Gavin Allwright

<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="LEFT"><em><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">I am employed by Greenheart as Commercial Director. My enthusiasm for the project was at first born from the potential that I saw for the development of our fleet as an educational tool for renewable energy, maintaining traditional sailing techniques and the unique ability for the ships to inspire school children worldwide to embrace an alternative fossil fuel future. Very soon, I learned that there was even greater potential for these ships to be truly transformational in local communities around the world. </span></span></span></span></span></em></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="LEFT">&nbsp;</p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="LEFT"><em><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">There is a need for tools that will help us adapt to the changes that are coming with the depletion of the world's resources and climate change, usually the most vulnerable communities are the ones with the least resources at hand to build that resilience &ndash; we aim to make a difference there.</span></span></span></span></span></em></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="LEFT">&nbsp;</p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="LEFT"><em><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">My background is pretty diverse: from running a small publishing company, teaching international business communication, natural building, setting up disaster relief programs and as a post graduate student of sustainable development and NGO management. However, there has been a constant thread throughout &ndash; I enjoy working with a wide swathe of people in our communities and in the classroom, working together building a better understanding of what works. </span></span></span></span></span></em></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="LEFT">&nbsp;</p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="LEFT"><em><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The 20 years that I have spent living, working and travelling through some of the poorest areas of Africa and Asia have been formative. Raising a family and building our home by hand in northern Japan and farming the land together with them, our friends and neighbours has taught me a lot about what is important in life and how far away from that we have moved. The most challenging part was to be forced to leave all of that behind after the tsunami and nuclear tragedies so close to our home last year. That has only reinforced my understanding of how vulnerable we are and has encouraged me to redouble my efforts to get our first Greenheart ships in the water and promoting the change that we all want to see.</span></span></span></span></span></em></p>

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