{"id":23372,"date":"2020-08-21T09:28:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T01:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenschool.org\/bali\/?p=23372"},"modified":"2021-06-14T17:48:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T09:48:34","slug":"woah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenschool.org\/bali\/gsb-news\/woah\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Community’s Support for Dolphin Conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Green School\u2019s Graduation speaker of 2020 was Peggy Oki, and despite not being able to connect \u2018in person\u2019 with the graduating class- she took time to immerse and connect and mentor students.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Peggy Oki spoke directly with our class about self care, absorbing in nature to help navigate through the challenges of not just the Global Pandemic but the racial violence and injustices that were happening across the world. Peggy spoke about focusing on solutions, being the change, and using positive action to make a difference rather than focusing on the injustices. <\/span>Pak Sal also had the opportunity to interview Peggy<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Peggy is an activist, Ocean ambassador, <\/span>skateboarding <\/a><\/strong>and surf legend (the only female in the Zboys skateboarding group), and amazing human being. According to Peggy\u2019s bio, she has been mainly self-funding activities for Cetaceans (Whales and Dolphins) and strives to empower and raise awareness to help Cetaceans mainly through visual art projects throughout the world such as her Origami Whales Project (OWP) – a curtain of 38,000 origami whales and large-scale public art project aimed at drawing attention to the thousands of whales that had been killed since the 1986 ban on commercial whaling. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Green School Bali student Hazel Devanda speaking at the Origami Curtain presentation Ceremony<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/h6>\r\n

During the Green School Bali WOAH Festival (World Oceans Day Ambassador Hangout Festival) <\/span>Peggy Oki invited<\/a><\/strong> all the Green School Bali community to participate in crafting a community art installation and Dolphin Origami Curtain to present to the Indonesian government. All classes engaged from Early Years to High School<\/a> to help participate. Peggy\u2019s helped create step-by-step instructional videos and origami dolphins were created by students and parents and delivered to school or sent as photos by those participating overseas. <\/span><\/p>\r\n