Fascinating film tells history of Aberdyfi Outward Bound Trust

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00:00Outward Bound was set up not to change lives, but to save them.

00:06In the dark days of 1941, we were losing hundreds of young merchant seamen in the North Atlantic.

00:12Why?

00:13Because they were inexperienced and lacked confidence.

00:16They were simply not strong enough to survive in the water when those ships were torpedoed

00:21from under them.

00:23Outward Bound was designed to give them that confidence.

00:25It was done by facing them with a series of outdoor challenges that brought out the best

00:31in them.

00:32It assured them, in other words, that they were better than they knew.

00:37After the war, it was decided to apply the very same principles for the young people

00:41of the next generation, and the next, and the next.

00:44They may not have had a world war to fight, but the following generations needed every

00:49ounce of confidence they could master as they grew up.

00:53Some of them were lucky.

00:55They had a teacher or mentor who encouraged them to be the best they could be.

00:59But the really lucky ones had Outward Bound.