One month after her wedding day, thirty-three-year-old Cami Walker was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and the life she knew changed forever. Cami was soon in and out of L.A.’s emergency rooms with alarming frequency as she battled the neurological condition that left her barely able to walk and put enormous stress on her marriage. Each day brought new negative thoughts: I’m going to end up in a wheelchair. Mark’s probably going to leave me. My life is over. Why did this have to happen to me?

Cami Walker

Then, as a remedy for her condition, Cami received an uncommon prescription from a friend, an African medicine woman named Mbali Creazzo: Give away 29 gifts in 29 days.

29 Gifts

” By giving,” Mbali told her, ” you are focussing on what you have to offer others, inviting more abundance into your life.”  The gifts, she said, could be anything, but the giving had to be both  authentic and mindful. At least one gift needed to be something she felt was scarce in her life.

Cami was amazed by what unfolded during her month-long  journey.

Including personal essays from members of the 29 Gifts.org online community whose lives changed for the better after taking the Challenge, 29 Gifts shows just how a simple, daily practice of altruism can dramatically alter your outlook on the world.

Madelein du Toit (Chairperson MSSA Inland Branch) was invited by Corina van der Spoel of Boekehuis in Melville to join the launch of 29 Gifts and meet South African born Mbali Creazzo- the inspiration behind Cami’s story. Mbali hails from Port Elizabeth – quite a co-incidence that Dr Geoffrey Dean (founder of the MSSA in 1963) also lived in PE! The morning was very special and insightful and definitely left much food for thought.

ISBN 978-O -7382-1356-9         Retails at R189.95