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Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityDilip SimeonDilip Simeon – expert on the life and teachings of Mahatma Gandhi
Dilip Simeon is a well-known labour historian and novelist in India. He is an expert on the life and teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. The inspiration Gandhi gives him is not only intellectual, since he has led hunger strikes himself in order to denounce injustice.
In this podcast we dive into the dangers of post-truth relativism, into the underestimated powers of non-violence and what Gandhi's ideas about peaceful opposition could mean to the Middle-East.
2024-11-2158 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityDavid YambioDavid Yambio is only 26 years old, but his biography reads like that of a man two times his age.
Born in Sudan during the second civil war, his family forced to flee to Congo and later to the Central African Republic, where they had no access to education nor resources. He returned to South Sudan when he was 7, then at the age of 12 he was abducted by the LRA, the army led by Joseph Kony. He fought as a child soldier for over a year, then escaped only to find himself forcibly conscripted by the Sudanese government at the age...
2024-08-0750 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityHans ClausHans Claus is a jack-of-all-trades.
Not only is he a painter, a sculptor, a photographer and a writer-performer, but for 38 years he was also the director of the prison the city of Oudenaarde in Belgium. He retired three months ago.
If you want to know what is wrong with the current detention system in our society, about the political struggles involved in creating human conditions in our houses of detention, then not only should you listen to his interviews or read his scientific writings, but you should also get to know his sculptures and his paintings, for they speak about...
2024-08-0148 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityJudit KissJudit Kiss is an economist and political commentator on Eastern Europe.
She is Hungarian by birth and lives in Geneva. In 2006, she published ‘Apám halálának nyara’ (translated into English as 'The Summer My Father Died'). This book covers about seventy years of turbulent Hungarian history. Lyrical, poetic and pierced with black humour, ‘The Summer My Father Died’ is a stunning and achingly beautiful memoir in which Judit uncovers het father's struggle as a communist who denied his Jewish roots, and how Judit herself deals with the implications of that choice.
She is also the author of 'More nights than...
2024-07-2259 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityJerome TubianaAuthor of the award-winning graphic novel Guantánamo Kid
Since 2018, Jérôme Tubiana has been working as an operational adviser and advocacy manager with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), focusing on refugee and migration issues. This included advocating for Out of Libya’s initiative aiming at opening safe and legal pathways for migrants and refugees stranded in Libya, and systematically victims of abuses, which the United Nations have qualified as “crimes against humanity”. Prior to this, Jérôme worked as a researcher specializing in conflicts and migration across the Sahara and Horn of Africa, in particular...
2024-06-1051 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityQuentin DujardinHere's a musician who defied the Belgian state and denounced the legal absurdities of the Covid-19 restrictions.
In 2021, Quentin Dujardin was refused the right to organize a guitar concert in a church, even though the maximum number of participants was respected and all distancing and other measures were taken. Risking a penalty of 12000 EUR, he decided to give the concert anyway.
2024-06-1035 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanitySundar DreyfusIn times like these, one encounters few who 'shine' - and even fewer who are able to give this light unconditionally to their fellow human beings. Sundar is such an exception.
Since 1982 on the Schweibenalp, in this Center of Unity, people of all origins who are searching for the meaning of life or who are already concerned with the essentials of life find a universal place of spiritual practice and community. Here West and East and North and South meet, united by the experience of, or at least the instinct for, the oneness of all living things.
2024-02-2058 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityWalter Siegfried und Grace Zozobrado HahnIt is important that we learn to look at our world from the perspective of a country like the Philippines and use it as a yardstick for future social action.
Walter and Grace realize the spiritual and practical life impulse for biodynamic agriculture of 1924 in Koberwitz in a tropical landscape of the Far East.
2024-01-0953 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanitySergio SantosSome people have more civil courage and some have more spiritual courage and determination
– and some have both in equal measure: That’s what’s the case with Sergio.
https://fondation-ghf.one/commendations/
2023-11-2758 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityIsa & HumphreyLive up to the challenge of non-duality in life and provide an open refuge to all.
ISA LUQUE ALVAREZ & HUMPHREY MATTHEY
Isa and Humphrey have led since young years and until today a life committed to social justice and inner truth, which knew neither fear nor laziness. – Even a synopsis of their vitae can hardly be summarized on one page; nothing, therefore, for the weary in reading, which may be forgiven.
https://fondation-ghf.one/commendations/
2023-10-0251 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityWilly and LutCan you imagine entering a psychiatric hospital on a voluntary base and being compulsory hospitalized, isolated and restrained several hours later?
