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Xenophobia and the Mayfair Refugee Camp – Conversations to Create Change
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Conversations to Create Change. A topical blog by Talisa Jane Du Bois. Xenophobia and the Mayfair Refugee Camp. May 13, 2015. May 13, 2015. What is in your hands? Who is at the camp this week:. What this group of us is doing now:. Bigger issues which we’re unsure how to approach:. How long will the already unfit living quarters hold out against disease and stench with such dense living conditions and limited ablutions? What intervention is required at the root of the violence and how do we ensure safety ...
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Informal Sector Entrepreneurship – Conversations to Create Change
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Conversations to Create Change. A topical blog by Talisa Jane Du Bois. November 7, 2012. February 1, 2015. My friend Kate did some research on Bergies in Cape Town, how they were the cities most effect and proactive recyclers. I couldn’t help but think how what Sipho and his friends were up to was so much bigger than the menial cash they would receive for a couple old plugs and plastic bottles they found in the trash. Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window).
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What is real social innovation? – Conversations to Create Change
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Conversations to Create Change. A topical blog by Talisa Jane Du Bois. What is real social innovation? May 21, 2015. May 13, 2015. Working in the not for profit sector has sparked some interesting debates of late: strategies for scale, employee incentives and donor management. This is a really great TED talk by Dan Pallotta challenging the way we view overheads, fundraising and advertising in the charity sector. Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window).
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Customer Service – Conversations to Create Change
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Conversations to Create Change. A topical blog by Talisa Jane Du Bois. June 11, 2012. February 1, 2015. There is something violently evil about waiting for nothing. Queue’s are an entirely separate issue, but when there is no queue, thee capable member of staff in uniform and what appears a computer system for improving efficiency, waiting is pure frustration. I understand. Have to be there all day, but please don’t waste my time. To understand why this guy didn’t have the job he probably should have).
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LEAP’s Business World: Start with Why – Conversations to Create Change
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Conversations to Create Change. A topical blog by Talisa Jane Du Bois. LEAP’s Business World: Start with Why. February 3, 2015. February 3, 2015. When considering the diverse entrepreneurial landscape in South Africa, there are three distinct challenges that arise in the start-up and growth phases of business: Limited access to market, little or no support structures, and restricted financial information and access to credit. In response to these problems our team have designed and developed an onlin...
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ABOUT – Conversations to Create Change
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Conversations to Create Change. A topical blog by Talisa Jane Du Bois. Talisa is Strategy Analyst and Programme Manager at New Leaders Foundation, her current role focuses on strategy and innovation in the NPO sector, focussing on education policy and transformative data. Talisa has experience in a range of industries: African banking, renewables, corporate social investment, SMME development, public sector with a focus on economic drivers. Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). I am an entrepreneur, a...
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DRC Refugees flee to South Africa – Conversations to Create Change
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Conversations to Create Change. A topical blog by Talisa Jane Du Bois. DRC Refugees flee to South Africa. July 12, 2011. July 12, 2011. What do we do about the fact that most car guards from the DRC have qualifications we could never anticipate? The world of refugee’s in South Africa. They say people will make the same movies they made about Rwanda and Uganda, for the Congo. What will you tell your children you did during those years? Maybe we should be doing more than handing out loose change? Click to ...
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Conversations to Create Change – Page 2 – a topical blog by Talisa Jane Du Bois
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Conversations to Create Change. A topical blog by Talisa Jane Du Bois. Art and the ANC. June 5, 2012. Have you gone mad? March 15, 2012. February 1, 2015. Bear with me. I guess I write this, because I want to challenge you about living a life that is missing something that is so readily available. The bible is a truly revolutionary and magical book. What is it that has kept intelligent and qualified people pouring over it for centuries? Why would humankind require a ‘lamb’ sacrifice? January 11, 2012.
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What will you run towards? – Conversations to Create Change
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Conversations to Create Change. A topical blog by Talisa Jane Du Bois. What will you run towards? May 15, 2015. May 13, 2015. In our engagements with refugees so far, we have mostly been trying to get to know people. To understand their stories and to understand their need. But the really difficult part is answering the question of, “What next? 8221; One of the most difficult things we have witnessed is once we have relocated or reintegrated people from a refugee camp into their. One of the real challeng...
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