Malden Musings: Bobby Sager's Doors
Peter Levine
Last time we heard chatter about Bobby Sager it was regarding the film project "The Philanthropist." A TV show (somewhat) based on Bobby's life. Bobby is one of Malden's biggest success stories. He embodies everything good that Malden has ever had to offer. He is filthy rich but ya wouldn't know it. That's cuz he's from Malden! I got this from one of the many web pages I pulled up on Bobby, "On any given day you might find Sager living in a tent in Karachi, sharing a toilet with 40 monks in the Himalayas, working alongside President Kagame in Rwanda, or discussing science education with the Dalai Lama in India." He is most comfortable in some of the most dangerous places on earth trying to make a difference by hands-on helping people. Through his foundation, Sager spends time in villages and cities in developing countries using the good old fashioned hands-on perspective and eyeball to eyeball connection to "conceive, develop and operate economic opportunity training and leadership programs." Broken down into plain English that means he just doesn't drop a pallet load of money on somebody's doorstep, then pat himself on the back cuz he done something good. Not Bobby and his family. He's from the "give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime" school. Teacher training, leadership training, micro enterprising and a lot of other stuff that flew right over my head are some of his calling cards. Down to earth as any billionaire breathing today one of his BFF is Sting from a little band you may have heard of The Police. Sting describes Bobby as, "a big brash guy from Boston...an old Nepal hand, flamboyant eccentric, inexhaustible world traveler, and practical philanthropist."