It happened to Lieve, the daughter of Willy Vandamme (76) and Lut Wouters (70). The young woman refused to hand over her cell phone to a nurse. Ten days later she had to appear before the justice of the peace, in pajamas and barefoot, where the coercive measure was promptly extended. It took days before Willy and Lut found out that their daughter was tied up in a chilly room. They were not allowed to see her. They were not even...
2023-08-3147 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityHumadiWhen everyone shares, no one is left empty-handed
Giraffes are known to need a very, very big and strong heart to pump the blood all the way to the head - Humadi's heart full of helpfulness, attention and generosity is an impressive example. He does not distinguish between living and working. He is not a "40 hours a week do-gooder", but lives his vision every second and with every single activity...
2023-07-3148 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityChildhood and youth protection activistsCaring for kids mental and physical health
We are living through not only one of the most polarizing times in history but unfortunately also one of the most vicious and ideologically charged. Views expressed, which do not fit the mainstream agenda are hammered out, literally, by fact checkers operating the largest perfectionist Procrustes bed in history for sure. The common ground for differentiated approaches to the hidden meaning of truth and reality is lost. – This gets especially tragic when it comes to kids and adolescents, who are increasingly pulled into the net of this new reality of the coming metaverse, it...
2023-05-311h 01
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityStringbean PartySerena Engel & Jared Rust
These are two people who came to Germany from Australia and America, or better, from Taiwan where they met, fell in love and started to make their music some ten years ago. They are young and beautiful but even more, resilient, artistic, hard working and giving all for creating life and environment in a way lost on most of the lost of today, who are many……
2023-04-2857 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityRecyclers of wasteFarming Flies to Save our Planet
If black soldier fly larvae could enter competitive eating contests, they would excel, especially when it comes to eating nasty stuff that we don’t want around or wouldn’t think of eating ourselves. The ability of the black soldier fly to convert low-grade organic waste into high-quality nutrients has opened-up a ground-breaking prospect for the large-scale production of animal feed. The high protein content of insects provides an immense opportunity to develop sustainable technology for the production of animal feed at a low cost. kanthari participant Adegbite Tobi Gabriel from Nigeria tell us abou...
2022-05-311h 06
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityJaboya - fishing in dangerous watersSex for fish, a common practice around Lake Victoria
When Cavin Odera’s parents and oldest sister died of HIV/AIDS, he was mocked and discriminated against. This experience eventually triggered his willingness to empower girls and young women. So he created WA-Wa, to equip them with skills to earn sustainable livelihoods without falling victim to “sex for fish”, a common practice around the Lake Victoria. Wa-Wa trains this woman in everything about fishing, from tying nets, building boats, fishing on Lake Victoria, to fish farming in self-built ponds. More details about WA-WA can be found at: wawakenya.org/
2022-05-2448 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityWe are hereEmpowerment for the disabled in Afghanistan
Last Summer, as for 2021, Afghanistan was again everywhere in the news. The Taliban captured Afghanistan's capital Kabul 20 years after they were ousted from power. Most of us, still remember the horrifying video, showing two people tragically falling down from a plane in Kabul, as they tied themselves to the wheels of the aircraft to fly out of the country, amid tension. My guest today comes from Afghanistan. Nematullah Ahangosh is an Activist, a Poet, and founder of Stretch More; a mobile empowerment parkour for the disable. By Stretch More, people with disabilities can...
2022-05-1041 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityTaliban in AfghanistanPower consolidated yet helpless
First an Apology. It's been a while since we published an Episode of this Podcast, but I had strong reasons. I explain everything in the first two Minutes of this Episode. Now, today´s Podcast: one of the lesser known facts of 20th-century world history is Cuba's military help in Afghanistan during the critical years of the Saur Revolution of 1978. Cuba was among a small number of countries who voted against a resolution by the Non-Aligned Movement at the United Nations General Assembly which condemned the Soviet union's intervention in Afghanistan in 1979. And todays Podcast i...
2022-05-0335 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityGrenzgängertum und die Verkürzung der StreckeGiraffe Hero Hubert Maria Dietrich
Hubert Maria Dietrich, one of the new commended Giraffe Hero, is a very nice, very straight guy. We all know, Giraffes are known to need a big and strong heart to pump the blood all the way to the head – Humadi’s heart full of helpfulness, attention and generosity is an impressive example.
We at the foundation call him Humadi, founded humanum, a people-to-people company that produces pioneering products for a better world with the following vision: “When everyone shares, no one is left empty-handed.” Today you'll get to know Humadi. On the day he got h...
2022-01-251h 02
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityBreaking out of binary conceptsNiwas Kumars Gender-Free Learning Centre
As children, gender bombards us in more ways than one – the clothes we wear, the toys we buy, the way we express ourselves…From the moment we're born, our gender identity is no secret. We're either a boy or a girl. We are pink or blue. Today I'm talking to a recent kanthari alumni: Niwas Kumar. For some children, what's between their legs doesn't match what's between their ears -- they insist they were born into the wrong body. They are transgender children, diagnosed with gender identity disorder, and their parents insist this is not...
