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Christchurch Big Breakfast Event November 25th: Local businesspeople focused on networking to hear how networks can go beyond business and can change society.
Daniel Walker former New Zealand Police Detective now founder of group to combat sex trafficking to discuss how a strong network can save lives.
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Networking group BNI is hosting the Christchurch Big Breakfast on Wednesday 25th November at Rydges Latimer.
The Big Breakfast will be attended by SMBs who are members of BNI to learn about new approaches to business and social networking.
Former Detective now campaigner against sex trafficking Daniel Walker, will tell his fascinating story and discuss the power of networks to literally change lives.
Christchurch – Monday 9th November, 2015 – Business networking group BNI New Zealand is organising the Christchurch Big Breakfast event to be held at Rydges Latimer on 25th November. At the event, former New Zealand Police Detective now author and founder of a group to combat sex trafficking, Daniel Walker, will tell his fascinating story and discuss the power of networks to literally change lives.
Daniel Walker is a former New Zealand Police Detective and has more than twenty years’ experience as a criminal investigator. For seven years Daniel has worked exclusively in the international arena investigating the sexual exploitation and trafficking of women and children in more than a dozen countries.
Working on a covert basis Daniel infiltrated the organised criminal networks responsible for the trafficking of women and children into the global multi-billion dollar commercial sex industry. His efforts resulted in the rescue of many hundreds of victims as well as the successful prosecution of numerous perpetrators. Walker has written a book about his experiences and in 2012 he founded Nvader, a New Zealand initiative designed to effectively combat human trafficking around the world.
“Sex trafficking is modern day slavery,” Daniel says. “Every year approximately two million women and children are deceived and coerced into the commercial sex industry. Only one out of 100 victims is ever rescued and less that 0.5% of all victims participate in any kind of judicial procedure.” The organisation Daniel founded has three goals: rescue victims of sex trafficking, facilitate the prosecution of offenders and empower individuals and communities to make sex trafficking culturally intolerable.
It’s this third point that Daniel says shares a strong affinity with BNI and especially the concept of Givers Gain. “The type of networking model BNI uses is the same as our organisation,” Daniel says. “We use networking to empower individuals and actually change lives by make sex trafficking culturally unacceptable. A strong network can do more than just build businesses; it can also affect an entire community.”
During his presentation at the Big Breakfast Daniel will tell his fascinating life story as well as discussing how businesses and individuals can tackle social issues together and transform society.
About BNI
BNI New Zealand, established in 1999, is the country’s largest structured business networking organisation for small to medium businesses. With over 2,600 members and 120 groups around the country, for 2015 they are on track to mark $100m in business.
As a business community, BNI helps create business opportunities through a structured system of referrals and reciprocity, based on trust and giving. Business owners from all types of industries (only one trade representative per group) meet weekly. They build sustainable relationships with other businesses, develop new networks and take BNI’s underlying philosophy of ‘Givers Gain’ to grow their businesses. www.bni.co.nz
Media contacts
Nick Greenwood, Christchurch Director/Consultant for BNI New Zealand, 021 453 724, ngreenwood@bni.co.nz
Daniel Walker, Founder of NVADER, 021 331 911, daniel@nvader.org
Nimita Morarji, Serum, 021 950 058, nimita@serum.co.nz
