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More info - YSE Product & Services Catwalk [YSEF Dec 07]
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Create change your own way!
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- Hometown:
- Berne / Switzerland
- Age:
- born 1967
- Organisation:
- Global Knowledge Partnership / Swiss Agency for Development & Cooperation
- About Me:
- Used to be Managing Director of an industrial company, now into development work.
Love kids, music, dancing and artsy-writsy-designy stuff.
Currently working at GKP on the Young Social Entrepreneurs' Forum and Global Competition - fun stuff !
- Favorite Social Entrepreneur:
- Too many interesting ones around, cannot pick !
- Favorite Music:
- Verdi Requiem
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Market Australia / Fair-Trade Handicrasts from Youth-Led Social Enterprises
Posted on December 28, 2007 at 1:22pm —
YSEF07 - Selected to present during Hakuna Matata Night
Hakuna Matata - A Social Entrepreneurs' Night @ GK3 is on 12 December.
The purpose is to bring the young social entrepreneurs' movement into Malaysia, to Malaysian youths - in a party format that the Forum participants will also enjoy.
The night will include the telling of 4 stories by Malaysian social entrepreneurs and by 4 International social entrepreneurs.
The following have been picked to present:
Malaysia: KL Downtown Night Market, Axcla, MyZass and Intrivent
… ContinuePosted on November 21, 2007 at 3:41pm — 1 Comment
YSEF07 - Selected to pitch for YSEI Funding
12 Dec 07 – 16.00-17:30
Young Social Entrepreneurs Pitch for YSEI Funding !
5 selected youth-led social enterprises in an early development stage will be able to fast-track their applications to become YSEI Innovators 2008, a position rewarded with a USD 15,000 loan from the Youth Social Enterprise (YSEI) Fund, combined with mentoring over 12 months. Experts wil
Posted on November 21, 2007 at 3:33pm — 14 Comments
YSEF07 - Possibility to display flyers and info material
Hi :) Some of you have asked about bringing flyers and other info material to the Young Social Enterpreneurs' Forum @ GK3.
To accommodate that, we have included brochure racks in our showcase tent. You can bring:
- Flyers, info material, info sheets etc. max. A4 size (There is no space to put up posters)
- All material must be free for visitors to take
- Please bring all materials ready made, or if you want to print someting in Kuala Lumpur, please arrange f
… ContinuePosted on November 20, 2007 at 8:20am —
WANTED - Young Social Entrepreneurs in MUMBAI
Posted on November 15, 2007 at 5:59pm — 1 Comment
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I too working for social change in India, especially with the youth. If you are willing, I am ready to collaborate with you. Kindly let me know how and when with good will
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Lunama village is situated near the coastle plain 150miles far to the down south from colombo , .the capital of srilanka .D F O L R L [ District Foundation Of Litarage at Rural Level]organization had started an ICT center in 2005.But rural children who live in this village haven,t good English knowledge.so,international volounteers can come to sri lanka and can teach to these children.I kindly asked upon from you dear if you can come ,it will be better. as well if you can inform the persons who likes to do this work.thats fine as we are small organization we are taking these attempts.give us some proposals and ideas about this.it will help to success our programme .
Do you want to extend your activities in India, I wish to support you in whatever way possible,
Don bosoc
I am glad to meet you on YSEF website. I am a catholic priest from India. I gald to get in touch with you. I want to know more about your activities and plans. I too am a full time youth animator trying to infill youth with fire, entusiasm and zeal. I want to be in touch with you only to empower youth here in our area. My e mail is deardon1@gmail.com
God bless you
Fr. Don Bosco
Here goes my a bit slow reply :P
Sure we should work together in designing products for the artisans to replicate. Yes I agree that the market requirements are a bit different than what’s produced and if properly guided, these artisans can utilize their productivity in a better way. Just to remind you that I am from Pakistan and not India. Like India, Pakistan has a diverse culture and there are several communities in rural and backward areas that are doing a lot of interesting things for their livelihood. From embroidery on caps, scrafs, shirts to stitching rugs and carpets and wall hangings and from famous lacquer art to amazing wood carving; there is so much to explore and bring in front of the international community.
Check out our web portal www.culturalclassics.com for further details on our currently identified products and communities. There is still a lot of things that we have identified but have not yet added to the portal. Are you still using the GKP email or you have switched? Mine is jamil.goheer@gmail.com. I would like to discuss it further in detail via email.
Cheers.
Jamil
It was a pleasant surprise You have a good memory and you valued your commitment, even after a long time, which is great indeed. Good to hear from you of the updates. Definitely, I can imagine the post conference workload as I have been into such assignment once. So you are from SDC primarily, or you chose to join SDC once you are back to Switzerland? I hope your stay there in Malaysia must have been wonderful experience and a change; away from Europe into Truly Asia
Creativity was evident from the forum bags especially the pink ones. Feel free to share your creative design work as my enterprise is also primarily advocating the creative art work. Maybe we can click on some ideas and try out something together.
It was a bit hectic on my end as well. I have tried to strategize the expansion of my social venture after returning from KL. We have been able to strengthen our existing supply chains and explored other artisans and their creativity for developing a potential supply chain. One interesting art are the Table Lamps made of Camel skin with colorful paintings on them. Similarly there are others as well. On the marketing end, we were busy creating linkages with the buying agents in Europe and USA. Recently we delivered a consignment to Finland. So prospects are bright, things are moving and proof of concept has been done couple of times, so just trying to streamline and expand. Building proposals for funding to extend this to a larger scale.
Apart from this, working as a consultant with CIDA in developing capacity of education department in Punjab.
Stay in touch and keep me updated with your new email and contacts. Of course future shifter would remain our combined playground
Cheers,
Jamil
personally, i´d like to thank you for making GK3 YSEI conference such a well organized, enjoyable and meaningful meeting for us. I really got the empowerment benefits more than i was expecting and it encouraged me to keep working on social alligments!
congratulations for the hard word.
greetings from Nicaragua, happy holidays.
THANKS
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