My Communities

My name is Tenagne and I am from Ethiopia. I worked with child focused organization supported through sponsors for a long time. My work has been telling the story of the children before and after joining the organization. It has been such a wonderful experience. Now I am not with that organization but supporting and volunteering with like minded organization and churches. I was engaged in other course with the University and when I finished the I browsed through the courses and I was happy to see the story telling course. I believe it will help me refresh and enhance my story telling for the future engagement.

Hello @Tenu ,welcome to the course & Happy Learning.

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@Tenu ,may you enjoy your time here.

Hi, I am Ana, from Mexico.
I started in the field of fundraising by my father. I didn´t study anything related in fundraising, I studied advertaisment, but little by little my dad introduced me to this world, now I love my job. I guide a non-profit, created by my dad and I want to learn more about the topic and become a good fundraiser.

Hello @AnaLau ,welcome to the course & Happy Learning!!!

Hello, My name is Benedicta Apeh. I live in Abuja, Nigeria. I am currently the Program Officer for a foundation whose goal is education for children. I love storytelling. I write a lot and I have written several fiction stories of my own. So, I am really looking forward to so much I can learn from this course, increasing my creativity, story crafting and learning about a different side of storytelling; especially in the non- profit space. This will in turn aid my organization scale its impact in telling our impact story effectively and getting more people on board to partner with us.

Hello @benedictaN ,welcome to the course & Happy Learning!!!

Hello everybody! I am very happy to participate in this course. My name is Isabel Polo (49) and I am a researcher on cultural issues. Many years ago I have been a volunteer for various institutions while I was studying Journalism and Literature. I have worked for almost two decades in the culture industry and I have noticed that it is not entirely democratic, since it excludes those who have the least. And the Covid-19 pandemic shows this reality with no clouds. And this has to change! My purpose is to make inexpensive books for free distribution to schoolchildren from the poorest sectors, who cannot go to their schools due to confinement. Many of them cannot continue their remote classes because they do not have electricity or internet to study and grow culturally. For me, learning how to tell impact stories can help me to get the support I need to make this dream come true. The book has the power to change lives, and all I want is to change lives!

Hi everyone,
My name Taliroyiahn Chermaine Rollart, I am from Papua New Guinea the smallest country anyone could find on the map. I joined storytelling because i want to improve how i say or tell everyone especially the children the stories i am telling. I was motivated by how stories are told in different vocal varieties, stories told in movies form and also told to the audience. in the end of this project i wan to be able to tell a story properly that would have an impact on the audience.

Hi. My name is Edmore Munedzimwe, I am Zimbabwean. Most of my professional life has been Software Engineering but I also do career guidance and training. The impact I'm trying to have is on driving African education to be more skills focused and I believe story telling is the way to motivate for that change.

Hello @isabelispg ,thanks for sharing a bit of your story with us.Welcome to the course and Happy Learning!!!

Hello @muneddmore ,welcome to the course and Happy Learning!!!

Hello @taliroyiahnrollart78 ,welcome to the course and Happy Learning!!!

Thank you so much

Hi, Im Ivy from malaysia. I am currently an university student majoring in geoscience subject. I found story-telling to be very interesting as it affects not only the way I narrate, but also bring impact on people surrounding me. I take up this course is to improve myself in communication and augment the message I want to deliver through my stories. I have always found communicating a difficult task as I am an inert who like to be alone. But recently, I found the significance communicating the ideas with groups of people to hone thinking skills and general knowledge. I learnt that by storytelling, I can attract people attention and ease the process of delivering message. Hence, I hope by the end of this course, I will be able to reach this goal. Thank you and take care!

@taliroyiahnrollart78 ,you're very welcome.

Hello @missnoovdle ,we are delighted to have you here.Happy Learning!!!

the first Thing that came to mind when I started this course was, finally i found the solution to help friends and families who need such knowledge. But in order to help them i have to get it myself, practice and then i am able to tell others how sure i am to these knowledge.
I find these module very interesting and challenging because of how far you should think in order find certain answers generally. It makes me feel like a whole new person. Thank you so much for these knowledge. I am so grateful.

