|
|
|
| |
| |
Life Onboard |
LAST UPDATE
January 6, 2010
|
|
| site design imagesparkle.com |
| October 9, 2009 |
In Pictures II |
|
| |
|
Peace Boat’s Stacy Hughes (left) and Sawada Kawori take bids during the Sanaa Project Auction on September 29. The auction was held onboard to raise funds for Peace Boat’s Sanaa Project, which provides assistance to Palestinian refugees. Items and services on offer at the auction included original paintings, a stay in a luxury suite, salsa classes and massages. The auction raised more than $ US5000. Over the past three years, Peace Boat has contributed US$30,000 worth of cooking implements, blankets and emergency food supplies to families in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Peace Boat also has a fair trade arrangement in which the NGO sells craft items and soap made by displaced women in an income generation project. |
site design imagesparkle.com |
|
In Mombasa, Kenya participants were eager to see some of the world’s most amazing animals in their natural habitat. But as one group learnt on their trip to an elephant orphanage, the survival of many of these beautiful creatures is under threat. Poaching for ivory has cut the elephant population of Kenya by almost 65% over the past 50 years. The tour was particularly eye opening for Japanese participants, as Japan is a top importer of ivory. Participants who visited the center for young elephants whose parents had been killed by poachers vowed to be more vigilant in the future about the type and source of material used in their purchases. Participants were also impressed by the devotion of the rangers and keepers to the animals. In this picture, Peace Boat participant Suzuki Hiromi feeds a baby elephant with milk from elephant formula. |
| |
|
On October 8, Croatian media was invited onboard Peace Boat for a press conference with members of the Hibakusha Project prior to the ship’s departure from Dubrovnik, Croatia. At the conference, the ten Hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) on the 67th voyage were joined by Mayor of Dubrovnik, Andro Vlahusic (right) in their call for global nuclear disarmament. The city of Dubrovnik is a member of Mayors for Peace, and Mr Vlahusic said he could readily relate to the suffering of the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki because of his experience during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia. He said that he would continue to support Peace Boat’s efforts and the push to abolish nuclear weapons because “with no peace, there is no life”. Pictured beside the Mr Vlahusic is Hibakusha Ono Mitsuko. |
| |
|
Harada Eri has infectious energy. Her wellness workshop, Harada Eri's House, is a daily feature of the 67th voyage schedule. A former classical dancer and Master Trainer in Pilates, Eri holds Pilates, yoga, meditation, massage and music lessons every day the ship is at sea. For Eri, peace and wellness go hand in hand. She believes that the sense of well being achieved through physical exercise and meditation encourages positive thinking; which in turn facilitates better relationships with others. Eri is also passionate about education. Prior to the departure of the 67th voyage she held seven charity Pilates classes in Tokyo to raise money for Peace Boat’s Mtwapa Village Project in Kenya. Proceeds from the classes were used to complete a new room at a primary school in the village. |
| |
|
Onboard from Port Said, Egypt to Piraeus, Greece, Guest Educator Ikeda Shin urged participants to not let fear get in the way of their dreams of travel. As Chief Editor of the Japanese travel magazine, Tabigaku, Mr Ikeda travels extensively and is overseas for six months of each year. Using his own story of transformation from a timid tourist on his first trip to the United States to spending weeks with strangers in small villages in Kenya, Mr Ikeda said the world was full of joys and insight waiting to be uncovered. Along with a series of travel workshops, Mr Ikeda was also onboard to cover the activities of Peace Boat for an upcoming issue of Tabigaku. Tabigaku magazine not only promotes travel, but is also involved in outreach projects in many of the countries it features. The magazine has built several schools in India and recently began work on a music school in Jamaica. |
| |
|
|
|
