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Nharaunda Yedu: Steve Mutengo | Chapel Hill Sheena

Makumi emakore ebasa renharaunda aratidza Steve Price kuti hapana chinokanganisa mweya weChapel Hill.

Mvura ichangotanga kunaya, Steve Price aive nechivimbo chekuti vakazvipira vese vaakange aunganidza kuti vachenese kudzu kwainge kwakazara kuChapel Hill vaizozvipedza. Asi zvinoita sekunge mushure memakumi emakore ekushandira muChapel Hill, pakanga pachine zvakamushamisa. 

"Vakaramba kuenda kusvika vabvisa nzvimbo," akadaro Price. "Kunyangwe kwainaya uye kwaityisa, vaida kuti zviitwe." 

Izvo zvinotaura zvakawanda nezve Chapel Hill nharaunda, asiwo nezve Mutengo.

Steve Price agara pano kubva 1983, anoshandira UNC-TV, anoshanda semushumiri wevechidiki kuchechi yake, akashanda muGuta rePaki uye Recreation Committee kwemakore manomwe, uye anoenderera mberi nekuita mabasa akasiyana siyana ekuraira. Asi haana kumbogara pano saizvozvo.

UNC-Chapel Hill akapedza kudzidza aine dhigirii redhiyo, terevhizheni uye firimu, Mutengo akashandira UNC-TV kwemakore makumi matatu achinyora nharaunda. Basa rake rekutaura nyaya dzemunharaunda rakakura kuva chido chake chekuvandudza guta raakasvika pakuda.

"Unoda kuita kuti nharaunda ive nzvimbo iri nani iwe newe wese akakupoteredza," Price akadaro.

Price ichangoburwa purojekiti, kukohwa kudzu, ndechimwe chaakatora kubva kuCommunity Tree Committee uye akaronga neUNC-Chapel Hill pamwe nechirongwa cheko cheAdopt-A-Trail. Price akawana chishamiso chake chokutanga chezuva apo, pashure pokunge afanira kurongazve kamwe nemhaka yokunaya, basa racho rakaona vanhu vakawanda vaibva muguta rose.

"Chaive chikamu chinopenga chenharaunda," Price akadaro. Akataura kuti aiona vanhu vanobva kwakasiyana-siyana kusanganisira vadzidzi nevakwegura. Chakanyanya kumurwadza ndechekuti vanhu vese vainge vakabatana kunyangwe mvura yatanga kunaya.

"Ichi chaive chimwe chemabasa anoshamisa ebasa andati ndamboita," Price akadaro. "Zvainakidza uye vanhu vaifarira chaizvo zvavaiita." 

Uye vakaramba vachishanda kunyange pavakanga vasisagone kumira. Paakaona timu yake ichitsvedza nekutsvedza pasi pachiita madhaka, Price akatozopedza zuva nekuti hapana aida kumira. 

Kune Mutengo, kubatana kwaakaona zuva iroro kunoratidza chikonzero nei achida Chapel Hill.

"Kana munhu mumwe chete achitungamira, zvinoshamisa kuti vanhu vanoungana sei pachikonzero," akadaro Price. "Izvi ndizvo zvinoita kuti nharaunda yeChapel Hill ive yakasarudzika uye inoshamisa."

Uye nepo achigona kuzvininipisa pamusoro pakwo apo anobvunzwa, Price ave achiwanzova murume uyo vamwe vanoungana paari apo iye anoshambadzira nokuda kweguta riri nani nenyika iri nani. 

Zvizhinji zvezvirongwa zvePrice, zvakadai sekuchenesa kudzu uye kuchenesa kwake mugwagwa mukuru wekota paMugwagwa 86, zvinotarisa pakushongedza Chapel Hill, asi anowanirawo nguva yevanhu vekumusha kwake. Gore rino, akaronga nezvekuendeswa kwechikafu chekutenda kuInterfaith Council pantry kuchechi yake, uko kwaanogara achitungamira vanozvipira vanochenesa imba yekubikira. Pamusoro pezvo, anoronga zviitiko zvevhiki nevhiki zvevechidiki, uye muna Gumiguru apfuura akapedza maawa akati wandei achigadzira nzira inodarika zvese zvinotarisirwa.

"Ndinoona sekungodzosera kunharaunda iyi kwandipa zvakawanda," akadaro Price.

Ari kutsvagawo nzira dziri kure dzekuti arambe achiunza pamwechete mapoka makuru ayo anotsigira zvirongwa zvake. Pakudzura kuchena, munhu wese akapararira kuita zvikwata zvidiki, uye zvakajeka havana kubvumira chero chinhu kuvamisa. Kuenderera mberi, Price akataura nezvekuita kuti mhuri dzipinde mubasa rekuzvipira kuti vashande sechikwata chiri kure munharaunda. 

Chero zvazvingava, Mutengo haungori kufara kudzoka kune philanthropy - haana kumbomira kwechipiri. Mutengo unoziva kuti zvinongotora munhu mumwechete, vhoti imwe chete, uye munhu wese achauya pamwe chete kutsigira iyi yakasarudzika uye yakanaka nzvimbo yaanodada nayo kumba. 

Uye isu tinofunga tinotaurira munhu wese kana tichiti tinodada kuva naSteve semuvakidzani wedu.

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