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

Imtiaz Sooliman
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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.

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