WWGI Platform is a recovery, community, and awareness app for people recovering from gambling addiction and for family members, partners, friends, colleagues, and others affected by someone else's gambling harm. It is designed to support honesty, accountability, peer encouragement, education, awareness, and practical relapse barriers.
Winners Without Gambling International ("WWGI", "we", "us", or "our") is an organization-focused recovery initiative founded by Sisanda Lwana. The mobile software is developed by BK Sekulane for the WWGI mission.
Official contact: developer@wwgi.org.za. Official website: https://www.wwgi.org.za.
The app has separate entry paths so the recovery community and the affected people awareness space can develop independently while remaining under the WWGI Platform mission. The app is built around practical participation, including:
The affected-person side of the Platform is intended for people who are not necessarily gambling themselves, but who have been harmed by another person's gambling. Users can choose a unique display name that should not be their real name, phone number, email address, workplace, school, or any other identifying detail. This helps protect privacy while still allowing shared stories to feel human.
Affected-person stories are stored separately from recovery-member stories. They may include text, images, voice notes, and reactions on approved stories, and must be reviewed by WWGI moderators or administrators before they become publicly visible in that section of the app. WWGI may reject, remove, edit visibility, or request changes where content is unsafe, identifying, harmful, abusive, promotional, or outside the purpose of education and awareness. Administrators may suspend affected-side access if an account is used to abuse, harass, identify, or endanger others.
WWGI Shield is a separate companion app that can block gambling access on a user's Android device. When both apps are installed from matching release channels and signed compatibly, the Platform app can read limited Shield status information and can sync that status to WWGI's backend for moderation and support workflows. Where the protected app bridge is unavailable, Shield may verify the same approved WWGI account through direct sign-in. Shield users may submit unlock requests from Shield with a reason and contact details. Moderators and administrators may review those requests, send short-lived one-time unlock codes to the user's Shield screen, or reject a request with a reason. Shield is intended to run as a strict extension of the Platform app for approved members, not as a stand-alone blocker disconnected from WWGI recovery support.
Shield activation, deactivation, and unlock events can be treated as recovery events so members and staff can understand when a major recovery barrier has changed. Minimal install, uninstall, activation, and deactivation ledger entries may also be used so moderators and administrators know when a paired recovery barrier needs follow-up.
WWGI content, data, names, logos, designs, text, images, documents, website material, Platform content, Shield content, recovery stories, affected-person stories, comments, media, support material, moderation records, Shield/blocking data, and content from WWGI's official online presence are protected by law, contract, and community confidentiality expectations. They may not be copied, scraped, reproduced, republished, redistributed, publicly quoted, mirrored, archived, sold, adapted, trained into model systems, or otherwise used outside the intended WWGI services without WWGI's prior written consent and, where required, consent from the relevant member or rights holder.
WWGI Platform is not emergency care, a crisis line, therapy, medical treatment, legal advice, financial advice, debt counselling, or a regulated healthcare service. It does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any medical condition. If you are in immediate danger, at risk of self-harm, or at risk of harming someone else, contact local emergency services or a qualified crisis service immediately.
