Help the School in Warimak village by buying a teeshirt. I spent a few days anchored off the tiny remote village and organised an art competition at the scho...

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this week on learning by doing I visit

the very remote mile EBIT Bay more

specifically warrior mac village where

organized for the kids an art

competition Raja Ampat is considered to

be relatively wealthy with a lot of

money coming in from the dive tourism

industry Maile but Bay on the other hand

is very poor there especially the the

four villages in the northern end Maile

but Bay is only about 10 meters deep is

full of crocodiles murky water and

because of that there is basically no

tourism so the people who live in the

four northern villages are basically

self-sufficient with no income from

tourism dollars this is just what I want

to see so my liebert Bay had been on my

list of places to visit for a while an

opportunity came knocking in the form of

Priscilla a girl I'd met and sarong she

contacted me and told me she would be

spending a couple of weeks at worry mug

village volunteering in the local school

there so I sailed up there Maile bitpay

looks like a big lake but there's

actually a small little entrance on the

southern end it only took me a day to

sail from why sigh up to worry maka

so it had this idea for quite a while

and while I was still in Zurich I

stocked up on a bunch of good paper

crayons coloring pencils and a couple of

sets of watercolors my idea was to go to

a a remote school that really doesn't do

arts and crafts it's not in their

curriculum and get them all to paint a

picture just something that they you

know that inspired them locally maybe it

was a mountain or a bird or something

around their village and what I would do

would be to pick a winner from this

school and put their art on a t-shirt

and sell it in my teespring collection

and then hopefully some of you great

generous people out there that support

this channel will

by this t-shirt and my plan is that I'll

just take a hundred percent of that

money that comes from those t-shirts and

take it back to this school I realized

obviously that the language barriers a

bit of a problem and how is it going to

explain this to a headmaster or teachers

at a school and Priscilla just it just

worked out perfectly because she speaks

good English and she really likes my

idea from from the get-go and so when I

got there she explained it to the

headmaster and he's a pretty straight

and narrow guy but yeah I guess he got

it he got out of a whole day's teaching

so he was probably stoked and so once

he'd explained to the kids the kids wrap

their head around it and they got stuck

in and man they loved every minute of it

it was only supposed to go two hours and

it actually ended up being the whole day

so big success

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so the kids split off into groups they

on the floor on the outside on the

concrete there on the desks and some of

them took a long time to get going just

because they didn't really know what to

do and and how to begin and but now they

all sort of looked at each other's over

each other's shoulders and they sort of

slowly got going and there was some that

obviously you know had a better talent

for it right away but they all all loved

it it was a world map hanging on the

wall and four or five of the kids I

think just true they're their favorite

flags which I totally understand I was

terrible as a kid in art class and it

still surprised me to this day that I

make a living from doing something

artistic

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so after a few extensions of the time

limit

Priscilla called a halt to the

proceedings and she had them all stand

up and explained their their work their

motive and why they drew it the kids

were really shy actually funny to see

because it's a small town they would

know each other I think it was just

because they were really doing something

different but it was really cool to see

and they were really proud of their work

and it was it was an awesome experience

for me and for them I think and then at

the end they were all collected and took

them back to my boat for a final

assessment the next day was Wednesday

and then you do half a day of school and

a bunch of the kids mm-hmm asked me to

come with them up to the swimming hole

in the river it's about an hour's walk

through the most amazing

pristine jungle it was really really

amazing to watch these little kids who'd

especially grow up there they're all

carrying machetes and they just know

everything about the jungle they're

pointing up in trees and it would take

me two minutes to see there was a

beehive or a special sort of parent or

they were eating berries they were

collecting things and finding pineapples

Gris growing wild and it was crazy

and a real experience for me so they

have they cut this little tree that's

sort of like a vine and it's full of

this special water they just cut it and

tip it up and then they're just drink it

the reason they go up to this River is

because they can't swim in the bay

itself for people being killed there

this year alone from crocodiles

they just don't go near the salt water

basically they don't even get their feet

wet so they go up there to this

beautiful river and and swim I guess

they go up there pretty often

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the reason I first got my boat was not

for pure joy of sailing although I do

love it it's more that I can get to

these sorts of places experience these

sorts of things

see these cultures this joy the love

they have and just their pure a simple

way of living I really hope I can

continue to live these sorts of things

make these experiences and I really hope

I can continue to keep bringing these

things to your screens wherever you are

in the world so you can see and and

relate a little bit to how these people

on the other side of the world live so

I've made my final choice for the winner

of the t-shirt design competition and it

was Miss Yu Lee candy for her depiction

of the biggest mountain around here it's

called Ngoc from the village it's just

one peak but viewed from the north

that's actually two peaks and up on

these two peaks there are very many

special orchids to be found especially a

blue one which is only found right here

so that she drew these orchids all over

this mountain and one of the big parrots

that also lives up there so she's the

winner and I'll put this on a t-shirt

and I'll put it in the teespring webshop

which is linked to below 100% of profits

will go to this school here behind me

and these kids there's about 60 kids

that go to school here from first grade

through to sixth grade and they're all

so good they're so caller so keen to

learn they don't have art in their

curriculum so a lot of them but never

painted before but I gave them a set of

watercolors and paper and they just they

just took to it and and loved it you

know like they they I've left it here

with them and when I gave it to them

some of the kids were crying in that

super-stoked it's just to have so many

upside influence and do something

different and those real cool experience

for me to be here and do this and I'm

looking forward to your reaction and

then hopefully some of you'll go and buy

this t-shirt and support this little

school it's a direct way of supporting

it but you know supporting things

through charities

the only a fraction of your money

actually goes to the charity where's

this way a hundred percent of the

profits of this t-shirt will go to this

school

I will return here next year and bring

some t-shirts with the design to give to

Julie and also to bring the money to

them and I'll just hand over cash to

them and they will do what they will

with it hopefully they'll get some new

books and some new painting equipment

that would be cool anyway thanks for

watching I hope you can appreciate this

this school here and what I'm trying to

do in order to help them a little bit

and support it too if you can if you can

afford it in any way thanks again to all

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the credits here and highlighting the

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