Gave up the rat race and now working on a volunteer basis on development projects in Zambia and Malawi. Treasurer of FPZ fpzcharity.com.
Joined July 2009
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19 Mar 2020
Great to meet Rayjones from Seed Africa today. His start up is 18 months old and they have a fair price relationship with producers and processing and packaging connections. These guys would benefit from some Fair Trade Advice - can anyone step up? #fairtradescotland
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5 Mar 2020
#Malawi celebrated #InternationalWomensDay! today! We made a commitment to all our sisters around the country to support each other, believe in each other & empower each other. Together we speak up for equality. #IWD2020 #GenerationEquality
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12 Mar 2020
Excellent meeting with Brave from Sunny Money #sunnymoney a great business, encouraging local entrepreneurs to bring well built low cost solar lighting into homes in rural Malawi - great work guys.
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8 Mar 2020
Great day yesterday helping at a small community run Moringa Farm - this awesome plant grows quickly and provides a significant amount of vitamins and minerals which can be added to food.
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4 Mar 2020
Met Shadreck from MASP yesterday. #masp. Here’s a footie tournament for girls he helped organise. Finalsusts both won re-usable sanitary pads from suprememalawi.com - genius
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4 Mar 2020
Great project helping farmers form co-operatives in production and processing allowing them to move up the value chain
3 Mar 2020
BOOK NOW. Join Phillip Chidawati of @Challenges_MW at this insightful discussion on Agriculture and Food Security, held with @ScotlandMalawi at Edinburgh City Chambers. Phillip will be sharing his experiences of managing Challenges CROPS Project
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27 Feb 2020
Hero for today is Shupo. He leads Tafika, a grass roots community charity. They raised £60, bought seed and fertilizer, borrowed land and produced 130,000 meals for school kids! Astounding
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25 Feb 2020
Meet Blessing - he’s planted 4,000 trees this year with the help of #RippleAfrica - this is the front line of climate change
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21 Feb 2020
Amazing meeting with Platwell today. The first time I have heard of anyone talking about how old people need support in Malawi. Really made me stop and think. Loneliness and isolation are not just a a western issue.
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20 Feb 2020
Talking to Malawi substance farmers yeaterday - the cruel irony that farmers are the ones who go hungry at this time of year. They have to sell their crop at harvest to pay their debts then they re-purchase at 2 to 4 times the sale cost in the hungry months.
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17 Feb 2020
Paid 10p to go to the local footie match - brilliant. After a 2-2 draw including a pitch invasion by cows and another by 5 year olds going crazy after a disallowed goal it came down to penalties. This kick sealed the match ..
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16 Feb 2020
Great story
16 Feb 2020
He'd lived for 25 years without experiencing anything like this, and it really moved him. 'Just' huge boulders smashing into each other by the sea. He talked about it often afterwards. Sometimes 'wild' experiences need not be exotic nor distant, and they can change people. 9/END
14 Feb 2020
Inspiration today. Chief Kachindamoto. Champion of women’s rights in her tribe of 900,000. Passing by-laws to make teenage pregnancies and under age marriage illegal. For 10 years, 100% of her salary is used to fund thousands of students at school. This is a Leader LEADING
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13 Feb 2020
Meet Bisani - acting CEO of Microloans Malawi - this guy has built a business lending small sums (eg £50) to the very poorest to help them set up a business. His defaults are c.3% and he has tens of thousands of clients who have benefited. My hero for today.
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12 Feb 2020
Would you like to be inspired today? Pilirani and Flata want to create a technology led leap forward for education in Malawi check out these guys padziwe.com/ an awesome start up and inspirational people.
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11 Feb 2020
V excited as a friend managed to set up a meeting with a senior local Chief for Friday. Now we have to go and buy 50kg of rice. Not so different from buying a CEO a nice dinner.
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11 Feb 2020
Great meeting with a dedicated Malawian senior female doctor. She’d attended a 5 day course to learn to fill in all the forms to apply for grant’s. She says she still swallows hard when potential donor NGOs ask “and what’s in it for me?”
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9 Feb 2020
Cow biscuits - enough to brighten anyone’s day. Picked up a speeding ticket too (surprised the old Landy could actually go that fast) 10k (kwacha)with receipt or 5k (£5)without receipt ...
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8 Feb 2020
Even the simple development projects require maintenance for them to create sustainable improvements. Things are never as easy as they seem, was there an ongoing plan to empty the hospital rubbish skip?
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