Hello @taliroyiahnrollart78 ,you're surely in the right place.I warmly welcome you to this course.Happy Learning!!!

My name is Jinane. I am from Lebanon. I work in a humanitarian organization that has interventions in many sectors and offers services to refugees in particular. I work in communications, and storytelling for me is very important because I believe that stories are a very powerful tool to bring out the voice of vulnerable communities and to shed light on their lives.

Hello @JinaneMneimneh ,welcome to the course and Happy Learning!!!

I am Jane Nakasagga a mother to a loving boy, Ugandan nationality working with whispers magical childrens' hospital and maternity, I joined whispers because of my love for children and helping the less previledged children and mothers in Eastern region and Uganda at large. We are committed to making a difference in the lives of mothers and Children in Uganda and around the globe through Love and Happiness because I believe with love, everything is possible.

Music, dance, laughter, photos all this tells who peris saleh is. I was born and raised at Mukuru one of the largest slum in Nairobi Kenya. My life is a story, growing in a slum seeing different kind of issues both negative or positive happening around gave me an interest in writing the story of my life and also my community.

Hello every body!
Nice connecting with you here, My name is Gale from South Sudan, I am 28 years old, I am a journalist and i work for Kendita Initiative as Communication coordinator. Am passionate about telling stories and I always seek out methodologies on how to improve my expertise in story telling. Am confident that by pursuing this course, I will have more skills and expertise in digital story telling.

Hi everyone, my name is Adedayo and i'm excited to be here!
A young adult with so many ambitions to birth yet stucked with none coming to reality, i realised the need to do something really fast before time becomes totally lost. With my search button activated , an opportunity knocked on my door and with my ten God gifted fingers i opened it wide opened . Little did i know the little of my thousand miles had just began with a step starting as a Program Officer for a Non-profit organisation that provides support for TVET institutions and public schools. Several times i stumbled and ask myself genuine questions like 'What exactly am i doing here'? but i knew something has been birthed inside of me that was far beyond being a Program Officer for an indigenous NGO but a call to make a global social impact. To get there, i need every knowledge i can get hence, the reason for being here. Thank You.

My name is Tia and I'm here for learning more about storytelling, bringing one or maybe more impact to the society through my books about fantasy adventure that in progress right now and my animation in the future. Right now, I'm enjoying my self-reflection time to explore more about every knowledge and possibilities that I can achieve while out of writer's block and pandemic. Thank you.

hello my name is Chimwemwe, I am from Malawi. I am happy to join you all. I look forward to interacting with you all and building networks.

I am Andrew Ahiaku, Head of Banking Sector for Aceli Africa, a market-based agricultural finance initiative in East Africa aimed at supporting financial institutions to increase lending to Agri-SMEs using financial incentives and technical assistance.

As a Corporate Banker, I enjoyed interacting with my agribusiness clients especially when I went on field visits. I became the Head of Agribusiness Finance in my bank and partnered with development agencies like USAID, DFID, Giz etc. The more I attended their seminars the more I enjoyed development work. I loved and looked forward to the impact stories. Mainstream banking didnt trill me me as before. I began to lookout for a role in the mainline NGO space. The role at Aceli where I interface with bank looked exciting. Its been 17 months and Ive not regretted. I had to make sacrifices to join Aceli, but the joy of making a difference in the lives of agri-SMEs compensates for it.

With this course, I hope to be better at telling stories of impact. the ones that make a difference and turn donors towards a good course.

Greetings! My name is Mindy and have an expanded role at my faith-based university. There are so many stories to tell and I want to make sure to maximize my talents and increase my skills. Happy learning, everyone!

Hi, my name is Mohammad and I'm from Afghanistan. Currently I'm working with an Organization which works for refugees and returnees.

Hello! I’m Bastien Fabrice, student in communication, I’m a social media manager and content manager too…I’m 23 years old
This course was recommended by a friend who learned Branding on this platform…
I wanna learn storytelling for impact because i want to increase more skills for my business…
Thanks to add me in your contact…
Happy to be here!

