Environmental
Content Creator
Environmental
Content Creator
Environmental
Content Creator
Environmental
Content Creator
Environmental
Content Creator
Rhino Poaching Crisis
October 2019
I have been dreaming about coming to @careforwild for a really long time. CFW is on a mission to save rhinos from extinction and I was extremely proud and beyond excited to join them and @conservationace team for a month. I was volunteering, assisting with daily cleaning, feeding, and doing maintenance as well as documenting everything that happens here to raise awareness on rhino crisis and tell a wider audience about the amazing work that those organizations are doing here.
I always knew about the problem with illegal poaching and hunting but didn't really know much about the rhino crisis until I visited a game reserve in Cape Town in 2018. Just a day before my arrival poachers killed one of the rhinos. The incident was really fresh, so everyone was talking about it. Knowing that rhino herself, our guide was very emotional when talking about rhino numbers going down and why.
This is when I decided that I want to join @conservationace to learn more, help and raise awareness about it on my socials.
@careforwild pays incredible attention to education here: documentaries, participation in discussions, listening to presentations, learning shocking information that gives you goosebumps. So my role here was to present that information to people and make them learn and act.
Penguins vs Plastic
October 2018
I have spent 3 months living in Cape Town while working in the penguin rescue center and creating content raising awareness on plastic pollution. With my own eyes I saw terrible effects that plastic has on our oceans, I saw penguins being entangled and suffocated by it, we were finding pieces of plastic inside penguins’ stomachs, I saw many of them dying in my arms. This was when I knew I had to do something about it and it was then when for the first time ever I started to use my social media to speak up about important environmental issues. I have been participating in weekly beach clean-ups with Two Ocean Aquarium and became their ambassador, I was helping them to create content for their social media as well as was helping SANCCOB to attract more volunteers, donators and helping hands to the project.
For the last 6 years, I have been taking time out to live abroad and to be part of something that truly matters. It makes me sad realising that I am just a consumer, that the only impact I have on our planet is negative, that I am still part of destroying and harming our nature. Life in the city makes people believe that money is the most important thing, that success should be measured by it and that you can buy happiness. Volunteering truly taught me the opposite, that is why I think that every person should take time off to work for free, to dedicate time and energy towards a bigger cause, to do something meaningful not for the sake of the reward.
Every day, when I am slowly dying from exhaustion in the evening I ask myself: "Why on Earth, do I do this to myself?" But then the answer comes quickly. I volunteer because the optimist inside me seeks a glimmer of hope. I understand that I am helping and that my time is worth it. I believe that I am capable of inciting change and making progress, in some way, large or small, I am capable of doing good. I am volunteering because I do not want to be just a consumer.
Saving penguins or reading books to the elderly, find something that evokes an emotional response within you. Awaken your passions and your heart by volunteering for something that is meaningful to you. Together we can make our world a better place ❤
