Name: Kokila Annamalai
Rural development social worker
Duration of stay at event: Whole event
1) What kept your passion for social work going?
A sense of responsibility towards understanding and alleviating the quality of life in society.
2) What are some challenges that you face, being a rural development social worker?
One of the most acute challenges is coming face to face with the reality that some things are truly beyond your immediate or direct control, and making peace with that. Another challenge is in the visibility of results. Developmental work is a slow process, with very subtle changes that develop organically. One of the hardest things in rural India is also that hardly anything goes according to plan. The success of most projects lie in the hands of the villagers themselves, and hence it is a very dynamic environment full of surprises, pleasant and unpleasant. Convincing the people you work for that their well-being is in your best interest and your projects are truly beneficial to them is an uphill task too.
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Paul Gilfeather
Newspaper journalist
Duration of stay at event: 2pm to 4pm
Paul Gilfeather is a newspaper journalist with some 20 years experience across news, politics and international affairs.
Originally from Aberdeen in the North-east of Scotland, Paul has spent the bulk of his career working in London’s Fleet Street for a host of national titles, including the News of the World, the Sun, Daily and Sunday Mirror. Paul decided to move to Singapore permanently in 2009, and was signed up by TODAY editor Walter Fernandez in February 2010 as this paper’s principal correspondent and continues to report on international politics as well as covering a wide range of Singapore issues.
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