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Canadians Who Care: Grannies à Gogo |
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"One day an army of grey-haired women may quietly take over the earth"
- Gloria Steinem (quoted by Brenda Rooney)
Rose Letwaba is a psychiatric nurse at the East Bank Clinic in Alexandra Township in Johannesburg, South Africa. Recognizing the number of gogos (Zulu for grandmother) who were bringing up orphaned children there with very little information or resources, she started a support group for them. She discovered that many of them, like the children, were suffering great emotional pain and had very little knowledge about why a generation had died. |
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at the door to the house. Julia Armstrong is where she can more often be found - her woodwork shop. Today she has a batch of cedar turtle boxes to cut with the band saw and posts to make for the balcony of the house she has just built with her daughter, Lena.