Thank God for the Global Exchange!

Our church is very lucky at the moment to be working alongside the Global Exchange project. This means we have two people of placement with us for three months, Zoe, from Middlesborough, and Abednigo, from South Africa.

They have helped me tremendously, from community projects to helping run the Peace Jam workshop at the university. What we have most learned together stems from the subject of 'Ubuntu'. This is an African philosophy which has been witnessed in the life of Desmond Tutu and Mandela, but is a practice that can inform the simplest of actions. It is based on respect for others and that our humanity is bound up in the humanity of others. Through Bradford Street Angels, through our work with Asylum Seekers, through our community gardening projects and all the many things we get involved with here, I hope that we can learn more of what it is to have 'Ubuntu'.