In November 2013, Kate Coffey quit her well-paying job and set off on a quest to reshape her life, apply her skills that would feed her soul a little better and make her life a tad more satisfying.
This is the story of Kate’s 5-month stay at the Spinal Injury Rehabilitation Centre in Kavre Nepal, as well as her 2-month stay in rural Bangladesh working at microfinance with BRAC.
For more information, please read her blog: www.bowen2bangladesh.wordpress.com
Este documento discute varios conceptos clave relacionados con la cultura organizacional como el trabajo en equipo, el clima organizacional y la motivación. Explica que el trabajo en equipo requiere que cada persona aporte sus habilidades para lograr un objetivo común. También describe el clima organizacional como las características del ambiente laboral percibidas por los empleados y cómo esto afecta su comportamiento. Además, define la motivación como el grado de interés y compromiso que sienten los empleados con sus responsabilidades laborales.
El documento presenta el programa de estudios de Administración para el tercer año de la Escuela de Comercio No 5076 en Argentina. El programa contiene tres unidades que cubren temas como las organizaciones, el ciclo operativo de las empresas, y las sociedades comerciales. Las unidades abordan conceptos como tipos de organizaciones y empresas, documentos comerciales, impuestos, y formas legales de sociedades como la sociedad colectiva y sociedad anónima. El programa es dictado por cinco profesoras y utiliza varios libros de texto y leyes vigentes
7 Daily Action Steps For Results In Your BusinessWale Bello
This presentation contains 7 daily action steps you should take to succeed in your business. I am going to show you how you can apply these action steps in your business to get the results that you want to get - making more money.
The document discusses inventorying one's skills, which are abilities developed through practice and experience over time. It notes that communicating skills with confidence requires providing evidence of past successes using those skills. The exercise prompts the reader to list 10 current strengths and 10 future important skills for their fields of interest, noting overlaps and gaps between the two lists for comparison.
This workshop covers how organizations can effectively use social media technologies like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr. It will discuss considerations for using these technologies, such as ethical dilemmas. The workshop will present a case study of an HIV/AIDS organization's process of developing internal policies for staff, board members, and volunteers regarding social media use and client interactions.
Fba Powerpoint For Inservice Print Copy For ParticipantsMac Barnett
This presentation discusses functional behavioral assessments (FBAs). An FBA is a systematic process used to identify the triggers and functions of problematic student behaviors. The presentation reviews the basic principles and purposes of conducting an FBA, which is to understand why behaviors occur in order to develop effective behavior support plans. It provides examples of indirect and direct assessment methods for collecting data on behaviors, including important interview questions and the antecedent-behavior-consequence method. The goal is to identify skill or performance deficits and determine whether behaviors serve an escape, attention, tangible reward, or sensory function so that alternative behaviors and supports can be established.
Learning Team Case – Week 4A firm has five identified capital p.docxSHIVA101531
Learning Team Case – Week 4
A firm has five identified capital projects they could fund in the upcoming year. Each project has a initial capital cost of $5,000,000, however the firm only has $15,000,000 allocated for capital projects in the current year. The company needs to decide which projects to fund. The firms initial cost of capital (discount rate) is 8%.
Cash Flows ($ in thousands)
Projects
A
B
C
D
E
Year 1
$1,100
$6,000
--
$1,000
$500
2
$1,100
--
$1,000
$2,500
$1,500
3
$1,100
--
$2,000
$3,500
$3,000
4
$1,100
--
$3,000
$2,750
$3,500
5
$1,100
--
$2,200
$1,000
$4,500
1. What is the net present value of each investment?
2. According to the net present values, which investment(s) should the firm make? Why?
3. What is the internal rate of return on each investment?
4. According to the internal rates of return, which investment(s) should the firm make? Why?
5. Using the simple payback method which investments should they choose?
6. If the firm could reinvest the $3,600,000 earned in year 1 from investment B at 10 percent, what effect would that information have on your what the return would be on the investment?
7. If the firm’s cost of capital had been 11 percent, what would be NPV of the investments alternatives? What would be the IRR for the investment projects?
NOTE: I need to see your method of calculation, I will not accept only the answer. I recommend you use the Excel spreadsheet for this assignment since the cell contents will show your calculations.
