The Daily Ubuntu
Today's story · October 31, 2026 · Digital Solitude · 2 min read
Can No One Help Me?
In 2020, in Alton, England, a 75-year-old widower put a poster in his window. Thanks to social media, thousands of strangers answered.
Read the storyThe Story Granary · From Montréal to the world
I am because we are.
True stories and verified facts to understand our times and weave, from here to the ends of the earth, a wider, more human “us.”
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Welcome
A place to understand without judging, and to act without waiting.
The Daily Ubuntu starts from a very old and very simple African idea: we become persons through other people. With it, we look at the challenges of our time: exile, loneliness, the climate, inequality, systemic racism, technology, the wounds of history. Here in Canada, and wherever human beings are looking for their place. Not to overwhelm. To care for what connects us.
No jargon here. Each article is a short story, kept in our story granary: a story, verified facts and a question to take with you, and to share with those around you. Because each person's humanity grows through the humanity of others.
Ubuntu
“I am because we are.” A philosophy of relationship, reminding us that each person's dignity depends on everyone's.
DiscoverEchoes from here
Right next to Montréal, Haudenosaunee tradition asks us to think of the seven generations to come. An echo of Ubuntu.
DiscoverThe Story Granary
Short stories to nourish the “us,” sorted into seven threads. Uplifting, moving or serious, they all rest on verified facts.
ReadA sentence to take with you
Kindness doesn't stop with the person who receives it. It travels.
The question behind every entry
What does our “us” still leave outside, and what does it lose by staying incomplete?