‘We are neither messiahs nor saints’
Chief strategist and fundraiser for the We Love Alexandra community Makeover Project Chris Hart says they should not be seen either as Messiahs or Saints who have come to Alexandra to obliterate all the problems of the township but as people who have simply come here to lend a hand.
We Love Alexandra Community Makeover Project’s chief strategist and fundraiser Chris Hart warned stakeholders not to think they are coming to the township to perform miracles.
Hart, who is the executive chairperson of the Impact Investment Group, was speaking at the Alexandra Business Development and Investment Summit in Kew said, “We [stakeholders] are neither miracle workers nor messiahs or saints. Where there is a will, there is a way, and we have come here with good intentions to do our bit for the renewal of this community but I don’t want us to be looked at as people who have come here to perform miracles,” Hart told the gathering.
He said when they finally accepted the challenge to tackle the renewal of the township, they had in mind those that have come before them and failed, hence ‘we have put the community in the forefront of their own renewal project and ours is simply to facilitate and provide the means to achieve the final and desired goals’.
“We want this project to be owned and done by the community itself so that when someone throws his/her paper down someone will have to say ‘hey stop feeding the ground as there is a dustbin waiting to be fed’.”
Mea Culpa director Carl van Rooyen, the summit host said “We all have a responsibility to hand over this country to the next generation, not in tatters, but in a good state of health.
“I am in partnership with [Linda] Twala because he has a heart for his community and commitment to better other human beings. I have been hijacked in Alex at gunpoint but that has not stopped me from going there. I visit Twala from time to time. If Alex is fixed, we are all going to live very long,” Van Rooyen added.
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