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THE CHANGE MAKER’S GUIDE TO NEW HORIZONS

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The Caplor Horizons Project

"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many
ripples." Mother Teresa

The Caplor Horizons concept

“To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we

fail to try.” Rosa Parks

Caplor Horizons’ vision is “a world in which social, environmental and economic progress is

balanced”. This goal, at face value, might seem unachievable – even impossible. However, it’s
worth remembering that over a relatively short period of time, human and social values have

already changed dramatically. Only 175 years ago, slavery was still customary in the southern

United States. 100 years ago, many women in the UK didn’t have the right to vote. Only 50
years ago, the world wasn’t aware of climate change and global warming. And it’s only just

over 25 years ago that South Africa held its first democratic elections, at last giving people of

all races their say. At each point in the past, most people thought that change would be

unachievable. And yet, here we are in the twenty-first century, in a changed world,

incredulous that such things are such recent history.

But, as Martin Luther King (1994) stated in his open letter from Birmingham jail (over 50 years

ago), “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”, and there is still a great

imbalance in fairness and justice on a societal level across the globe.

So, at Caplor Horizons’ conception stage, we started with the “why” question. Why does an

organisation like Caplor Horizons need to exist? Why would it make a difference? Why would

people support it? And why would it be valuable – in all the senses of that word?

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