Ubuntu

Spent some time this week assisting UBBT team member Debby Young by getting the "Peace is More Important than Punches" cards translated into Swahili so that they can be sent to Ms. Joyce Oneko, a Kenyan woman who founded "Mama na Dada"

This is organization's mission is to help Kenyan women "gain financial and mental independence by facilitating education, training, income generation activities and research and by advocating for women's rights." She is a well-known and highly respected peace activist world wide.

I was able to enlist the aid of a translation and localization company that I've worked with in my day job for several years — they agreed to take on the translation of the peace cards as a pro-bono project. (Thanks, Nabil!)

A great demonstration of the potential we all have to make an impact way, waaayyy out there with very little effort: Simply by lifting a finger (or in my case, making a phone call) we can make things happen together. Small actions really can make a difference.

I listened to an NPR segment on the concept of "Ubuntu" this week. As I understand the concept, in short, it means something along the lines of, "I want you to be all that you can be, because I am what I am because of you."

So, Deb — and all of us in the UBBT — Ubuntu!

Who can YOU inspire this week by being all that you can be?