Desirous to hone a forte in storytelling with data as a budding M&E expert, I find this course a good starting point for this journey. Ensuring healthy lives for all, no matter their status, social class or location, is a vision I bought into from my organization's. Hence, learning to tell impactful stories with data from our interventions will come in handy to share the good we're doing in ensuring every Nigerian has access to quality, affordable and prompt healthcare service. I am Victoria and it's good to be here!

Hello! My name Is Maria and I live in Russia now and work at the non-profit organisation. I always have an interest in helping others. When I was a 8-years old kid I tryied to open a shelter for stray cats. I did not succed much back then but I have kept a keen interest in philanthropy. I hope this course will help me to continue my path at the non-profit sector. I am excited to meet people from around the world and to know what they do.

Hello, Isabel. Nica to meet you. I hope this course will help you to achieve your goal. I am impressed with your idea. Good luck in your journey.

Maria

Hello, Victoria
Nice to meet you. Good luck in your journey!

Hi this is Ganesha Sharma from India. I am a of a global referral organization. We work on lot of numbers to see how our members are succeeding and I keep motivating/ inspiring my team member to do better so that it helps their business. In fact Story telling is a very part of our organization culture but when I checked my conversation I was able to make out that I was not sharing stories to get my point to my member and hence it was not making a impact.
I understand that story telling is a skill and we need to learn. My search on the net to listen to Business story telling led me to Storywhallas video and their I fount the Philanthropy University and I jumped into this course.

I wish to learn this skill and impact more people whom I come across which will benefit them immensely to take action.

Thank you very much

Hi this is Ganesha Sharma from India. I am a of a global referral organization. We work on lot of numbers to see how our members are succeeding and I keep motivating/ inspiring my team member to do better so that it helps their business. In fact Story telling is a very part of our organization culture but when I checked my conversation I was able to make out that I was not sharing stories to get my point to my member and hence it was not making a impact.
I understand that story telling is a skill and we need to learn. My search on the net to listen to Business story telling led me to Storywhallas video and their I fount the Philanthropy University and I jumped into this course.

I wish to learn this skill and impact more people whom I come across which will benefit them immensely to take action.

Thank you very much

I fell in love with speaking and wanted to do more with my voice.

I began asking questions and I found worthy answers which lead me to writing and podcasting but now storytelling for podcasts.

I am Balqees Hamzat, 23 from Nigeria hoping to learn the tools and skill that would help me the the world the great good being done by certain humans.

Wow. Welcome.

Wow. Welcome.

My name is Andjas Aribowo I am Indonesian and I'm 21 years old.
I belong to some organizations. As a student, I belong to Binus University. when i was on senior high school, i went to nature lovers organization or something's like environmental organization. we did a campaign plastic, wildlife and some community services.

Hi, I am Daniel aged 36 yrs from Uganda. I am a scientist with a masters in Business majoring in health service management. As scientist, we pride in getting to point as soon as possible during communication. But as a manager I have realized that the mode of relaying the message might make a bigger impact than how quickly you make the point. I am a civil servant looking forward to learning a thing or two from story telling for an impact

Hi everyone,

My name is Prachi and I am 25 years old. I come from India, the land of garlic and onion, spices and sweets as I call it. I find myself frustrated with certain ways of thinking and narratives that drive the world, I stumbled upon this course and think that maybe learning how to tell a better story for impact can help me contribute to pivoting some of these narratives!

Yemi Orimolade is my name as work as the Philanthropies Lead for Microsoft in Nigeria. Its my pleasure being here.

Hello. I am Kawthar, a law student from Nigeria. My passion for providing quality education to children in undeserved community, and ensuring that more attention is giving towards cause is my reason for taking the course.

I want to be able to, through the power of storytelling give justice to these children journey, those to come and most importantly, effect a positive change

Hi! I'm Nikki. I'm from the Philippines. I worked at an Non-Profit Organization centered on youth. It's been two years since I work as an executive staff. I was thinking to enroll in this course so that I can enhance my story telling ideas that might be beneficial to help my organization grow and develop.

