John Pritchard
The Great Barrier Reef Foundation
The Great Barrier Reef Foundation
My story of hopefulness is the Barrier Reef foundation. I had the chance to interview Peter Mumbi who's one of the chief scientists out there, who confirmed that the reef has lost more than 50% of it's coral since 1995. The issue of the seas warming up and coral bleaching is a huge problem and perhaps one of the more visible symbols of climate change. But when I spoke with Peter he spoke about a programme which is planting more than 100,000 Corals off Port Douglas, together with significant restorative activity on Raine Island which is the largest green turtle nesting site. This is an organisation that is truly walking the walk.
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Climate and Environment
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Global Football Storytelling
Global Football Storytelling
Using the universal game of football as a way of discovering new communities and voices from around the world and the social and political issues that lie within.
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my story of hope is actually a platform of hope. Uh, and that platform is Go click. Uh, the brainchild of founder Matt Barrett. Uh, essentially, it is a global football storytelling platform, uh, which helps people understand one another and the world through football. So go click. Send cameras out to people and communities in all the forest parts of the world. Uh, and they use analogue photography, uh, written words and audio and film to send back their content. And, uh, it's it's very inspirational. Um, in terms of the stories that are out there, whether that's a Sierra Leonean amputee football team or Syrian refugees playing in Jordan, uh, Iranian women's football team, really from a grassroots, right up to international level. And it's sort of through this cultural, social and political storytelling that, uh, and this beautiful game of of football that we can learn a lot, um, and feel inspired and feel hope for the future.
Arts and Culture
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