Philips Foundation

Innovation for a better world and brighter futures

The Phillips Foundation has created ‘Community Life Centers’ throughout Africa. CLC’s are area’s of 1000m2 lit by powerful LEDs. They are a safe haven and a place where people can socialize in the evenings

Countries worked in

Deliverables

"We have travelled a long way together in Africa these past six years!"

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In the past years we’ve made various stories about the impact of this project.

Makmende approach

One of our first stories featured Fredrick Ochieng, a boy living in the Kenyan slums

Outcome

Four years after we shot the first film with him we returned and discovered how he’d turned his life around.

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