Golden Talents
How to Generate Great Income from Your Unique Talents
Presented by:
Ronald Weber
Ronaldwebertraining.com
E-mail: [email protected]
Golden Talents
Learn How to Make a Great Living doing the thing you love most.
“You…You…You…You have Talent!”
Write down 3-5 talents or skills that are unique to you. Keep an open mind here. You don’t need to be the best, just generally better than others.
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
Examples: Multilingual, good photographer, fast runner, good at technical issues, cooking, etc.
Questions that may help you isolate your unique contributions:
1. What are the talents that you perform with the greatest of ease?
2. What are the talents and/or skills that when you perform, give you energy?
3. What are the talents and skills that people have said to you, “Oh…you do that so well.”?
How can you combine several of these talents into a position in a company, a service, a business, or a product? Take several of the talents above and create 3 different types of services that people need and would pay for.
Example:
· Cartoonist
· Speaking
· Marketing degree
Example: “With my desire to speak, I could teach other cartoonists or photographers how to make money.”
Identifying Opportunities fo ...
Este documento discute varios conceptos clave relacionados con la cultura organizacional como el trabajo en equipo, el clima organizacional y la motivación. Explica que el trabajo en equipo requiere que cada persona aporte sus habilidades para lograr un objetivo común. También describe el clima organizacional como las características del ambiente laboral percibidas por los empleados y cómo esto afecta su comportamiento. Además, define la motivación como el grado de interés y compromiso que sienten los empleados con sus responsabilidades laborales.
El documento presenta el programa de estudios de Administración para el tercer año de la Escuela de Comercio No 5076 en Argentina. El programa contiene tres unidades que cubren temas como las organizaciones, el ciclo operativo de las empresas, y las sociedades comerciales. Las unidades abordan conceptos como tipos de organizaciones y empresas, documentos comerciales, impuestos, y formas legales de sociedades como la sociedad colectiva y sociedad anónima. El programa es dictado por cinco profesoras y utiliza varios libros de texto y leyes vigentes
7 Daily Action Steps For Results In Your BusinessWale Bello
This presentation contains 7 daily action steps you should take to succeed in your business. I am going to show you how you can apply these action steps in your business to get the results that you want to get - making more money.
The document discusses inventorying one's skills, which are abilities developed through practice and experience over time. It notes that communicating skills with confidence requires providing evidence of past successes using those skills. The exercise prompts the reader to list 10 current strengths and 10 future important skills for their fields of interest, noting overlaps and gaps between the two lists for comparison.
This workshop covers how organizations can effectively use social media technologies like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr. It will discuss considerations for using these technologies, such as ethical dilemmas. The workshop will present a case study of an HIV/AIDS organization's process of developing internal policies for staff, board members, and volunteers regarding social media use and client interactions.
Fba Powerpoint For Inservice Print Copy For ParticipantsMac Barnett
This presentation discusses functional behavioral assessments (FBAs). An FBA is a systematic process used to identify the triggers and functions of problematic student behaviors. The presentation reviews the basic principles and purposes of conducting an FBA, which is to understand why behaviors occur in order to develop effective behavior support plans. It provides examples of indirect and direct assessment methods for collecting data on behaviors, including important interview questions and the antecedent-behavior-consequence method. The goal is to identify skill or performance deficits and determine whether behaviors serve an escape, attention, tangible reward, or sensory function so that alternative behaviors and supports can be established.
Learning Team Case – Week 4A firm has five identified capital p.docxSHIVA101531
Learning Team Case – Week 4
A firm has five identified capital projects they could fund in the upcoming year. Each project has a initial capital cost of $5,000,000, however the firm only has $15,000,000 allocated for capital projects in the current year. The company needs to decide which projects to fund. The firms initial cost of capital (discount rate) is 8%.
Cash Flows ($ in thousands)
Projects
A
B
C
D
E
Year 1
$1,100
$6,000
--
$1,000
$500
2
$1,100
--
$1,000
$2,500
$1,500
3
$1,100
--
$2,000
$3,500
$3,000
4
$1,100
--
$3,000
$2,750
$3,500
5
$1,100
--
$2,200
$1,000
$4,500
1. What is the net present value of each investment?
2. According to the net present values, which investment(s) should the firm make? Why?
3. What is the internal rate of return on each investment?
4. According to the internal rates of return, which investment(s) should the firm make? Why?
5. Using the simple payback method which investments should they choose?
6. If the firm could reinvest the $3,600,000 earned in year 1 from investment B at 10 percent, what effect would that information have on your what the return would be on the investment?
