- By Elna Schutz
- Business reporter
Image source, Coral Sunone
Former Buddhist nun Coral Sunone was able to find a professional stylist to give her clothing advice
After spending 10 years as a Buddhist nun in Myanmar, Coral Sunone realised that she needed some fashion help when she returned to the outside world.
But with money tight, getting assistance from a professional stylist was simply out of the question. Or was it?
Coral, who is based in Malaysia, heard of a website called TimeRepublik, which describes itself as “a timebank for the internet era”.
Time banking is in essence a more sophisticated form of bartering. You don’t pay someone in money for a job that they do for you. Instead you give that person time credits that they can then use to get a service without financial payment from someone else.
Via the TimeRepublik website, Coral was able to connect with…
