Myanmar Game Changers - Proximity Designs Co-founder Jim Taylor & Debbie Aung Din Taylor (Part2)
8Proximity Designs was co-founded Jim Taylor and Debbie Aung Din, initially as a country program under International Development Enterprises (IDE) in 2004. The new entity was established as a wholly independent organisation in 2008 and renamed Proximity Designs. Mr. Taylor and Ms. Aung Din, both graduates of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, were named Rainer Arnold Fellows in 2007-08, and received a 2012 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. Proximity has partnered with Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design’s, Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability course since 2007. The organisation has over 800 full-time staff in Myanmar with its central office located in Yangon. The US office is located in Los Angeles. To date, Proximity Designs has helped 2.5 million rural people through its products, services and farm recovery efforts in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis (2008).
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