Agency (city): DLKW LOWE, London Creative Director(s): Greg Delaney Copywriter(s): Richard J Warren Art Director(s): Paul Hancock Photographer(s): Oli Kellett Agency Producer(s): Ally Dean ART DESIGNER: Mikko Timonen Account Supervisor: Anders Bothen Account Manager: Anna Levegard MEDIA AGENCY: Mindshare MUSIC: Music Super Service Advertiser's Supervisor: Bengt Junemo Short explanationThe MicroLoan Foundation is a charity that helps women in Africa to set up their own small businesses. Our campaign is called 'Pennies for Life'. On a digital poster site, we created unfinished portraits of African women, made of pennies. Then we invited people to complete each picture by texting a donation. As soon as it arrived, the money dropped into place on the screen. Donors got a personal 'thank you' on the poster, and a credit on our microsite. And, from one poster site, in its first weekend, 21 women who had nothing now have their own small businesses. DescriptionThe MicroLoan Foundation is a responsible and non-profit UK microfinance charity that provides microfinance (small loans of on average ?70), business education and ongoing mentoring support to impoverished women in sub-Saharan Africa. This provides them with a "hand-up not a hand out" so they can develop self-sustainable livelihoods for themselves and their families, and work their own way out of poverty. 99% of the loans are repaid and then recycled in full to help more women year after year.
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