Weh Yeoh talks to Tom through his various social enterprises, and they chat about why a successful charity should eventually make itself redundant.
Topics Covered:
- Charity
- Linguistics
- Children’s Charity
About Weh Yeoh:
Featuring: Weh Yeoh, Co-Founder of Umbo & Founder of OIC Cambodia, Co-Founder of Happy Kids Clinic and WhyDev Weh is a four time founder. After co-founding WhyDev, a non profit organisation committed to getting international development right, he founded OIC Cambodia in 2013. OIC is an initiative that aims to establish speech therapy as a profession in Cambodia. He co-founded Happy Kids Clinic, a social enterprise which supports OIC. Having returned to Australia, Weh is co-founding Umbo, an initiative to improve access to services for children in rural and remote communities. He has both a BA in Physiotherapy from the University of Sydney and an MA in Development Studies from the University of NSW. He has volunteered with people with disabilities in Vietnam, interned in India, studied Mandarin in Beijing, and milked yaks in Mongolia. Weh was recognized by Third Sector Awards as the Social Entrepreneur of the Year in 2019, and is an obsessed barefoot runner and connoisseur of durian.
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