Samstag, 22. Oktober 2011

Sunshine



I learned that  because of copyright problems it's not possible all over the world to watch the video I recommended earlier. But this video here is nearly the same one and should work wherever you are. Enjoy! (and maybe cry, I did)  

Here is what this video is all about:

Chimpanzees are out in the sunshine for the first time in 30 years. They were lab animals, used for medical testing, and they had spent the last 30 years locked in cases. Some of them were born in the labs, some were taken and used for medical testing when they were kids and only remember vaguely now what it was like to feel the sun, to breathe fresh air, to walk on green grass.

Gut Aiderbichl (what a lovely person who made that all possible: Michael Aufhauser) became a refuge for them. Aufhauser built many places of refuge in Germany, Switzerland, Austria for animals who were mistreated, abused, abandoned.
This has nothing to do with quilts (or in some ways it has?), but I felt like mentioning it here.