Club News Pt1 : Dave Atkinson
Last Tuesday, thanks to a President Dave initiative, we had Dave Atkinson, CEO of the Parenting Place, join us for lunch. Based on the impressive design and video work he has developed over the years, he gave us a presentation – Glimpses of Humanity from Inhumane Places - based on two of his short films.The two examples were interviews with refugees in Iraq and Uganda: chilling matching stories of frightening displacement from families and from villages. As he put it, the stories need to be told: one person can represent what has happened to thousands.
The first narrator was a victim of the Yazidis flight to Mt Sinjar, in Iraq, and the temporary [read permanent] camps then set up in Duhok, above Mosul. The second was a 10-year-old
orphan’s story of her flight from the South Sudan across the border into Uganda [used to promote the 40 Hour World Vision famine in 2019].
Sad stories of our inhumanity to each other – extreme contrasts of what we take for granted here. But as Dave Atkinson says – we need to do something and to start somewhere.
That ties in with the way he leads his team on Great South Road, working for families, building resilience, every day.
Inspirational thinking.
That ties in with the way he leads his team on Great South Road, working for families, building resilience, every day.
Inspirational thinking.
Indeed from our 5 Daves and we are lucky. Big Wig Ed.