Hello, My name is Chiagoziem. I am the founder of an NGO here in Nigeria whose aim is to contribute to the attainment of Sustainable Development Goal 4 - quality education in Nigeria. The idea is to introduce and entrench values and character-based education to the existing educational curriculum and system, using fun and exciting teaching methods.
I know that learning the art of story telling would equip us to tell our story and evoke the appropriate/ intended response. Therefore, I am looking forward to being able to tell the ETCIO story with confidence and clarity.

Wow, this is so good to know.
I am literally encouraged to start the course by just reading your story.
Thanks for sharing.
All the best.

Hello Nikki,

Way to go!

All the best in your endeavor to contribute to the development of your organization.

Hi my name is Ijeoma Daniella Ojisilike from Nigeria,Africa. Am a graduate of Evangel University Akaeze and I studied Business Management. I joined an organisation called ETCIO (educating the citizens of international organisation)we promote and encourage values. I decided to go for this course to beable to encourage and teach people to stand up for their selves

Hello,
My name is Funmi Adeyemi. I recently started working for a nonprofit and was made the Team Lead for Impact Stories. I am passionate about telling stories because I believe it is a tool for turning the ordinary into extraordinary. I registered for this course so I could learn a lot more than I know.

After a lifetime of searching for a career path that was fulfilling and emotionally sustainable, I have landed as a development professional at a small social service nonprofit just outside of Chicago. Our mission is to provide housing solutions, support services and counseling for older adults, persons with disabilities and others in need, enabling them to live with dignity and independence. I am thankful every day that I get to serve my community in a meaningful way.

Hi, my name is Tanya and I am from Sri Lanka - a tiny, tear-drop shaped island to the south of India. I joined the World Food Programme last year and am now part of team with a vision for a world with zero hunger. I have a background in Marketing and Communications from the many years I worked in the Private Sector. My role at the UN (in Communications) is vastly different to what I'm used to which is why I signed up for this course. I want to learn the art of storytelling, not so I generate a sale, but so I create impact.

You echo my thoughts when you say you found a job that is emotionally sustainable. Working to help others gives purpose and meaning to our lives, helping us find peace of mind.

Hello! We hope you will enjoy this course. We are learning together in this course and we hope you can share your experience in learning this course. Thank you.

My name is Adeola and I am from Kwara State in Nigeria. I joined my organisation because of the passion I have to help the less privilege in my community. I want to start an NGO that will support and help the less privilege to access quality health care service.

Greetings from Sunny South Africa, After Serving as a missionary in Mozambique for 27 years we are now based in Johannesburg South Africa, Running a Ministry into correctional services (prisons) doing one on one with inmates as well as classroom , where we help them fins out why they landed up in this place, how to find freedom and what are the next steps.

Hello everyone,
my name is Grace and I am from Malawi. I have just recently joined a non-profit organization, that works in remote, high-poverty communities in order to implement high-impact projects that are identified by the local people of the community. These people have stories to share and I would like to be part of that process. This course will help me deliver my story and theirs as one story. I am looking forward to learning and working with different people. :)

Hello,
My name is Scott Bloom and I am a Curriculum Director in Ohio. I am in this course to help prepare my work with a local Philanthropic Agency. I am very excited to learn more about telling our story!

Today I browsed on my email inbox, sorted it to oldest unread messages, and found a Philanthropy U invitation. It intrigued me and after browsing the site, I decided to register. I am Cristela, 20 years old, badly needing to sort out my emails. It turns out to be good 'cause I discover new things like this one. I am working on an epistolary book on Wattpad. I also started a Telegram channel for tarot reading. I would love to gain story telling skills to earn more readers and subscribers.

I am Célestin and I live in Cameroon of which I am a citizen. I am very involved in the G90 which is the alumni's Association of my high school where I stayed from 1992 to 1999. Our ambition is to carry out at least one community interest project each year. I think this course will be very important for my future, firstly because I am a marketing specialist and also because I will increase my investment in associations.

