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Speaker 1: Two Weekend Breakfast Sustainable Living.

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Speaker 2: Nineteen minutes before eight o'clock. Welcome back to this special

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Speaker 2: edition of the Good Friday seven o two Weekend Breakfast

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Speaker 2: with me Gorg's and Plulham. Time for us to talk

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Speaker 2: sustainability in this morning. We're talking about an organization that's

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Speaker 2: trying to share stories of individuals, organizations, businesses, institutions that

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Speaker 2: are bringing solutions to our many, many challenges. The it's

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Speaker 2: established by Find for Good and it is called Hope

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Speaker 2: is a Verb. And what it hopes to do is

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Speaker 2: to bring these great stories of progress, of collaboration of

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Speaker 2: community to the national conversation. And they do this as

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Speaker 2: well by working with nonprofit organizations. So tell us more

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Speaker 2: about the work of Hope is a Verb. We're joined

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Speaker 2: on the line by Riswana Bauer. They are the strategic

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Speaker 2: lead for Fine for Good. Ariswana, A very good morning

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Speaker 2: to you. Welcome to Weekend Breakfast.

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Speaker 1: Good morning Bogs. Thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for your time. So tell us about Hope

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Speaker 2: is a verb. What is the big idea with hope

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Speaker 2: as a verb?

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Speaker 1: So, Hope as a Verb was was established about three

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Speaker 1: years ago. It was established at a time when the

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Speaker 1: overwhelming sense in our country was one of doom and gloom,

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Speaker 1: when people were feeling that really our country was in

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Speaker 1: a space of despair. Our work at Sign for Good

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Speaker 1: is primarily in the not for profit space. We're a

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Speaker 1: strategic communications consultancy and work primarily with not for profits,

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Speaker 1: and our experience was that while there was a sense

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Speaker 1: of despair, actually there is amazing work that communities, individuals

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Speaker 1: and organizations are doing on a daily basis that actually

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Speaker 1: is incredible and brings incredible hope to to our communities

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Speaker 1: and into our spaces every day. And so we thought

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Speaker 1: that there was that it was incumbent on us given

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Speaker 1: given that this was the work that we were doing,

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Speaker 1: that we brought these stories of hope into the light.

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Speaker 2: And so talk to us about some of these stories

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Speaker 2: that have been I guess found and highlighted through the

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Speaker 2: work of hope as a verb.

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Speaker 1: So I guess I guess some of the critical ones are.

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Speaker 1: For example, it's our Hi which is which is a

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Speaker 1: house institution that is located within the within the Vits

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Speaker 1: University space that was established a few years ago to

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Speaker 1: look at the to look at marginalized populations in our

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Speaker 1: in our healthcare space. People who felt like they were

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Speaker 1: not receiving adequate healthcare in our in our general health

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Speaker 1: care space because of who they were and how they were,

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Speaker 1: how they were perceived with our HI took it upon

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Speaker 1: themselves to create spaces of belonging within healthcare clinics to

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Speaker 1: ensure that these key populations received healthcare in a space

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Speaker 1: where they felt where they felt like they belonged. This

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Speaker 1: this is this is a client that we that we had,

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Speaker 1: that we worked with and we were able to highlight

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Speaker 1: their work through Hope is a verb.

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Speaker 2: Recently, shortly after Human Rights Day, there was the sixth

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Speaker 2: Hope is a Verb convening. Talk to us about the

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Speaker 2: convening events, what happens at them, and what happened at

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Speaker 2: this most recent one at the sixth one.

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Speaker 1: So the sixth convening of Hope is a Verb was

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Speaker 1: hugely significant for us, mainly because it coincided with Human

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Speaker 1: Rights Months. Hope is a verb is built on three pillars.

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Speaker 1: The three pillars of hope is a verb is convening, partnering,

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Speaker 1: and learning. The convening aspect of Hope is a verb

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Speaker 1: is essentially bringing people together into a room, people that

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Speaker 1: are brought into a room are people from the not

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Speaker 1: for profit space, corporates, and the media. And the reason

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Speaker 1: that we've chosen these three sectors of our population is

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Speaker 1: the not for profits are really the people who are

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Speaker 1: doing the work that we want to shine a light on.

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Speaker 1: The corporates are people who really drive our economy by

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Speaker 1: and large. And the media is so critical people like yourselves,

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Speaker 1: because without you shining a light on this work that

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Speaker 1: is being done, the work stays in the shadows. The

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Speaker 1: work that these not for profits and individuals are doing,

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Speaker 1: it stays in the shadows. So the convening focuses on

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Speaker 1: bringing these three audiences into the room. This particular convening

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Speaker 1: was significant in that we brought we brought government into

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Speaker 1: the space. We're very we're very conscious that in as

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Speaker 1: much as we can do work outside of the government space,

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Speaker 1: it's important that this work intersects with the work that

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Speaker 1: government does. That public private partnership is critical to driving

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Speaker 1: to driving our national narrative and driving the work that

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Speaker 1: we do forward.

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Speaker 2: And so this kind of one of the big guess

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Speaker 2: themes or things that come up in all of the

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Speaker 2: things that Hope as a verb is doing, is this

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Speaker 2: idea that a change very seldom happens in isolation, and

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Speaker 2: that actually we do a lot more when we do

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Speaker 2: it together, collaboratively or in community.

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Speaker 1: Correct, correct, you know, we all have the ability to

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Speaker 1: act and to do things to make a difference. But

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Speaker 1: that but that action and that difference is is just

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Speaker 1: so much more significant if we if we take the

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Speaker 1: time to collaborate. Collaboration is not not necessarily natural or easy,

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Speaker 1: but but we have a long history of collaboration in

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Speaker 1: in South Africa, and some collaboration comes comes massive impact.

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Speaker 1: We you know, we we have we have the experience

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Speaker 1: of that. And hope is a verb, is the kind

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Speaker 1: of the project if you like that that we want

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Speaker 1: to see make that happen.

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Speaker 2: And so someone's looking for more information about the work

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Speaker 2: of hope as a verb, where can we find it?

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Speaker 1: You can find it on our LinkedIn page and you

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Speaker 1: can find it on the on the Fine website.

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Speaker 2: As one. I'm thank you very very much for your

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Speaker 2: time this morning. Great pleasure having you on the show.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Groogs, thanks for the opportunity.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much. That is Roswana Bauer. They are

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Speaker 2: the strategic lead and Fine for Good joining us this

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Speaker 2: morning to tell us about Hope is a Vergue. Coming

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