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Paradise or Bust in Barrow
The next Furness Young Professionals speaker event is on the 7th May at The Duke of Edinburgh and the FYP’s are really looking forward to welcoming Ben Keene to Barrow.
Imagine winning the lease to an Island in Fiji and creating a tribe! Ben Keene won the lease to Vorovoro Island and developed a unique cross-cultural community tourism project as well as a global online social network, ‘Tribewanted’.
Since then Ben has been the subject of a hit BBC series, Paradise or Bust, and has also written a book about the experience. As well as being an adventure of a lifetime, the aim of Tribewanted is that the evolving island community becomes a model for sustainable living that positively impacts and inspires both locally in northern Fiji and globally online to improve the way we live.
Tribewanted and the local team are developing a cross-cultural community from scratch, fusing traditional Fijian customs and ways of living with international ideas for sustainability and innovation. On-line, Tribewanted has built an award-winning social network of 10,000 members who participate with and follow the island project.
The FYP speaker events are hugely entertaining, motivational and inspirational and rounded off with a lovely meal and drinks after. For more information and booking (Members FREE) and also to join FYP (FREE), please visit www.thefyp.com..
Look out for more FYP events throughout the year, you can follow us on the website and Facebook (Just search ‘Furness Young Professionals’).
Posted by Phil Powell on 29th April 2009
