Helping Kesi

I just recieved an envelope stating that I have now adopted Kesi. I am not the only one who have done so, but together, we help Kesi and all of her friends.

So who is Kesi, you ask? She is a 3 (and a half) year old orangutan, living at the rehabilitation centre in Nyaru Menteng on Borneo in Indonesia. Today it is the home of almost 500 orphaned orangutans and 150 employees.





Kesi's story is a sad one, but with what seems to be a happy ending: in 2005, the centre found the then three months old orang-utan (except for one hand, which had been cut off when humans killed her mother). At first, she had trouble keeping up with the other orang-utans at the centre but she kept trying and today, she has learnt to climb as well as the others.

Signing up for this programme was the result of my search for a charity to support. That has been hard work, because many charities tend to politicize everything. Which is fine, except many of them tend to choose a rather anti-capitalist stance. I may not be ultra-liberal, but I do like to think that the search for profit tend to work. With this choice, I have agreed to support Kesi until one day, she may be ready to be set free. Until then, I have found my kind of charity.

If you want to read more about the effort to save orang-utans, I can recommend this website: http://savetheorangutan.org/

PS: Yes, I too can see the irony of writing a blog entry about the future of this site and then not write anything for more than 10 months. But now I am back.