Giving Advantage to the Disadvantaged through Education | Howard Osborne | TEDxBendigo

Описание: Howard Osborne’s premise when it comes to lifting young people out of poverty is really quite simple. Provide disadvantaged youth with educational opportunities that will develop their self-esteem and these people will pay forward to their entire community in the future. Since 2004, students from the Pattaya Orphanage and the FR Ray Home for Children in Thailand have been coming to Bendigo to participate in a life-changing program called
the R.O.S.E. (Rotary Orphan Students Education) Program. The program gives young orphans an opportunity to learn English for a period of one year in an English speaking country and students return to Thailand assured of better employment prospects. Howard will talk about how this concept needs to be replicated far and wide.


Born and raised in Bendigo, Howard Osborne is a Civil engineer who commenced his career as a Structural Design Engineer in Brisbane engaged on various projects throughout Queensland, and later Saudi Arabia. Since then Howard has worked in a number of consulting roles on projects ranging from the reconstruction of Darwin following Cyclone Tracey through to being a Project Engineer in Papua New Guinea for a sustainable Palm Oil Factory for the Asian Development Bank. He has been running his own consultancy in Bendigo for over 35 years. Howard established the R.O.S.E program with his wife Vivienne and is passionate about giving back to the community in which he was born and raised, and raised his own family.

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