The NI owner of a cosmetics company which is known worldwide has been helping kids and families in Asia.
Brendan, who has been in Cambodia for the past week with no return flight booked home yet, told Be: "This year, I wanted to take on a new manager in the company, so I've taken on a new managing director in BPerfect because I've been working 24/7 for the last ten years. "Another thing that was close to my heart was poverty with kids globally. I was going travelling to Japan and Thailand and a friend of mine, Clare McKinney, and Arlene Gormley have been involved in Feeding Dreams for years... Arlene [who is from Belfast] helped set the charity up many years ago.
"They have really good English lessons, they get a good meal and there's kindergarten right up to teenagers coming in, learning cooking, tourism training...." "There was one wee girl who had been injured five days ago and had been lying in a bed for five days. The charity went down and advised the family to get her to the doctor," the BPerfect owner explained.
He added: "The kids just came running over and the first thing they do is high-five you and fist bump."The families really love seeing the charity coming down with western people because they know what a positive impact it has on their community.""There's some teenagers that have been through the school over the last ten years who go on and get better jobs in the tourism world.