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Speaker 1: Monacali joins us.

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Speaker 2: She's doing cry Fontaine, a People's Post journalist, and we

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Speaker 2: chat to our friends from the people People's Post for

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Speaker 2: hyper local news. We want to find out what what

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Speaker 2: communities are talking about, what we need to amplify, what

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Speaker 2: challenges they are confronting. We want to make sense of it.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, well it is Monacoli, will be will be

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Speaker 2: taking us to pilans I believe.

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Speaker 1: Welcome. Great to have you with us.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Karence, good morning, and thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: It's the story of Zimela, is it not? Tell us more?

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Speaker 3: Yes, it is the story of really.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So what drew you to the story about Zamele.

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Speaker 3: Well, that means independence and at its core the article

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Speaker 3: is really just about what happened and after.

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Speaker 4: Survival, you know.

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Speaker 3: And what drew me to the story is the melee

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Speaker 3: and the challenges that the idea that rehabilitation ends once

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Speaker 3: a patient leaves the hospital, so the organization recognizes that

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Speaker 3: recovery is ongoing and is deeply personal. Really, and it

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Speaker 3: stood out because it combines for me, it combines medical

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Speaker 3: care with emotional and social support, which often is missing

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Speaker 3: in the topic system.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, why do you think Samela's work is important in this,

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Speaker 2: I think the South African context and in raising awareness

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Speaker 2: about disability and inclusion.

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Speaker 3: In our context. Really perience, it's all about access to

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Speaker 3: rehabilitation and prosthetic care is often limited, especially in disadvantaged communities.

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Speaker 3: Now the Men now plays a crucial role into bridging

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Speaker 3: that gap. Really beyond that, it is just in how

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Speaker 3: we view disability from something limiting to something that worth

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Speaker 3: their right support can still allow for independence, dignity, and

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Speaker 3: for participation in our society. So yeah, us.

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Speaker 2: Tell us about the actual work they do, the support

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Speaker 2: that they give amputees beyond just providing prosthetics.

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Speaker 3: Well, the men, it takes really a holistic approach to this.

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Speaker 3: They do not just provide artificial limbs, but also ongoing

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Speaker 3: rehabilitation Okay, and yeah, through physio and occupational therapists as well.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 2: Then is a beautiful story that I think will bring

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Speaker 2: the story or make this story a lot clearer to us.

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Speaker 2: Tell us about Muriel Warner and her very powerful story.

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Speaker 4: Her story just to reflects I feel like it reflects

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Speaker 4: resignment and transformation, really clears as she is a double MPT.

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Speaker 3: She speaks about how the program has really really restored

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Speaker 3: her confidence and independence. Her journey shows real impact of Zimela,

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Speaker 3: not just in medical terms, but also giving people the

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Speaker 3: ability to reclaim their daily lives and sense of stuff.

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Speaker 2: I can imagine tell us about the impact of the

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Speaker 2: organization has had since it started to support beneficiaries in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: Way, I would imagine there's a clamor for the help.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it was founded in twenty twenty, but they started

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Speaker 3: being operational two years after that, which is in twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty two, and Zimeta has supported forty five beneficiaries that

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Speaker 3: believe were sporteen currently in the program. I mean that

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Speaker 3: kind of impact goes really just beyond numbers. It's about

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Speaker 3: people regaining mobility, confidence and independence and speaking to one

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Speaker 3: and many big beneficiaries who once dependent like her, once

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Speaker 3: dependent and as are now able to move forward in

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Speaker 3: their lives with their lives with greater autonomy.

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Speaker 1: I want to go read more about it. Where do

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Speaker 1: I find the whole story?

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Speaker 3: You'll find the story in the People's Post, also in

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Speaker 3: our E auditions on ww dot People's post doot did

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Speaker 3: our e editions are online and you can find the

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Speaker 3: story there.

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Speaker 1: And we get a rapid down.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much to Nama Monancholi, People's Post journalist,

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Speaker 2: and we talk of course regular regularly to our colleagues

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Speaker 2: at the People's Post and Nervous Media just generally. If

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Speaker 2: you want to read that full article, follow her lead.

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Speaker 2: And of course Nervous Media all about informing, engaging and

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Speaker 2: empowering local communities. Every week they manage they probably thirty

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Speaker 2: seven local community newspaper editions, from People's Post to City

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Speaker 2: Vision to Swapelant Gazette, as well as sport publications