7. If the firm’s cost of capital had been 11 percent, what would be NPV of the investments alternatives? What would be the IRR for the investment projects?
NOTE: I need to see your method of calculation, I will not accept only the answer. I recommend you use the Excel spreadsheet for this assignment since the cell contents will show your calculations.
Golden Talents
How to Generate Great Income from Your Unique Talents
Presented by:
Ronald Weber
Ronaldwebertraining.com
E-mail: [email protected]
Golden Talents
Learn How to Make a Great Living doing the thing you love most.
“You…You…You…You have Talent!”
Write down 3-5 talents or skills that are unique to you. Keep an open mind here. You don’t need to be the best, just generally better than others.
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
Examples: Multilingual, good photographer, fast runner, good at technical issues, cooking, etc.
Questions that may help you isolate your unique contributions:
1. What are the talents that you perform with the greatest of ease?
2. What are the talents and/or skills that when you perform, give you energy?
3. What are the talents and skills that people have said to you, “Oh…you do that so well.”?
How can you combine several of these talents into a position in a company, a service, a business, or a product? Take several of the talents above and create 3 different types of services that people need and would pay for.
Example:
· Cartoonist
· Speaking
· Marketing degree
Example: “With my desire to speak, I could teach other cartoonists or photographers how to make money.”
Identifying Opportunities fo ...
The document is a curriculum vitae that summarizes an individual's career history and qualifications. It includes over 30 years of experience in accounting roles, with a focus on purchase order processing, bookkeeping, accounts payable and receivable, and administrative assistance. Key responsibilities involved processing purchase and sales invoices, bank reconciliations, payroll, and assisting with general office administration. The individual has strong accounting skills and experience with financial software programs.
Manish Pandey has over 12 years of experience in sales and marketing. He has worked with ICICI Lombard, Birla Sun Life Insurance, and SBI Life Insurance in roles of increasing responsibility. He has received numerous awards and achievements including being in the top 10 performers pan-India for the last 3 years. Currently he works as an SBM Agency Channel with PNB Metlife India Insurance Company in Jabalpur.
The study aimed to ethically replicate the Stanford prison experiment to understand how social roles, identity, and power dynamics influence behavior. Researchers randomly assigned 14 healthy male participants to roles of prisoner or guard in a simulated prison environment. Observers closely monitored interactions over a 6-day period to analyze when and why participants identified with or criticized their assigned roles. The careful screening and monitoring of participants aimed to conduct the study safely and avoid the unethical behaviors of the Stanford prison experiment.
This document is a resume for Amit Singh Chauhan. It summarizes his objective, qualifications, work experience, activities and strengths. He has an MBA in Marketing and Finance and work experience including roles at GlaxoSmithKline, Colgate Palmolive, and MARS International India. His responsibilities have included marketing, sales, product promotion and business development. He is self-motivated with strong communication and interpersonal skills.
This document provides instructions for creating a merit badge counselor list to support the Boy Scouts of America merit badge program. It describes selecting head counselors for each merit badge category and recruiting additional counselors. Counselors must be approved and registered. The worksheet guides listing counselor names, contact info, and badges they are qualified to sign off on. Maintaining an up-to-date list annually will help Scouts earn merit badges from qualified local volunteers.
Learn about, the making of difficult people, the effects of difficult behaviour, identify your personal communication style and understand others, the skills of conflict management, flexing your conflict styles, how to manage difficult conversations at work and influencing and gaining the support of difficult people
The document discusses branding and emphasizes the importance of being crystal clear about who you are, what problems you solve, and who you are best suited to help. It states that branding is about authenticity, differentiation, delivering on promises consistently, and achieving success. It also discusses the importance of clearly defining your core personality and behaviors as the internal and external faces of your brand.
Rekha Singh is seeking to contribute to organizational growth and profit through her profession. She has over 5 years of experience in customer relations, back office work, and as an office executive. She holds a BA from Lucknow University and is skilled in MS Office, self-motivated, hard-working, and a quick learner with strong computer and interpersonal skills.
