I grew up understanding what it means to be part of a community that carries its own. Where neighbours fed each other’s children. Where a stranger’s problem became everyone’s problem to solve. That is Ubuntu, not a word on a motivational poster, but a lived reality that shaped who I am. Wezizwe Foundation was born in a moment of grief, of love and of a quiet, fierce determination that things could be different, that I could do something, however small, to change the reality for even one family, one child, one community.