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"I worked with Joshua Orphan & Community Care, to create bespoke educational material for rural schools around Blantyre, Malawi."
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AK Parker
Company: BBH London
NGO: Joshua Orphan & Community Care
Location: Blantyre, Malawi
Start date: January 08, 2018 -
"I spent a month in Tamale, Ghana helping the Mobility Foundation rebrand itself as ACID - Ghana and developing a strategic communications plan to increase funding and partnerships."
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Albert Gentry
Company: VMLY&R
NGO: Mobility Foundation
Location: Tamale, Ghana
Start date: March 04, 2019 -
"I developed a campaign to inspire the people of Recife to support CPP and help street children recapture their dreams."
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Alice Hooper
Company: Leo Burnett
NGO: CPP
Location: Recife, Brazil
Start date: March 17, 2011 -
"I became a Recifense for a month in order to help women from the city’s disadvantaged communities sell products they make out of rubbish & realise their dreams of a better future."
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Alice McKenzie
Company: D&AD & Saatchi&Saatchi
NGO: Instituto Solidare
Location: Recife, Brazil
Start date: May 11, 2015 -
""I spent a month with Barefeet Theatre in Lusaka, helping develop a long-term marketing strategy to get more funding for their incredible work with street kids in Zambia.""
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Alice Walker
Company: BBH London
NGO: Barefeet Theatre
Location: Lusaka, Zambia
Start date: February 10, 2020 -
"I was lucky enough to work in the tech hub of Recife and help the educational company Joy Street think about how they can stay one step ahead of the game if they want to be market leaders."
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Amira Mansour
Company: Octopus Investments
NGO: Joy Street
Location: Recife, Brazil
Start date: February 19, 2018 -
"I lived and worked in rural Uganda, repositioning the Kasiisi Guesthouse so that it becomes a more sustainable business and continue the Kasiisi Project’s work delivering education and support for children living around the Kibale National Park."
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Amy Kilty
Company: Wieden+Kennedy London
NGO: The Kasiisi Project
Location: Kibale National Park, Uganda
Start date: January 09, 2019 -
"I spent a month in Uganda creating a brand for a charity’s guesthouse to support their activities for the future."
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Andrew Connolly
Company: BBH
NGO: The Kasiisi Project
Location: Kibale National Park, Uganda
Start date: January 08, 2016 -
"I spent a month in Recife helping to raise awareness of Em Cena in the community where they work."
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Anna Bradfield
Company: WPP & JWT New York
NGO: Em Cena Arte e Cidadania
Location: Recife, Brazil
Start date: November 15, 2009 -
"I worked in Lilongwe helping change agricultural practices to improve nutrition, soil fertility and water management, along with providing a sustainable income and future for Malawians."
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Ben Shaffery
Company: Wieden+Kennedy London
NGO: Kusamala
Location: Lilongwe, Malawi
Start date: March 02, 2015 -
"I worked with the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya to help them demonstrate the importance of their work saving wild lands, as well as what they’re already known for - saving wild lives."
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Callum Cheatle
Company: WPP & Group XP
NGO: David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Start date: September 11, 2017 -
"I helped Recife based educational NGO, Somos Professores, to determine which futureactivities would have the greatest impact in bringing more innovative and collaborativelessons to poorly funded public school classrooms."
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Cameron Milne
Company: WPP & Vice
NGO: SomosProfessores
Location: Recife, Brazil
Start date: September 10, 2018 -
"I worked with Barefeet Theatre to develop their business strategy and professionalise their communications with clients and donors, to help them generate more sustainable funding for the great work they do with vulnerable children across Zambia."
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Cheryl Binnis
Company: LV=
NGO: Barefeet Theatre
Location: Lusaka, Zambia
Start date: August 06, 2018 -
"I worked in Lilongwe (Malawi) researching, recommending & implementing changes to improve the Entrepreneurs Programme Strategy to give the youth an opportunity to change, to go on to run their own businesses and earn their own money."
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Chloe Allan
Company: Octopus Investments
NGO: Chance for Change
Location: Lilongwe, Malawi
Start date: April 16, 2018 -
"I worked in Brazil for a month developing an ad campaign for an HIV/AIDS NGO."
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Chris Jackson
Company: Leo Burnett
NGO: Gestos
Location: Recife, Brazil
Start date: October 01, 2007 -
"I assisted the Giraffe Conservation Foundation in cementing their visual identity, expanded their outreach and reinforced the importance of having strong values and a clear identity."
