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Where Pilgrimage Meets Social Entrepreneurship: A 1700 Mile South African Journey
Nico de Klerk is a social entrepreneur, public speaker, and lecturer at the School of Social Innovation, Huguenot College, South Africa. Nico completed his PhD in 2016, which focused on Camino de Santiago, the pilgrimage from France to Spain, which he did after graduation. With social change in mind, he designed a Camino in South Africa called, “Long Walk for the Entrepreneurial Mindset”, an epic journey in 2018, when Nico walked from Pretoria to Cape Town, covering 1,700miles (2750km), visiting 100+ townships (isolated communities of poverty for black people, enforced by the Apartheid), presenting workshops at 200 high schools, and engaging with the unemployed and community leaders along the way. The walk also led to the birth of "Be a Nelson Movement" to bring life to the legacy of Nelson Mandela through social entrepreneurship mindset development among Black youth.
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Awakin Calls is an initiative of ServiceSpace, a global, all-volunteer community dedicated to small acts of great love. Our webinar and podcast series highlights the outer work and inner journeys of individuals who are transforming our world in large and small ways. We aim to inspire and seed shifts in consciousness by highlighting paradigm-shifting ways of being and doing in the world. We are a heart-centered learning community across wisdom traditions exploring the ServiceSpace principle of “change yourself, change the world”. We organize our processes in accordance with the principles we seek to lift up, and so each conversation is co-created by a team of volunteers distributed across the world, in a spirit of intrinsically motivated service and kinship.