Happening now is the #UbuntuLab #YMCA Facilitation training Café. We Observe, Observe, Observe and we Practice, Practice, Practice in order to move from subject to participant and from intentions to actions using the #UTheory. Presencing Institute

#Ubuntu teaches us that all life is connected & that wellbeing is reflected in all aspects of shared life especially through economies. Healthy communities are interdependent communities. #GiftEconomy #AfricanPhilanthropy #Stockholm50 The Wellbeing Project Synergos Presencing Institute

Excited to see HOPE MASIKE as an integral part of the WellBeing Summit hosted by The Wellbeing Project this morning. Important conversations & reflections about how humanity & environment can heal to experience the wholeness of life #TWBS22 Tune in online here ow.ly/L5pm50J6ufW

Happy International Day of The African Child. Our encouragement is not only to eliminate harmful practices but to introduce practices that foster wholistic dvt by engaging not only the minds through academic activities but their hearts through arts and their hands through play.

Fellows in Chiadzwa are making lowcost woodsaving stoves in their community using training from the last module at Kufunda & they captured the process using skills from the Make It Grow - Zimbabwe video making workshop. Building healthy, sustainable communities #ItsUsAndItsNow

We are saddened by the passing of our wise elder, Gateway Fellow and dear friend Cont Mhlanga. Your willingness to serve your community showed a deep love that cannot be replaced. You will be sorely missed. Lala Ngokuthula Khulu.

UKhulu uCont will certainly be missed. A huge tree has fallen and we are left out in the open. Lala ngokuthula Khulu 🕊️

#CheckinTuesday "Listening does not grant the other side legitimacy. It grants them humanity—and preserves our own." — @valariekaur

Kaphunzitsa Village Trust Center in Malawi - a vision of the community being built by the community as a meeting place for women, men & youth circles. Reimagining & living the future they want to see TODAY! #CommunityIsTheAnswer

It was wonderful being in this space having generative discussions on food security and how through the Make It Grow - Zimbabwe we have supported cohorts in creating video proposals for small grants! #itsusanditsnow

Since it's inception in 2017, working with the youth has been a core desire in Gateway Zim. In '22 we began working more intentionally with the support of CFOR Force for Change & Arlene Audergon. Co-creating to utilize their skills & realize their dreams. Read more bitly.ws/zSEn

Yesterday, Make it Grow Founder, Pamela was at Fambidzanai Permaculture Centre to celebrate together the power of collaboration and #videostorytelling to support #foodsystemtransformations Fambidzanai Permaculture Centre ZWE #zimbabwe #community #video

#GatewayFellow The Great is a #CitizenSeedSaver with Tree Knowers And Growers Zimbabwe. Good food starts with good seed! Saving seed to sustain local food systems!

Reflections from the youth workshop ORAP Zimbabwe last week showed that trainees are also using these skills to record videos to apply for fellowship & scholarship programs as well as to market their businesses & social enterprises!

The Kapunzitsa Village Trust (KVT) Center in Malawi is catering for 15 vulnerable children who were affected by #CylcloneFreddy. Gateway fellow Daiton says, "This all began with the community meeting regularly in circle to create the future we want to see." #CommunityIsTheAnswer

CONGRATS to Tinashe, Christine & Tatenda who have contributed immensely to the vibrancy of the CFOR Force for Change youth Living The Future Today sessions. They have been selected for the Instituto Elos workshop in Brazil & your support will get them there gofund.me/b8dd5f60 SHARE!