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Chris Kelsch
Company: Wieden+Kennedy NY
NGO: Giraffe Conservation Foundation
Location: Windhoek, Namibia
Start date: January 29, 2018 -
"I spent a month in Ethiopia developing strategies and tools with the team at The School of St Yared that will help them attract future donors and sponsors sustainably."
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Claire Carmichael
Company: WPP & GPY&R Sydney
NGO: The School of St Yared
Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Start date: June 02, 2016 -
"I helped the Barefeet Theatre to plan their 2019 Youth Arts Festival which is a platform for the vulnerable children of Zambia to express themselves."
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Claire Cunningham
Company: Octopus InvestmentsOctopus Ventures
NGO: Barefeet Theatre
Location: Lusaka, Zambia
Start date: February 11, 2019 -
"I spent 2 months working with Plan International, and 9 amazing young girls from around the world, to raise awareness of girls’ rights and advance gender equality."
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Claire Jackson
Company: WPP & JWT London
NGO: Plan International
Location: New York, US
Start date: February 23, 2012 -
"I spent a month in Recife developing a campaign for Espaço da Criança designed to widen access to opportunities for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds so they can start building their professional future by raising awareness of the NGO’s apprenticeship training program among local companies with the view to secure sustainable investment."
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Dhatri Navanayagam
Company: WPP
NGO: Espaço da Criança
Location: Recife, Brazil
Start date: October 02, 2017 -
"Our comms campaign got companies in Recife to hire previously homeless adolescents, persuading them that they can make a positive contribution to their business."
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Dylan Viner
Company: WPP & JWT New York
NGO: O Pequeno Nazareno
Location: Recife, Brazil
Start date: March 19, 2012 -
"I developed a campaign to improve the lives of street garbage pickers in Recife by getting people to recycle."
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Ed Richards
Company: Leo Burnett
NGO: Edificio Ecologico
Location: Recife, Brazil
Start date: March 02, 2009 -
"I spent a month in Rwanda helping Girl Effect plan for their transition to a 'creative social business'."
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Elisa Birtwistle
Company: WPP & The Futures Company
NGO: Girl Effect
Location: Kigali, Rwanda
Start date: September 05, 2016 -
"I worked with Iracambi on a conservation project in the Atlantic Rainforest. The aim was to raise corporate sponsorship to increase the size of the protected forest..."
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Elizabeth Barr
Company: BBH
NGO: Iracambi
Location: Serra do Brigadeiro, Brazil
Start date: October 30, 2012 -
"I worked with Em Cena, an NGO in Recife, raising awareness & increasing the understanding of the impact of drugs in the community through the students themselves."
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Emma Davenport
Company: Mother
NGO: Em Cena
Location: Recife, Brazil
Start date: April 08, 2015 -
"I worked in Bhavnagar, India with child rights organisation Shaishav. We developed a brand positioning, communications tools and a strategy to position Shaishav as a more attractive target for donations from corporates and individuals. "
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Emma Johnston-Donne
Company: BBH London
NGO: Shaishav Trust
Location: Bhavnagar, India
Start date: January 23, 2017 -
"I worked with a disabled women’s charity in Laos. They house and train disabled women and young people from some of the poorest areas in the country. I was there to help create an advocacy and fundraising strategy, to ensure longevity for the Centre."
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Emma Ryan
Company: Octopus Property
NGO: Lao Disabled Women's Development Centre
Location: Vientiane, Laos
Start date: May 22, 2019 -
"My time in Rio was spent developing a toolkit of marketing strategies for underprivileged female artisans groups that were designed to teach them how to brand their business, grow their awareness and generate sales leads on their own."
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Eryn LeMesurier
Company: FCB Toronto
NGO: Rede Asta
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Start date: October 10, 2016 -
"I spent the best month of my life creating a comms campaign to encourage businesses in Recife to recycle with Edifício Ecológico."
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Ewa Kwolek
Company: Proximity London
NGO: Edifício Ecológico
Location: Recife, Brazil
Start date: March 05, 2012 -
"I spent a month in Yangon, mapping out fundraising opportunities for Prospect Burma in Myanmar and turning the approach into a tangible plan of action."
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Felicia Kodderitzsch
Company: Octopus Labs
NGO: Prospect Burma
Location: Yangon, Myanmar
Start date: March 11, 2019 -
"I spent a month working for the Kasiisi Project in rural Western Uganda, developing a business and communications strategy to help the project become self-sustainable."