Hello everyone,

My name is Tosin Adewuyi-Kotti, from Nigeria, West Africa. In 2019, I founded TosaadecWorld Foundation, an NGO that is working to achieve SDG 4, EDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN. To effectively achieve this goal, I enrolled in this course to get resources and knowledge needed.

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Hello Everyone, my name is Boakai B. Koilor. I'm taking this course because I want to develop my storytelling skill.

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Am chinwendu stella, a licensed medical practitioner; another license in pursuit, entrepreneur and a storyteller, I love perfection, I always want to be the best! So I reminded my self that knowledge is power and then I picked my phone in search of the knowledge, I found myself here,, I want to be a professional storyteller for brands and every other sector in which my services will be needed.

Hi My name is Julianto Trywijaya. I am Indonesian and I'm 21 years old.
I'm a Binus University student. I'm here to learn and got my certificate as a condition from my university.

Hello everyone! My name is Shito and I am from Haiti.
I am here because I just got my S&M certificate on this platform. After getting it, I wanted to be done with this platform 😒😒😒 and find other sites to learn other things, however something crossed my mind👌, was to search this site to see if I could find any other interesting things, I just clicked on course, after a few seconds I read a title that said <Storytelling for Impact"💫💫💫 I thought "Eureka! Say no more!"😁😁😁", I found what I was looking for. To say well the term Storytelling has a great importance for me since I'm a Data Analyst and on top of that I like to tell stories, let's say I'm a writer.😊😊😊.
Ben, I am glad to be back here to learn new things.😎😎😎
" Shito3" ⛩ 🌪

Hello,
My name is Abimbola Iyiola. I am 30years. I joined this community because I have failed a couple of times, failed and quit so much I started to doubt my ability to succeed. I wonder if I can actually start something and end it successfully without quitting.
So glad I did it with the course branding 101, now am hooked, I want to do it over and over again I want to make success and winning an habit.
Joined this particular course because I want to be able to tell my story proudly and adequately.

Hello,
I am Ify from Nigeria, Africa. My experience as a Librarian has exposed me to the reading needs of children in public primary schools in my country. This motivated to start an initiative with the mission to make reading activities and materials accessible under privileged children in public schools, especially in rural communities. My search for the best tools that will portray my intentions clearly to my audience led me to Philanthropy University. Storytelling, I believe will be a strong and interesting tool to work in order to accomplish my goals. Hence, my reason for studying this course.

I am Simon Mungai i work with Goblis foundation I was motivated to join the organization because it focuses on empowering the vulnerable un employed youths and climate change something that am passionate about. i want to master the art of story telling and with the know how i can impact the society that i train each an every day

Hi there, nice to meet you! My name is Rinaldo Lesmana. I'm currently studying Tourism major at BINUS University, Indonesia. As a future tourism worker, I do think communication skill is something crucial to have in this industry. Communication skill could elevate the value of a tourist destination in an unimaginable way. Communication is allowing us to create stories, memories, as well as experiences to the attraction images. Therefore, to become someone impactful, i need to enrich and nourish myself with more experiences to spread the beauty of local tourism especially through words. I really hope that through this course, I’ll have a chance to be more creative and put more attention to the meaning of the story.

Hi there my name is Samir, first of all I'm from west Africa Burkina Faso. I'm so glad to be in this course learning new skills and thanks to @philanthropyU for the brilliant work they do. I'm studying civil engineering and I a intend to also learn about Storytelling thank you so much see you in the course

Hello!

My name is Pablo, I was born in the USA but I was raised in Spain. I am volunteering for an NGO in Accra, Ghana. Fafalifoundation.org. I want to improve my storytelling skills so that I can write a compelling story that will help us fundraise for our organization.

