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Greenpeace
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More Trouble at Sea
High seas bottom trawling (HSBT) is the single most destructive fishing practice in the oceans today. These fishing vessels drag huge nets armed with steel plates and heavy rollers across the seabed, destroying everything in their path.
In order to catch one or two species of fish thousands of tonnes of marine animals are hauled up in nets, only to be thrown back into the oceans dead or dying. In a matter of weeks, bottom trawling can destroy ecosystems that are thousands of years old, leaving the ocean floor barren and devoid of life.
Scientists estimate there are more living organisms in seven cubic centimeters of seafloor sediment than there are people on Earth. Deep sea species number anywhere between 500,000 and 10 million. Greenpeace is calling on the Australian Government to actively support a UN moratorium to stop high seas bottom trawling. There is little economic justification to support this destructive practice. HSBT is conducted by the fleets of just eleven nations, of which the majority are European and the most prolific is Spain.
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2006 will be another big year for Greenpeace as we focus on protecting our oceans and continue our recent campaign to stop the needless slaughter of thousand of whales.
Sadly, the next whale hunting season will soon begin. By season’s end, at least 2,137 whales will have been slaughtered for profit under the guise of ‘scientific research’. As you know, we receive no corporate or government funding for our work, so I’d like to ask if you could make an additional donation for this urgent appeal by completing and returning the coupon below.
Your donation will help fund a full-time oceans campaign manager, increase our campaigning capacity in Japan where whaling companies are based and help strengthen public opinion against whaling.
Once again, thank you for your continued support. Have a safe and happy end of year.
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Dear Mr C Sample,
Please take a moment to play the “Intellikeys” game enclosed. Imagine for a moment that this was your only means of connecting with the people in your life.
You’ve just gained an insight into the world of Jacob, one of my fourth grade students.
When Jacob first came here to the School for Deaf and Blind Children at the age of three he had no means of communication. Jacob is deaf and has severe cerebral palsy.
We couldn’t assess his intellectual ability because he simply could not speak or point.
Today, with the support of his mother Julia, Jacob is producing schoolwork at the same level as other children his age. He even attends a mainstream school once a week.
I never thought Jacob would be able to attend a regular school! Now when I look at his schoolwork I’m blown away – he’s doing maths, science, even writing stories. What can I say? He’s a superstar! – Julia
Your Intellikeys game is just a tiny window into the Jacob’s world. Given the challenges this bright, cheeky little boy faces every day, it’s incredible to see how far he has come.
We’re doing everything we can to give him the education and the full, happy childhood that every child deserves.
This tax season, you can us help a child like Jacob through the School for Deaf and Blind Children.
I appreciate that you’ll have a lot of requests to made tax deductible donations to worthy causes this tax season.
If you want one of your donations to make a big difference in children’s lives straight away, we’re doing just that.
The School for Deaf and Blind Children relies on the generosity of people like you to make this happen.
As a teacher, I believe we provide children like Jacob with two of their basic rights. A proper education, and a full, happy childhood.
We hope you can help.
Yours sincerely,
Ellie Chase
Teacher,
School for Deaf and Blind Children
P.S. A donation of $25 this semester will help us buy special technology for learning, such as the Intellikeys system.
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GIA
RE: AN INVITATION... AND A CAUTIONARY TALE.
Dear Mr Sample,
My name is Hugh Crawford, and I have a story to tell you. Like all good stories, the main character is someone you will really be able to relate to.
You might have guessed it – the main character is you. The story also stars Mark, a well-liked and respected colleague of yours.
THE TROUBLE WITH MARK...
Mark is bright and enthusiastic and is very good at his job. It was a real coup for HR when Mark joined the firm.
But over the last six months you’ve noticed that his performance is falling. He’s often late – late for work, late back from lunch, and late for meetings. He sometimes seems quite distracted and distant, and he’s called in sick three times on Monday mornings.
Jenny in Payroll comments that he’s constantly asking for advances, and you’ve noticed that the atmosphere in the office becomes thick with tension when Mark’s wife phones. Craig, who is a mate of Mark’s, suddenly stops going out for a drink with him after work on Thursday nights.
You figure that Mark is having some marital problems. Then one day, in passing, Craig mentions to you that Mark is “always at the casino.” You ask him straight out: “Do you think Mark’s got a gambling problem?”
“Well, yeah,” says Craig. “But what can you do? He’s a grown man.”
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
You decide to talk to Mark and gently raise the issue of his gambling. He’s obviously upset by the conversation, but admits that he’s been having some personal problems lately. “I’ll pull myself together,” he assures you.
After that things seem much better. Mark is more like his old self and the tense phone calls from home stop.
But a few months later Mark is served a summons at work from the Sheriff’s office. Then he loses his house, and his wife walks out on him. He doesn’t turn up at work for a week and when you call him, he bursts into tears on the phone.
Everyone at work is pretty shaken up.
Then the bank contacts you to tell you that Mark has embezzled thousands of dollars from your company checking account. You have no choice but to contact the police, and after a harrowing trial, Mark is sentenced to a jail term. The police tell you that they’ve had to put Mark on suicide watch.
It’s a terrible blow to the company’s reputation. Why? Because Mark is the Senior Corporate Account Manager of your company.
You become known as “that company whose top guy wound up in jail”. The company flounders for more than a year and it takes you nearly that long to get staff morale back on track. You lose some of your most valued employees due to the pressure...
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Clown Doctors
Clown Doctors provide on the spot therapy of a very special kind. International research shows that laughter has both physiological and psychological benefits to patients.
By parodying the hospital routine, the Clown Doctors help children feel less traumatised by medical procedures. Clown Doctors can divert children during painful procedures, help calm distressed children in an emergency and encourage children in physiotherapy.
Clown Doctors help children forget that they are ill.
Children live with one foot in the real world, and one foot in the incredible world of their imagination. This is part of the wonder of childhood – it’s the thing that makes every child so special.
But being a patient in a hospital can rob a child of this. The stress of an illness or injury is often compounded by homesickness, separation anxiety and the unfamiliar and busy hospital routine. And that stress doesn’t help when you’re trying to mend a broken bone, or recover from surgery, or fight cancer.
That’s why the Clown Doctors are here. To treat sick and injured children with the very best medicine of all: laughter.
International research shows that laughter has both physiological and psychological benefits to patients. And often the benefits are immediate and obvious.
In the emergency ward a Clown Doctor can convince a terrified child to wear an oxygen mask. In physiotherapy, a previously reluctant child might lift an arm to touch a bubble blown by a Clown Doctor.
Just before surgery, a Clown Doctor can give a child a smile on a stick to make the anaesthetist laugh, and a ten cent coin to bribe the surgeon with. It gives the child courage and it gives the child's power as an individual back...
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Two Fires
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