VACATION TIME!
For many of us, there is nothing better than the hot rays of the sun on naked flesh and
the warm, welcoming waves of the sea.
People from around the world look towards the beach as a restful sight to recover from
the grueling labor of everyday life.
Goa is one of India's top tourist destinations with a palm tree dotted and white sand coastline
that is of the longest and most beautiful tropical destinations in the world.
While most tourists are concerned with pleasures of the flesh, from sunbathing to the local
seafood industry to sex trade, a few of Colva's part-time residents have other types of cultural
endeavors they pursue.
Recipes of revolution is interested in the revolutions present in everyday life and learning
from how anyone can take consciousness of the world around them and proposing recipes
for making our world a better place.
Ingoborg is a retired hairdresser from Germany.
For the past ten years, she has been visiting the beaches of Colva.
During her six-month residency in India, she is a tourist, but she is also an animal activist.
Ingoborg wakes up at 5.30 am every day to cook rice and meat for Colva's street dog
population.
Ingoborg cooks, carries and distributes about 10 kilos of food for 22 dogs per day, every
day for the six months she resides in India.
In addition, she calls on the local vet whenever she finds a sick or injured dog and also uses
her own funds to help sterilize the dogs she oversees.
She has been a volunteer at Goa's Animal Welfare Group, but works primarily as an independent
agent.
The dogs in Colva's beach survive primarily on garbage that is generated by the tourist
industry.
The garbage heaps are prime food territory for a broad ecosystem that includes crows,
cows, herons and insects.
Most of the dogs on the beach, including the pets that belong to locals, have never been
sterilized or vaccinated, which results in diminished food resources and widespread outbreaks
of preventable sicknesses like parvovirus and rabies.
To help the dogs gain weight and become healthy enough to endure the monsoon season, Ingoborg
feeds these dogs hearty meals once a day and gives them both names and love the time she
is on vacation.
She claims that she comes back every year 10% for the beach and sunshine and 90% for
the dogs she loves.
Though for some she is the crazy dog lady, to us at Open TV she is a revolutionary.
Ingoborg stays healthy, young and vital by reaching out to Colva's local dogs.
They and we love her for it.
Open TV asks you to consider what type of revolutionary recipe you might enact the next
time you have some time off.
Don't forget to come back and doggy back.
