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¿Quieres un cambio? Hazlo. El verdadero poder de las comunidades. | Nicolás Birrell | TEDxElArrayán


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what inspires you
that really what you died
There is something you would like to change
in the summer of 2017 7 suffered a
of the greatest tragedies of his
A few voracious fires
they devastated with more than 500 thousand hectares
so that they have an idea that corresponds
approximately to the surface of all
Belgium
and I was moved by many of the
stories that he was listening to the ground
particularly the history of israel
lopez
a man who with his 65 years and a whole
working life to it builds a
lovely house for your family your wife
his son the grandchildren who lived with him the
I had modeled completely secret
for that same night
give it to her
in a matter of seconds
all with ash
It inspired me a lot to also see
my friend had her and her husband rafael already
who lived in santa olga and with a life
already resolved
Rafah had his garage the le
would go up that same night they were in the
more complete helplessness
and seeing all these stories I
Question
how does one stop to a
tragedy like that
how one becomes from before
and some indication had some key
for a tour of a trip that I
it took 20 years and that is the story that
I want to share with you today
new as a child was rather restless
rebel that felt a very deep
Annoyance for the wild
inequality that I saw around me
but apart from feeling this discomfort
I know absolutely nothing
anesthetized
an emotional paralysis
and also here was the passing of the
weather
this
this sadness this discomfort was growing
and now that I see it with the perspective
of time that brings me to 22 years to
a very dark place
to what extent should there be god
completely meaning and purpose
and I went into a very deep depression
I spent the time I got better I met a
extraordinary woman I fell in love and we already
we married
and on February 27 , 2010 that will
will remember from that 8.8 earthquake the
subsequent tsunami that hit the area
south-central of the country I was sitting
comfortably on the couch in my house watching
on television as it happened one of the
greatest tragedies that has
experienced chile
and I see that he is an extraordinary man
week felipe whose he left absolutely
all bounced to go to the aid of the
juaca fishermen from duao in fishing
and settled with them and started
repair your boats
and it was the first time I saw someone
to be inserted really the
communities I remember thinking that
incredible that there are people who can leave
all ice cream and get involved that way
but I was still sitting comfortably in the
sofa of my house
seeing how all this happened
A year later, my son was born.
we were still in a search and with my wife
We decided to go try Australia
put in a graduate and since not
I had not a scholarship, I had to start
look for work in a myriad of places
I remember the first time I found
it was in an Argentinean restaurant the porteño
that washing glass
I do not have to have done a very good
because the two weeks I got the envelope
blue so I kept looking for work
then I found in a construction with
some Filipino after I attended rock in
coffee in restaurants we made camps
of soccer endless experience and in
all those jobs and in all those
experiences I was meeting people really
extraordinary people who were
absolutely empowered within the
own communities in which they lived
they took me impressed how they were
those who took the reins of
the situations the problems and the
they solved and between these characters
casting
justin
good was a character in himself lived
a life in the vast majority of the world in
the five continents
and every time he talked to jazz he
had a very deep subject with the
Plastic with plastic waste
I remember writing him letters to
the multinationals giving ideas of how
solve the issue the waste that is
met with parliamentarian marched but to
To tell the truth, it did not have much result
and so I was once on a Sunday at 5
the afternoon on the beach playing with my son
Martin I think he is justin trotting by
the bondi beach that has
approximately one kilometer
extension a burlap bag and goes
picking up the plastic that comes in another
bullet this gringo will be
to the second Sunday again justin with
your burlap bag try the new law
of kindness but now I had five
people
the third Sunday he was still justin with his
burlap bags rolling but I already had
50 people behind everything behind him
It looks like a kind of forrest gump
running on the beach with the horde of
people bring and it’s going to be the short quarter to
After eight months, one is already included
of environmental movements more
potent that have been seen in australia
it’s called responsble banners that apart
of the impact of the coastal area of ​​sydney
he went to brisbane and melbourne had in
stem pers ending in tasmania
and all that with the will of just one
person
but if I had to share the moment
more illuminator of my experience in
australia was undoubtedly a very morning
early at 5 45 in the morning a
Friday of January I had a ritual
every day they accept in the
morning and in australia the sun rises by the
sea ​​and a beautiful vision
and it ‘s in this when I look south
of kindness and even something dark and a group
of about 50 people who are
all dressed from neon to flower and
now unique and heard were laughs
laughter
he felt a good hallucinatory energy and
it gave me a curiosity that can not
contain if shyness and nobody towards
it
and asked a lady had about 70
years is on a longboard that are
doing and looks at us and our
family we have suffered diseases
mental disorders such as depression
anguish asia etc and we have given ourselves
mind that coming here to the beach
getting into the sea be that I walk
sharing creating awareness of
our problem we have had results
really spectacular
and remember that it was precisely in that
minute like that was
this what the rest of me would have done
life there is
I want to get into the communities
help empower and that’s how people
find meaning and purpose in your life
We spent four years
australia now with returned chile
with a very clear idea of what he wanted
do because there is the paradox that before
from australia I had to tell you that
is what I did not want to do I knew that
do not want to do a corporate lawyer
who works 12 hours a day doing
contract which is very very commendable but
it just was not my call and now
with the clear idea that what I
I wanted to do I was missing the vehicle
and by those magical coincidences of the
life I met the people of
challenge let’s raise chile they were in
this same for asia long good time
and they
and there come the fires of the year 2017
and there goes up to the certainty that I’m not going to
return to pass it of the year 2010
to be inactive
and to make part of the solution the
do something
and it’s been a little over a year in the
results that we have achieved are
really unsuspected in record time
we build hundreds of houses in more than
54 locations east excel houses
excellent standard furnished with panels
solar thermal heaters we have made
together with the communities one of the
more ambitious projects
reforestation of native species
planting with themselves in all
river basins the runners
biological hundreds of thousands of trees
we have one of the projects
most emblematic educational we’re going
to deliver now in santa olga for more
of 1000 children that will not only be
a first-line infrastructure
but we are going to get very strong in
the educational issues in his maya both
with the teachers what can be done
students
fostering entrepreneurship in hundreds
of localities granting him tools
to entrepreneurs training the
always from the communities giving them
shows that they are themselves
architects of their destinations that are
they who are going to get ahead by
If only
because we have not realized that no
there is nothing more nefarious
for the human spirit the
assistance
the other will annihilate the will that you
is
all alive
so it goes back to the beginning
that really
what motivates you that moves you that
inspires independent whatever
independent because we have themes
very much
look at him
current state of our environment
perhaps you sleep peacefully watching the
situation of our child violated
go at 6 in the morning a
office the queues there
not to say inequality is brutal is
the educational theme
because what is clear is that it does not come
nobody to do it for you
nobody is going to take your concern and go to
offer you answers
the state clearly is not going to do it
the state alone and insufficient the
answer to all these problems
social
So the clear thing is that the agents
of change are we all
for you
in the problems that you
they are the ones you are interested in
and I promise you something
and I have no doubt that out of 100
activate get out of the chair of the
complacency is going to change your life for
way they do not even suspect they are going to find
a sense
and a purpose
and clearly it will indeed
what is even more beautiful will change the
life a lot of people
thank you very much
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