The title of the Most Important Job I have ever had is: MOM. It's a job that has delivered the most extraordinary moments in my life as well as some of the most challenging. Many of you know that this year I have started making contributions to Mothers Fighting For Others, a blog which highlightes situations affecting disadvantaged children in Africa & Asia. We also explores new and creative ways to Fight for the Rights of Others who do not always have a voice or presence to speak for themselves. Here's a pre-view to my latest blog below.
I admit it...I have a tendency to be impatient. Although, I love the melody of John Mayers song, "Waiting for the World to Change," there is always something inside me that bucks against the
message.
Deep down inside, I distrust the notion that the world will simply change while we wait or because we hope it will. My gut informs me that change occurs because we make it happen!
A couple of weeks ago, I was watching a 60 Minutes piece about the Gulf State, Dubai. Steve Kroft interviewed the nation's leader and traveled with him to a number of different areas of the country. During the broadcast, Kroft and the Sheik are watching a camel race. What intrigued me was that the jockeys were not human beings...they were robots!
Well, as Paul Harvey would famously say..."And now for the rest of the story." Apparently, the use of robotic jockeys for camels is a fairly new development in the sport of camel racing. In fact, these robotic jockeys are so highly developed that they are controlled by their handlers from jeeps racing around the track shouting instructions into special hand held devices. They also wear a special perfume which makes the camels think they're being cajoled by a real human being and not a machine. Amazing.
It's even more extraordinary when you consider that a mere 2-3 years ago, the jockeys were little human beings... children. Many of whom had been sold or abandoned to child slavery. Click to continue reading...
Picture of child jockey was obtained from Wikipedia and provided courtesy of Creative Commons License from Ansar Burney Organization.
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