This morning I received a letter from Rubi Davids, a coach and mentor in South Africa. It really inspires me to get letters like this from people who have read my books and are applying it to make a difference in their world. So, if you are out there, I would love to hear from you. I would like to share Rubi’s letter to me and my response.
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The Street Kids of South Africa: A Mentoring Tale
So much has changed since Mandela’s release and those far off days since I visited South Africa. Yet one side effect of the dreaded Apartheid is a phenomenon called “Street Kids,” estimated to number in the thousands even today. The circumstances for some parents were and are still often so adverse that the children are left to grin and bear it or leave to find another place to sleep and get food. They are faced with the unhappy reality of increasing separation from their natural families and become at risk for losing their limited access to basic facilities, such as health, education, and recreation.
Read more →My Journey to South Africa: A Trip of a Lifetime
I visited South Africa with my two sons, Adam and Morgan, years ago during the time of “the troubles” and fell in love with the spectacular beauty and the wonderful people of the country. I was asked by a local hospital in Elim, a place in the Northern Transvaal, to do a three-day event called “The Battle of the Races.”
Prior to the event, Stephen Tischauser, a Swiss doctor doing an internship in SA, gave us a cook’s tour of the township of Elim. We saw people cooking over smoky fires in huts and children dressed in no better than rags. But what impacted my sons and I the most was a visit to a local school where we saw children who stood along the white bungalows with thatched roofs dressed in English school uniforms—white shirts, striped tie, short pants. Everyone was so friendly to us.
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