2022-01-1857 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityVitaNetz - Podcast in GermanKatharina Lehmann and the innovative society
Giraffe Hero Katharina Lehmann, a psychologist with her own practice, had a permanent position on the police force in Zürich. She could truly have had a quiet life. However, Katharina was not willing to compromise on the truth, stepped out of her comfort zone and put her employment and public reputation on the line. She co-initiated the VitaNetz Foundation. VitaNetz is building an innovative society that places health and the harmonious coexistence of humans, animals and nature at the center of its activities. This includes pesticide- and antibiotic-free agriculture, animal husbandry, solidarity-based e...
2022-01-1131 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityTo hell and backPrecious Hearts Haven rescue and shelter victims and survivors of domestic violence
Violence against women in Zimbabwe is partly accepted as a fact of life, especially by elderly “counselors” that traditionally perceive women as the property of their husbands. My guest today Precious Kiwiti was known as a strong woman, running restaurants and catering services successfully, and starting a kindergarten for single mothers. But hardly anyone knew about her well-hidden tragedy. Precious recently completed the kanthari course in India and is now jumping into the practical part of her training. Now, she is about to head back to Zimbabwe to w...
2021-12-2852 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityThe KhojKhoj in hindi means search, and this is what this episode is about.
Dear listeners, are you looking to come out of your comfort zone? Are you ready to challenge your fears, for an adventure? Then get ready for the great Indian treasure hunt. today in our Podcast we are hunting a treasure in Kerala with my guest, kanthari participant, Abhilash John. Locked in a cage of constraints and expectations, Abhilash was not able to dream and follow his personal path. A street child helped him to challenge his fears, to set him free to explore his strengths and...
2021-12-2146 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityLife is too important to get stuckPaul Kronenberg: A small chili making a HUGE difference
„Life is what you’re happy for getting up for.“ - if not, there is something wrong in your life”. Giraffe Hero Paul Kronenberg is cofounder of the kanthari program for social change makers in Kerala. About a year ago, we had the pleasure to listen to his partner Sabriye Tenberken on this podcast. Today we have Paul sharing his vast experiences and getting to know his attitude towards life. It's a delight to listen to his very practical advice, entertaining anecdotes and certainly - I'm sure we can also try to t...
2021-12-141h 37
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityStand up and speak!How “alarmo” is going to save our environment
Akhina Mohan from Kerala India, plans to start alarmo, a youth driven, Kerala based task force that nudges people to act immediately. Nothing makes her more furious than the mistreatment and irresponsibility towards the environment. Participating in relief work during the 2018 Kerala floods, helped her to break out of her shell. Now, she knows, her actions can make a difference! The younger generation needs to realize that their planet is on fire, and together they have to start saving it.
Akhina is right now preparing her kanthari Talk which she...
2021-12-0751 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityWhen time runs out...Is there a shortcut?
"Allowing for the book, after all, being a parody, something like 1984 could actually happen. This is the direction the world is going in at the present time. In our world, there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement.” George Orwell. In today's Podcast you get to have a deep theoretical and philosophical insight of the Giraffe Heroes Foundation. In our latest event, Giraffe Heroes foundation founder Tom Amatt, read from four authors who tried to give their compatriots a wake-up call as long as there was still time. And this is what he...
2021-11-0929 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanitySarita fights backPrayatna Nepal empowers blind and visually impaired girls and women.
Please make the effort to follow our talk with Sarita Lamichhane who is talking about her experiences in Nepal being a daughter, and blind. What does it mean for the family? She shares with us how she grew up, through the quota got engaged in a government job, went for training at kanthari and founded her own project Prayatna Nepal. It also includes a fight back programme to increase confidence, especially for visually impaired women, who often suffer discrimination and sexual harassment.
2021-10-2633 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityInvisible WomenThe vulnerabilities of widows in Zimbabwe
Being widowed can be one of the most overwhelming traumatic experiences that women and also men face in their lives. Loneliness significantly affects those who’ve suffered the death of a husband. Widows can become some of the most marginalised groups in society. Yet they are often in greatest need, whether in terms of physical or mental, emotional or practical adjustments to their lives. Our Guest Gram Tinashe Makwarimba, better known as Carter Founded in 2014 , Yolk Africa. A non-profit entity that enriches people and communities on the margins of society to overcome social and ec...
