Help build peaceful communities across the UK with the principles of Ubuntu

The TFUK’s mission is to prevent and resolve conflict and to help people build peaceful communities across the UK by providing facilitation and mediation services based on the principles of Ubuntu.

Ubuntu

Ubuntu encourages us to recognise our common humanity, our connectedness, and inter-dependence as fellow human beings. It emphasises what we have in common rather than our differences.

Justin Thacker from The Times touches on this point by stating that “Ubuntu is a prevailing form of thought in many parts of eastern and southern Africa. It espouses a relational humanity in which our identity is formed in community, not in isolation. “I am because we are” is how it is often defined.” To read the full article, please click here. 

Thacker promotes the philosophy of Ubuntu as a cure for ‘helicopter giving’, whereby donations are made from the above to those who are down, which is devoid of a relational frame.

The Tutu foundation UK was set up for this very purpose, to use and promote the Ubuntu philosophy in the UK, particularly with young people involved in gang violence and in divided communities. 

The Tutu Foundation UK, together with Youth Futures formed ‘The Ubuntu Round Tables Project’, which brings disenfranchised young people and their local police officers together to build respect and understanding so as to reduce Police-Youth antagonism and build the trust that underpins safety on our streets. To learn more about the project, please click here.

Ubuntu teaches that a person is a person through another person, that my humanity is caught up, bound up, inextricably, with yours, and so in each case, we can help tackle bullying, prejudices, and discrimination. 

Learn more

To learn more about Ubuntu, you can do so by reading ‘Everyday Ubuntu: Living better together, the African way’ by Mungi Ngomane.

To support the foundation and donate 

If you would like to support and donate to the Tutu Foundation UK, please visit: https://donate.kindlink.com/tutu-foundation-uk/1394/0