We must not lose sight of the problems children face here.

Hello world!

I am the emperor penguin Bowie, the mascot of Bowspirit Kids, on the beautiful Ekström Ice Shelf in the north of Antarctica near Neumayer-Station III.

You have asked me if the money is not needed much more necessarily elsewhere in view of pictures of starving kids for example in Yemen or at the Horn of Africa.

Every Bowspirit Kid on its way to us on board will have experienced that it needed and got help from others. We will discuss this with the kids on board. And the annual meetings of all Bowspirit Kids will focus on this idea of "only together we are strong".

Consider it a medium-term project. But fifteen or twenty years after their stay with us on board, Anna and Peter will have completed their training and will be looking for their first employer. And I bet my last fish that the two of them are not interested in the highest salary or the coolest company car, but in the social responsibility programme of A, B or C.

Yes, we currently have a lot of misery in the world. But therefore we must not lose sight of the problems children face here. And in whose breast two hearts beat, he or she simply divides the amount he or she can spare - one half into disaster relief and the other half into disaster prevention by many, many generations of Bowspirit Kids at the nerve centres of our societies.

Have a great time - see you soon!

Yours Bowie 🐧