The Corporate Sustainability Review - CSR 2015-2016

His Grace Joseph Harris

People need to experience self-worth

Young men, he believes, have been given a raw deal by successive governments. Leaving school functionally illiterate and unable to secure meaningful work leaves very few options open for survival.

While others continue to have the comfort of family and the opportunity to work while awaiting a very slow judicial process, the poor wait in jail. There is no fairness in this.

“People need to experience self-worth”, he urges. From his perspective, we need a model of humanity that affirms multiple demographics, embraces diversity and shows mercy to all. “Throughout history,” His Grace explains, “the writings of the fathers of the Church speak about a God of mercy. Mercy is in fact an attribute of God that we most experience.” This characteristic of God is being