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Hanne Haugen
Company: Wieden+Kennedy London
NGO: Kasiisi Project
Location: Kibale National Park, Uganda
Start date: October 21, 2013 -
"I spent a month with an HIV/AIDS NGO in Recife helping to decrease discrimination about people who are living with the virus."
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Harry Dromey
Company: Leo Burnett
NGO: GTP+
Location: Recife, Brazil
Start date: October 18, 2010 -
"In a month I created a campaign with Promundo in Rio de Janeiro that advocates for a woman’s right to choose."
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Haywood Watkins
Company: WPP
NGO: Instituto Promundo
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Start date: May 16, 2016 -
"I spent a month at a Brazilian children's hospital helping to raise awareness of their bazaar and increase donations."
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Helen James
Company: BBH
NGO: IMIP
Location: Recife, Brazil
Start date: October 18, 2010 -
"I worked with Barefeet Theatre in Lusaka (Zambia) to develop a corporate communications strategy for the organisation."
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Holly McGavock
Company: Grey NY
NGO: Barefeet Theatre
Location: Lusaka, Zambia
Start date: November 04, 2013 -
"I worked in Recife working with an HIV & Aids awareness NGO to help them grow their awareness and secure additional revenue through partnerships with local businesses."
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Jamie Watson
Company: BBH
NGO: GTP+
Location: Recife, Brazil
Start date: March 16, 2015 -
"I spent a month at Iracambi in the Atlantic Forest organizing their Iracambi Strong education program, planning their communications and setting up a scholarship program for students."
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Jen Vladimirsky
Company: Wieden+Kennedy NY
NGO: Iracambi
Location: Serra do Brigadeiro, Brazil
Start date: October 05, 2015 -
"I worked in Recife creating a communications campaign to promote the work of Instituto Solidare to the large corporations based in their community. "
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Jeremy Gleeson
Company: BBH
NGO: Institute Solidare
Location: Recife, Brazil
Start date: October 31, 2011 -
"Jessica spent a month in Sierra Leone helping Purposeful Productions develop a marketing strategy and campaign that will raise awareness of their brand."
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Jessica Lehmann
Company: WPP & Brand Union
NGO: Purposeful Productions
Location: Freetown, Sierra Leone
Start date: February 05, 2018 -
"I developed a campaign to raise awareness of a local children's NGO that provides schooling, food and shelter to children and adolescents living in extreme poverty. "
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Joseph Pirrie
Company: Proximity London
NGO: Espaço da Criança
Location: Recife, Brazil
Start date: April 25, 2011 -
"I spent a month promoting a culture of greater forgiveness in Malawi, specifically towards children who have previously been convicted of criminal activity who are returning to their communities."
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Kate Nicoli
Company: Leo Burnett London
NGO: Chance 4 Change
Location: Lilongwe, Malawi
Start date: March 07, 2016 -
"I spent a month working in Cabo to help the youth forum group of Cabo establish an identity and strategy in order to engage a wider youth audience about their political rights."
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Kelly Satchell
Company: Wieden+Kennedy London
NGO: Centro das Mulheres do Cabo
Location: Cabo de Sto Agostinho, Brazil
Start date: February 22, 2016 -
"I spent a month in Recife, working with a group of university students to create a campaign that would help change perceptions of Em Cena, a local arts organization."
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Laura Pearlstein
Company: WPP & Landor
NGO: Em Cena - Arte e cidadania
Location: Recife, Brazil
Start date: September 03, 2012 -
"I spent a month in Tofo, Mozambique, developing materials to introduce MMF to potential donors. "
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Lauren Smith
Company: Wieden+Kennedy NY
NGO: Marine Megafauna Foundation
Location: Tofo, Mozambique
Start date: October 17, 2016 -
"I spent a month in Lilongwe, Malawi, evolving the GreenRoot brand to allow them to grow their investment portfolio – growth that will help them to provide meaningful financial support for thousands of low-income Malawians."
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Lorna Burt
Company: Leo Burnett
NGO: Greenroot Finance
Location: Lilongwe, Malawi
Start date: August 04, 2014 -
"I spent a month in Mozambique to help the Marine Megafauna Foundation sell high end dive packages and bring in funding for ocean conservation work. "
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Malavika Singh
Company: WPP
NGO: Marine Megafauna Foundation
Location: Tofo, Mozambique
Start date: January 15, 2019 -
"I spent a month in Recife helping build positive perceptions of human rights defenders and the work they do."
