“If You Always Do What You've Always Done, You'll Always Get What You've Always Got.”
Thanks @cityofct Mayor @geordin.hill.lewis and Mayco member for Community Services and Health, @patriciavanderross …for taking the time to address the various NPOs/Forums leading various Street People Programmes/interventions.
It is definitely a step in the right direction to start pulling all stakeholders together more and we are always excited to see any efforts to drive collaborative solutions, as we know the solution does not just sit within one organisation or one entity.
We also know that challenges from one community to the next may vary in depth and degree…but not one is more superior than the next.
The tasks at hand cannot be underestimated, as the subject of effectively assisting people living on street is filled with various complexities and there’s ‘not one size that fits all’.
We have experienced what is possible when we get Businesses, Government Entities and Communities to collaborate (authentically).
We believe the majority of South Africans want a better, more effective country and way of life.
We work daily with the most passionate people and believe that, if our passion and purpose for creating a better country collides, we can literally achieve anything.
Change processes unfortunately do not happen overnight and definitely not through ‘osmosis’…it requires deliberate, strategic methodologies to effect well thought through (shared) outcomes.
It takes true leaders to acknowledge that they may not necessarily have all the answers and few have the strategic vision and ability to galvanise people and lean into the power of the collective… in a way that systematically works through change…
Change practices that supports getting buy-in, doesn’t write off or shy away from the most vocal citizens…but instead coverts them into their strongest allies…as the best agents of change.
We wish our leaders well as they tackle massive challenges…
We see the tremendous efforts already being made…
There’s a majority of citizens with you…who would do just about anything to see our country flourish…and our citizens heal from an onslaught of way too much trauma/troubles.
Theresa Masaglia
Ignite
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