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I Am Because You Are (Hardcover)
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In 1998, Jacob Lief, a 21-year-old American university student, met
school teacher Malizole Banks Gwaxula in a township tavern in Port
Elizabeth, South Africa. After bonding over beers and a shared
passion for education, Gwaxula invited Lief to live with him in the
township. Inspired by their fortuitous meeting-which brought
together two men separated by race, nationality, and age-and by the
spirit of ubuntu, roughly translated as I am because you are-the
two men embarked on an unexpectedly profound journey. Their vision?
To provide vulnerable children in the townships with what every
child deserves-everything. Today, their organization, Ubuntu
Education Fund, is upending conventional wisdom about how to break
the cycle of poverty. Shunning traditional development models,
Ubuntu has redefined the concept of scale, focusing on how deeply
it can impact each child's life rather than how many it can reach.
Ubuntu provides everything a child needs and deserves, from
prenatal care for pregnant mothers to support through
university-essentially, from cradle to career. Their child-centered
approach reminds us that one's birthplace should not determine
one's future. I Am Because You Are sets forth an unflinching
portrayal of the unique rewards and challenges of the nonprofit
world while offering a bold vision for a new model of development.
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