Wednesday 18 May 2016

Turkey 1: a dream come true

I have always wanted to theme out events that are saturated in stories of powerful partnership between the poor and rich.

This week that dream starts to come real. One area that I have been focusing on for the past several years are 'products with purpose' placed in the hands of people by caring people as a gift. For example at birthday parties or weddings and now events.

On Sunday I go to the world's first UN Humanitarian summit. The organisers care deeply about this area and want to convey this. They are doing so through the event, the agenda and also through a gift that we have helped create with partners in Cambodia.

The gifts are key rings made by people from a country that has emerged from a ruthless civil war. A war that left field and field of dead people. A regime of tyrannical dictator. From the bullets and artillery shells come these key rings that have been made by artisans for the participants of the summit.

The message of the summit is around shared humanity.

I'm stoked to be part of this and even more so to see a proof of concept from all those years ago.




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