The Blue Sweater

I just finished reading this book and totally love it. I strongly recommend it and hope you read it, because it's truly inspirational.

Niños de la India

Four lovers of India who felt like they needed to do something joined together and created this organization, Niños de la India. It is one of those I really like, because they do not do things the way traditional aid programs have been doing for years. That is, putting money into a project without paying attention to what the receivers of that particular project thought about it and without considering their ideas.

This is less about aid or helping, as we usually think of it, and more about investing. Investing on people's lives and believing in them. With this program, you can give the starting push to a student, so that he/she can make a living on his/her own. It is not about handing out money blindly, but about giving that particular person an opportunity. An opportunity to create a future for himself, one that he/she has chosen, that he/she likes and more important, that he/she believes in. So if you are eager to help, this can be a really good way of making a difference in someone's life.

http://ninosdelaindia.es/english/

Invictus

After a lot of going and coming, this weekend I stayed in Pamplona. Meeting with some friends for dinner and beer, one night out the other planning not to go out but doing so anyway, a movie on Sunday afternoon... that is, the usual Pamplona style weekend. So I watched a movie today, and I usually don't share movie tastes on the blog, but this one I really liked. I am sure a lot of you had already seen it. Well, I hadn't and I loved it. It is Invictus, and despite being a blockbuster, I think it perfectly depicts some of the reality of South Africa. It is pretty inspiring and although the real life in that country probably is way harder than the movie suggests in the end, we can always use some inspiration, don't we?

The Cove

Astonishing documentary about the dolphin slaughter in Japan, and which points out not only that specific problem, but exposes what a huge damage we are all inflicting to the Earth. I really like when he said, either you are an activist or you are an inactivist. It's not easy, but let's all try to at least be a little more activist in something near us. Then we can start thinking bigger.