Ngenkathi u-Deborah Coleman eshiya isikhundla sakhe e-Hahn Loeser & Parks ngo-2013, isinyathelo sakhe esilandelayo kwaba ukuvula inkampani yakhe egxile ekuxazululeni izinkinga, ukulamula, kanye nokuziphatha okuhle. Uphinde wathatha leli thuba ukwandisa ngendlela emangalisayo ukuzibandakanya kwakhe kwe-pro bono. Iminyaka engaphezu kweshumi nanhlanu, ubekade eyivolontiya le-Legal Aid, ethatha icala elilodwa ngesikhathi, kanye ngesikhathi. Selokhu aphinde asungula umkhuba wakhe eminyakeni emithathu edlule, u-Deborah uvolontiye amahora angaphezu kuka-200 esikhathi sakhe - ephatha amacala amaningana ngesikhathi - ukuze aqinisekise indawo yokukhosela, ukuphepha, nokuphepha kwezomnotho kumalungu asengozini kakhulu emiphakathini yethu.
“Ngaphandle nje kwezimbalwa,” kusho uDeborah, “amacala engiye ngawafaka ezindabeni ezingokomthetho ezivamile—ukwephulwa kwezicelo zenkontileka, ukubhekana nenkampani yomshwalense, izingxabano zezindlu. Amakhasimende ami ngokuvamile angabantu abampofu abasebenzayo, abangenazo izinsiza zokuthulula noma zokuxazulula izinkinga zabo ngokushesha.”
“Ngiyakujabulela ukusiza abantu ngabanye baqonde izinketho zabo, ngisebenzise isu futhi, uma kungenzeka, ngithuthukise isimo sabo,” eqhubeka. Odabeni lwakamuva, u-Deborah ukwazile ukusiza amakhasimende ekuxoxisaneni kabusha nenkontileka yawo yomhlaba, ekuhoxisweni kwecala lawo lokudliwa kwenkontileka yomhlaba, kanye nokwehliswa kwentela yendawo ukuze ibonise amaqiniso emakethe. “Amakhasimende ami achithe iminyaka emine yokulingana ngomjuluko ukuze enze umuzi awuthenge kuhlale kuwo, futhi manje anethemba lokuwugcina ngendlela efinyelelekayo.”