after a long journey of ups and downs and a lot of paperwork after a year and a half, the Golden Chances Foundation was born in February and legalized in Australia as of March 2023. I have left a lot out of this and maybe one day I will tell my full Story of my life but there defiantly isn't enough space here to do it. So, instead I look forward to you helping us "Change the world one person at a time."

I want to send a special thanks to my children from who my determination and my drive to do better and be a better person comes from. All I do is for you my babies, and I also want to thank my brother Greg and my best friends Amber and Grahame who supports everything I do. Your amazing guys I'm thankful for everyday you guys are in my life.

Graham has been my best friend for almost twenty yrs. and has supported me through thick and thin.  The support, advice and friendship has gotten me through a lot of hard times. Without his friendship I probably would have ended up dead a long time ago. Thank you, my friend.