Businessman plays ‘Dare and Donate’ in India

Nov. 12, 2009 - PRLog -- Founders Nigel and Roy utilise their consultancy skills and experience to evaluate and support causes at a grass roots level, and use their extensive network to facilitate the resources and solutions that are urgently required in both an ethical and a sustainable way.

Previous campaigns of the Trust and its founders have directly resulted in the building of a school in a remote part of Kenya and the installation of a water pipeline ensuring provision of clean water to the children and families of a remote Maasai village.

Nigel and Roy arrived safely on 31st October with a flight over to Mumbai courtesy of Jet Airways.  “Mumbai is a city of diversity and extremes in every way, and we have completely fallen in love with it. We have made sure that we immersed ourselves as fully as possible within the short time that we have been here, so much so that it feels as though we have been here for a week already!” says Watson

Nigel explains their first day with the children

“You might think that being in a slum is something truly awful, but it was far cleaner than we could have imagined, and two things that really stood out for us:

1. Just how much trust that these guys have built up over the years in working with these children and their families. The whole experience was surprisingly calm and ordered.

2. Just how lovely the children are, and how they respond to kindness and love. They were so loving, playful and friendly that several times Roy and I commented to each other as to how similar it was to spending time with the children in Kenya – quite uncanny, but maybe that’s just children across the globe?”

Whilst most people would go out to India and help the kids to their best ability Nigel and Roy also want to play a game whilst they are there called ‘Dare and Donate’, this is to raise some extra money for their charities.  They already have a dare from company Brand You:

The Dare:

“I dare Roy and Nigel to buy a cricket bat and play a game (and film it, or take a photo of the game) with some local kids.  We’ll sponsor £10 per game to a maximum of £100 in total”.
So keep watching www.globalchildrenstrust.org to see if they complete their dare!

ENDS

Editor’s Notes

Nigel Watson is one of the most experienced performance culture specialists in Europe. He has been managing director of Q4 for almost a decade and has over 20 years experience in serving corporate household names.

Nigel’s career has been spent in the people, performance, process arena and he has worked with many prestigious clients, including: Alliance & Leicester, Augusta Westland, BP, BAE Systems, EDS, KPMG, Logica CMG, Selfridges and Vodafone.

Nigel was also part of the company responsible for: training the skippers and crew for the BT Global Challenge Yacht Race, creating a joint civilian leadership school at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and for working with Sir Clive Woodward in developing the shift in behaviours and performance for the England 2003 Rugby World Cup Squad.

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