What inspires us...
....we hope will inspire you too.
Here are a few of the inspiring people and organisations David discovered on a
recent research trip to South Africa and Mozambique organised by Leaders Quest and OXFAM
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The Maputo-based Lurdes Mutola Foundation, founded by Mozambique's Olympic heroine works with young people all over the country. We found them teaching Aids awareness to young children through sport.
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Enter Johannesburg's Apartheid Museum
with your Whites- or Blacks Only ticket to experience some of what this countryand its people have
achieved in the last couple of decades. Overwhelming.
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A couple transform their home to realise 'a vision of quality care' for HIV/AIDS patients in rural Mpumalanga.
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We met Heart Beat in the economically isolated village of Emthomjeni working to help children who lead households (sometimes at the startlingly young age of seven) have some time to play and remember they are kids |
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Physician Garth Japhet was searching for a way to get vital health information to the poor population and came up with this phenomenally successful, long-running soap opera.
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Khulisa is one of the many NGOs working tirelessly to 'create a healthy and crime free' South Africa. This includes supporting victims who need healing and offenders who want to make amends |
Other Inspiring Stuff
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Develop yourself and your organisation in a complete way, 'with nothing left out'. The most up to date thinking and practise from the Integral Movement |
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Banking for the Poor, inspired by Mahommad Yunnus |
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An underground art work constructed by hand; an inspiring example of what you can do if you really mean it |
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A mind-widening approach to innovation |
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Nadav Kander. A great photographer. |
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Techno maverick Kevin Kelly collects and reviews wonderful new tools and gadgets |
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Our friend Peter Russel is a world expert on science and consciousness. |
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Simple idea, beautifully executed. How you get 30 million people to visit your site. And he cant even really dance! |
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The work of ex-Netherlands PM Ruud Lubbers, Mikhael Gorbachev and many others, the Earth Charter articulates the joint role of business, government and civic society in securing the future of the planet. |
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Delicious, ecologically sound and sloooow. If you dont know the Slow Food Movement, take a look. |
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As it says on the tin, this elegant Internet 'radio station' broadcasts inspiring and provocative interviews weekly.
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