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Ferdi van den BERGH is the founder and imagineer of Tjeko Fun Village. As he was exploring the opportunities for 1more Child (sponsorship program for the most vulnerable) in the fall of 2008, Ferdi came to a sobering conclusion. This Dutch father of two realized that children in Uganda are not given the opportunity to be children. He started to imagine an amusement park for all children of Uganda. This would be a place where children simply could be children. Wondering how he would finance such a park, he realized that an initiative like this could possibly generate income of its own.
Ferdi has extensive experience with child-focused educational programs, having worked for a ministry in the heart of an expansive inner city, Brooklyn, New York. In these socially challenged neighborhoods he developed his skills to manage large groups of children, and offer them high-quality programs. This experience helps him to scale the new challenges ahead of him in Uganda.
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Ben PODBURY, founder of Big Picture Creations, has been involved from the early beginings of Tjeko Fun Village. Setting the tone for its house-style, Ben is heavily involved in further developing the Tjeko-brand. Ben Podbury has created teaching and entertainment props for commerical and non-profit organizations of all sizes. His insight in what a child really likes help him to deliver props and sets – tools, if you will, that produce results in involving children in big events.
www.bigpictureceations.net
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Guillaume GIRAULT
Joined the Tjeko team January 2010. He develops the current Tjeko characters and the ‘Tjeko Universe’. His portfolio contains several other great cartoons.
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Rimko van den BERGH
Born and raised in the Netherlands, Rimko is the founder of LENSTER, a management and consulting company. He daily directs a team of managing directors at a leading telecom company in the Netherlands. Traveling through Uganda, he realized there is an opportunity here that is unique. Developing a strategy that will make the project self-sustaining and expandable is his biggest ambition for Tjeko Fun Village.
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Nathan WEALKENS is entrepreneur and founder of Imigo Webbased Solutions. He develops custom web management systems and applications. Instead of reinventing the wheel he's embracing existing applications as the fundament for his work (open source). Nathan is responsible for all technical aspects of the website and the developer of the donations and sponsor grid components.
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