Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in Humanity

With this podcast we give our community the opportunity to get to know the Giraffe Heroes behind the foundation better by gaining deeper insight into their work. Thus you will have an opportunity of a direct encounter with these personalities sticking their necks out for the common good, fighting for the social issues that matter: justice, freedom, our environment. In our podcast, commended Giraffes are talking with us about the issues that count most for them and which drive them “To Stick their Necks Out” for our common good. We offer you a direct and often very personal "look" behind the scenes of their day to day activities. What made them start fighting for their local communities? How did they manage to cope with and overcome resistance? And yes, what concerns them and which dangers do they perceive as threatening the success of their struggle? Be inspired and have fun! The interviews for the first 60 episodes were conducted by Yampier Aguiar Durañona.

Episodes

Dilip Simeon

November 21, 2024 • 58 mins

Dilip Simeon is a well-known labour historian and novelist in India. He is an expert on the life and teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. The inspiration Gandhi gives him is not only intellectual, since he has led hunger strikes himself in order to denounce injustice. In this podcast we dive into the dangers of post-truth relativism, into the underestimated powers of non-violence and what Gandhi's ideas about peaceful opposition could mean...

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David Yambio

August 7, 2024 • 50 mins

Born in Sudan during the second civil war, his family forced to flee to Congo and later to the Central African Republic, where they had no access to education nor resources. He returned to South Sudan when he was 7, then at the age of 12 he was abducted by the LRA, the army led by Joseph Kony. He fought as a child soldier for over a year, then escaped only to find himself forcibly conscripted by the Sudanese government at the age o...

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Hans Claus

August 1, 2024 • 48 mins

Not only is he a painter, a sculptor, a photographer and a writer-performer, but for 38 years he was also the director of the prison the city of Oudenaarde in Belgium. He retired three months ago. If you want to know what is wrong with the current detention system in our society, about the political struggles involved in creating human conditions in our houses of detention, then not only should you listen to his interviews or read ...

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Judit Kiss

July 22, 2024 • 54 mins

She has published novels and academic papers on economics and the arms industry. She is Hungarian by birth and lives in Geneva. Judit Kiss is an independent thinker who takes a rebellious stance when it comes to defending the rights of minorities, children and migrants. In this podcast she offers us a broad perspective on genocide, seen through the eyes of children. With her soft voice she speaks a clear 'no' to all dogmatic and to...

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Jerome Tubiana

June 10, 2024 • 51 mins

Since 2018, Jérôme Tubiana has been working as an operational adviser and advocacy manager with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), focusing on refugee and migration issues. This included advocating for Out of Libya’s initiative aiming at opening safe and legal pathways for migrants and refugees stranded in Libya, and systematically victims of abuses, which the United Nations have qualified as “crimes against hu...

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Quentin Dujardin

June 10, 2024 • 35 mins

In 2021, Quentin Dujardin was refused the right to organize a guitar concert in a church, even though the maximum number of participants was respected and all distancing and other measures were taken. Risking a penalty of 12000 EUR, he decided to give the concert anyway.

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Sundar Dreyfus

February 20, 2024 • 58 mins

Since 1982 on the Schweibenalp, in this Center of Unity, people of all origins who are searching for the meaning of life or who are already concerned with the essentials of life find a universal place of spiritual practice and community. Here West and East and North and South meet, united by the experience of, or at least the instinct for, the oneness of all living things.

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Walter Siegfried und Grace Zozobrado Hahn

January 9, 2024 • 53 mins

Walter and Grace realize the spiritual and practical life impulse for biodynamic agriculture of 1924 in Koberwitz in a tropical landscape of the Far East.

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Sergio Santos

November 27, 2023 • 58 mins

– and some have both in equal measure: That’s what’s the case with Sergio. https://fondation-ghf.one/commendations/

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Isa & Humphrey

October 2, 2023 • 51 mins

ISA LUQUE ALVAREZ & HUMPHREY MATTHEY Isa and Humphrey have led since young years and until today a life committed to social justice and inner truth, which knew neither fear nor laziness. – Even a synopsis of their vitae can hardly be summarized on one page; nothing, therefore, for the weary in reading, which may be forgiven. https://fondation-ghf.one/commendations/

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Willy and Lut

August 31, 2023 • 47 mins

It happened to Lieve, the daughter of Willy Vandamme (76) and Lut Wouters (70). The young woman refused to hand over her cell phone to a nurse. Ten days later she had to appear before the justice of the peace, in pajamas and barefoot, where the coercive measure was promptly extended. It took days before Willy and Lut found out that their daughter was tied up in a chilly room. They were not allowed to see her. They were not even all...

