The beginning of the story is really Julie's, and she has told some of it in other articles on this site. Briefly: she went to Mongolia in September 2007 as part of a team from our church to World Harvest Mission church in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, that we have been developing links with over a number of years. While there, she met Bill and Irene Manley who were just starting a business to provide an outlet for artisans and co-operatives who were making craft goods but had nowhere to sell them. (See more on http://www.mmmongolia.com/.) Her skills and past experiences provided a really good fit with help they needed, and a relationship developed; she made several more trips there and back in the UK we set up a company to import and sell their goods online - hence this website (http://www.just-perfect.co.uk/, if you came straight to this article).

In June 2009 she made her fourth trip and I joined her for the last couple of weeks. At the beginning of June Bill and Irene were able to open a new shop in the middle of the town, and it quickly became apparent that their handwritten sales records weren't going to work in the busier location; we were able to put together a computer program as a point of sale and stock system.

While in Mongolia I had the opportunity for a tour round the local Christian radio station WIND-FM as the radio station founder also belongs to that World Harvest Mission church. Julie had been feeling we should have a longer trip in 2010 and it was that day that we both became convinced that was what God was calling us to do. Originally we were thinking of 6 months, but that proved impractical.  Instead we have a two month trip where we can produce a new version of the program not just for the shop but to include more storage locations and management functions. Julie can also provide assistance with tasks like packaging design, presentation and bar-coding. I'm also expecting to do computer networking for the church, and possibly for other people or NGOs. We are renting a visitor's bedsit on the top floor of the radio station building at a very good rate and there may be opportunity to give them some help.