Asilia Stories
Stories from the people doing nature-based work in East Africa, told with them and published free.
A publication of Asilia Impact.
How we tell them
Consent first
Everyone we feature agrees to it in their own language and can withdraw before publication.
Told with the people in them
People and communities review their story before it goes out, and are credited by name if they choose.
Evidence alongside
Where a story makes a claim about impact, we show where the number comes from.
More than one story
We avoid the single picture of struggle and rescue. People here are experts in their own places.
Essays
The future of marketing and communications belongs to educators
As platforms move from the social graph to the interest graph, the organisations that teach will be found first.
The organisations that stay invisible are doing everything right
Rigorous programmes, real community relationships, solid field data, and still nobody can find them.
What gets lost when you translate community knowledge into institutional language
The ethical and strategic cost of smoothing place-based knowledge into funder language.
The ocean has a story problem
Sixty million people live on the Western Indian Ocean coast. Almost none of them appear in the stories told about it.
When Africa walks into the room
Notes from the National Geographic Explorers Festival in Johannesburg on access and creativity.
Know a story we should tell?
We work with field teams, community groups and enterprises. Send us a few lines about the people and the place.