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Gawana At Gawana we believe in the power of collective creative thinking to generate significant social Change. Come, join us and participate, we would love to hear your ideas and experiences and make this enthusiastic community thrive, one idea at a time!

07 November 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Can photography change the world?

They say a picture is worth a thousand words and the eyes are the windows to the soul. So imagine the power of pictures of womens’ eyes the size of the roof on a house. With one image, in an instant, we get one thousand words about the soul of the stranger from another part of the world. The images are so large that they can be seen from space.  Windows to the soul for aliens? I don’t think so, windows to the soul for the rest us, perhaps, to get a fleeting insight into the lives of others that share this planet.

Kenya - eyes from space [...]

06 November 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Welcome to Gawana

Jambo!!

Welcome to Gawana’s blog. We want to transmit our ideas to you with the hope to be inspiring. We believe that Technology, creativity and collective thinking can create social change.

There are literaly hundreds of real volunteering projects around the world looking for your knowledge, creativity and expertise, Projects that need real comeeted volunteers.

Here in Gawana we have created a ver simple equation in which we support our projects:

Technology + Creativity + …

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