You might have noticed we're doing our best to keep you posted about our activities in Africa. Now we decided to go to the next level and we put together a 90 seconds video to make it easier to understand what we're trying to put together, and why we'd really appreciate people to lend us a hand.

In case you'd like to help us and a donation is out of your budget, please share the video through your Facebook or Twitter account. A single click might get us a long way.

So here's the video. Many thanks go to ESAV Marrakech students, who not only designed the posters featured in the stop motion sequence, but are the clip's protagonists too. Shout-outs also to video editor Fadi Azzi, and voiceover speaker Johanna Worton.

If you were thinking of putting together a blog entry about our project (thank you, we owe you one) you might as well be interested in checking out our new galleries on Flickr. All the pictures are available in high resolution upon request:
Poster gallery and photo gallery of the Morocco workshop held at ESAV, Marrakech.
Photo gallery of the Ghana workshop held at KNUST University in Kumasi.
Poster gallery and photo gallery of the Ghana workshop held at ISAG, Dubréka.

Here's also a little update about the workshop schedule.

Upcoming workshops:

Nairobi, Kenya
Buruburu Fine Arts Institute, 13-19 June
led by Antoine Abi Aad

Gabarone, Botswana
Maru-a-Pula School | 16-20 May
led by Joel Holland

Durban, South Africa
Durban University of Technology, 9-13 May
led by Leandro Castelao

Stellenbosch, South Africa
Academy of Design and Photography, 16-20 May
led by Ruth Klotzel

Harare, Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts, 16-20 May
led by Götz Gramlich

Den Den, Tunisia
École Supérior des Sciences et Technologies du Design, 9-13 May
led by Florence Robert

Cities where there are schools that would like to host our workshops,
but we lack fund to do it:

Bamako, Mali
Ouagadoudou, Burkina Faso
Jaunde, Cameroon
Addis Abeba, Ethiopia
Windhoek, Namibia
Johannesburg, South Africa
Kinshasa, Congo
Luanda, Angola
Lusaka, Zambia

In case you'd like to know it, the music we used as a soundtrack for the video comes from 74 year old Ghanian national Ebo Taylor, who recorded it for his first international release: "Love and Death". The track is available as a free download, and the album is worth every penny. Please check it out at: http://www.ebotaylor-loveanddeath.com/ 

Natalia Delgado has just completed her workshop at the Kwame Nkrumah University. It's quite an incredible story. The long and short of it is that she led two workshops of 75 students over a week, but it's a story that can be told much more eloquently by the series of photos we'll attach to this post and this piece of feedback from a student:

"Poster for tomorrow has really been an eye opener. I was really inspired and enlightened about design in general. I think there is a difference between getting stuff in ones head and being able to teach and getting the stuff and finding the appropriate process to teach it. Natalia was able to deliver and to me is the best teacher and designer I have met so far. Her process and technique really work for me. I hope to seeing her some other time with more stuff. It was really fun having her around. Now that she is going I know I can face the challenge out there. I know that."

To say this is why do poster for tomorrow is perhaps stating the obvious, but, well, these sorts of comments are really heartwarming.

We'd like to thank Natalia for her time and effort, her students for their enthusiasm and congratulate everyone on a great week.

In other news, Vincent left for Guinea on Friday. There hasn't been any water or electricity in Duberka since last tuesday, so we wish him and everyone all the best at a difficult time.

 Our Pan-African workshops are rolling…