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Engagement: striving for 'ubuntu'

(01/22/08 5:00am)

In South Africa, where I live and work a part of each year, there is a concept of community called ubuntu. It is best expressed by the Xhosa proverb: "People are people through other people"-which is to say that my humanity is bound up in yours. What dehumanizes you dehumanizes me. I belong to a greater whole, so I am diminished when others are diminished by oppression. It is not "I think, therefore I am." It is "I am human because I belong."

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2008/01/engagement-striving-ubuntu

A chance to help

(11/14/05 5:00am)

I have accepted the invitation to serve as the new Chair of the Board of Directors of the Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation to help ensure that funds donated for recovery are used wisely and creatively in the interest of all of the people of Louisiana. I found in accepting this responsibility that some questions have been raised about how this new fund differs from other philanthropic organizations and how it will participate in the state's recovery. As a native of Louisiana with a long career in organized philanthropy, I agreed to participate in this effort because:

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2005/11/chance-help