My name is Cris Biemond, Dutchman, 44 years old and currently living in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
I was born on a farm in the Groningen province of The Netherlands.
My parents are potato breeders. They breed and grow new potato varieties.
You would expect me to be the next in line, even more so because I am the eldest son.
However, I decided that I wanted to see more of the world.
Living abroad
In 1998 I lived in a kibbutz in Israel where I worked in rose horticulture.
For me that was the first time living abroad.
The second time I lived abroad was in 2002.
At that time I did research in Tigray, Ethiopia as part of my study Rural Development.
This was a very interesting time in which I worked mainly by myself.
Besides this research project, I completed another project to connect a small town
(May Megden) to the main electricity grid. You can imagine the impact that had for that town.
Bulgaria
I started my life in Bulgaria in 2014. I didn't know much about this country back then.
My first job was in a call center and many foreigners start that way nowadays.
In the meantime, I simply fell in love with Bulgaria and realized that my stay here wouldn't be as temporarily as I thought it would be when I arrived here.
Mission
I believe that funnels are a great way to express peoples ideas and solutions. I therebefore commit myself to help people with this so their solution might be used for the better of us all.