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Ubuntu and the power of being kind
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TODAY, March 16, is World Social Work Day. Its theme is “ubuntu,” which Nelson Mandela explained as “the profound sense that we are human only through the humanity of others; that if we are to accomplish anything in this world it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievement of others.”
Desmond Tutu defined it simply as: “My humanity is inextricably bound up in yours.”
One of my social work bosses, though never mentioning ubuntu, encapsulated the humanity aspect in one word.
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