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Sep 16, 2007

"Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away." --Robert Fulghum

Holistic Business School Serves Disadvantaged

An actuary turned management consultant, Taddy Blecher first stepped into a South African township by mistake. "I was terrified and thought I was going to die," he remembers. In 1995, he was at the point of moving to America, but at the last minute he decided to stay and make a difference. He and three partners then started CIDA City Campus, a $21/month-tuition, holistic business university for 1500 students who cannot afford mainstream higher education. Besides providing tertiary education to youngsters with little access to existing universities, he hoped to help people find direction in their lives -- Blecher is an advocate of meditation in this regard -- and help to transform communities. "My deepest interest", he explains, "is to help people realize how great they are."