Govinda's - a new vegetarian restaurant with strong Indian influence. First from that chain in Slovenia and presumably first in the self-service style. Do have a try. A very interesting experience. Placed next to their core consumer group - Slovenian Krishna Society.
(Matjaž) Matjaz Hoyer - co-founder and manager of Zeus - the accounting service house. Recently moved back to Komenda, EF graduate - where he was also very active in student politics and member of student parliament at ŠOU, worked in sales at Noviforum - the company that developed Najdi.si. Currently neglecting his golfing career, but therefore enjoys time with his two year old daughter that much more. When Zeus will be sold for many millions of Euros, he will devote his time to helping kids in poverty around the world - unlike myself he believes that our world is not actually on a good way to solve the poverty problem. I hope he will change his mind and that time will show it to be right.
Simple, clean, different. Spicy, fresh and tasty.
Govinda is the name of young Krishna, herding cows and protecting them. Before he turned into a fierce fighter helping Arjuna. Yes, enormous simplification is at work here :)
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unlike myself he believes that our world is not actually on a good way to solve the poverty problem
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The world *actually* isn't on a good way to solve the problem of poverty. International humanitarian aid only has short-term positive effects while in the long run, it simply amplifies the problem by raising generations of people whose core mentality is "I don't have to do anything, I'll get humanitarian aid anyway" and, as consequence, such people rarely decide to develop skills which would make them productive/contributing members of society; ergo, the circle repeats itself once those people themselves have children, raising them with the same attitude. That, coupled with the fact that intl. humanitarian aid is more often than not abused by regional warlords and similar criminal figures is a clear indication that the system does *not* function in the manner intended.
Not far from my line of thought. The light at the end of the tunnel comes in the shape of Kiva.org, the only "charity" I do.
I have checked the site of Kiva.org and I must say it sounds like a relatively sound idea. There's one detail in particular that I like very much--it tries to preserve the individual's dignity and sense of selfrespect. That's another problem of the current intl. humanitarian aid--they don't stop to consider the psychological implications of their actions upon the people whom they are trying to help; it is too bad that more people are not aware of this. Human beings can survive almost anything, as long as they have the sense of dignity and self-respect. Only when those two are lost do the events take a turn for the worse.
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