Poverty, inequality, in-equity—not beneficial. Addressing it is good for everyone: planet, people, purpose and profits!
Transformation is inevitable.
Yet, using approaches that involve seeing the system and its patterns, sense-making that constructs new narratives and connecting can herald purposeful transformation for human and planetary wellbeing
We need to connect the dots. The diverse issues from protests around the world tangle together. Climate strikes, fare evasion in Chile, roadblocks in Lebanon and Extinction Rebellion in Brisbane are all part of the same phenomenon.
Santiago, Chile exploded. We’re all entangled. Can we help weave the pieces, protests, pain and possibilities together? Create flourishing just lives for all? What stories must we write?
My people cried today. Enough is enough, they said Surely, enough is enough. We rise. We stand. We speak. Enough is enough. We take back our power.
Our world is changing. Our thinking patterns are shifting. To answer our pressing emergencies and, fortuitously, engaging in this brings an aliveness like nothing else.
We’re a worldwide civilisation now and can consciously engage in creating thriving, just, sustainable futures for everyone. Yet, sometimes, this seems like a very lonely path…
We hope this site helps us all accelerate positive shifts. Amplification, re-storying and sharing awe…
Our future, ourselves, our planet and our stories, it’s all entangled ― Festina LentÍvaldi*
“Ingrid can walk through any slum in Nairobi without fear for her security. She is known and loved by the street people who she has always been good to. She is considered a white-skinned African.” Micro-credit, alongside being seen, heard, understood, believed in, and...
Anyone and everyone connected with sustainability dives straight into a dizzying array of frameworks. If you spend even a short time in this space (or for some like me, a career!) you’ll be swimming through terms, measures and concepts such as: Corporate social...
Ingrid often expresses her gratitude that Jamii Bora was created in her later years rather than when she was a young woman. If it had, she asserts, she would have made the mistake that so many organizations with a mission to help end up making. The gist of which is,...
Tom Thiong’o Tom is the head of Jamii Bora’a Levuka Center, a residential treatment program for alcoholics and addicts. Levuka means to become sober. That is what Tom has been for 18 years and what he is teaching people who come to Levuka to become. Tom was a teacher...
Andrew Otieno Andrew grew up in the Kibera slum with a single mom struggling to care for numerous children yet was able to provide him with a loving role model of strength and perseverance. It is the place he has chosen to remain and run a clinic in order to meet some...
In our time with Jamii Bora, I have gotten a sense of the difference between pretense and pride. Not a single one of the people I have met has a shred of pretense that I have detected yet each one of them embodies and expresses their pride; in the work they are doing,...
Editorial note: Each of the people we met amazed me and the reason that I have written more about some than others is simply due to the fact that we were able to spend significantly larger chunks of time with some people. Janet Bett Janet is one of the original “famed...
Jamii is the plural of family in Swahili Bora is good, but not just good, better than good Like many beautiful unfoldings, the initial seeds of Jamii Bora were sewn with no idea about what yield would eventually follow. Ingrid Munro grew up in Sweden and had a rather...
“Hasten slowly” said Augustus. Oh, this is hard. To imagine what can be created, to hold back, to act; to engage means delving into both despair and hope. That’s where we’re challenged to see the powerful in what we do which is always minimal and micro. Feeling adequate in the face of manifest inadequacy. Weaving together the pieces that hasten, slowly and steadily, benevolution.
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