Hello all. Thank you so much for affording me this opportunity to introduce myself. Myself name is Venancio Tavarwisa from Zimbabwe. If feel very grateful to be part of this learning journey. I am the Program Manager for ZINERELA+ an Interfaith network of Religious Leaders Living with or Personally Affected by HIV and AIDS. I was moved to join my organization mainly because I grew up very affected by HIV and most times found myself a receiver of stigma and at times being discriminated. Telling my story and other people's stories have been an uphill task for me since I am not the best story teller of my time. My social impact mission is pivoted on reducing stigma and discrimination towards people living with HIV as well as other people who are downgraded in my community and I have grown to become the voice of the voiceless. I want to be the best storyteller for my organization as well as my community so that I share my story with others globally. I also want to attract as many funders for my organization as possible. Storytelling will elevate me to climb up that ladder. I am so loving and simple. Thank you.

I am Abdusalam from Nigeria, 49 years old Nursery and primary school teacher.
Being a teacher of children in a low income environment, I observed that many children are left to roam about the street after the school hours and at the mercy of rotten citizens while their parents struggling to survive on menial job are yet to return home.
I therefore wish to create a modern daily post classroom activities in form of fun and game for children to occupy them while their parent are not around and as well give them life orientation to choose a better career and become a good citizen

Hi, I am Obioma and am excited to be here with you all.

Great to have you here

Good to have you here

Hi, my name is Nnenna Jacob-Ogogo. I just recently joined the impact investing community, before that i was and still am an ardent gender advocate. so i spend a lot of my time trying to tell stories, mostly not very effectively. I was really excited to come across this course and even more so to find that it is free!!

I look forward to embarking on this journey with you all.

Hi Obioma, good to have you here

Great to have you here

I'm Achraf, an 18-year-old ambitious person with big dreams. Storytelling was one of the major things I heard of since the day I started learning about business and leadership. It's everywhere; in Business, Journalism, film-making, and even in digital content such as YouTube and other platforms. Storytelling is more than useful it helps you build trust with customers and real long-term connections with stakeholders as well as your partners.

Hi everyone! I´m Nydia and I got into this course to learn how to create meaningful stories for APAC, a mexican nonprofit who attends low-income dissabled people.
It is the first time I work in a non-profit, but has already changed my way of seeing life and others.
My goals are learning storytelling techniques and connect with peers in teh humanitarian sector.
Happy to be here!

That´s an amazing goal. I think storytelling can also help your students to recrite their own narratives.

The work that Fafali is doing is amazing. Congratulations!

My name is Joshua Omasere,m from Nigeria and I work as a project engineer in a construction company.
I have a degree in mechanical engineering and I joined my company because they do engineering works like tank construction and pipe line installations,practicing Engineering and using knowledge and experience gained from class room has always been my dream,I find fulfilment working to solve problems and design solutions in the oil and gas/ construction industry.
Presently m working on bridging the gap between the skilled and unskilled like running free training and paying for some young persons who cannot afford to get a professional training and certification to secure a job within the industry.
I intend to use the skills I ll get from this course to write proposals and work on my personal project and capture persons that have interest in engineering and outside engineering,I also intend to start a masters programme in mechanical engineering and this course would help me write and communicate better in field of study and place of work

Hi everyone,My name Is Mary Muthama from Afarmers Media.I am here to learn how to engage my audience and tap into their emotions by my storytelling.

Hi! I am Jan, a data professional from the Philippines. Making use of my number-crunching and research skillsets to the corporate sector for a decade, I am now implementing these two for a greater cause, specifically for tuberculosis and HIV management. Yes, numbers speak volumes; however, making sense of what happened and what could be done through a compelling story makes collaboration stronger. Thus, I will certainly learn and apply the learning from this course to my current task.

Hello My name is Pamela. I am from the middle East. I am not part of any organization, I am currently unemployed. However, I have a thirst for knowledge and while searching for online courses, I accidently came across your website. I am very much excited and curious to find out about storytelling.

Hello!
My name is ,Muyodi colline. I am a facilitator with Action in Africa in Uganda Wakiso district. Because I facilitate students and teachers in different creative activities creative writing being one of them, I decided to look out for an interesting course on line and that is how I was able to land on this course. I am interested in story telling because I believe that behind every story good or bad there is an a life that is being transformed. It is that therefore that makes me want to learn more about story telling for impact.

