By beth duncan | Program Manager
“After that, I could learn from the light. I could see all my Ancestors standing in the light and I could name them all. Not just the ones I knew in life, but all of them…”
-Bushman Noi Kruiper on alcoholism
Thank you for your continued support for the Mobile Addictions Treatment (MAT) program with the Khomani San Bushmen in South Africa. Conditions continue to be grave, and we are still hopeful that things can be done to help ensure that the Bushmen, their knowledge, and their stories survive.
Building on the success of the Community Addictions Treatment program we launched in May, we have been working hard to arrange to bring North American Indigenous Elders to the Kalahari to meet with local community members. Bringing Elders and Indigenous Cultural Practitioners whose people have undergone similar trauma and addictions issues we hope will infuse hope among the Khomani San community while we continue to raise funds to launch the full 40-day program. We anticipate this gathering will happen in the next few months and we will report on this during our next report.
In the meantime, we have also been developing a series of PSAs to raise public awareness of the dire and desperate situation in the Kalahari. Our hope is that elevating the awareness will encourage those who want to help to consider donating and sharing these PSAs so that we are able to do more for and with the community.
Thank you for your ongoing support. Please consider sharing this information with friends and family who might also be willing and able to help so that we don’t lose the Bushmen, our ancestors, oldest man on earth.
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