27. Is Corporate Giving Landing in the Right Place? - with Weh Yeoh
52m | Oct 6, 2026What does it actually mean to help? And how do we know when the help we're offering is solving a problem versus sustaining one? This episode is a conversation with Weh Yeoh, physiotherapist turned social entrepreneur, founder of OIC Cambodia, co-founder of Umbo, and author of Redundant Charities, about what genuine social impact looks like versus the kind that keeps itself in business by never quite solving anything.
Drawing on years of working in Cambodia and China, Weh unpacks the power dynamics underneath voluntourism, why something is not always better than nothing, and what it looks like to build a charity with the explicit goal of making itself redundant.
For hospitality and tourism operators thinking about their CSR and community partnerships, this conversation offers a genuinely different framework, one that asks not just whether your intentions are good, but whether what you're doing is actually working. And whether the people it's meant to help are the ones deciding that.
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Intro and outro music: Brooks, Kai Engel
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Show Notes:
Weh Yeoh: author, social entrepreneur, founder of OIC Cambodia:
Redundant Charities by Weh Yeoh:
https://www.redundantcharities.com
Weh Yeoh on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/wmyeoh/
Umbo: online speech and occupational therapy for rural Australia:
OIC Cambodia: speech therapy and professional development:
Weh's TedX talk:
https://youtu.be/9vuAL0qatSw?si=NGimTG16ra5kVADa
To Hell With Good Intentions by Ivan Illich, 1968:
https://www.uvm.edu/~jashman/CDAE195_ESCI375/To%20Hell%20with%20Good%20Intentions.pdf
Recommended reading for anyone working in social impact, development or CSR.
Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission:
Accounting for International Development, skills-based volunteering:
Related Two Homes episodes:
Episode 11: The Social in ESG
Episode 25: Looking Beyond Bandaid Solutions
Episode 26: Tourism that Stays with you
