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Project Ubuntu comes to Tucson to benefit Communty Food Bank

by on Feb. 25, 2013, under Education, Health, Life

Daniel Becton

Haven’t heard much about this Project Ubuntu, but Daniel is in town this week, so give him a call if you’re interested in finding out more. Website: www.projectubuntu.info. Good luck to Daniel in his attempt to create more “community” throughout our country.

“Ubuntu” is a philosophy found throughout the southern nations of Africa that is characterized by the notion that a person is a person through others (in Zulu: “umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu”). That is, as Archbishop Desmond Tutu says, it is not centered around the concept of “I think, therefore I am;” but rather, “I am a human because I belong. I participate. I share.” It comes from someone “knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.”

Press coverage mentioned in press release above:

Local Project Ubuntu Coverage:

http://www.keepmecurrent.com/tri_town_weekly/news/force-for-good-fuels-playground-dream-in-freeport/article_1c0e8272-e0a4-11e1-a040-001a4bcf887a.html

http://www.chapelhillnews.com/2012/02/08/69879/helping-others-one-at-a-time.html

http://projectubuntu.info/2013/02/13/community-advocate-talks-to-juveniles/

http://www.sfreporter.com/santafe/article-7263-united-we-stand.html

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  • d1n

    Thanks Carolyn! I have had a wonderful week so far supporting the Food Bank’s colossal effort that generates more than 62,000 meals daily.

    In three days of volunteering I have turned over soil and harvested produce at a community farm, slung frozen meat into grocery carts and helped people access emergency food, joined a volunteer day transplanting produce at a community garden, and put non-perishables into 1,000 bags of food with another group in the Food Bank’s warehouse.

    Best of all I am meeting truly wonderful people who are staff or volunteers for the Food Bank! It’s a good side of Tucson, which is known to be a giving community.

    • Carolyn_Classen

      Good work Daniel and thanks for coming to Tucson. I volunteered there at CFB for 5 years passing out food boxes to the needy. Hopefully your project will inspire other young (and older) people to help out.

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