2021-09-2156 min
2021-08-0310 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityThe GiraffingPresentation of Giraffes Heroes nominees
Today's podcast is not a Podcast, at least not as you, dear listener, are used to, every tuesday. Today, we´re bringing to you the latest event of the Giraffe Heroes Foundation as a Podcast. Let me tell you what you are about to hear. In today's Podcast event, Giraffe Heroes Foundation founder Tom Ammat, is going to welcome you, with a notion, his notion of what makes the work of this foundation. Afterwards, you are going to get an Idea, about the latest nominations, some insights about the people you'll get the chance t...
2021-07-2028 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityKaanthi: Raising awerenessHow Satya Illa saves farmers from electrocution
India has one of the world’s highest numbers of fatalities due to electrical accidents. Especially among farmers. kanthari alumni Satya Illa founded kaanthi wich means light, a social enterprise that addresses the lack of awareness , and response preparedness among villages in Telangana. Through practical training on safety, Satya has been able to save the lives of many farmers and prevent unnecessary accidents.
www.kaanthi.org/
2021-07-1349 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityMarveling rootsEarly Intervention centre for children with Cerebral palsy
Kerlinda War finds joy and satisfaction in her years of work in rehabilitation for children with slow growth and physical impairment. Marveling roots in Meghalaya, India provides training on early identification for the rural population, referral services, and prepares children for schooling and socialisation.
https://www.facebook.com/marvelling.org/
https://www.facebook.com/kerlinda.war
further information
Cerebral Palsy:
https://www.cerebralpalsyguide.com/
https://scholar.google.de/scholar?q=early+intervention+children+cerebral+palsy&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart
https://www...
2021-07-0636 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityDreaming againBashiru Adamu: Hope for society outcasts
Bashiro Adamu is the founder of the Dream Again Prison Academy. The 2013 kanthari alumni from Nigeria, aims to ensure that the very high recidivism rate is drastically reduced through qualitative education. His education program begins in prisons, and as soon as his students are released, he reintegrates them into the labor market. Bashiru Oyahkilome Adamu is a firing social change maker who has brought light and hope to many inmates across the correctional space in Nigeria and pushing through Africa. With almost a decade experience in building a non-profit from the scratch, beginning...
2021-06-2944 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityGateway to ElationA gateway to the world for the blind
Robert Malunda is opening a gateway to the world for the blind with his organisation Gateway to Elation. he does this by providing training in computer literacy, daily living skills which include mobility and orientation, as well as social interaction. He was born in Makokoba, Bulawayo; in southwest Zimbabwe. At age 3 he was affected by glaucoma and became totally blind. In 2015 Robert joined the kanthari course. Upon return to Zimbabwe he started Gateway to Elation. Robert trains other blind people in the use of computers as well as daily living, orientation...
2021-06-1536 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityTransgender realitiesGumisayi Bonzo: If you want to fight HIV - include us!
When we use the word transgender, we are referring to an inclusive umbrella term, that consists of binary trans people (trans men and trans women), as well as non-binary people and people who cross dress. There are a lot of ways that transgender people can describe their identities. Understanding the words and labels people use encourages respect. Today’s Episode offers a wide view about several topics - each of them deserving plenty of space in today’s world. And you might feel like being in a roller coas...
2021-06-0740 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanitySapphire Early Intervention CenterPynhoi Tang: a story of change
kanthari alumni Pynhoi Tang was brought up in the Khasi tribal community in North Eastern India. She went to a local school but was thrown out because she was visually impaired. That moment influenced the rest of her life. Pynhoi Tang, is empowering the persons with disability through her Sapphire Early Intervention Center and Community Based Inclusive/Inclusion Development program, as part of Bethany Society in Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya, India.
2021-06-0123 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityThe HummingbirdHow to heal from domestic violence and achieve change
In Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Carolina Ortiz with her Centro Colibri supports people who suffer from domestic violence – to participate in programmes, to heal, to learn how to speak up, look for help and gain self esteem. Centro Colibri offers a support system for victims of sexual violence, and it also runs Advocacy campaigns in Bolivia, the most violent country in Latin America for women. In this Podcast she’s talking about her own story, about how everything changed once she was ready and found help and how she learned to spea...
2021-05-2536 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in Humanity(re)CycledWhere others see garbage, Ayoola sees opportunity
Connecting informal waste collectors to the source. This app does it – cycled. Today we have a very enlightening talk with our friend of the Giraffe Heroes Foundation, Ayoola Brimmo. We talked about waste in Nigeria, smart bins and the Cycled App. This App helps users who want to recycle more, and reduce their General Waste collection bill, by using a SmartBin. The “SmartBin”, Ayoolas innovation, uses image recognition, and artificial intelligence, to recognize waste items thrown into it and sorts individual material types into separate inner bins. Learn about Ayoolas personal motivation, about...
