During the Breaking Walls experience that was lived in Tangier, artists got the chance to dive deep into the city, it’s people and the culture through a community service day. Three groups were divided to participate in different workshops and I had the pleasure to share the day with the AMED organization.
AMED stands for Moroccan Association for a Sustainable Environment and it takes action against climate change for a sustainable Morocco. We were received warmly with a delicious breakfast at the hotel Continental, one of the oldest and most beautiful hotels in the city, and we were invited to participate in different discussions with really nice and wise young associates from AMED. Conversations about issues such as micro-plastics in the sea, energy sustainability, and the sustainable development goals were held in different spaces of the hotel.
The Moroccan activists in AMED together with the Breaking Walls international artists created three videos about the issues in different languages which are going to be publicly shared to create international awareness. It was a great experience to learn and understand the situations in which we are environmentally living in and how can we improve them.
From our community service day with AMED in the hotel Continental I’m taking home the memories of a wonderful day, the delicious lunch we shared, the hotel’s iconic facilities and spaces and the great people we got to know. But I’m also taking with me a bag full of new knowledge prepared to enlighten other people’s life, wisdom to share and take action on and the feeling that every change starts in yourself but you are not alone to fight for what the world needs. Thank you AMED!
NOTE: Maria’s experience with AMED and the current climate crisis inspired her to write …
A CALL FOR ACTION
These past few months I have been thinking. Thinking in my friend’s and my family’s and my future. But I always run out of breath as an idea becomes a nightmare in my head.
I used to see the future with hopeful eyes like an open invitation for anyone, as a chance to finally take that step forward or to live the life they always dreamt of, a time for new opportunities and freedom. And don’t get me wrong, I still do, there’s always hope left. However, our plans for the future are not an option anymore. The future is not about you or your friends or your family. The future is our world, it is planet Earth.
We must think, we must act and we must work for her. Mother Earth is the only future in which we can exist and that’s why we need to protect her now in the present.
My heart burns in hurt and anger seeing how the planet screams for help when meteorological phenomena are experimented violently or when she’s getting burned for the profit of a few. It is devastating.
You would never destroy or burn up your house, would you? We’ve been taught to be individualist individuals, manipulated to fall into movements with only hate as a cause, we live in a slavery society and it is our responsibility to change because we are all to blame whether it is directly or indirectly.
But that is not the main point. As I said, the future still has hope to see and opportunities to give and we must not look for the guilty but be the ones who are the solution.
So I ask, please, we all have something in common, something good to work for. We all live in the same world, so even if you just do it for yourself, join me, join us, to achieve a healthy planet for a future that is ours.
The AMED activists and Breaking Walls artists.