Foundations - A journey into life

Post rehab deep recovery program

A Bustan Paradise Foundation Initiative

Because Everyone Deserves a Real Second Chance

The Foundations Program gives people in recovery from addiction more than hope – it gives them structure, community, resources, and a path to build a meaningful life with impact.

🔹 How It Works

Each participant (“client”) enters a 3-month intensive cycle designed to provide both accountability and opportunity:

Mentorship Circle

Two dedicated mentors walk hand-in-hand with the client.

Daily support, life-skills coaching, and structured guidance for creating a sustainable new life.

Focus on developing a personal impact project – an entrepreneurial initiative through which the client contributes positively to society.

Sponsorship Circle

A team of sponsors who commit to two unique roles:

Weekly Witnessing: Join a private Zoom call (with camera off) to serve as silent witnesses, strengthening accountability.

Financial Support: Contribute toward a $15,000 sponsorship fund for each client. Funds cover housing, essential needs, training, and seed capital for their entrepreneurial impact project.

🔹 Why This Matters

Addiction recovery doesn’t end with rehab – it begins there. Without stability, mentorship, and opportunity, too many people relapse.

The Second Chance Program bridges this gap:

✅ Accountability – weekly check-ins and transparent commitments

✅ Stability – financial breathing room to rebuild

✅ Community – mentors and sponsors walking together

✅ Entrepreneurship – empowering clients to design and launch projects with social or economic impact

✅ Sustainability – building long-term foundations of work, home, and purpose

🔹 Your Role as a Sponsor

As a sponsor, you are more than a donor – you are a partner in transformation and creation.

Impact: Your support funds one person’s new beginning and gives them the seed capital to launch an impact project of their own.

🔹 The Bigger Picture

The Foundations Program operates under the Bustan Paradise Foundation, with its own dedicated structure and accountability.

My name is Joshua Blackburn and this is my story -

I was an addict - My daughter was taken away from me. I lost everything.

I got clean for 18 months - until I was diagnosed for ADD, Chronic pain - and started legal medical treatment.

I got from a to b - from survival to function.

On month 15 I succeeded in getting my daughter back.

I have my daughter back for 9 years already.

I am holding a job, a house, and an education for my daughter.

I have so much to lose - I will never go back to A.

I will never lose my daughter again.
I call this place C - this is beyond functioning -
I have so much to lose that I will never go back to drugs.

There is a member of this community - a close friend of mine

He is at B

He has been clean for 18 months already.

He is in a fragile place right now.

He does not have much to lose.

He is having trouble with his finances, his workplace, his health and his presentability.

His house is not hospitable and the traumas that got him into drugs to begin with - are haunting him. It is a daily struggle to stay clean.

He had a very difficult childhood - and he needs the parenting of our community in order to become a functioning and thriving adult.

He took himself from A to B. I would like to take him from B to C.

I want him to realise what he has to offer to the world.

He has amazing skills. He is kind and caring.

He can contribute so much to society.

He knows how to fix things, and wants to help others.

He needs guidance, he needs a makeover for his life, his house, his workplace, and his health.

I have developed a program - called foundations -
This program takes post rehab individuals from B to C by helping them build the foundations of their life.

I want my friend to go into this program - to help him prove to himself and others that he can become a contributing member to society.

There is a reason I am not exposing his identity - I believe that in a few months you will notice that a new person has joined our community - he was once invisible or a nuisance for others - and soon he will become a true asset for all of us.

I want to take people out of the street with a helping hand. The reason that I can take people from B to C - is because - I have walked the path from A (the street) all the way to C. I believe that others that will walk this path - will be the ultimate mentors - that will take others out of the street. They understand the pain, the struggle - but they know what is possible - I am asking you to invest not only in the rehabilitation of one man - I am asking you to invest in the future of this community.

Now I am one person doing this - after this - we will be two - and then four - you can do the math - we can make the streets clean again - our community clean again.

One beautiful soul at a time.

Thank you for your time - I would like to request from all of you - to donate any sum and help this man build the foundation for his new life - You can donate with this QR code that I am handing out - or in this special box that I am handing out.

All donations will be received by the Bustan Paradise foundation that is non profit entity that I am part of.

👥 Who We Are

Joshua Blackburn
Joshua is a recovered addict, now nine years clean, who has walked the path of deep transformation. After rebuilding his life, securing stable work and a home, and regaining custody of his daughter, Joshua became a pillar of support in his community. Out of his journey of resurrection, he designed the vision for the Foundation´s Program—a structured model to give others in recovery the same opportunity to rebuild, thrive, and create impact.

Aviv Beilis Lerner
Aviv is a social entrepreneur, fundraiser, and the founder of the Bustan Paradise Foundation, a global initiative dedicated to ecological and cultural restoration. With extensive experience in building community-based projects and mobilizing resources for transformative change, Aviv brings the organizational framework and sustainability strategy to help Second Chance grow from a vision into a movement.

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