131217 the recommender revolution : recent data for direct marketing institut...Jan Van den Bergh
Plenty of recent data from here, there and everywhere on the recommender revolution and how the Holaba model measures the recommendation power of both brands and consumers by asking The One (Simple) Question.
The document discusses the growing importance of recommendations and recommenders for brands. It notes that recommenders directly influence 20-50% of purchase decisions and that consumers increasingly rely on recommendations from friends and family over advertising. Recommenders are influential because they are seen as more trustworthy sources than paid advertising. The document also examines different media platforms and finds that earned media like recommendations on social media have more influence on consumers than paid media like advertising. It suggests brands should focus more on engaging recommenders online to help promote their products.
The document provides guidance on testing a new product or service idea. It includes questions to help define key aspects of the idea such as the value proposition, target customer, competition, pricing, marketing strategy, and an execution roadmap. The overall goal is to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the idea from multiple perspectives.
This document provides a planning and reflection model for Phi Theta Kappa chapters to use when developing an Honors in Action project. The model guides chapters through selecting an issue to address, conducting research, developing a project plan with goals and activities, implementing the project, and assessing the impact and future opportunities. Key elements include identifying a targeted issue, consulting academic sources, collaborating with partners, attaining permissions, publicizing the project, establishing a budget and goals, and evaluating outcomes for the chapter, college, community, and beyond.
This document summarizes the qualifications of Abissiata Ouattara. She has 7 years of experience in operations management roles in non-profits and the hotel industry. She holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration, a Masters in Linguistics and Communication, and a Bachelor's in English Studies. Her experience includes positions as an Operations Manager at a hotel in Uganda and Project Development Coordinator for a non-profit in Uganda. She is bilingual in French and English and has strong skills in project management, team leadership, client relations, and financial management.
The document provides a questionnaire to help salespeople develop a customer profile with 66 questions across various topics. The questions are intended to gather key information about a customer's background, education, family, business history, interests, lifestyle, and relationship with the salesperson/company in order to better understand what the customer wants and find opportunities to strengthen the relationship. Developing an in-depth customer profile allows a salesperson to personalize their approach and have more informed conversations that could help open doors for new business.
The document discusses building effective teacher-paraprofessional teams. It provides strategies for improving communication, problem solving, and team performance. The presentation covers establishing group norms, understanding team development stages like forming and storming, defining team roles, and the importance of teamwork. The goal is for the team to best meet the needs of students with disabilities.
This document discusses different approaches to fundraising conversations with high net worth donors:
1) Transactional giving focuses on defining the need in terms of money required and the donor's capacity based on wealth.
2) Transformational giving explores the donor's values, past philanthropic experiences, and motivations for giving to foster a deeper relationship.
3) Legacy building and planning involves defining the donor's goals and values to transcend family and include philanthropic intent as an integral part of their overall legacy and financial plans. The document advocates for fundraising and financial professionals to work together to accomplish mutually beneficial legacy goals centered around the donor.
This document provides a sustainability plan template for maintaining skills and knowledge learned in a workshop. The template includes sections for learners to describe what they learned, how they will sustain their learning over time through review and practice, who can support their efforts, potential obstacles to applying their new skills, and solutions for overcoming those obstacles.
The document provides information for students on producing simple products, including:
- Introducing the module which will discuss competencies in producing simple products.
- Suggesting students can be potential entrepreneurs by using creativity and skills to create simple products to sell.
- Advising students to conduct a simple survey to identify community needs and determine which products are not being met.
- Recommending students plan budgets, materials, equipment and operations once they have identified a product to produce.
- Listing some simple and saleable product ideas like snacks, school supplies, and accessories.
This curriculum vitae summarizes the qualifications and experience of Jetta Satyanarayana. It outlines his objective of seeking a challenging position where he can apply his technical skills. It then lists his work experience including positions as a Research Associate, Project Scientist, and Project Officer. His academic qualifications including a Ph.D. in chemistry from Osmania University are also summarized along with his skills in instrumentation and experience managing various projects.
The document discusses leveraging customer evangelists on social media. It recommends identifying happy customers and their goals, understanding how customers are active online as creators, critics, or collectors, and being aware of different customer types like filters, firecrackers, fanatics, and facilitators. The document also suggests building trust with key influencers, crowdsourcing feedback, providing tools for evangelists to spread the word, reducing barriers to participation, and creating online forums for customers to interact. The overall goal is to engage and energize the top 1% of customers to help retain existing customers and bring in new ones through positive word of mouth.
