I have been very fortunate in my life and in 1984 I was inspired by my wife to give something back to the community. Funded by my company, ISA, I founded a small charity to offer people the chance to embark on an experience that could change their perspective on life.
Travelling, my own passion became the first focus of the charity, as I understood its ability to expand people’s horizons, both physically and emotionally
By Robin Baddeley
Robin Baddeley spent 8 weeks working in paediatric A&E and the intensive general paediatric ward at the Otto Heubner Centre for Paediatrics at the Charite hospital in
Berlin, Germany in 2009.
By Sonal Patel
During my first two years at Goldsmiths, I had met and got on well with a group of fellow students on the Design programme, Alexander Cotton, Monica Hernandez, Joe Harrington, Robin Crowley, and Stephan Bishof.
“Going away and seeing such amazing things has made me realise that I can’t possibly spend my life in one country. I think it has also made me a much more patient person, or at least I hope so. ‘Pole Pole’ as they say in Swahili or even ‘Mora Mora’ from Madagascar. There are both sayings that mean ‘slowly slowly’ a concept that is applied to life as a whole in Africa and enables one to appreciate other people’s values and ways of life.”
Phyllida Price, Malvern Girls’ College, 2006