I founded Carpets for Communities in Cambodia.
www.carpetsforcommunities.org
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I'm committed to creating positive change and to scaling those changes as much as possible. Specifically I am interested in setting up Social Enterprises and Social Businesses and the best ways to work with local communities.
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Cambodia, Thailand, Laos.
I love South East Asia and the people there. I feel much more at home around the poor villagers i meet and work with than i do in developed cities. Maybe things are just simpler there... This year i will move to Cambodia to live.
Human potential and happiness is what i'm passionate about. Injustice, abuse of power (in all forms) and apathy are what make me angry enough to do something!
I want to help create opportunities for as many people as possible to step out of their constraints in life and to realise their potential and lead happy and fulfilling lives. To do this in poor communities you first have to address poverty. Solving poverty will help to eliminate Gender class and race Inequality, Human Sex Trafficking, Child prostitution and Child labour.
On a global scale i see one of the key solutions as the full integration of the business sector into the not for profit and development sectors so that their economic engines are driving development benefits and opportunities for poor communities. This needs to be done in a way that is pro poor , build capacity and empower people towards long term sustainability.
1999 - 2003: University (Biology, Health and Globalisation) and AIESEC (www.aiesec.org).
2003 - 2004: Left University to be National HR Director, AIESEC in Thailand.
2004: Lived in Bangkok, Thailand working for a Foundation.
2004 - 2005: Founded Carpets for Communities (CfC) in Poipet, Cambodia with some friends.
2005: University - International Development and Globalisation Studies.
2006 - 2007: Working odd jobs and running CfC.
2008: Full time CfC (and Teaching Entrepreneurship to Indigenous kids in high school part time).
2009 - 2010: Growing CfC and working at Adelaide University part time as a tutor.
2010: Moving to Cambodia to work on our new Empowering Communities initiative.
