The deck is stacked with profound problems that need solutions, but we can do it.
Cast your minds back to March 2020 and the first weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa. Try, if you can, to recall the way in which South Africans rallied, trusted each other and accepted that we were facing a crisis that would necessitate sacrifices in the public interest. That there was such a thing as a common good.
Food kitchens sprang up. For a year it was not unusual to see people collecting donations of food stuff outside supermarkets. Many people discovered joy and purpose in solidarity and community. They, too, call for a response based on our common humanity if we are to get through the year stronger. But, simultaneously, we can build community power on the ground by collaborating on fixing our society and supporting and empowering each other.
The fact that so many people admire Gift of the Givers’ Imtiaz Sooliman is evidence that our greatest admiration is for those who help others. Unleash your inner Imtiaz! Thus, says Abrams, there is “strong and compelling scientific research that shows that we come factory equipped for cooperation, compassion and generosity”.My research and reporting have shown me that in every community there are already activists at work. They may be invisible to the mainstream media, which is fixated on froth rather than substance, but I assure you they are there. Find them. Join them.Help people to get IDs.
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