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	<title>By The People &#187; Learning By Example</title>
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		<title>Using the power of collective imagination &#8211; a story from Hout Bay</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2005 13:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jo Monson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not often that I meet a champion &#8211; someone with a great big vision and a great big heart &#8211; a bright spark that lights other sparks and makes big fires. Such a person is Bronwen Lankers Byrne, coordinator of the &#8220;Imagine Hout Bay&#8221; initiative. &#8220;Imagine Hout Bay,&#8221; as I discovered, is all about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After the fall: ex-prisoners and voluntarism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2005 13:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean Redpath</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What type of person do you imagine when you think of a volunteer working for the benefit of others in South Africa? Do you imagine a township Mama whose long life has been spent caring for her children, grandchildren and her community? Or do you imagine a privileged young idealist who takes time out between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March of the Barefoot Doctors</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2005 13:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Horne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Maoist cultural revolution introduced the concept of a barefoot doctor &#8211; a rural paramedic permanently deployed in far-flung villages. These embedded health-workers would live within and under the same conditions as their client communities &#8211; copying the Chinese peasant farmers&#8217; Spartan aversion to footwear (which, apart from being an urban luxury had a ruinous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SANZAF &#8211; a faith-based initiative</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2005 13:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean Redpath</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The South African National Zakah Fund (SANZAF), is a faith based socio welfare and educational organisation established during the Apartheid Era as a means to alleviate the suffering of those destitute, needy and oppressed. Since its inception and formalisation in 1974, the organisation has moved rapidly from a &#8216;charity&#8217; organisation, to an agency of empowerment, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Men at the Side of the Road</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2005 13:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean Barker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The phrase &#8220;I&#8217;m going out quickly to pick up some guys&#8221; will be familiar to many South Africans whose parents manage their own minor building or major gardening projects.
The next step works like this: Dad departs with an empty bakkie and returns an hour later with an assortment of men riding in the back.
These men [...]]]></description>
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