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From Locust Walk to South Africa and Back

From Locust Walk to South Africa and Back

During my senior year at University of Pennsylvania in 1999, I ran a raffle on Locust Walk that would end up changing my life. I had just…
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Jacob Lief
19 Reasons to Love Ubuntu

19 Reasons to Love Ubuntu

It’s been almost two decades since our founders, an American university student and a South African school teacher, embarked on an…
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Ubuntu Pathways
Why We Changed Our Name

Why We Changed Our Name

Eighteen years ago, I embarked on a crazy yet incredible journey with an unlikely new acquaintance. Malizole “Banks” Gwaxula was a teacher…
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Jacob Lief
An unlikely performer’s pathway to the stage

An unlikely performer’s pathway to the stage

Twenty-two-year-old Siphiwo Monde recently traveled to New York from Port Elizabeth to tell his story on the Ubuntu Gala stage. His…
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What Running a Nonprofit Has Taught Me About Fatherhood

What Running a Nonprofit Has Taught Me About Fatherhood

In the townships of Port Elizabeth, South Africa children live less than a mile from the ocean, but many of them never see it. The beach…
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