Imtiaz Sooliman – Gift of the Givers celebrate its 21st anniversary

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The speakers discuss the use ofpoverty in war zones and the challenges faced by youth in their communities. They mention a recent project in Bosnia where the use ofpoverty was used to treat rural areas, but now it's commonplace in cities and towns. The speakers encourage other companies and government departments to partner with them to provide poverty assistance.

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			Into numerous war zones over the
last two decades. Libya 2011 A
		
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			case in point.
		
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			We were told that the youth were
in high spirits. And you know, we
		
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			asked the question why opposition
actually doesn't conserve their
		
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			military force, but they said they
said,
		
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			as you can hear the gunshot,
		
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			it is in these conditions that the
gift of the givers offer lifeline
		
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			to those on the frontline. The
first project that we did in our
		
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			life, the Bosnia war in 1992 1995
		
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			to us, it was a feat of African
technology where we designed the
		
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			world's first and only
containerized mobile hospital
		
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			built with African technology in
1993 and yet, 20 years later, the
		
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			continent still thinks it's
backwards. It's about mindset.
		
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			Numerous projects in this country
cover areas such as health,
		
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			education and feeding schemes,
we're told they feed up to two to
		
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			3000 people a month in most cases.
We used to find that poverty used
		
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			to exist mainly in the rural area,
but now it's right next to us. You
		
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			know, in the cities and towns and
because of unemployment, there's a
		
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			vast majority of people that
suffer with poverty. So that is
		
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			really something that we have to
look at. And we encourage other
		
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			companies, government departments
or to partner us to fight poverty
		
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			assistance that is purely
humanitarian and unconditional.
		
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			Blaine Herman, sabc news, Peter
Maris.