2021-05-1851 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityKnock Knock... Who's There?Changemaking: the superpower of the 21st century
In the hopes to establish a cross-border collaborative platform for kanthari graduates and friends to share ideas, challenges and solutions. In March, kanthari started the initiative “knock”, as for kanthari network of change and knowledge.
„A network can only sustain if each person is contributing something“. My guest today, Meghana Raveendra took on the job to coordinate kantharis all over the globe to boost collaboration and amplify their impact. And we learn – it is all about using the connection one has – through a network. How she’s trying to manage this and what else she...
2021-05-1130 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityA shared sentenceGNE: breaking the circle of crime
When parents are incarcerated, their children are punished, too. Prisoners’ families, particularly their children, are often termed the ‘innocent victims’ of crime. Since 2012, the Global Network for Equality, founded by kanthari alumni K.R. Raja is doing an impressive job for the children of incarcerated parents. They are successfully breaking the circle of the crime. In our talk, Raja gives us first a very interesting general picture on how the situation of the families are and how the children can be identified and monitored, to guarantee they really get ideal support. In the second...
2021-05-041h 16
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityDangerous life by the TracksSanoj NT: The Child in Rail
Runing away from abuse, violence and poverty, or simply being left behind, lots of Children use India's extensive railway network to get to the cities, where they hope to find a better life. The stations are perfect for predators. With over 11 million children living on the streets in India, there is a lot at stake. This is another Episode of the Podcast to restore your faith in Humanity. Today´s guest Sanoj NT from India wants to see a child-friendly atmosphere at Indian Railway Stations. With his project "Child in Rail" he wants t...
2021-04-2736 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityPeace crops for CameroonNjeke Joshua Egbe: using agriculture as a peace-building tool
While talking to Joshua, I have to say, it's incredible how witnessing everything he has experienced, he is still able to bring hope to the children in an unstable Cameroon. According to him, organic farming on its own has a lot to do with peace. This set of young farmers PEACE CROPS is training will be part of a new generation of environmentalists, that are trying to build communities in Cameroon which prefer health to wealth. PEACE CROPS uses Organic Agriculture as a building tool for community development as well...
2021-04-2055 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityThe strength to liveSherin Noordheen: When life becomes a choice… Let´s Live
Sherin Noordheen is from the 2017 generation of kantharis. She is a mental health activist and founder of Let’s Live. She experienced depression and suicide ideation at a young age and knows the value of emotional support to those who need it. Sherin is sharing with us very impressive projects she's running. She explains how to get conversations started when it comes to the point where life becomes a choice. Her NGO focusses on mental health awareness, their mission: cutting down the stigma established on suicide and mental health issue...
2021-04-1344 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityLeading to the lightTiffany Brar and the Jyothirgamaya Foundation
Tiffani Brar is a tough woman, who knows what she wants and is going to go for it. Todays talk is really encouraging and uplifting. A delight. Tiffany Brar. An Indian community service worker who has been blind since childhood. A social activist and trainer, working to create awareness on disability. She is the founder of the Jyothirgamaya Foundation, a non-profit organization whose stated mission is to help blind people in all spheres of life to gain the skills needed for a successful and smooth existence. An Eye to the blind in the...
2021-04-0640 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityOMLA, creating a new AfricaLawrence Afere and the One Million African Leaders
Taking into account what my guest today, Lawrence Afere shared, According to UN projections, the population of Africa is going to increase to around 2.5 billion in 2050. All key sustainability challenges, social as well as environmental, will be on full display in Africa in the decades to come, and the most vulnerable people are likely to suffer the brunt of negative future impacts. At the same time, Africa has the youngest population of any continent on Earth, with an amazing amount of entrepreneurial energy and hope for the future. With One Million...
2021-03-3051 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityTo fly like batsAccompanying blind children on their way to independence
kanthari alumni Anja Pfaffenzeller started 2013 the Project "Bats in Action" in Sobral, a town in the north-east of Brazil. She realised how much blind people in Brazil are excluded from education and decided to get involved. She wanted the brasilian blind kids to fly like bats, to manage their own way. In todays podcast Anja tells us in a very honest, yet reflected way about her experience of realising a project for blind children in Brazil. At the same time, we’re talking about what challenges to face back in Germany wh...
2021-03-2332 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityA message of equalityLorena Julio and the Foundation Comparlante
While studying, Lorena already was very active trying to make the world a better place, volunteering for different organisations whenever she could. But there was one turning point, when she decided, she couldn’t just go on like that but really had to get engaged, change something and fight for the rights of all disabled persons. Let’s try to change our mindsets – delve in and don’t miss out on todays talk with Lorena from Argentina. "Accessibility is necessary for some, but it is useful for everyone" says the Co-Founder of Comparlante, Fundació...
