49 year old, mech. engineer long career in Industry with technical background International profile Member of Lions Club Ready to help in particular children (protection support and education)

Keen "Triple bottom liner" with active local interests and business interests in community health and welfare as well as a keen interest in entrepreneurship and environmental responsibilities. Charity, NGO and social enterprise experience as well as corp and SME business background. Not strongly active on "witness" agenda, but very conscious on the key issues in "whats next" for our planet, society and economy. Progress will be made by people of action. Find me on many social media sites via Google, my name is unique.

As a veteran filmmaker from India residing in New York for a quarter-of-a-century, I experienced my first "cultural shock" that most foreign overseas social workers in India undergo. A five weeks assignment with SFF/IRRAD as PR/Media and Fundraising Consultant, I visited some of the poorest of poor villages in Mewat district, Haryana State, and eye-witnessed the surge of "child marriages" in rural India. Following R & D My report that this violation is wide-spread across the country in both Hindu and Muslim families in the poorest of poor environments. No wonder the family planning campaigns since the mid-60s, 70s, 80s abd 90s failed, when over 70% of the population live in rural India, illiterate, poverty-stricked and starving (earning $1 to $5 a day) ! Produced a short 4 min. 4 sec. video clip titled: EMPOWERING RURAL INDIA's GIRL CHILD that can be seen on www.vimeo.com/12770343. Solutions to the problem will mean producing a dramatic Bollywood film with major movie stars like Sabana Azmi and Jaya Bachchan in roles of uneducated mothers and grandmothers who are the main people that permit "child marriages" as a matter of cultural traditions - involving religious implications. They are the ones that must be educated to change and transform through India's Bollywood films. It is the older conservative generation that is holding modern India at the roots ... refusing cultural changes towards the younger generations' progress ...

Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) is a non-profit, non-partisan, non-violent volunteer citizens’ rights action group founded in 1999. The organization arose out of the gas riots of April 16, 1999. It was felt that there was a need for a citizens’ rights action group to address the frustrations of the Jamaican people. Such frustrations included many instances of alleged corruption in the public sphere, apparent miscarriages of justice in the judicial system and imbalances in the socio-economic system. On August 19, 1999 four months after one of the most tempestuous times in the recent history of the country, JFJ, a self-mandated, non-profit, non-partisan, non-violent, action-oriented citizens' rights group, came into being; two months, thereafter, on October 15, it was officially a legal entity. Our vision is a Jamaica where the rights of all are ensured; where there is equal opportunity for citizens to realize their full potential and enjoy a sense of wellbeing; and where our culture is enhanced and respect shared.