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It comes down to that. We have to try. I know I can save one life. I’ve done it, personally, I had to travel 21,000km and get fully involved but I know it because I did it, in 2019. I now know we can save another life, because we’re doing it, and 1Yes initiated theContinue reading “We have to try”

Here’s the big deal, and the difference between 1Yes and most charities. With 1Yes, it’s an individual person you are supporting and saving. It’s not a cause. It’s not a campaign. It’s not a project. It’s not a vision. It’s a person. A single person. “He who saves a single life saves the World entire.”Continue reading “You’ll never forget you saved a life.”

Does that need an answer? Because you can? I’ve always thought everyone would save a life, if they could. How many of us would walk past a drowning man and not reach down to rescue them? But what if that opportunity doesn’t present itself? What if all the drowning people are miles away from allContinue reading “Why save a life?”

Here’s why. 1./ Personally, as an entrepreneur I understand a bit about businesses, how they operate, the legal and commercial structure, what’s required to start one, and run one. It’s within my realm of experience and modest ‘expertise’. 2./ It’s quick and easy to make decisions in a business, to move fast, to try newContinue reading “Business policy 4. Being a business not a charity.”

This is an interesting one. 1Yes is a business, it may make a profit. What should 1Yes decide to do in that instance? My feeling, as co founder, and shareholder, is to pay dividends. Here’s why: Payment of dividends encourages investment which in turn leads to growth and scale which enables more lives to beContinue reading “Business policy 3. Making a profit.”

Why should we hide anything? Let’s do everything openly and in the light. This actually makes life easier, makes for a more efficient organisation, and builds honesty and transparency into every system and process. Publish everything openly. Publish wages openly. Publish what we do, every intervention, every impact, every photo of every life transformed, publishContinue reading “Business policy 2. Openly publish everything.”

As a business, doing what we are doing, I’m looking to the future and thinking about how we can be totally fair, transparent, ethical, and life enhancing. I’m also aware we are a business, rather than a charity, and with that comes a whole load of preconceptions and misconceptions. So I’m going to address theseContinue reading “Business policy 1. Pay everyone the same wage.”

You know the story. A great storm came, and went, and the next day, walking along the beach, the child saw hundreds and thousands and countless starfish washed up on the shore. As the sun rose in the sky, they were destined to die before the day was out. The child walked along, stopping, pickingContinue reading “Starfish”