Jane Goodall Live

Jane Goodall Live

09/27/2011

Join NCM Fathom and MDA Productions for a rare and intimate evening LIVE with Jane Goodall as we take a look at the private person behind the famous icon.

On September 27th at 8pm ET/7pm CT/ 6pm MT/8pm PT(tape delayed), for only one night, famed chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall will appear LIVE in hundreds of select movie theaters throughout the country for an exciting and unique event.

To submit your question(s) for Jane to answer on event night visit the JaneGoodalLive Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jane-Goodall-Live-Movie-Theater-Event/208096522581827)

This entirely unique movie theatre broadcast will highlight not only the 50 years of Jane Goodall's most extraordinary observations of the wild chimpanzees in Tanzania, but will provide rare insight into who Jane is today. This special LIVE event will be broadcast exclusively to a national audience in nearly 500 theatres and will unveil never-before-seen 45-year-old 8mm film footage shot in her first years in the African forest, and just recently discovered in Jane’s home attic in Britain as well as Jane and music legend Dave Matthews will talk about their experiences in the field. In addition, other celebrity friends like Academy Award Nominated and Winner Best Actress Charlize Theron will look with Jane at her first day ever in the forbidding jungle as a 26 year-old from Britain and will interact with the national audience attendees. This intimate setting will provide a look at the fun and playful Jane few get to see.

The event also features the national debut of the multi-million dollar cinemagraphic story "Jane's Journey," with appearances by Academy Award Winner for Best Supporting Actress Angelina Jolie and James Bond's Pierce Brosnan. This biography is a fascinating four-year look at Goodall's diverse days across three continents, viewing chimpanzees in the jungle and hippos in steamy pools in Tanzania, explosive, calving glaciers in Greenland, and meeting challenged youth on the Pine Ridge Native American reservation.

Jane Goodall is one of the most universally respected figures on earth. Her power has come from her unique vision and strong values. Now at 77--and still traveling 300 days a year-- her amazing body of work and accomplishments span 50 years and at this one night live event, you have a rare opportunity to look into the life of one the world's most extraordinary people.

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One Family Weathers Climate Change in Ethiopia

She opened her eyes, and it was all around her. Her clothes were drenched. She was no longer on her bed, but floating next to it, among rocks, sand, and what remained of her home.
“That’s when I realized the flood had overpowered the walls and swept us off the bed,” she said. “I started to shout and wake everybody up.”
Fatima and her husband, disoriented and barely awake, frantically fished for their six daughters in the rising tide. They waded through the water, climbed over rocks and hurried to Fatima’s father’s house. At first, they couldn’t find their infant, and Fatima feared she had been swept away in the flood. Thankfully, the girl survived, despite taking in a lot of water through her nose and mouth.
“I never thought that my family would be in danger because of a rain,” Fatima’s husband, Mohammed, said. “We’ve never experienced it. For the rain to come down that hard and flood my house with rocks and sand, and endanger my family… it never crossed my mind.”
Unfortunately, the flash flood Fatima and her family experienced is not an isolated incident. Across the world, temperature and precipitation patterns are changing, and severe storms and extreme weather events of all types are becoming more frequent. Consequences of climate change – such as floods, droughts, and declining agricultural production – affect everyone. But in many developing countries, these changes are making life especially hard for women and families.
Fatima’s family lost everything in the flood – including the stock of food they had been saving for the coming year. They now live with about 20 other families in a relocation camp of corrugated metal shacks covered with plastic tarps. The government has provided them with 15 kilograms of wheat per person. Everything else Fatima’s family has, down to the jerrycan that they use to gather water, is borrowed from relatives and neighbors.
Fatima feels lucky for surviving the flood, and for the generosity of others that is allowing them to scrape by. But she’s barely able to nurse her infant because of her own lack of nutrition, and she can’t afford both food for her daughters and the clothing they need to attend school. She and her husband don’t own their own land, so they work on other people’s farms for a share of the profits. Before the flood, they had been trying to have a son, despite the difficulty of providing for their family of eight on Mohammed’s salary as a laborer.
“I never thought about it before the flood,” Fatima said. “But after the flood, life became really hard. So I made family planning my goal. I got angry at myself for being poor and penniless. I said I’m done having babies from now on. My decision is based on how I will raise my children.”
In Ethiopia, the average woman has more than four children, with fertility rates highest among women living in rural areas, and women who are poor or uneducated. One-third of married women want to prevent pregnancy but lack modern contraception.
Mohammed said he’d heard about family planning before, but didn’t take it seriously. Now, he wishes he had, and supports his wife in her decision. “It would have been useful to us if we had taken spacing our children to heart,” he said. “Having to raise that many children and not having enough to eat takes its toll.”
For now, they take it day by day. Fatima nurses her baby and bakes injera bread in their temporary shelter. Mohammed works in the fields, but the unpredictable weather means the crops are suffering. And their daughters still have nightmares about the flood.
Mohammed used to wish for a boy. Now, he said, his priorities are simpler.
“From now on, we just wish that the children we have will grow up.”

Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/one-family-weathers-climate-change-in-ethiopia.html#ixzz1ZBTu31bY