Bart Weetjens is a Zen priest and social entrepreneur. He is the founder
of APOPO, an international humanitarian organization that trains rats
to save human lives by detecting landmines and diseases. His work was
recognized by Ashoka, the Schwab Foundation, the World Economic Forum
and he won a Skoll Award for social entrepreneurship. Based on a vision
that well-being inspires well-doing, he joined The Wellbeing Project to
help shift the culture in the field of social change to a more caring
and compassionate one, with more support for the inner wellbeing of
social change leaders. After 12 years of working in Tanzania, Africa,
Bart moved back to his birth place Antwerp, Belgium, where he lives with
his wife and two daughters.
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