THE TUTU FOUNDATION UK

My humanity is caught up and is inextricably bound up in yours. We belong in a bundle of life. We say a person is a person through other persons. Desmond Tutu The Tutu Foundation UK was founded in 2007 by the Very Reverend Colin Slee, the late Dean of Southwark Cathedral, and Edith Slee, with the support of their close friends Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Mrs Leah Tutu. My enemy is the person whose story I do not know. It is built on the inspiration and knowledge of South African communities who sought reconciliation rather than revenge following the overthrow of Apartheid, through the southern African concept of 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. Desmond Tutu explains it like this: We believe that a person is a person through another person, that my humanity is caught up, bound up, inextricably, with yours. When ...