Communication for Development Ltd

04/05/2018

Meet Jimmy Olima and George Williams. These two men are trained Safeboda drivers. Boda boda is an East African name for motorcycle or bicycle taxis. Usually, these taxis are unlicensed and unsafe. One of our fabulous creatives caught up with Jimmy and George to talk about SafeBoda, a business supported by the Shell Foundation. SafeBoda is working in Uganda, and across Africa, to provide safer, more secure transit by licencing and training boda boda drivers. SafeBoda is quickly becoming the Uber of motorcycle taxis in Africa. Watch the video here: http://ow.ly/QVpd30jO7eh

02/05/2018

Storytelling Wows, Sustainable Business Reports Bore! Is your business still relying on sustainability reports as the main method for communicating your sustainable business achievements to customers? If so, we would like to show you how to better communicate your successes through positive visual storytelling. If you already use storytelling to communicate your goals and progress, are you doing it in the most effective way? Read up on our top tips:

It’s 2018. Today’s customers are connected. They have information bombarding them through their various devices all day, every day. Consumers are more socially, ethically and environmentally conscious than ever before. Many businesses are rising to the demands of their clients by sourcing respon...

01/05/2018

"Creating value from waste"- Sistema BioBolsa
Did you know that cleaner and greener biogas fuel can be created from cow dung?
Waste from cows can be converted into fertiliser and usable biogas using a biodigester, which adds bacteria to break down the manure.
These systems can help rural communities in several ways. The environment is healthier because more farm waste is utilised and less wood is needed for fuel. Females are more empowered because of the time and energy they save, and their health is also improved because they no longer have to breathe in fumes from their cooking fires.
Sistema Biobolsa is a social enterprise that installs biogas systems in partnership with Shell Foundation.
We caught up with them in Kenya, where our creatives documented how Sistema BioBolsa programmes are helping rural communities. To learn more about the benefits of biogas and Sistema BioBolsa, check out our inspiring video: ow.ly/mOTb30jGqZw

Sistema BioBolsa How do bacteria and cow dung empower women and families in Africa? The answer is that when placed together into a biodigester, they create biofuels,…

26/04/2018

Female doctors, nurses and other healthcare staff are usually the first people to care for newborn infants and their mothers. Their contributions to are often overlooked. As part of Kimberly-Clark’s ‘Touch of White Angels’ campaign, our photographer Yuyang accompanied health workers in the maternity ward of Navy General Hospital in Beijing, capturing the dedication, care and attention they give to newborns and mothers every day. Kimberly-Clark Corp

23/03/2018

It was a great joy to collaborate with Freidrich- Ebert-Stiftung and the National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI) to produce this video! Learn about how Rekha and other street vendors in India have joined together to fight injustice and gain rights.

From humble beginnings, the membership base of the National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI) has increased significantly to around one million ...

15/02/2018

The latest venture we want to share behind-the-scenes photos from comes to us from East Africa. Kenya has a high youth unemployment rate, especially in rural areas. ALDI Stores teamed up with Farm Africa to help improve opportunities for unemployed youth in Western Kenya, resulting in assistance for 400 young people in setting up profitable horticultural businesses that grow a variety of crops. Our creatives Harry and Lisa met the beneficiaries of the project to film and photograph them in their element. Here are a few beautiful images of Harry at work as Jon from ALDI chats with Mary from Farm Africa on camera.

15/02/2018

From all of us at CfD, we would like to wish our friends across the Asia Pacific region a Happy Lunar New Year! We look forward to collaborating and communicating with you in the Year of the Dog!

09/02/2018

We are excited to share a glimpse of our recent work for Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Political Dialogue Asia, this time from the other side of the lens! We sent one of our fabulous creatives to film the First Training Session for the 2018-19 batch of the Konrad Adenauer School for Young Politicians (KASYP) in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Here, we see him shooting an interview with Charu Pragya, a lawyer-politician from India who heads the National Legal Cell of the Youth Wing of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The footage will be combined with material from at least two other countries over the course of the 2018-19 session to make several short videos for the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (Foundation).

25/01/2018

We want YOU to apply! The deadline for our internships is seven days away. We have two remote internships available: one for applicants in the Americas http://ow.ly/Sk9c30hZaCp, and one for applicants in EMEA http://ow.ly/Sk9c30hZaCp. Please Share!

24/01/2018

Our creatives have been hard at work around the world, shooting moving images for our clients. Lately, for instance, we have been photographing the work of Abt Associates' Health Finance & Governance Project (HFG), funded by USAID - US Agency for International Development. The project aims to strengthen health systems in over thirty countries. We have been helping to visually document HFG's programmes in Haiti, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Vietnam. We thought we would share a couple of images from Ethiopia and Haiti with you, our followers. There's one from each side of the lens! Enjoy!!

15/01/2018

Have you ever wondered what it's like to work in Africa, documenting the impact of a charity programme? Have you ever wondered what kinds of challenges the photographers need to overcome, and how they do so? If so then head to our blog, where we interview our photographer Kevin about his work for World Renew in Uganda: http://ow.ly/usYn30gIjfv.

We recently sent one of our talented East Africa-based photographers, Kevin Ouma, to rural Uganda to capture the valuable work of faith-based charity World Renew. Originally from Kenya, Kevin has over a decade of experience in humanitarian photography under his belt, earning him an impressive legacy...