Today was the induction day for Mission Year (2010-11): `Our mission and vision is to see social and spiritual transformation in London. We believe that the local church is key to bringing this about, as it reaches into the local community with the message and practical love of Christ. So we aim to bring this about through working closely with local churches in order to serve the needs of the local community. Mission Year aims to equip people to live a life of service for Christ that will help to bring about social and spiritual transformation in local communities across London through the work and witness of the local church. http://www.missionyear.org.uk/about/our-mission/ Great to meet the others and get to know different personality types, talking about the finances and daily routine of the houses and figure out where we at concerning volunteering. We took a walk with John from Interchange, who knows all sorts off fascinating stories about East London. At the end we went for a curry on Brick Lane and enjoyed the food.
I was asked by my university mentor to reply to the following questions. It is still work in progress.
Reflective Statement:
1. What are my values, background to write this thesis and what are my professional expectations?
Compassionate this is a must to take on such a project. I can`t hope for a well-paid job with this on the field itself: localism is not as relevant yet to local production in fashion and its related industries as it potentially could become with the changing face of environmentally and economically re-polarised world of the future.
2. What is the impact of my work in others?
On the long-term it is definitely job creation. I am hoping to create awareness both in artisans and in policy makers that innovative thinking about craft and enterprises could bring jobs to local areas. This could lead to keep the money within the community, which automatically would raise disposable income and so on.
3. What is the context of my world the world we live in economy, social well-being etc?
In the context of my personal world, I would love to be able to start my own enterprise in Hungary, but more like as it is done in England, than in Hungary, because in England the entry level is a lot lower, even though the products are a lot more expensive and the standard of living is higher, than in Hungary.
I would love to encourage people to think about local production in a new refined way as a tool to interact with each other more as they learn from the historical sole-traders at our local villages and towns by reconnecting the social aspect of local production with the changing face of economic growth and climate change. As the East (China and India) developing more and more in a few decades or even less, the standard of living will change dramatically and the hourly production wage will go up. At the same time small scale local production is environmentally safer and creates less carbon footprint. Climate change is already altering the way we produce crops, which is sooner or later will have negative impact on the way we perceive production at this time and age, but at the same time it could positively affect local artisans and boost their businesses. I believe this is the getting ready stage, when policies need to be put in place and based on the unique aesthetics of the surrounding countries build out an artisan network within the EU.
Economically, I would love to see my homeland to progress by job creation and local development. Not only the third world needs local development, but Central and Eastern Europe as well.
I am so tired, it is not real, my eyes keep closing.
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