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Mark Dewings
Company: WPP & Ogilvy New York
NGO: Movimento Nacional de Direitos Humanos (MNDH)
Location: Recife, Brazil
Start date: November 15, 2009 -
"I spent a month with the Quilombo in Brazil's Sertão filming a documentary..."
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Matt Oxley
Company: Tribal DDB London
NGO: International Service and AQCC
Location: Recife, Brazil
Start date: February 05, 2009 -
"I worked in Mozambique for a month developing a communications campaign for the MarineMegafauna Foundation’s new diving expeditions."
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Matt Roach
Company: Anomaly
NGO: Marine Megafauna Foundation
Location: Tofo, Mozambique
Start date: August 20, 2018 -
"I spent a month with Espaço da Criança in Recife helping them create valuable partnerships with local businesses to secure their future."
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Melissa Parsey
Company: WPP & JWT New York
NGO: Espaço da Criança
Location: Recife, Brazil
Start date: August 26, 2013 -
"I worked in Recife developing communications to show that street children can have a future and that it is possible to help them."
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Micha Colombo
Company: WPP & Digit London
NGO: Grupo Ruas e Praças
Location: Recife, Brazil
Start date: April 05, 2010 -
"I spent a month in Recife helping LAR build a corporate donor club and help change attitudes about disability within society in general."
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Mike Alhadeff
Company: Grey London
NGO: Lar Rejane Marques
Location: Recife, Brazil
Start date: February 24, 2015 -
"I have spent an amazing month in Recife helping an NGO develop and launch a new initiative that will focus on raising the profile of healthy food and nutrition in schools."
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Milla Chaplin
Company: WPP & Mindshare
NGO: CPP
Location: Recife, Brazil
Start date: October 28, 2014 -
""I spent a month with Iracambi in the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest, working on all aspects of their marketing plan to help raise awareness of their volunteer program.""
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Natalie Galbraith
Company: Octopus Investments
NGO: Iracambi
Location: Serra do Brigadeiro, Brazil
Start date: January 20, 2020 -
"I spent two weeks in Paris developing a first time communications plan for the Womanity Award in their fight to address violence against women."
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Natascha Vega-Pertuz
Company: Grey NY
NGO: The Womanity Foundation
Location: Paris, France
Start date: January 05, 2015 -
"I spent a month in Recife developing a campaign to remind people that some of life's most important lessons are in the stories we read as children."
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Nazia du Bois
Company: WPP & Ogilvy London
NGO: Boca do Lixo
Location: Recife, Brazil
Start date: March 16, 2011 -
"Octopus Renewables are sending Niall Quinn on TIE in 2020. He's going to Mozambique!"
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Niall Quinn
Company: Octopus Renewables
NGO: Marine Megafauna Foundation
Location: Tofo, Mozambique
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"Octopus Investments are sending Nicola Graham on TIE in 2020. She's going to Senegal!"
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Nicola Graham
Company: Octopus Investments
NGO: Maison de la Gare
Location: Saint-Louis, Senegal
Start date: March 09, 2020 -
"I spent a month in Recife creating communication assets for Grupo Ruas e Praças to show there is life in the street and the dreams and hopes of street children are worth a fight."
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Nicolas Jayr
Company: BBH
NGO: Grupo Ruas e Praças
Location: Recife, Brazil
Start date: November 11, 2013 -
"I worked in Brazil developing communications to promote children's human rights..."
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Penny Brough
Company: Wieden+Kennedy London
NGO: Plan
Location: Recife, Brazil
Start date: November 01, 2007 -
"I spent a month in Brazil developing a campaign to get more schools to volunteer with Habitat for Humanity."
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Rachael Stephens
Company: Glue Isobar
NGO: Habitat for Humanity
Location: Recife, Brazil
Start date: January 05, 2011 -
""I spent a month in Yangon working with ZigWay to find partnerships to provide low-income households sustainably cheaper access to goods they essentially need, by aggregating their orders and buying those goods in bulk.""
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Ronak Shah
Company: Octopus Group
NGO: ZigWay
Location: Yangon, Myanmar
Start date: March 09, 2020 -
"I developed a communications campaign to help strengthen the sustainability of an HIV/AIDS NGO in Recife."
