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The beginning of a New Year normally brings with it New Year's resolutions. This month we bring you three stories - each one in its own way enticing you to make a commitment and act on creating a better world

As we step onto the path that we will travel down this new year, Derryn Campbell, Di Smith and the Awesome SA team wish you all the very best for 2012.

Have a look at the great video from Di Smith's book launch of You're Awesome in Cape Town last year.

Regards from the Awesome SA Team

Become a Zerohero - Do not Drink for 29 Days in February

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Join the Awesome SA team and many others around the country for the month of February.  SADD are challenging South Africans to not drink for 29 days of February.

The NPO - South Africans Against Drunk Driving (SADD) works in education, prevention, research, and service delivery concerning the use of alcohol and the harm misuse causes, especially on our roads, and to our youth. About 18,000 people are killed on our roads; and 150,000 more are injured yearly - with at least 50% of these crashes due to alcohol misuse. Children as young as 12 are starting to drink heavily in SA and this affects their future potential.

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Future Farmers Foundation – Working Together for Agricultural Excellence

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Future Farmers Foundation selects young school leavers who are passionate about agriculture and trains them to become top commercial farm managers and farmers in their own right. The system is an apprenticeship system. The apprentices start at the bottom and gradually work their way up as they learn new skills. At the end of two years they are expected to have a working knowledge of all of the operations on the farm, including record keeping and labour management.

Throughout this period of time they have access to a mentor who gives them whatever support they may need.This may be in the form of encouragement and advice, or it may involve assisting them to resolve problems with their employer or other employees on the farms.

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Beguiled by our New Awesome South Africa

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Karen de Villiers, a South African living in London writes for The South African newspaper and runs a website called London/Green/Africa . She met with Di Smith, a co-founder of Awesome SA over the Christmas break and had this to say about Awesome SA and the book Di wrote called You’re Awesome – Living a Fulfilled Life, which has recently been released.

Di Smith co-founded Awesome SA with Derryn Campbell in 2006 in a bid to promote peaceful change in South Africa. The bloom of a new democracy was wilting with renewed suspicion and die hard prejudice creeping in between the cracks. All was not well in the house of prejudiced South Africans. Talking was easy, complaining even more so, and with Awesome SA, Di and Derryn decided to call all South African's toward a new commitment.

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Are you a Glass-Half –Full or a Glass Half-Empty Kind of Person?

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By Justin Foxton

“I’ll tell you what we have to look forward to,” boomed my Uncle Reggie as he prepared to tee off on the third at Durban Country Club; “yet another year of electricity price hikes, corrupt politicians and a lack of service delivery.”

As I wandered the lush fairways listening to my Uncle bemoan the state of our nation, I considered our tendency to be a ‘glass-half-empty’ sort of people. Like Reggie, we spend a great deal of time discussing what is wrong with our country and comparatively little time celebrating what is good.

This is sad. In fact it is tragic.

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