In this Episode of Learner Journeys, Bastian speaks with Madi van Schalkwyk

Madi is the founder and lead organiser of the 'Human Library South Africa'.

Growing up as a privileged minority in an apartheid South Africa, she took the step a few years ago from “perfecting the art of ruining a family dinner" towards “finding really amazing people to talk to”.

In the context of the Human Library, she creates a space and offers a structure, in which members of discriminated minorities can share their lived experiences and thus showcase the complex reality behind the simplified label that the wider society places on them.

Together with a large community or volunteers, she enables and facilitates conversations that otherwise might never happen. Through this she creates opportunities for truly authentic, vulnerable exchanges and truly transformational learning experiences.