The document is a curriculum vitae that summarizes an individual's career history and qualifications. It includes over 30 years of experience in accounting roles, with a focus on purchase order processing, bookkeeping, accounts payable and receivable, and administrative assistance. Key responsibilities involved processing purchase and sales invoices, bank reconciliations, payroll, and assisting with general office administration. The individual has strong accounting skills and experience with financial software programs.
Manish Pandey has over 12 years of experience in sales and marketing. He has worked with ICICI Lombard, Birla Sun Life Insurance, and SBI Life Insurance in roles of increasing responsibility. He has received numerous awards and achievements including being in the top 10 performers pan-India for the last 3 years. Currently he works as an SBM Agency Channel with PNB Metlife India Insurance Company in Jabalpur.
The study aimed to ethically replicate the Stanford prison experiment to understand how social roles, identity, and power dynamics influence behavior. Researchers randomly assigned 14 healthy male participants to roles of prisoner or guard in a simulated prison environment. Observers closely monitored interactions over a 6-day period to analyze when and why participants identified with or criticized their assigned roles. The careful screening and monitoring of participants aimed to conduct the study safely and avoid the unethical behaviors of the Stanford prison experiment.
This document is a resume for Amit Singh Chauhan. It summarizes his objective, qualifications, work experience, activities and strengths. He has an MBA in Marketing and Finance and work experience including roles at GlaxoSmithKline, Colgate Palmolive, and MARS International India. His responsibilities have included marketing, sales, product promotion and business development. He is self-motivated with strong communication and interpersonal skills.
This document provides instructions for creating a merit badge counselor list to support the Boy Scouts of America merit badge program. It describes selecting head counselors for each merit badge category and recruiting additional counselors. Counselors must be approved and registered. The worksheet guides listing counselor names, contact info, and badges they are qualified to sign off on. Maintaining an up-to-date list annually will help Scouts earn merit badges from qualified local volunteers.
Learn about, the making of difficult people, the effects of difficult behaviour, identify your personal communication style and understand others, the skills of conflict management, flexing your conflict styles, how to manage difficult conversations at work and influencing and gaining the support of difficult people
The document discusses branding and emphasizes the importance of being crystal clear about who you are, what problems you solve, and who you are best suited to help. It states that branding is about authenticity, differentiation, delivering on promises consistently, and achieving success. It also discusses the importance of clearly defining your core personality and behaviors as the internal and external faces of your brand.
Rekha Singh is seeking to contribute to organizational growth and profit through her profession. She has over 5 years of experience in customer relations, back office work, and as an office executive. She holds a BA from Lucknow University and is skilled in MS Office, self-motivated, hard-working, and a quick learner with strong computer and interpersonal skills.
131217 the recommender revolution : recent data for direct marketing institut...Jan Van den Bergh
Plenty of recent data from here, there and everywhere on the recommender revolution and how the Holaba model measures the recommendation power of both brands and consumers by asking The One (Simple) Question.
The document discusses the growing importance of recommendations and recommenders for brands. It notes that recommenders directly influence 20-50% of purchase decisions and that consumers increasingly rely on recommendations from friends and family over advertising. Recommenders are influential because they are seen as more trustworthy sources than paid advertising. The document also examines different media platforms and finds that earned media like recommendations on social media have more influence on consumers than paid media like advertising. It suggests brands should focus more on engaging recommenders online to help promote their products.
The document provides guidance on testing a new product or service idea. It includes questions to help define key aspects of the idea such as the value proposition, target customer, competition, pricing, marketing strategy, and an execution roadmap. The overall goal is to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the idea from multiple perspectives.
This document provides a planning and reflection model for Phi Theta Kappa chapters to use when developing an Honors in Action project. The model guides chapters through selecting an issue to address, conducting research, developing a project plan with goals and activities, implementing the project, and assessing the impact and future opportunities. Key elements include identifying a targeted issue, consulting academic sources, collaborating with partners, attaining permissions, publicizing the project, establishing a budget and goals, and evaluating outcomes for the chapter, college, community, and beyond.
