Sunday, March 17, 2013

Person of the week: Marlene le Roux





This woman is amazing...
she has compassion and vision and such Heart!

This was written on the website:
 I am Woman

When you are different to others’
 how many leaps 
of faith 
do you need to take 
to embrace life fully 
as a mother, 
career woman and activist?
 
When forty something arts development promoter
 and award winning activist Marlene Le Roux 
was just three months old she contracted polio. 
 
A negligent and racist medical system 
during the height of South Africa’s apartheid years
 failed to protect her from what
 in the mid 1960’s was already a 
preventable disease. 
Marlene was just one of many.
 ♥
 Today this outspoken and respected mother, 
wife and career woman shares her leaps of faith and life journey with us, 
describing her challenges as a child, 
her emerging political activism 
and the leaps that she and her husband have had to make as parents to two children, 
one of whom - their son Adam - is also disabled. 
 Marlene shares with us how Adam has transformed her life
 and what it takes to look after herself and Adam, 
 both having lives that will always require
 medical care and attention.

she is an inspiration. 



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