2021-03-1644 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityHarriet´s Rhythm of lifeWorking in a Red Light District
“Equity in health means access to healthcare, regardless of who you are, regardless of what you do. I’m convinced health is everyone's right…” Harriet Kamashanyu in today's Podcast. As it is the case almost all over the world, women in Africa, including Uganda, are an economically disadvantaged group. The lack of economic power of these communities, especially among young women, is a major obstacle to long-term development in Uganda. Harriet is the Founder and Executive Director of Rhythm of Life Kampala, an organization set out to provide health care services to sex-workers in the r...
2021-03-0937 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityTCM – Prevention and Treatment for COVID 19Efficacy of Traditional Chinese Medicine on COVID-19
The Coronavirus disease pandemic has been rapidly spreading globally and has caused worldwide social and economic disruption. As scientists race to develop a vaccine for Covid-19, China has been championing Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) as a way to treat the disease. Todays podcast is a Special. We want to enrich the Media world with some really enlightening information on how TCM was used in China to prevent and treat COVID 19, in order to get severe cases under control, or not even get to that point. Be it by giving hospital staff certain...
2021-03-0258 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityEcological Balance for CameroonConserving Natural Ecosystems helps rural populations
My guest today is Limbi Blessing Tata, a trained Botanist/Conservationist, who has been working in the field of forest conservation over a decade. After graduating from kanthari in 2018, she started the organisation Eco Balance which is valuing forests as a deposit of natural wealth accumulated over generations. Eco Balance is combining education and participation with active restoration efforts, thus helping to bring the benefits and value of Cameroon’s forest back into the everyday life of the people.
http://www.ecobalances.org
2021-02-2342 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityAddressing TaboosTalking about the things we’re taught not to talk about
kanthari alumni Aparna Gopan and Ruangtup Kaeokamechun (Ruang) do an amazing job in questioning taboos – talking about the things we’re taught not to talk about and therefore giving, especially children, an important tool to get information. Aparnas “Elephant in the room” in India and Ruangs “Little Firefly” in Thailand are dealing with taboos in their societies. In our very touching conversation they talk about their personal motivation and experiences regarding taboos and the achievements they can see within their societies. It’s very encouraging to listen to these two fearle...
2021-02-1652 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityWhy nonviolence is stronger than violenceGiraffe Hero Dilip Simeon on the Indian farmers' protest
Thousands of farmers, especially from Punjab and Haryana, are staging a sit-in protest along Delhi borders. The farmers are demanding a complete rollback of the new farm reform laws and a guarantee on the Minimum Support Price system being retained. In today´s Podcast Giraffe Hero Dilip Simeon is giving us a thorough evaluation on the farmer’s protest in New Dehli. The movement, which is ongoing for almost three months already, had being going on peacefully since November 2020. The one incident of 26th it is not what the bulk of...
2021-02-0952 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityThe power of booksYoshimi Horiuchi, the blind bookaholic from Japan
Yoshimi connects books to people and people to books. After the kanthari scholarship, she started “Always Reading Caravan”, a unique nonprofit that brings books, fun, and hope to rural communities in Northern Thailand. A mobile library for children and adults, both with, and without disabilities in rural Thailand, founded by a Japanese woman who happens to be blind. For Yoshimi, books are important, but more important are the people reading these books. She sees reading as a tool to connect people and also to connect people to society.
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2021-02-0229 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityBeing black in a white skinJane Waithera: The positive Exposure
People with albinism have been persecuted, killed and dismembered, and graves of albinos dug up and desecrated in some eastafrican countries. At the same time, people with albinism have also been ostracised and even killed for exactly the opposite reason, because they are also presumed to be cursed and bring bad luck. In today's Podcast I'm talking with Jane Waithera about her experience with albinism in Kenya and her path to found Positive Exposure Kenya. With her organisation she is fighting to challenge the stigma that is being projected on people with Albinism, not...
2021-01-2639 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanitySristi Village: changing attitudeskanthari alumni Karthikeyan and his village community for the disabled
Sristi Foundation was founded by Karthikeyan, known as Karthik, a psychologist born and raised in Pondicherry generally known as 'Pondy' situated on the East Coast of India. Karthik, a 2012 kanthari graduate spent 15 years in an inclusive orphanage where disabled and non-disabled children lived and grew up together. The projects Kartik has founded with Sristi Villiage are absolutely admirable. Listen to his very personal story on how he ended up finding his path in devoting his life to improve the conditions for people with intellectual disability. With the projects he...
