The Revealed has been aiming several years to support protection of Western Lowland Gorillasin Central Africa. First we financially supported a primate rescue centre in Limbe but then decided to carry out a project of our own. We published a book of fairy-tales about gorillas in English and French and distributed it to schoolchildren in Cameroon. Having been eagerly awaiting responses from children for five months, we have now learned how they liked our book.
'Gorilla Stories' or 'Histoires des Gorilles' comprises selected stories from Czech books by Miroslav Bobek and Tereza Sefrnova 'Moja and the Peacock' and 'Moja, Tatu and the Tipules'. We distributed the book to Cameroonian schools together with representatives of the Limbe Wildlife Centre last November. It was apparent from the first moment that children found it attractive, especially because of colour photographs where they could see gorillas in detail. We wondered if they find the stories equally attractive, if the main message of the book falls on fertile soil and if it meets its main purpose - to show children in Cameroon how gorillas live and help them understand why it is important to protect endangered species.
Hereyou can browse through the Book of Gorilla stories.
Letters from children prove that our effort wasn't futile. Here are a few letters from pupils at the local school G.S.S. Bonadikombo:
Hello! My names are Ayuk Solange Bisong. I come from Goverment Secondary School, I. which thanks for the Gorilla book. We are very happy and we have learnt much about the gorilla book. And we are going to tell the whole world to stop hunting animal. However I have already stop my family from hunting animals. Thanks.
It is my pleasure to write this short note about this Gorillas book. In this book, I like the book stories and the pictures inside of it. I learned so many thing about gorillas and about Moja and also how they play and interract with each other. And the part where Moja invited the ant and the ant invited the family members and the ate the cake which was Moja birthday cake. Thank you so much for writing this book, it has help me to learn about Gorillas. Taku Noela.
Greetings to every person who is reading this letter. My name is Manka Esther, I am a student in GSS Bonadikombo. It is my pleasure for me to pick up my pen and write some few thing that I read in this book. For example Moja and the ant. I want to encourage you to continue writing stories and educating people not to eat bushmeat and keep the animals safe for the next generation to come and see. Thanks. Yours Faithful Friend.
Hello! I am called Dikonge Eyerre Marie. I am a student in Government Secondary School Bonadikombo. Well, we have seen the pictures not only that we have read the stories in the book. How good and nice are these books we´ve read. Any way, thanks a lot because we have learned so many things about this book, for instance how Moja learned to fly, Moja and ants, Moja and her family. We enjoy reading these books during our leisture times. How I wish we could read these books everyday before our studies begins. Many Thanks to God From Dikonge Eyerre Marie.
Dear Sir, We the students of Government Secondary School Bonadikombo are happy to write to you this short notes. We love the book because it tells us about the Gorilla and her relatives. I also love the book because of the white Gorilla. I love the book because those that have not seen a gorilla will see it today. I say thanks for producing the book. Because it helps us to study how gorilla works. Thanks. Boah Vera
Hello! We were so glad to receive the Gorillas stories book. I thank MIROSLAV BOBEK and TEREZA SĚFRNOVÁ, they authors of the gorilla stories books. The story of Moja and her family is an interested story which talk about a zoological garden where many animals from all over the world live, in the Czech Republic, found to the North beyond the Mediterranean sea in Europe. I will if you could oneday visit us again. Goodbye. Thanks. Baba Veronique
The Revealed project has joined the Year of the Gorilla initiative whose aim is to collect as much money as possible to finance protection of gorillas in the wild. That is why we decided to offer the English version of the book for sale. It will soon be available from our online store.
28.12.2009 Moja has been helping rescue gorillas in Africa. An English version of the gorilla tales book is being published as part of the Year of the Gorilla (YOG), a UN initiative, to raise funds to finance distribution of the book in Congo-Brazzaville and to support a project aimed at the rescue of the critically...
01.06.2009 "She's playing the young quite well! And the peacock, too..." producer Honza Jiran noted when choosing an actor for the French rendition of the gorilla fairy tales among 10 short-listed native speakers with more or less extensive acting experience. He eventually selected the one who interpreted the young and the peacock so nicely - Mélanie Ruppe. ...
10.04.2009 Dorothy Matute, the headmistress of the Bonadikombo school, visited us in our hotel in Limbe, Cameroon. She was the first to obtain a CD with an audio rendition of gorilla fairy- tales from our book 'L´histoire des Gorilles' in French recorded by Jan Jiran. The idea behind the CD is similar...
08.04.2009 A few days ago, just after our arrival to the Limbe Wildlife Centre, Simone de Vries gave us two folders: the thinner one contained completed questionnaires, while the thicker one contained letters from children to Czech Radio, The Revealed, a mysterious person name Miralan Bobe, or all three...
27.03.2009 When visiting Cameroon in the spring of 2006 we realised that the best way to protect gorillas is to show the locals their beauty and intelligence. And when we published the first book of "gorilla" fairy tales, a little later in the Czech Republic, in which Moja naturally is the heroine, we...
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