Just an ordinary man?
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Patrick Chamusso says people call him the “Ordinary Man” because he embraces simplicity and insists that everyone with the right energy and passion, however “ordinary” they may be, has the ability to give love and support others in extraordinary ways.
He should know. A reluctant freedom fighter imprisoned and tortured by South Africa’s apartheid regime, Patrick eventually retaliated for the horrors inflicted on his family and society by blowing up the energy plant where he worked. The 2006 feature film Catch a Fire depicted that desperate act, and his realization that only through forgiveness would he truly be free.
That was then. Now the only uprising that interests Patrick is to persuade the world to help him build meaningful lives for the hundreds of children orphaned by the AIDS pandemic that live in his care center, called Two Sisters.
My current focus is twofold,” he says. “One goal is to gather enough resources and establish the most optimal and sustainable ways to provide continued help for all the children who need me across South Africa. The other is to engage the world into fighting and one day eliminating AIDS.”
An ordinary man? I don’t think so.
Doug Jackson
TEDxTokyo Storyteller