A twinge of emotion reading some of these posts.

I'm happy and priveleged to be here, part of NED.

I spent this morning doing what I do best - playing with a great big band - I am a jazz pianist first and foremost, but this doesn't pay the bills, so I've done a few other things in my time.

I ran a social enterprise in Birmingham UK for a number of years and early last year I decided to jack it in and go over to Nigeria, to help out an Ashoka fellow.

It's been a bit of a rollercoaster ride and I feel we are on the brink of something special over there, but I'm not over that threshold yet and thinking how I can take the plunge. Also Kaduna is experiencing some unrest at the moment following some local elections, so I can't really travel over right now.

Linda N on NED has encouraged me to start reading and becoming more informed, not just someone who presents a case and can't argue it. I find intellectual reading very tough, but I can see my reading age increase day by day, as I click on the links from John P's posts (and others).

My focus is on developing social enterprise, wherever it may be, proving it by developing new enterprises in NGOs to assist their sustainability, currently in Africa, but perhaps in the future elsewhere too.

I believe that social enterprise is what will change the world, given time and I hope to play some small part in making it happen.