This document summarizes the qualifications of Abissiata Ouattara. She has 7 years of experience in operations management roles in non-profits and the hotel industry. She holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration, a Masters in Linguistics and Communication, and a Bachelor's in English Studies. Her experience includes positions as an Operations Manager at a hotel in Uganda and Project Development Coordinator for a non-profit in Uganda. She is bilingual in French and English and has strong skills in project management, team leadership, client relations, and financial management.
The document provides a questionnaire to help salespeople develop a customer profile with 66 questions across various topics. The questions are intended to gather key information about a customer's background, education, family, business history, interests, lifestyle, and relationship with the salesperson/company in order to better understand what the customer wants and find opportunities to strengthen the relationship. Developing an in-depth customer profile allows a salesperson to personalize their approach and have more informed conversations that could help open doors for new business.
The document discusses building effective teacher-paraprofessional teams. It provides strategies for improving communication, problem solving, and team performance. The presentation covers establishing group norms, understanding team development stages like forming and storming, defining team roles, and the importance of teamwork. The goal is for the team to best meet the needs of students with disabilities.
This document discusses different approaches to fundraising conversations with high net worth donors:
1) Transactional giving focuses on defining the need in terms of money required and the donor's capacity based on wealth.
2) Transformational giving explores the donor's values, past philanthropic experiences, and motivations for giving to foster a deeper relationship.
3) Legacy building and planning involves defining the donor's goals and values to transcend family and include philanthropic intent as an integral part of their overall legacy and financial plans. The document advocates for fundraising and financial professionals to work together to accomplish mutually beneficial legacy goals centered around the donor.
This document provides a sustainability plan template for maintaining skills and knowledge learned in a workshop. The template includes sections for learners to describe what they learned, how they will sustain their learning over time through review and practice, who can support their efforts, potential obstacles to applying their new skills, and solutions for overcoming those obstacles.
The document provides information for students on producing simple products, including:
- Introducing the module which will discuss competencies in producing simple products.
- Suggesting students can be potential entrepreneurs by using creativity and skills to create simple products to sell.
- Advising students to conduct a simple survey to identify community needs and determine which products are not being met.
- Recommending students plan budgets, materials, equipment and operations once they have identified a product to produce.
- Listing some simple and saleable product ideas like snacks, school supplies, and accessories.
This curriculum vitae summarizes the qualifications and experience of Jetta Satyanarayana. It outlines his objective of seeking a challenging position where he can apply his technical skills. It then lists his work experience including positions as a Research Associate, Project Scientist, and Project Officer. His academic qualifications including a Ph.D. in chemistry from Osmania University are also summarized along with his skills in instrumentation and experience managing various projects.
The document discusses leveraging customer evangelists on social media. It recommends identifying happy customers and their goals, understanding how customers are active online as creators, critics, or collectors, and being aware of different customer types like filters, firecrackers, fanatics, and facilitators. The document also suggests building trust with key influencers, crowdsourcing feedback, providing tools for evangelists to spread the word, reducing barriers to participation, and creating online forums for customers to interact. The overall goal is to engage and energize the top 1% of customers to help retain existing customers and bring in new ones through positive word of mouth.
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Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
United Nations World Oceans Day 2024; June 8th " Awaken new dephts".Christina Parmionova
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Indira awas yojana housing scheme renamed as PMAYnarinav14
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How To Cultivate Community Affinity Throughout The Generosity JourneyAggregage
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Combined Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported (IUU) Vessel List.Christina Parmionova
The best available, up-to-date information on all fishing and related vessels that appear on the illegal, unregulated, and unreported (IUU) fishing vessel lists published by Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs) and related organisations. The aim of the site is to improve the effectiveness of the original IUU lists as a tool for a wide variety of stakeholders to better understand and combat illegal fishing and broader fisheries crime.
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5. Places important for me to spend time
________________________________________________________________
Nepal – because I love it
there
6. Places important for me to spend time
________________________________________________________________
Bangladesh – the birthplace of microfinance
7. Places important for me to spend time
________________________________________________________________
Ireland, England, Australia, New Zealand and Spain –
family and friends
8. Places important for me to spend time
________________________________________________________________
India did not feature on the original plan (but I went there anyway)
9. Dec 2013 to Dec 2014 travel ended up looking like this
________________________________________________________________
EUROPE
• Ireland: Cork, Kinsale,
Galway and Swinford.
