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Ubuntu Education Fund.
Child welfare -- South Africa.
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I am because you are : how the spirit of ubuntu inspired an unlikely friendship and transformed a community / Jacob Lief with Andrea Thompson ; foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
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Lief, Jacob, author.
[Emmaus, Pennsylvania] : Rodale, c2015.
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Lief, Jacob.
Ubuntu Education Fund.
Child welfare -- South Africa.
Education -- South Africa.
Children -- Services for -- South Africa.
Nonprofit organizations -- South Africa.
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http://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/496/9781623364496/image/lgcover.9781623364496.jpg
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9781623364496 (hbk. : acid-free paper) :
1623364493 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
9781623366612 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
1623366615 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
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xiii, 210 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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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"--
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