Sawa Global's Founder Visits Ladner Rotary Sep 29

This is an extraordinary opportunity for our Rotary Club to be hosting a very skillful speaker who was invited to present at the United Nations earlier this year. Please attend and bring family, friends and prospective Rotarians to this meeting. This coming Tuesday is also our 5th meeting of the month. Traditionally, this is the meeting where the Rotarians would bring their spouses.

Bio for Daphne

Daphne's life mission, since the age of 6, has been to empower the very poor in the most poverty stricken countries and to create a world with better leaders that create true change.

Daphne grew up in Tanzania, travelled to over 40 countries, holds 3 academic degrees, worked 15 years with international Goverments and organization such as the World Bank and the United Nations and is a part-time instructor at the University of British Columbia on effective ways to engage a global community to solve the urgent world challenges.

Daphne has recently been nominated for the YMCA International Peace Awards and the renowned Ashoka Fellowship. She resigned from her corporate job in 2007 and established the non profit organization Sawa Global.

SAWA Global provides a globally unique and innovative approach to eradicate extreme poverty in the world's 50 poorest countries. Sawa Global works to empower exceptional unsung grassroots leaders (Sawa Heroes) from the world's 50 poorest countries that have found innovative local solutions to extreme poverty in their communities. Sawa then builds local media capacity and empowers these unknown leaders to use simple video technology and web tools to showcase their own successes and directly reach a global community to share their leadership and gain non-monetary support. By using new media tools the goal is to virtually connect the Heroes to their own global network of supporters (Sawa Wakilis) who can provide professional advice and make recommendations to on potential partner organizations allow the Heroes to replicate their successes to surrounding communities.

Sawa's Vision is to connect millions of SAWA Heroes from the world's poorest countries to millions of people around to world to more effectively reduce extreme poverty. Daphne' s goal is also to gain the resources to ensure a leading financial model for SAWA Global that can support the systemic global change that Sawa Global will achieve - a world without extreme poverty, a world with better leaders.

Bio for Nadia

Nadia Kanegai grew up in one of the 82 islands of Vanuatu called Ambae. It was here that her grandmother taught her that the purpose of life is to help others. She went on to do just that. She studied to become a teacher, but every minute in her spare time and with her own money and no outside support she has impacted the lives of thousands over the last 18 years and continues her heroic acts to care for and help the struggling people of Vanuatu. As a Sawa Hero, she was invited to the Connecting for Change 2009, which is part of the Dalai Lama Peace Summit from Sep 26 to 29 in Vancouver.