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PATCH ADAMS
The true story of a heroic man, Hunter "Patch" Adams, determined to become a medical doctor because he enjoys helping people. He ventured where no doctor had ventured before, using humour and pathos.
SERVICE
Chapter 4 - Pillars of the Ubuntu Method
Book published by Ubuntu Leaders Academy with the academic contributions from the Scientific Council of Ubuntu Leaders Academy.
PATCH ADAMS
The true story of a heroic man, Hunter "Patch" Adams, determined to become a medical doctor because he enjoys helping people. He ventured where no doctor had ventured before, using humour and pathos.
empathy
Chapter 3 - Pillars of the Ubuntu Method
Book published by Ubuntu Leaders Academy with the academic contributions from the Scientific Council of Ubuntu Leaders Academy.
Purpose and meaning in the giving of self
José Luís Gonçalves
Servant Leadership : An inspiration
José Luís Gonçalves
Gandhi: An Autobiography
Gandhi was a fascinating, complex man, a brilliant leader and guide, a seeker of truth who died for his beliefs but had no use for martyrdom or sainthood. His story, the path to his vision of human dignity, is a critical work of the twentieth century, and timeless in its courage and inspiration.
i am malala
I AM MALALA is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls' education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons. It will make you believe in the power of one person's voice to inspire change in the world.
Freedom writers
This inspiring and thought-provoking movie is based on the book The Freedom Writers Diary by the Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell. Not only does this story pay tribute to a teacher who makes an enormous contribution to the lives of her students, it also celebrates the unity that can arise out of diversity when individuals break down the walls that separate them from others. Right now the communities and nations of the world need to study the spiritual meaning of unity and the beauty that can arise out of the dignity of difference.
resilience
Chapter 3 - Pillars of the Ubuntu Method
Book published by Ubuntu Leaders Academy with the academic contributions from the Scientific Council of Ubuntu Leaders Academy.
creating a world without poverty
In the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe. But traditional capitalism has been unable to solve problems like inequality and poverty. In Muhammad Yunus' groundbreaking sequel to Banker to the Poor, he outlines the concept of social business -- business where the creative vision of the entrepreneur is applied to today's most serious problems: feeding the poor, housing the homeless, healing the sick, and protecting the planet. Creating a World Without Poverty reveals the next phase in a hopeful economic and social revolution that is already underway.
a world of three zeros
In A World of Three Zeros, Yunus describes the new civilization emerging from the economic experiments his work has helped to inspire. He explains how global companies like McCain, Renault, Essilor, and Danone got involved with this new economic model through their own social action groups, describes the ingenious new financial tools now funding social businesses, and sketches the legal and regulatory changes needed to jumpstart the next wave of socially driven innovations. And he invites young people, business and political leaders, and ordinary citizens to join the movement and help create the better world we all dream of.
building social business
Muhammad Yunus, the practical visionary who pioneered microcredit and, with his Grameen Bank, won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, has developed a new dimension for capitalism which he calls "social business." The social business model has been adopted by corporations, entrepreneurs, and social activists across the globe. Its goal is to create self-supporting, viable commercial enterprises that generate economic growth as they produce goods and services to fulfill human needs. In Building Social Business, Yunus shows how social business can be put into practice and explains why it holds the potential to redeem the failed promise of free-market enterprise
banker to the poor
Muhammad Yunus was a professor of economics in Bangladesh, who realized that the most impoverished members of his community were systematically neglected by the banking system -- no one would loan them any money. Yunus conceived of a new form of banking -- microcredit -- that would offer very small loans to the poorest people without collateral, and teach them how to manage and use their loans to create successful small businesses. He founded Grameen Bank based on the belief that credit is a basic human right, not the privilege of a fortunate few, and it now provides $24 billion of micro-loans to more than nine million families. Ninety-seven percent of its clients are women, and repayment rates are over 90 percent. Outside of Bangladesh, micro-lending programs inspired by Grameen have blossomed, and serve hundreds of millions of people around the world.The definitive history of micro-credit direct from the man that conceived of it, Banker to the Poor is the moving story of someone who dreamed of changing the world -- and did.
a hope more powerful than the sea
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea chronicles the life of Doaa, a Syrian girl whose life was upended in 2011 by the onset of her country's brutal civil war. Doaa and her fiance, Bassem, decide to flee to Europe to seek safety and an education, but four days after setting sail on a smuggler's dilapidated fishing vessel along with five hundred other refugees, their boat is struck and begins to sink. This is the moment when Doaa's struggle for survival really begins.
Man’s Search for a Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning is a 1946 book by Viktor Frankl chronicling his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, and describing his psychotherapeutic method, which involved identifying a purpose in life to feel positive about, and then immersively imagining that outcome.
Untouchables
Following the accident that made him tetraplegic, Philippe (François Cluzet), a middle-aged French aristocrat, decides to hire someone to support him in his daily routine. That's when he meets Driss (Omar Sy), a Senegalese young man from a troubled neighborhood, fresh out of prison. Driss is, by all accounts, someone completely inappropriate for the job. However, Philippe establishes a connection with him and hires him immediately.
As the days go by, these two-man with different backgrounds and life stories become closer, developing an unlikely friendship.
