We would like to thank all the people, the organizations and the firms that believed in our project and that supported us while we were preparing it. Advice, encouragement, financial or logistical support... Each one of them managed to help us in its own way, and proved to be essential for the successful outcome of the project Through Other Eyes.
They support our project:
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Taking it Global is an online community that connects youth to find inspiration, access information, get involved, and take action in their local and global communities. TIG proved to be extremely useful to us to find the Youth NGO members we wanted to meet. |
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Ashoka is the global association of the world's leading social entrepreneurs-men and women with system changing solutions for the world's most urgent social problems. Ashoka helped us identify interesting youth-led initiatives thanks to its Youth Venture Program, which will soon be implemented in France. |
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Ile de France's Federation of Youth Centers supports our project and puts us in contact with the members of its network to prepare our touring exhibition that will start as of September 2007. |
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Yvelines' Department Council provides us with financial support through the "Aventure Jeunes 78" scholarship. |
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Ile de France's Regional Council awarded us a "Défi Jeunes" grant for our project.
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HEC Business school, France's premier business school, provides us with financial and logistical support.
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The city of Saint-Germain-en-Laye provides us with financial support through the "projets jeunes" scholarship.
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Ice-cream makers Punto Gusto offered us financial help to successfully complete our project. We are going to terribly miss their delicious home-made ice-creams during our trip! |
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Société Générale's local branch in Saint-Germain-en-Laye supports our project by contributing to the exhibition costs. |
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Since 1982, Handicap International fights in more than 60 countries to help the most vulnerable populations to recover their dignity and their place within the community. Handicap International provided us with the vaccines we needed to travel safely trough Asia and Africa. |
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The Guide du Routard, essential traveling companion of every backpacker, offered us the guides for all the countries we are about to visit. |
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Lenovo: a world leader in technology. Lenovo is an innovative and international technology firm, which arouse out the acquisition of IBM Personal Computing Division by Lenovo Group. Today, Lenovo is the 3rd main party on the international PC market. It is now established in the entire world and employs more than 23.500 people, 19500 of which work in its PC division. Lenovo is lending us a Lenovo 3000 V100 notebook during our trip, equipped with all the latest features: a webcam, a DVD burner… and all the communication tools we need to share our experience with you! |
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Saint-Germain-en-Laye's Shopphoto granted us a special discount to buy our photography equipment. Many thanks to its owners, who showed great interested in the project Through Other Eyes. |
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LIS photo laboratory develop our photos at a very special rate, with their usual concern for quality. |
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Homeworks is an organization that helps young people to express themselves through artistic and cultural projects. For the time being, it is particularly committed to the production of environmental documentaries in order to increase public awareness on sustainable development issues. Homeworks provided us with a photography training to help us illustrate the stories we are going to write about. homeworks.asso.free.fr |
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ANGO, the first French NGO-grading agency, helped us to prepare our interviews. |
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Good Morning Vietnam, a humanitarian organization that conducts micro-credit projects and gives language lessons in 4 Vietnamese cities, provided us with moral and logistical support. |
Media coverage:
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The quarterly magazine Journal des Grandes Ecoles was created in 1996. It is now distributed in the most prestigious French Universities and in the 400 leading French firms. The Journal des Grandes Ecoles will follow our project by publishing our articles until September 2007. |
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The weekly newspaper Courrier des Yvelines, which circulation covers the Yvelines' department, will publish a monthly travel journal on our project, to allow you to follow our adventures. |
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Twice a month, you'll be able to read about Through Other Eyes in the weekly newspaper Toutes les Nouvelles de Versailles, which recounts about Yvelines' news. |
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A360.org, a webzine about useful traveling, lists us in its inventory of travel journals on the web. An introduction to our project is also available in the À 360° blog which presents news about travels and travelers, links to artists, reporters, film makers, writers, photographers, researchers, humanitarians, businessmen, adventurers... All travellers. |
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The Reporters d'Espoirs is an association that values and develops information carrying solutions. They support us by helping us give media coverage to the youth initiatives we have come across. |
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Yvelines Radio, a local radio from Yvelines' department, will broadcast a special program our project until June 2007, thanks to the podcasts we will record during our trip. |
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CAPafrique (Center of Analysis and Propositions for Africa), is France's first think-tank specialized in African issues. CAPafrique puts us in contact with African journalists and will publish our articles on its website on our return. |
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You'll be able to read about Through Other Eyes on Lonely Planet's website and newsletter. |
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Hommes et Commerce, HEC Group's magazine, supports Through Other Eyes by publishing some articles on the project |
Special thanks to:
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David Groison, journalist for Phosphore magazine, and Elise Colette, journalist for Jeune Afrique, who have accepted to be patrons of the project Through Other Eyes, and have showered us with useful advice before our departure. |
Yasmine Aboudrar, Daniel Barraud de Lagerie, Carole Barret, Matthias Berahya-Lazarus, Georges Berville, Stéphane Bessac, Cathy Bonnelle, Jacky Boutineau, Isabelle Cadière, Carole Chavanne, Didier Cimandef, Sophie de Combret, Philippe Duport-Paradis, Angelika Emmerich, Aurélie Fontagné, Soline Galaup, Romain Geiss, Philippe Gloagen, Nathalie Granet, Nicolas Graveline, Louis Guérain, Anne-Pierre Guignard, Agri Ismail, Johanna Jelensperger, Catherine Jiguet, Jeremy Katz, Christophe Labarde, Eric de La Broise, Christophe Lasserre, Yves Le Boënnec, Isabelle Leparck, Annick Lepinson, Jean-Christian Leymarie, Marc Ludwig, Pawel Makowiecki, Pablo Maneyrol, Pierre-Julien Marboeuf, Alexis Mersch, Kelly Michel, Pauline Morin, Othmane Mrabet, Jean-Luc Neyraut, Jeremie Noël, Laëtitia Pasquier, Claude Pellat, Sabrina Perez, Philippe Pivert, Georges Porcheray, Alix Poulet, Laurent Prévotat, Armelle Privat, Sylvia et François-Xavier Reuseau, Marie Richard, Marilena Rocchetti, Giusi Sapienza, Mathieu Sauvestre, Carmela Schillaci, Sebastian Schmelz, Marion Silvain, Fredrik Skiöldebrand, Elizabeth Sodiowne, Sophie de Sousa, Piyush Tandan, Xavier Thamin, Christelle Van Ham, Félix Vézier, Ruuta Vimba, Denis Volle, Tian Yang...
and to our families and friends, who supported us before and during our trip.
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