Ubuntu, a traditional African philosophy, recognizes how we are inextricably bound in each other’s humanity. Translated as, “I am because you are,” Ubuntu describes a sense of unity between people through which we each discover our own strengths and virtues. Featuring healer Credo Mutwa, GreenHouse Project director Dorah Lebelo, and former Deputy Minister of Health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, this glimpse of South Africa shows compassion as a way of life.
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Serving the Whole
By: Global Oneness Project
Featured Community Voice: Global Oneness Project
Global Oneness Project is a film project based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Their mission is to explore how the radically simple notion of oneness can be lived in our increasingly complex world.
The Greatest PowerWhen Nelsa Curbelo, a
67-year-old social worker from the most violent city of Ecuador, smiles
into the camera and unabashedly declares, "Love is the greatest power.
It is more powerful than violence; more powerful than the atomic bomb,"
you believe her.
For Ms. Curbelo, love and deep respect are the
foundation of her work with Guayaquil gang members, who together are
transforming their city - once lost to poverty and violence - into a
community that supports their
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Nelsa Curbelo, a 66-year-old former nun and schoolteacher, took on the toughest young criminals in Ecuador’s most violent city—and won them over with love.
In the city of Guayaquil in southern Ecuador, Latin pop music blares through the doorway of a graffiti-sprayed shop, competing with American hip-hop blasting from another nearby store. Teenagers, mostly boys, gather at the edge of the street, leaning against parked cars, bodies taut with restrained aggression. Children as young as 4—some shirtless or shoeless—spill onto the sidewalks in restless clusters. And slumped against the cracking paint of concrete walls, half-clothed men sleep, shaded from the hot Ecuadorian
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