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Humadi

July 31, 2023 • 48 mins

Giraffes are known to need a very, very big and strong heart to pump the blood all the way to the head - Humadi's heart full of helpfulness, attention and generosity is an impressive example. He does not distinguish between living and working. He is not a "40 hours a week do-gooder", but lives his vision every second and with every single activity...

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Childhood and youth protection activists

May 31, 2023 • 61 mins

We are living through not only one of the most polarizing times in history but unfortunately also one of the most vicious and ideologically charged. Views expressed, which do not fit the mainstream agenda are hammered out, literally, by fact checkers operating the largest perfectionist Procrustes bed in history for sure. The common ground for differentiated approaches to the hidden meaning of truth and reality is lost. – This gets ...

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Stringbean Party

April 28, 2023 • 57 mins

These are two people who came to Germany from Australia and America, or better, from Taiwan where they met, fell in love and started to make their music some ten years ago. They are young and beautiful but even more, resilient, artistic, hard working and giving all for creating life and environment in a way lost on most of the lost of today, who are many……

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Recyclers of waste

May 30, 2022 • 66 mins

If black soldier fly larvae could enter competitive eating contests, they would excel, especially when it comes to eating nasty stuff that we don’t want around or wouldn’t think of eating ourselves. The ability of the black soldier fly to convert low-grade organic waste into high-quality nutrients has opened-up a ground-breaking prospect for the large-scale production of animal feed. The high protein content of insects provides an ...

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Jaboya - fishing in dangerous waters

May 23, 2022 • 48 mins

When Cavin Odera’s parents and oldest sister died of HIV/AIDS, he was mocked and discriminated against. This experience eventually triggered his willingness to empower girls and young women. So he created WA-Wa, to equip them with skills to earn sustainable livelihoods without falling victim to “sex for fish”, a common practice around the Lake Victoria. Wa-Wa trains this woman in everything about fishing, from tying nets, building ...

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We are here

May 9, 2022 • 41 mins

Last Summer, as for 2021, Afghanistan was again everywhere in the news. The Taliban captured Afghanistan's capital Kabul 20 years after they were ousted from power. Most of us, still remember the horrifying video, showing two people tragically falling down from a plane in Kabul, as they tied themselves to the wheels of the aircraft to fly out of the country, amid tension. My guest today comes from Afghanistan. Nematullah Ahangosh i...

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Taliban in Afghanistan

May 2, 2022 • 35 mins

First an Apology. It's been a while since we published an Episode of this Podcast, but I had strong reasons. I explain everything in the first two Minutes of this Episode. Now, today´s Podcast: one of the lesser known facts of 20th-century world history is Cuba's military help in Afghanistan during the critical years of the Saur Revolution of 1978. Cuba was among a small number of countries who voted against a resolution by the Non...

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Grenzgängertum und die Verkürzung der Strecke

January 24, 2022 • 62 mins

Hubert Maria Dietrich, one of the new commended Giraffe Hero, is a very nice, very straight guy. We all know, Giraffes are known to need a big and strong heart to pump the blood all the way to the head – Humadi’s heart full of helpfulness, attention and generosity is an impressive example. We at the foundation call him Humadi, founded humanum, a people-to-people company that produces pioneering products for a better world with the...

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Breaking out of binary concepts

January 17, 2022 • 57 mins

As children, gender bombards us in more ways than one – the clothes we wear, the toys we buy, the way we express ourselves…From the moment we're born, our gender identity is no secret. We're either a boy or a girl. We are pink or blue. Today I'm talking to a recent kanthari alumni: Niwas Kumar. For some children, what's between their legs doesn't match what's between their ears -- they insist they were born into the wrong body. The...

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Qilin-Giraffes – The Podcast to Restore your Faith in Humanity

Episodes

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Hans Claus

Judit Kiss

Jerome Tubiana

Quentin Dujardin

Sundar Dreyfus

Walter Siegfried und Grace Zozobrado Hahn

Sergio Santos

Isa & Humphrey

Willy and Lut

Humadi

Childhood and youth protection activists

Stringbean Party

Recyclers of waste

Jaboya - fishing in dangerous waters

We are here

Taliban in Afghanistan

Grenzgängertum und die Verkürzung der Strecke

Breaking out of binary concepts

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Dilip Simeon

David Yambio