Directed by Olivier Nakacheand Eric Toledano, a dramatic comedy based on the self biography "Le Second Soufflé", written by Philippe Pozzo di Borgo."
human
HUMAN is a movie fully funded by non-profit organizations, with the purpose to delve deeper into the meaning of being human. Across 60 countries, over 2000 women and men were interviewed and shared their story with filmmaker Yann Arthus-Bertrand, who sought to discover: " What is it that makes us human? Is it that we love, that we fight? That we laugh? Cry? Our curiosity? The quest for discovery?"
tHE STORY OF US
Story of us is a short documentary that reveals the journey of Morgan Freeman as he discovers the different cultures, personalities and regions of the world.
'Self-confidence'
Chapter 2 - Pillars of the Ubuntu Method
Book published by Ubuntu Leaders Academy with the academic contributions from the Scientific Council of Ubuntu Leaders Academy.
John Volmink on "ubuntu"
In this article, John Volmink clarifies the meaning of ubuntu and it's connection with humanity, highlighting the importance of the bridge building process.
Rui marques
Building bridges
In this article, Rui Marques describes the scientific methodology of the Ubuntu method, and the relevance of Ubuntu leaders in the modern era.
HOW TO CURE A FANATIC
Fanaticism writes Amos Oz, "is the perennial essence of human nature, the 'evil gene'". To attach it to civilization, to a people, to a religion is to contribute to the propagation of the gene and to create policies of identity hatred.At a time when fanaticism is exacerbated, the Israeli writer, often mentioned as a Nobel candidate, reflects on faith, fanaticism, and the challenges of living together in the 21st century in a volume that brings together three brief and incisive essays...
THE BRIDGE OVER THE DRINA
It begins with the reader at the middle of the 16th century, in Visegrad, a city on the border of Serbia and Bosnia. Mehmed-Paxá, Grand-Vizir, still dreams of the day when, as a child, he was separated from his Christian family, forced to cross to the other bank of the river. It is this same child who decades later, converted to Islam and orders a bridge to be built over the river Drina. This is the epic story of that bridge, and also of its inhabitants.Building it took years of hard work, blood,sweat and tears and many casualties. Over the centuries the bridge has been a place of passage, of meetings, of conversations, of conspiracies; it has suffered floods, it has been closed off to prevent the spread of the plague, it has been witness to suicides; it has witnessed armies fleeing and victors parading; spies have been executed on it, it has seen the collapse of empires and the birth of new nations.Historical novel, great European epic, "The Bridge over the Drina" belongs to the category of indispensable works of world literature
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
In this book, Amin Maalouf sifts through countless contemporary Arab chronicles with the aim to combine their perspective and offer an insight into the impact the crusades had on the Arab people and culture.
In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong
Identity is the crucible out of which we come: our background, our race, our gender, our tribal affiliations, our religion (or lack thereof), all go into making up who we are. All too often, however, the notion of identity—personal, religious, ethnic, or national—has given rise to heated passions and even massive crimes.Moving across the world’s history, faiths, and politics, he argues against an oversimplified and hostile interpretation of the concept. He cogently and persuasively examines identity in the context of the modern world, where it can be viewed as both glory and poison. Evident here are the dangers of using identity as a protective—and therefore aggressive—mechanism, the root of racial, geographical, and colonialist subjugation throughout history.
leo africanus
"I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Arabia. I am also called the Granadan, the Fassi, the Zayyati, but I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road, my country is the caravan, my life the most unexpected of voyages."Thus wrote Leo Africanus, in his fortieth year, in this imaginary autobiography of the famous geographer, adventurer, and scholar Hasan al-Wazzan, who was born in Granada in 1488. His family fled the Inquisition and took him to the city of Fez, in North Africa. Hasan became an itinerant merchant and made many journeys to the East, journeys rich in adventure and observation. He was captured by a Sicilian pirate and taken back to Rome as a gift to Pope Leo X, who baptized him Johannes Leo. While in Rome, he wrote the first trilingual dictionary (Latin, Arabic and Hebrew), as well as his celebrated Description of Africa, for which he is still remembered as Leo Africanus.
invictus
"Invictus" is a 2009 biographical sports drama film directed by Clint Eastwood and starring the outstanding Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela and Matt Damon as François Pienaar, the captain of the Springbooks. It covers the first term of Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa and enlis the national team on a mission to win the 1995 Rudgby World Cup in order to reunite the country after Apartheid!“We have to better than what they feared we would be. We have to surprise them with compassion, with restraint and generosity" - Nelson Mandela.
'SELF-KNOWLEDGE'
Chapter 1 - Pillars of the Ubuntu Method
Book published by Ubuntu Leaders Academy with the academic contributions from the Scientific Council of Ubuntu Leaders Academy.
A Long Walk to Freedom
The masterpiece A Long Walk to Freedom is the 1994 autobiography book of Nelson Mandela detailing his ascent from an apartheid activist and Robben Island-jailed man to a Servant Leader, Political Icon and Inspirational human being. It take its place among the finest memoirs of history's greatest figures by telling the extraordinary life story of the South African President - the man who unified a divided nation."I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds many more hills to climb" - Nelson Mandela
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