At the end of this course., I want to be able to write and tell stories that bring about a positive change to humanity as well as to society.

I look forward to learning more and having social fun for the good.
Thank you.

Hello!
My name is ,Muyodi colline. I am a facilitator with Action in Africa in Uganda Wakiso district. Because I facilitate students and teachers in different creative activities creative writing being one of them, I decided to look out for an interesting course on line and that is how I was able to land on this course. I am interested in story telling because I believe that behind every story good or bad there is an a life that is being transformed. It is that therefore that makes me want to learn more about story telling for impact.

At the end of this course., I want to be able to write and tell stories that bring about a positive change to humanity as well as to society.

I look forward to learning more and having social fun for the good.
Thank you.

Hi, my name is Olaide. I just left the teenage and I've been thinking of something better to do for myself. I'm in my third year at the university studying Public Administration. I make hair and sell jewelry but, I want to do more. Fortunately, I started my internship at a Nongovernmental organization, PWAN; The Rule of Law and Empowerment Initiative known as Partners West Africa Nigeria enhances citizens' participation and improves security governance in Nigeria and West Africa. I told the Communication Assistant about my interest in writing. She told me now is the time to learn because I have free access to the internet every time I'm at the office and I could read and learn when I'm less busy. She told me about Philanthropy University and I was wowed when I heard it was free to learn! I just want to help myself so I can help others, I don't want to lose this opportunity. I can learn, develop and write for the organization and not just myself. I want the six months of my internship to be blissful and full of experiences. I can also make good money from writing which will help further my studies. I'm happy to be in this community.

Hi! My name is Caitlin Mayhut, born and raised in Northern California, and I am grateful enough to graduate from Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA. I've always like telling and hearing stories as my mom is from Hawaii. In Hawaii, when you talk to friends and family, it is called "talk story." This really made an impact on me in that I love hearing other people's stories, experiences, and insights. I was lucky enough to have my degree in Integrated Marketing Communication with a Nonprofit Management minor. Currently, I am working for a community foundation in Northern California. I am so excited for this opportunity as I get to share the passion, mission, and vision of this great organization through storytelling. When I'm not "talking story" to friends and family, you can catch me playing the ukulele, hiking in Northern California, and traveling to Europe. Please join my team on this website : American Storytellers: Americans who want to improve their storytelling abilities. It was nice to virtually meet you, share a little part of my story, and be involved with Philanthropy University's Storytelling course. Mahalo! (thank you in Hawaiian)

A story i found really powerful was educational. it made me feel happy

Hi All, my name is Rasha from Iraq and I am glad to be part of this team. I really hope to be a good storyteller in a way that I can catch the attention of my audience without boring them. I need to improve this skills in my work.

Hello, my name is Deo and I'm from Uganda.
After graduating from university and completing a development studies degree, I began working for a non-profit organization and studying cinematography and photography. As a result, I recognized I needed to take additional courses to improve my performance in my profession, which is how I arrived here.
I'm hoping that this course will be quite beneficial to me.

Hi, everyone! I am Sathya Reka Godwin, founder and director of Winrose International Campus which is a community based vocational training center located in the rural part of Sri Lanka. I started Winrose to guide youths who are not able to pursue their higher studies or choose an appropriate career and live with the flow of life. We serve the youths in the tea plantation community which shows a snail speed development. The reason is believed - lack of education. We are working towards to have a lasting impact in this community because I too a victim of this education system.

Hello everyone,
My name is Kristine and I've being long fascinated by the uniqueness and enormous potential of human mind and workings of life. with the help of all of you hope to equip myself with skills that will allow me to convey right messages in the most effective way.

Best of luck to all of you on your personal journeys!

Hello, my name is Sandra from Nigeria, great work you're doing.

Hello, my name is Sandra from Nigeria, Working with a non-profit organization here in Nigeria that focus on an inclusive quality education in the society. The story about Malala Yousafzai would be my biggest motivating factor in line with Education and Gender equality.
Looking forward to improving my story telling methods after taking this course.