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