For the person with everything, an insight into those with nothing. Just $15,800, not inclusive of travel, food or accommodation, buys a business executive with a conscience the chance to hone some unusual skills in rather less comfortable surroundings than those to which they are accustomed.

Sandwiched between a session in London next month and another in New York next February, participants enrolling in the Philanthropy Workshop will spend a week in Brazil in November, seeing how the world’s other 99 per cent lives and mulling how to help them help themselves.