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Ryan Fisher
Company: Wieden+Kennedy London
NGO: GTP+
Location: Recife, Brazil
Start date: November 03, 2008 -
"I lived, breathed and worked in the City of Recife, Brazil helping raise awareness for HIV testing and PrEP usage amongst a vulnerable sex working community."
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Sam Cheetham
Company: BBH London
NGO: GTP+
Location: Recife, Brazil
Start date: March 11, 2019 -
"I worked with the National Department of Health in Pretoria, South Africa to develop a week-by-week guide for HIV +/- pregnant women and their newborns."
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Sam Wagner
Company: Wieden+Kennedy NY
NGO: National Department of Health of South Africa
Location: Pretoria, South Africa
Start date: July 01, 2013 -
"I spent a month in Lusaka, working to understand the entertainment industry in order to make Barefeet sustainable enough to fund the work they do with vulnerable and homeless kids in need."
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Samantha Miller
Company: Grey NY
NGO: Barefeet Theatre
Location: Lusaka, Zambia
Start date: October 23, 2014 -
"I raised awareness of the evictions happening because of Brazil’s World Cup, and launched a campaign to pressure the government to pay fair compensation."
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Sarah Walker
Company: WPP & Millward Brown
NGO: Comitê Popular da Copa
Location: Recife, Brazil
Start date: September 10, 2013 -
"I helped to build a three-year plan for the Golden Baobab that will ensure millions of African children will get the books they deserve."
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Scott Brenman
Company: WPP & MEC London
NGO: Golden Baobab
Location: Accra, Ghana
Start date: February 29, 2016 -
"I partnered with educational NGO Somos Professores in Recife, developing a targeted communications campaign for their new program that aims to support public school teachers in project-based learning initiatives with resources and training."
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Susan Min
Company: VMLY&R
NGO: SomosProfessores
Location: Recife, Brazil
Start date: March 11, 2019 -
"I created an easy, implementable brand and comms strategy for the Atlantic rainforest NGO Iracambi."
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Tiffany Sherrington
Company: WPP & Mindshare
NGO: Iracambi
Location: Serra do Brigadeiro, Brazil
Start date: June 01, 2009 -
"I spent a month in Accra working on Golden Baobab's brand strategy to help them become the most exciting and attractive social enterprise in Africa."
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Tiffany Winter
Company: WPP & Mindshare
NGO: The Golden Baobab
Location: Ghana
Start date: November 22, 2012 -
"I was fortunate to spend 4 incredible weeks in Mozambique developing a comms strategy for a campaign looking to empower the youth and encourage them to continue their education."
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Tom Fraser
Company: Saatchi & Saatchi
NGO: Clarisse Machanguana Foundation
Location: Maputo, Mozambique
Start date: March 26, 2018 -
"I worked in Varanasi, India for one month developing communications to raise awareness within the rickshaw driving community of a route out of debt and constant rent through the work of SMV Wheels and the vehicle ownership they enable."
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Tom Reas
Company: Grey London
NGO: SMV Wheels
Location: Varanasi, India
Start date: February 17, 2016 -
"I worked with Hestian in Malawi to promote fuel-efficient technologies and helped reduce carbon emissions one stove at a time."
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Trevor Gilley
Company: Wieden+Kennedy NY
NGO: Hestian
Location: Lilongwe
Start date: November 12, 2012 -
"I worked with an NGO in Recife to develop a campaign that highlights the importance of preserving the mangroves."
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Tristan Ramsdale
Company: WPP & Landor
NGO: Centro Escola Mangue
Location: Recife, Brazil
Start date: July 18, 2011 -
"I spent a month in Guatemala trying to save the ocean. Turns out it’s much bigger than I thought."
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Will Wells
Company: Wieden+Kennedy London
NGO: MAR Fund
Location: Guatemala City, Guatemala
Start date: May 02, 2017 -
""I worked with Giraffe Conservation Foundation to help build their campaign for World Giraffe Day, in order to raise more awareness for giraffe.""
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Xueling Wang
Company: Wieden+Kennedy London
NGO: Giraffe Conservation Foundation
Location: Windhoek, Namibia
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"I spend a month in Recife developing a campaign that helped young girls understand their self-worth and their rights in order to prevent them falling into the cycle of sexual exploitation."
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Yewande Sokan
Company: WPP & Maxus London
NGO: ActionAid Brazil
Location: Recife, Brazil
Start date: November 03, 2014