In my perspective, Daktari’s project represents the future for the next generations of Africa.
Before I had even heard about Daktari -along with their project, I already had similar ideas I could see myself building in the future. Reconnecting humans – and especially the children, with their inner instincts, respect, love and bond with nature and with the animals, with earth, and therefore their land and their culture…
I have always believed the importance of future generations to re-immerse the feeling and deep understanding of being part of everything and everything being part of them, of us, comprehending we are ONE.
Seeing the children open their minds and put their trust in us made me feel blessed and fortunate. I feel I taught them as much as they taught me, and also much about myself…
In today’s world animals do not have interspace, no longer a place alongside humankind. In today’s world, the human animal we are is disconnected from the earth, from nature and wildlife, because of the way society and civilization have evolved. This consequence is not down to personal choice, it is a way of life imposed on us from centuries ago that has separated us from our ancestral instincts and connection with the earth.
This has led to a loss of animal habitat, wrong interspecies communication and a damaged relationship between human and animal. Humankind have a way of making you feel and be in the present moment…
Humankind and animals belong together, as equals, side by side. No other way.
Our vision of the world and being has the possibility to extend through contact with other individuals, different locations, diverse cultures and different mindsets. Exchanges as such, not only intercultural but emotional and personal experiences are the most powerful tool towards an open-minded education and therefore a change in our current society. And this is what Daktari’s mission is about.
What particularly counts for me is to transmit; not to persuade but to give the foundations to be further interpreted freely.