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Opportunity Collaboration

"Opportunity Collaboration, a major event held in Mexico to bring together social entrepreneurs and philanthropists. This will provide an excllent chance to present the idea of the Trust & hopefully mobilise more support for CHILD."
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Arrival Day at the Leadership Village

"Day 0 of Opportunity Collaboration. Today we arrived at the Leadership Village and started to meet our fellow delegates. Tomorrow the conference begins in earnest and I will be reporting each day on what my perception is of what we have achieved."
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Do we need another poverty conference?

"Opportunity Collaboration is timed to begin on World Poverty Day, 17 October. But do we really need another expensive event to talk about issues of poverty?"
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Day One - finding about what this conference is all about

"Day 1 of Opportunity Collaboration. Lots of talking and lots of idea sharing characterised this first day of a conference that seems to have a very American character."
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Day Two and Three - going deeper

"Day 2 and 3 of Opportunity Collaboration. Sunday was a hard day, today is better. But I am learning a lot and although things are not as expected there are still some silver linings."
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Day Four - final thoughts

"Day 4 of Opportunity Collaboration. The Final Day was by far the best and yielded some strategic allies that might make the whole exercise a good investment."
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