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Just talk to me a little bit more about that then.

Talk to me about the charity or the NPO that you are doing this for, which is Healing Hands Community Project.

Can you tell us a little bit about the work that they do?

Healing Hands, I've been scouting around on what NPO I will be going for and I made a decision about like two weeks before I head on a journey and they really grew close to me because they work with gender-based violence, they feed about numerous amount of people on a daily basis and they do like clinics on a daily basis and there are individuals that are struggling at the moment and as just two amazing individuals that work for Healing Hands and I decided to know my heart is more on their side than anything else.

And I should just say that you've got a Back a Buddy campaign as well that people can visit and I'm guessing they can still support you through that Back a Buddy campaign, is that right?

That's correct.

And you can also email us at info.chiata.org.za.

So the opportunities are available to not only levy paying companies, but NPOs, NGOs, cooperatives, skills development providers.

Because we are located in the chemical industry, it's mainly for chemical companies to then fund their skills needs and requirements.

And so I think the confusion is always about can a learner directly apply? In our case, no, because the companies themselves, your accredited training providers, colleges, implementing partners, et cetera, they would be the ones actually accessing the funding.

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Her landmark books include The Spirit of Development, Protestant NGOs, Morality and Economics in Zimbabwe, published by Stanford University Press, and Disquieting Gifts, Humanitarianism in New Delhi, again published by Stanford University Press, which received the Arnova Outstanding Book Award.

In her recent monograph, A Revolution of Rules, The Regulatory Reform of India's Non-Profit Sector, published by Stanford University Press in 2025, she critically documents the legal architecture and shifting oversight, redefining non-profit action and civic space.

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Professor Erica Bornstein, thank you for a fascinating conversation on the intersection of law, regulation and civil society.

So as a political party, when you register your name and abbreviation, the abbreviation is always all capitalized.

And there's a civic organization who we've been working very closely with called Cape Exit NPO.

So basically they fight for Cape independence from the civic side and we fight for Cape independence from the political side, but we work very closely

together.

That's not what Cape Exit stands for, but that would be a third option.

Cape Exit stands for the two legal options, or yeah, the two conventional options.

And that is either through government, which is why obviously we're hoping to hold the balance of power, or through the civic route, which is why our colleagues in Cape Exit NPO We work closely together with them in fighting for a people's referendum.

So you can have a people's referendum or you can have a government sanctioned referendum.

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And, yeah, just curious every day, you know, curious about how to be a better business person, you know, how to have more skills in that regard, being really versatile in that way, you know.

I'm on the board of this great OBNL, so nonprofit, called The Roundtable, La Table Ronde, which is representing all of the independent restaurants in Quebec.

And so that's been really just so fulfilling, getting to speak with our elected officials and getting to speak with lots of people that can make a difference in our sector.

So that's been really fun, something that I didn't have much experience in before.