Xa uDeborah Coleman wasishiya isikhundla sakhe eHahn Loeser & Parks ngo-2013, inyathelo lakhe elilandelayo yayikukuvula inkampani yakhe egxile kulamlo, ulamlo, kunye nokuziphatha okuhle. Ukwathathe eli thuba ukunyusa kakhulu ukubandakanyeka kwakhe kwipro bono. Ngaphezu kweminyaka elishumi elinesihlanu, wayelivolontiya elinoNcedo lwezoMthetho, ethatha ityala elinye ngexesha, kanye emva kwexeshana. Ukusukela oko waphinda wayila inkqubo yakhe kwiminyaka emithathu eyadlulayo, uDeborah uye wavolontiya ngaphezulu kweeyure ezingama-200 zexesha lakhe - ephethe amatyala amaninzi ngexesha - ukuqinisekisa indawo yokuhlala, ukhuseleko, kunye nokhuseleko lwezoqoqosho kumalungu angabona bantu basemngciphekweni woluntu lwethu.
UDeborah uthi: “Ngaphandle nje kwambalwa, amatyala endiye ndawathabatha ngokusemthethweni—ukwaphulwa kwamabango ezivumelwano, amatyala einshorensi, iimbambano zemihlaba. Abathengi bam ngokuqhelekileyo bangamahlwempu asebenzayo, abangenazo izinto zokukhupha izinto okanye ukulungisa iingxaki zabo ngokulula.”
“Ndiyakonwabela ukunceda abantu baqonde ukhetho lwabo, ukusebenzisa iqhinga kwaye, ukuba kunokwenzeka, ndiphucule imeko yabo,” uqhubeke watsho. Kumcimbi wamva nje, uDeborah wakwazi ukunceda abathengi ukuba baphinde baxoxisane ngesivumelwano sabo somhlaba, ukuba bachithwe ityala lokuhluthwa kwesivumelwano somhlaba, kunye nokufumana irhafu yepropathi ithotyiwe ukubonisa iinyani zentengiso. “Abathengi bam bachithe iminyaka emine yokubila kobulungisa ekwenzeni indlu abayithengayo ikwazi ukuhlala, kwaye ngoku banethemba lokukwazi ukuyigcina ngokufikelelekayo.”