2021-01-1935 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityReverse InclusionHow Ability Sports Africa is providing social Interaction
Social Changemaker and kanthari alumni Faruk Musema explains us his concept of reverse inclusion. As an inclusive sports coach for children with disabilities at the Gulu Disabled Persons Union, Faruk is a passionate sports man and social Changemaker in his community in Northern Uganda. He is also passionate about sports and has set himself a goal: Ability Sports Africa (ASA) empower children and youth by running adaptive sports and literacy programs. They empower students and children with disabilities to stay in their schools. The idea is to see the abilities of...
2021-01-1225 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityA world without genderKapila Rasnayaka - founder of Voice of Humans in Sri Lanka
kanthari alumni Kapila Rasnayaka promotes a genderless society. Not sure, what’s that about? Kapila explains: “Genderless means just representing yourself as you, without masculinities and feminities – it means you’re free to fly, anywhere…” A great joy talking to Kapila, who gives us a 360° insight of his vision and engagement to promote gender equality and create a genderless society. Join Kapila on his journey to "the Genderless Jungle" and "Voices of Humans" in Sri Lanka. Get to know how you can free your world of gender constructs through works...
2021-01-0558 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityLiving to support RefugeesGiraffe Hero Jaz O´Haara, founder of The Worlwide Tribe
Human rights activist and commended Giraffe Hero Jaz O’Hara founded „The Worldwide Tribe“ in a bid to highlight the humanity behind world issues and inspire positive social change. She is uplifting refugee voices and celebrating human differences. Founded in 2015, the Worlwidetribe has grown into an organisation and online community which raises awareness about the refugee crisis whilst also supporting those caught up in it in a sustainable way.
2020-12-2935 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in Humanity"Out of sight"Hive Uganda - making changes last
Ojok Simon is from Uganda. The 2012 kanthari graduate, is a beekeeper, an environmentalist, a human rights activist and also almost blind. At age thirteen, Ojok survived an armed attack to his village that led to his blindness. But also made Hive Uganda possible.
Enjoy listening about Ojoks activities and how he has managed to create a sustainable enterprise with wild beekeeping for the blind people in Uganda. We want and need to ask you for a little extra patience today. Internet connection and technical equipment in rural areas is not always...
2020-12-2232 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityMore than just sexPurple Hands Africa: fighting for LGTBQI rights in Zimbawe
Trevor Molife, founder of the organization Purple Hand Africa is giving us a broad insight about how life might be for someone forming part of the LGTBQI community in Zimbabwe. Note, that this topic comes with traumatic stories – which makes it not less important to listen to his, on the contrary, one should raise attention and get engaged. To embrace each and everyone, no matter their gender or sexuality and see the actual human being. We learn about Purple Hand Africa, how they create a safe space for the community an...
2020-12-1549 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityBeyond sight: Blind rocks!Sristi KC: enthusiastic and empowering
With Sristi KC, founder of Blind Rocks! in Nepal one can really feel the vibe and what she wants to transmit with her organisation. One of her most important statements: "There should be more of us all around the world dancing, more blind people who rock the world, so people can see us and realise that we're just as able to do so instead of making us feel disabled and marginalised". Sristi is a dancer, a public speaker, an actress, an adventurer, a motivator, an initiator and also completely blind. Blind Rocks! uses interpersonal...
2020-12-0825 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityAfter Guantánamo...Giraffe Hero Mohammed El-Gharani
We have great respect for today's giraffe - someone who literally stuck his neck out when being imprisoned, without having done nothing. We know these things happen - yet it seems so incredible at the same time. In today's talk we get an insight on what it's like to bear this destiny and at the same time, what lessons it can teach. Since it is a very complex story, we talked several times and for Mohammed's personal safety we had to leave certain details out, as well as his whereabouts today. Fighting to build a...
2020-12-0157 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityWaste is the futureTony Joy, founder of Durian in Nigeria
Tony Joy is doing impressive work in Nigeria. With her organisation Durian, she's helping out the most marginalized people in rural areas, transforming the image and comprehension of rural equals poor and marginalized towards rural is creative and cool. How she's managing to do this, she explains in a very straight forward, precise way in today’s podcast. Tony Joy is showing women a way to succeed, break standards, showing up and doing the right thing. She also talks how they coped with COVID-19 and the space she created to help out wh...
2020-11-2421 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityLearning naturallyDEFY: challenging conventional mainstream education
In todays Podcast Abhijit Sinha is making a clear point: coming from a high education system doesn't automatically mean that it's teaching you how to make the right choices, regarding humanity. The kanthari alumni is introducing us to Project DEFY. Project DEFY is helping communities in India to create their own schools, using Nooks, learning spaces to enable the participants to look themselves on what they want to do and how they want to approach the topic rather then how it's been done in most educational systems. Besides that, he's also telling us about...