• England: London and
Holmbridge.
• Spain: Madrid, Ponferrada to
Finisterre, Santiago de
Compostella, Alicante and
the Costa Blanca
ASIA
• Nepal: Kathmandu, Kavre,
Banepa, Pokhara and Lumbini.
• Bangladesh: Dhaka and many
rural villages.
• India: Kolkata,Varanasi,
Jaipur and Delhi
AUSTRALIA & OCEANIA
• Australia: Melbourne and Bairnsdale
• New Zealand: Christchurch
10. Dec 2013 to Dec 2014 travel ended up looking like this
________________________________________________________________
11. Nepal, Bangladesh and India
________________________________________________________________
12. Want to hear more about the rest of my travels?
________________________________________________________________
Check out my blog:
www.bowen2bangladesh.wordpress.com
13. Nepal – how did that come about?
________________________________________________________________
• Dr Peter Wing and Dr Claire Weeks, SpiNepal www. spinepal.med.ubc.ca
• Spinal Injury Rehabilitation Centre, Kavre, Nepal www.sirc.np.org
• Inaugurated by the late Sir Edmund Hillary in 2002.
• Through funding from Mountains to Mountains and Sir Michael Kadoorie, the purpose
built rehab centre was opened in 2008.
• It currently offers SCI rehabilitation for 52 patients from across Nepal.
14. Daily Life in Nepal
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I stayed with Lok and his family in Banepa
15. Daily Life in Nepal
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Daily yoga and walks around Banepa
16. Daily Life in Nepal
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Buses = scary!
17. Daily Life in Nepal
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Festivals & Celebrations
18. Daily Life in Nepal
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Food – yum!
19. Daily Life in Nepal
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Spending time with Mingmar and family
20. Working at SIRC – the highlights
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21. Working at SIRC – the highlights
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22. Working at SIRC – MBA Interns
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23. Working at SIRC – achievements
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Program Development
DisabilityTourism
Networking and Communication
Relationships
Continued to foster existing relationship with Swiss & Canadian medical teams, Livability UK,
Motivation UK, Kadoorie Charitable Foundation, AWON and AIN.
New relationships extended to LloydsTSB (UK) and SadleTrading (Bhaktapur), Rick Hansen
Foundation (Canada), Canada Gives (Canada) and ACE School of Management (Kathmandu).
SIRC’s Communication Plan
SCI Awareness Program
Social Media, LinkedIn, Staff Script, launch of “SIRC Friends” campaign, School Presentations
Ram’sWheelchairYaatra
Online Newsletter
Improved Online Presence
Online Donations: e-Sewa, BigGives and soon to be launched Canada Gives.
24. Working at SIRC – achievements
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Fundraising
Poor Patient Care Fund launched in Europe and Nepal.
Heating installation - in-kind expertise from Cork-based Heating Specialist Kevin Fitzgibbon.
Facility Painting – in-kind donation from Nepalese paint manufacturer
Successful events completed:
March 1 International Wheelchair Day
April 7th SIRC 12th Anniversary (local awareness & celebration)
Ram’sWheelchairYaatra Fundraiser & Journey. March 21st, 2014.
Annual GolfTournament. March 22nd, 2014.
Kadoorie visit to SIRC. March 27th, 2014
Dinner and SilentAuction Fundraiser. April 4th, 2014
Human Resource Management
Team Building (Karen Hilton)
Performance Management system (Karen Hilton)
Succession Planning (Karen Hilton)
MBA Interns (Kate Coffey)
25. Sad to leave my friends in Nepal
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28. What is microfinance?
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Microfinance is the provision of financial services to low-income
people.
Finances income-producing activities, build assets, stabilize
consumption, and protect against risks.
Usually focused on groups of women who through peer support,
repay loans (90%) and go on to better the health and wealfare of
their households.
Usually includes a savings component also.
29. Microfinance in the Mymensing District
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• ChorkaliVillage
30. Microfinance in the Mymensing District
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• HoripurVillage
31. Microfinance in the Mymensing District
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• ShobjiparaVillage
32. Microfinance – does it work 40 years on?
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• Not everyone is an entrepreneur yet it’s the only way for a poor person
to secure a loan.
