The other day I saw the Oscar-winning film "The Cove" by Ric O'Barry, and first of all made me sick. It will also make you sick if you choose to view it.
But it also reminded me of when I saw the dolphins for the first time. In Mozambique.
I have a year of Nacala in northern Mozambique. It was 1991 and the country was still in civil war.
My goal this year of living in Mozambique, was to start three different projects with a groupof volunteers from different countries.
We started a school for street children, a health campaign and a school for illiterate adults. The project was co-linked so as to have contracts with local families who wanted to participate in our program. The idea was to send their children to school. If they did, would the children two meals a day, so that the family of some cost savings.
Families who wanted lavatories in the backyard, he would have received helpa building, if their children to the vaccination campaign and participate in our courses in health ... and so on. Something for something, right?
Well, what has to do with dolphins, then?
Well, read on.
That year I had the best office in the world ...
Each morning, the dawn, I was sitting in my office, listening to the song silent fishermen while they were in their bathtub canoes on their way to their daily catch -followed by dolphins.
The Oscar-winning film "The Cove".
The documentary is real and cruel, and if you need to get your thought on the capture of dolphins is good or bad, it's open eyes.
Another thing in this story caught my eye too. Ric's passion in his eyes when he told his story. I knew that. E 'was exactly the same passion and drive I felt before coming to Mozambique.
What about "The Cove"
An activistwith the name of Ric O'Barry is the heart and soul of "The Cove." The documentary follows his efforts to capture on film the horrific reality of what happens in a secret cove off the coast of Japan, where thousands of dolphins violently and unnecessarily lose their lives each year. Mr. O'Barry was the coach of the dolphins in the U.S. television show "Flipper," which was popular in 1960 and is largely responsible for creating the boomentertainment industry of captive dolphins inadvertently encourage this secret slaughter of dolphins.
are "why" - - In 1970, Mr. O'Barry a life-changing encounter with "Kathy", the dolphin had spent formative years of the TV series and now his passion and his only mission is to live a purpose abuse of these highly intelligent marine mammals.
A look at "The Cove" It 's clear that his "why" replaces all others. A man is not violent, the 'documentary shows him engaged in various behaviors that many of us would be embarrassed to consider:
* Cycling, walking, uninvited, through the corridors of the International Whaling top with a flat screen TV attached to his chest images is horrible massacres ...
* Thrown from the hotel in the middle of the night ...
* Relentless grilled in public sessions by local police ...
* Standing in the middle of a busy intersection in a big city for hours and hours of broadcastssituation an unsuspecting public ...
Whatever your opinion of his case, passion and commitment of Ric O'Barry is an enthusiasm for what is possible when the barriers between your lifestyle and your "WHY '" disappear. You see, the dolphin-hunting season opened in 2010 in early September and, while many dolphins were recorded for entertainment purposes, the slaughter of "waste" seems to have stopped as a direct result of 40 years, Ric O'Barry"Why".
Not everyone has yet to discover "why", which means that many are still stuck behind lofty goals and ambitions no emotional connection. And without that emotional connection, the effort turns out to be empty, useless and unfulfilling.
I had a passion for adding value to the Third World. That was what brought me from Norway to Mozambique as a volunteer. Me, a single mother with no money ... had to fight hard to achieve my goal. My passion combined with myregime made it impossible for me to stop or go back. This is what has made this possible.
I just read in a newspaper that 90% of children in third world countries now have primary education. And that 81% of children in the Third World has been vaccinated in the last 10 years. The success could not taste better.
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