2020-11-1752 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityKanthari: Empowering the marginalisedGiraffe Hero Sabriye Tenberken
A kanthari is a plant that grows wild in every backyard of Kerala, a small but very spicy chili with a number of medicinal values. A kanthari is also a symbol for those who have the guts to challenge harmful traditions and the status quo, who have fire in their belly and a lot of innovative ideas to make a positive difference. In today’s Podcast I´m talking to Giraffe Hero Sabriye Tenberken. In 1998, she started the first school for blind people in Tibet and the foundation „Braille Without Borders“. After her experience in Tibet...
2020-10-2739 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityA new hope for coralsRestoring reefs: Giraffe Hero Aki Allagholi
“If we manage to get a stable ocean, there won’t be so many drastic climate changes and we will all look at a brighter future”. Giraffe Hero Aki Allagholi put up an organisation: coralive.org, a small NGO doing everything to protect, manage and restore coral reefs. How he got to that point, what it takes to restore a coral reef and how to become part of it, he explains in a very detailed, yet easy to follow manner for anybody, familiar or not to the topic. Aki finds some very honest and pe...
2020-10-2043 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityChallenging an unkind worldAnn Medlock - Founder of the Giraffe Heroes Project
Today's episode is sort of a special, since you get to listen personally to the one who started with the whole idea of nominating people sticking their necks out almost forty years ago. With Ann Medlock the Giraffe Heroes Project was born. Ann talks in this Episode about COVID-19, the situation in the United States shortly before elections take place and of course about the Giraffe Heroes Project. As you can convince yourself in the great talk we had, she’s not at all getting tired of telling stories – stories that...
2020-10-1336 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityThe first bee reserve in EuropeGiraffe Hero Louis de Cordier - Cosco
Cosco, the artist, explorer and social activist. When he landed himself in the Alpujarras well over a decade ago, among others he learnt about natural horse keeping. And soon he learnt about the bees and the problems with pesticides down in the low-lands; and that they recovered in the natural highlands where no industrial planting had reached yet. From there it was only one further step for him to plan a Natural Bee Reserve in the Alpujarra – for which he set out to research and design a ‘Mediterranean Stone Hive’, as antique as it...
2020-10-0622 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityImaginal CellsGiraffe Hero Chris Malins
Chris is an educator and researcher in sustainability issues with a special interest in how today’s separation of people from nature is affecting their ability to cope with conflict, this especially with a view to younger generations. And he has developed methods to remedy this situation by reengaging us with nature. With the help of our ongoing crowd-financing campaign Giraffes fighting for Climate Adaptation, Chris would like to prepare a series of online lectures so as to share his knowledge and experience with a wider audience thus attracting them to actually engage practically for po...
2020-09-2231 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityDon´t stop till you dropGiraffe Hero Hendrik Haers
Todays podcast is taken our look to a green desert– meaning an area without diversified culture – meaning no food for insects to survive. Hendrik Haers, my guest today, is living in the centre of a village built in such a green desert – where there’s hardly any ground left that the village autorities don’t sell for building. Therefore Henrik decided to gather all his power to plant as much trees as possible and create an awareness. He’s also sharing his story of how he learned to become a classic beekeeper and how he change from...
2020-09-1534 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityNot YOUR BeeGiraffe Hero Dimi du Mortier
The Giraffe we want to introduce you to today is Dimi. Dimi is a filmmaker who has produced several documentaries on shoestring budgets. About his most recent one, which is still in the making Not your bee, he will give some fascinating insights in this talk. He’s asking the right questions, like who do insects belong to and what might be the consequence of this possessive idea men tend to have about bees – about the environment in general.
Other than that he’s revealing very moving stories about his other activities, be it as a f...
2020-09-1535 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityFree the bees!André Wermelinger. A Giraffe Hero, a beekeeper
Did you know you can train a dog as a beekeeper? Did you know that the bees need your help? What is the connection between the Bees and COVID-19? In today’s Episode Tom Amatt is talking with André Wermelinger, founder and leader of the NGO Free the Bees, Fribourg, Switzerland. He’s also a Giraffe Hero and will be talking among other things, about what could be a solution regarding todays bee keepings problems and how he fights to save the bees. Also, how can the bees be treated in a way th...
2020-09-0229 min
2020-08-3100 min
Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in HumanityStick your neck out!A direct encounter with NGO founder Tom Amatt
The Giraffe Heroes – who are they?
This podcast reveals the story about the origin of the Giraffe Heroes Foundation. What’s the organisations goal – who are those Heroes, the so called “Giraffes”? Listen to the pilot of our new podcast series “Stick your neck out!” The weekly podcast of the Giraffe Heroes Foundation. In this Episode you get insights from the founder Tom Amatt and get to know the particular vision this NGO has. We walk you through the process how to find and nominate people that stick their neck out and c...
2020-08-0122 min