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Uthando (Love)
Today June 13, 2014 during our time in Cape Town, South Africa, we spent the amazing morning with UTHANDO (Love) South Africa, a unique and innovative non-profit and fair trade in tourism accredited company. The aim of UTHANDO is to raise funds and other forms of assistance for community development projects in South Africa. This special field trip gave us an insight into the remarkable stories that make life in South Africa so interesting, dynamic and very importantly, inspiring. The UTHANDO tours are interactive, meeting the people at the projects, learning about their work and way of life, firsthand. We visited a number of UTHANDO supported projects including the...
Read MoreFirst Satyagraha Tour of South Africa
Led by Arun Gandhi, Embarks This Week
(PRLEAP.COM) Dana Point, CA May 24, 2014: The inaugural Satyagraha Tour of South Africa enjoys organic synchronicity of critical historical dates of both Mohandas Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. Highlights include following the path of Gandhi’s travels, initially arriving in Durban, and ultimately departing from Cape Town for his return to India to begin the next phase of his legacy: Gandhi first arrived in South Africa as a fledgling lawyer in May 24, 1893. Our arrival to Gandhi’s first ashram, the Phoenix Settlement, occurs on the 97th anniversary of Gandhi’s family move there. We will board the sleeper train on the 121st anniversary of Gandhi’s...
Read MoreWhat does it mean to “Be The Change?”
A Conversation with Arun Gandhi 1) Regarding the concept of “change” What does it mean to you to “be the change?” ANSWER: BE THE CHANGE TO ME MEANS THAT WE MUST MAKE THE WORLD THE WAY WE WANT IT TO BE. I COULD HAVE SPENT MY LIFE HATING PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY HATED ME OR FIGHTING PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY ATTACKED ME BUT THAT WILL ONLY MULTIPLY HATE AND VIOLENCE AND HELP NO ONE. BY CHANGING MYSELF AND MY ATTITUDE I DECIDED TO SPREAD LOVE AND PEACE AND HELP MAKE THIS WORLD A BETTER PLACE. 2) What would you tell a young person (14-18)? What could the South Africa tour mean to a young person who is looking for change? What in the tour and in the world would...
Read MoreRemembering Kasturba Gandhi
Kasturba Gandhi born April 11, 1869, was married to M.K. Gandhi in an arranged marriage. Gandhi was thirteen and Kasturba fourteen years old at the time of their marriage in 1883. When Gandhi left to study in London in 1888, she remained in India to raise their newborn son Harilal Gandhi. She had three more sons: Manilal Gandhi, Ramdas Gandhi, and Devdas Gandhi. Working closely with her husband, Kasturba Gandhi became a political activist fighting for civil rights and Indian independence from the British. From 1904 to 1914, she was active in the Phoenix Settlement near Durban South Africa. During the 1913 protest against working conditions for Indians in South Africa,...
Read MoreSouth Africa Tour Announces Additional Guest Stops
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Gandhi Satyagraha Tour of South Africa Announces Additional Guest Stops Including Ahmed “Kathy” Kathrada. Now in its 15th year, led by 5th grandson, Dr. Arun Gandhi. PRLEAP: Dana Point, CA (February 21, 2014) Gandhi Legacy Tours announced today that it has confirmed additional special guests to its upcoming first-ever Gandhi-Mandela ‘Satyagraha’ tour of South Africa, led by Arun and Tushar Gandhi, grandson and great grandson of the Mahatma Gandhi. “The real practice of nonviolence is pivotal if we are to save this world and ourselves from destruction,” Dr. Gandhi said, “and South Africa, as the birthplace of Satyagraha,...
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