Mutual Aid Networks
Communities organize mutual aid for farming, building, ceremonies, and emergencies. No one faces challenges alone.
Communities organize mutual aid for farming, building, ceremonies, and emergencies. No one faces challenges alone.
Many hands make light work. When we work together, mountains move.
African Cooperative Tradition
Written about in
- What Ubuntu means: I am because we are
Farming, building, ceremonies and emergencies are handled by organised mutual aid. The point is that nobody is expected to face a large task alone.
- What African wisdom says about failure
Many hands make light work. Cooperative work groups still organise farming, building and emergency response across rural Africa, which makes this tradition's practical answer to a failure far less introspective than it sounds: recovery is usually other people turning up.