1. How does working at FB Rice encourage you with community pursuits? In different ways the firm supports a number of charities with which I have personal involvement. For instance, for several years we have sponsored Studio Artes' 'Carnivale' (an organisation which provides day care for intellectually disabled adults). We recently bought art work for the Sydney office from them.
The firm also allows me to hold meetings of the directors of Hope (Worldwide) Australia in our offices (this NGO raises money in Australia and employs about 80 local people in PNG where they provide a range of health, education and social services in Port Moresby and the Southern Highlands).
2. What I’m passionate about: As a Christian, helping the poor is an important priority in my life, and I am very grateful to the firm for supporting these activities.
3. My favourite cause: Hope (Worldwide) Australia is a clever little charity which raises about $100,000 a year from a network of small churches and then multiplies that sum by a factor of about seven from grants and corporate donations, to support a huge, unique effort in PNG.
The special quality of the PNG work is that it is all done by local people. About 80 are directly employed and around 50 more volunteer. This enables the charity to do many types of work that cannot be accomplished by foreigners, for instance AIDs awareness training. As a result, other charitable agencies working in PNG, such as USAID, are keen to work with us in service delivery.
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