What Passion Can Do…

The other day I saw the Oscar winning film “The Cove”, by Ric O’Barry, and first of all it made me sick. It will make you sick too, if you choose to see it.

But then it also made me think of when I saw dolphins for the first time. In Mozambique.

I spent one year in Nacala, in northern Mozambique. It was in 1991 and the country was still in civil-war.

My purpose of living in Mozambique that year, was to start three different projects together with a group of volunteers from different countries.

We started a school for street children, a health campaign and a school for illiterate adults. The hole project was connected together so that we made contracts with families in the area, who wanted to participate in our program. The idea was to make them send their children to school. If they did, the children would get two meals a day, so that the family could save some expenses.

The families who wanted latrines in the back yard, would get help to build one, if they would send their children to the vaccination campaign and participate in our health courses…and so on. Something for something, right?

Well, what does this have to do with dolphins, then?

Well, read on.