The Asia Foundation Tanabata BBQ

I helped with the coordination of a Tanabata BBQ introducing the new Japan Director of The Asia Foundation, Arseny (aka Chuk) Besher, to the nonprofit-NGO and CSR communities.

It was a good start for the development of a network of diverse groups interested in collaboration for a better future in Asia.

The weather on July was cooperative after all so we were really lucky.

The first photo features Tomoko Shiroki from ACE, Dawn Tattersall from the PSC and Namjoon Kim from Deutsche Bank (and a friend from SIPA days) with Chuk.











It was a good chance for people involved in different types of work to meet up, share ideas and find possibilities for future collaboration.
People joined from such diverse organziations as IMADR, National women's Education Center, JOICFP, the PEPY Ride, Japan Society, Misai Center, TELL, Shinsei Bank and Boeing.





The party was filled with so many interesting people - enjoying both serious and not-so-serious discussion.










I spent most of the night introducing people - but did not get much time to settle on one conversation until the nijikai.














... where i was a bit obsessed with talking about the World Cup. I am happy my team won but am really annoyed by Materazzi and his attitude. That, however, is for another site.