As a volunteer for VSO, an international development charity, Tim Sowula advises the Ethnic Community
Development Organisation, an indigenous community rights NGO based in Sylhet, Bangladesh. He studied Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge University, specialising in international human rights. Prior to moving to Bangladesh, he worked for Human Rights Watch in New York, and then for the award-winning NGO Platform London, specialising on a landmark project to address uses of public space in London, supported by the Mayor of London. He has also worked as a researcher for Britain’s leading think-tank, the Institute for Public Policy Research. Tim is also a columnist for the Guardian's 'Comment is Free' Section.

Articles by Timothy Sowula:

Pulling Rickshaws Out of Poverty: A Proposal (with Thomas Wipperman)
9 August 2007

"The best way to pull the two million rickshaw-pullers out of poverty is by bringing them into the formal economy. Nationalising and rationalising public transport has worked well in cities ranging from London to Curitiba. In Bangladesh, let rickshaw-pullers earn weekly wages as public employees, and passengers pay for a public service that represents 6 percent of the country's income and reaches nearly 15 percent of the its population."