One little effort... one big impact...

Late Thursday afternoon - before the "big event" - the Joint Communications Group of the Liberian Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism met to discuss the "Ebola Must Go" campaign... billboards, media messages, banners, videos, radio jingles, etc. On that Group are Ministers, GoL representatives, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, African Governance Initiative, UNICEF, WHO, IREX and Internews (among others). We met in the Minister's conference room... and a plan was hatched. Now to execute... 

My small job was to find a "button/pin" maker (in Monrovia) that was still open and who could create buttons for President Johnson Sirleaf, Ban Ki Moon, Margaret Chan and other dignitaries. 

Rukshan, from UNICEF, suggested a place and I dashed out of the Comms Group meeting... to create something for these very high level folks. Traffic, wrong turns, wrong shops, wrong addresses... but... mission accomplished. And, wow... there they are. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Ban Ki Moon wearing the very recently created "Ebola Must Go" buttons/pins... created by the Internews guy - yours truly - just in time for the visit, the meetings and the photo opportunities. Thirty buttons/pins for dignitaries and officials... How cool is that!? 

Check out the photo on this story.
http://micatliberia.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2089%3Aban-ki-moon-visits-liberia-commends-pres-sirleaf-for-fighting-ebola&catid=268%3Aebola-update&Itemid=402