• Debt cycle: women come back for additional loans once the previous
loan is paid off.
• Credit surfing: some husbands take the cash the women get as loans,
leaving the woman with the debt and no way to earn money to pay it
back. She then may be forced to go to another institution or worse a
moneylender to get a new loan, to repay the initial loan at higher
interest rates. This is a detriment to the wellbeing of the family.
• Results speak volumes. Aside from a small number of women who had
difficulty repaying the loan, the impact of microfinance on the majority
of women was significant and positive.
33. Microfinance – a few suggestions
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• Set up co-operatives and social enterprises. Buy communal equipment
(crafts, farming, fishing etc) for the extended community to use so that
the whole community can benefit.
• Include men with good reputations within the community. The tables
have turned on gender discrimination, many men can no longer access
credit like their female counterparts.
• Most I spoke to liked BRAC’s approach to the ultra poor which includes
an asset grant (a cow, goat, chickens etc), a food stipend & basic literacy
and numeracy training for 24 months. Results show 75% - 98% of
participants progress out of the ultra-poor category.
34. BRACYouth Program in the Mymensing District
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• JamipurVillage
35. Fish Farming – a community effort outside Mymensing
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36. Social Enterprises in Dhaka
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Ayesha Abed Foundation
• A production centre where mostly women (and some men!) dye
bolts of fabric; block print beautiful Bangladeshi designs onto
lengths of cotton with hand-carved wooden blocks; and embroider
exquisite designs onto shalwar kameez and kurtas. Staff benefits
include a dinner program, childcare, health & eyesight care and
flexible hours.
Aarong
• A BRAC-run retail store that sells handmade products from small
producers from every district in Bangladesh. Assists rural women
distribute and market their handicrafts.
37. Social Enterprises in Dhaka
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Sanitary Napkins Manufacturer
• A BRAC-run social enterprise that employs poor women to
manufacture the napkins, allowing them to earn an income. Staff
benefits also include a dinner program, childcare, health & eyesight
care and flexible hours. Making low-cost sanitary napkins available
to poor women and girls allows them to leave the house during
menstruation and continue their work and schooling.
Garden Centre
• A BRAC-run garden centre that employs poor women to cultivate
plants for Bangladesh’s middle and upper class. Staff benefits also
include a dinner program, childcare, health & eyesight care and
flexible hours
38. Social Enterprises in Dhaka
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Arshi
• Run by the Salesian Nuns in Dhaka, they train young girls to fine
embroider beautiful designs, which they then sell primarily to the
ex-pat community in Dhaka.
• The nuns also sell the nakshi kantha designs by world-renowned
Bangladeshi artist Surayia. Surayia is now in her 80s and had the
foresight to train a group of young women to continue this
Bangladeshi art form.
• Threads is a documentary that tells Surayia’s story, check it out on
www. kanthathreads.com.
39. Social Enterprises in Dhaka
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Pebble Child Hathay Bunano
• A social enterprise that employs poor women to knit & crochet
knitted toys for kids that are for sale in Europe & North America.
Staff benefits include childcare, eyesight care and flexible hours.
40. Saying farewell to Dhaka
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41. Was it all worth it??
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A resoundingYES!!
Dhal bhat
Maaghe Sankranti celebratory meal: hard boiled egg, til ko laddu with ghee, deep fried roti, pancake with fennel seeds and sakhar-khand curr
Yomari punhi
Masala omelette
Sweets
Momos
Newari thali with beaten rice
SIRC entrance
Kitchen staff
Womens ward with space for family carer to sleep
Laundry on the roof
Patients sunning themselves at the entrance
Map of Nepal showing where the patients have come from. About 1500 patients have been treated at SIRC since April 2002.
Solar panels to generate electricity and hot water
Organic veggie growing on the SIRC land. Local women are hired to work as gardeners
Sample of some of the items made by the patients as part of their vocational training program = income generation going forward.
This photo epitomizes the warm and deep respect staff have for one another at SIRC – something I have found missing in the workplaces of the western world. Ram is readying himself to leave Namobudda on his 360km Wheelchair Yaatra – no easy feat on Nepal’s roads. The aim was to raise awareness for SCI. Describe his song, presentation and talking to people along the way. And the outcome with Nepal Policy.
Interns from ACE School of Management: Nikita, Rozina and Binay.