INFLUENTIAL MEN

The World’s Most

To the world you may be

one person,

but to one person you may be the world.

ethiopia - marie swartz

Father & child holding hands Red Cross Hospital, South Africa

johannesburg, south africa - george hallett

Proud young father with his baby girl

Bangu, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Jon Spaull

Research shows that fathers who are close to their children become

happier, more empathetic individuals and engage in

less risk behaviors.

Children with positive male role models in their

lives become safe and secure adults.

Chuck with daughter

USA - CAROL ROSS

Walter Sisulu playing with his grandson Ziyeka

soweto, south africa

gisele wulfsohn

INFLUENTIAL MEN

Engaging Men for Positive Change

- a global photography exhibit promoting gender equality & positive male role models

By providing positive examples of “what works”

and by offering positive role models -

more of the same can be created.

HOPE Exhibits’ goal is to spread positive images and ideas that create long-term, sustainable

change.

We are Hope Exhibits

Project Leader:VIKTORIA SAXBY ROXIE

Board Members: LARS PLANTIN, PhD

Doctor Gender & Fatherhood, Malmö HögskolaAdvisor Gender Equality Board, Swedish Government,

EU & WHO

ROLAND WILLIAMSCreative Director / Art Director

Project Leader’s Previous Work“I Want You to Know”

Gender & Development

* The World Bank * SIDA

* Ministry Foreign Affairs Sweden

“Children First!” Children’s Rights

* House of Sweden* Swedish Institute

* Barbro Osher Pro Suecia

MSF “Direct” World Aids Day

* Doctors Without Borders (Malawi)

Our Partners So Far.

MenEngage A Global Umbrella Organization:

Co-chairs: Instituto Promundo, ICRW

Members include: WHO, UNDP, UNFPA,Planned Parenthood, EngenderHealth

& 400+ NGO’s Worldwide

www.menengage.org

Save the Children

Save the Children works in 110 countries to ensure the well-being

of children.

www.savethechildren.org

A Cross-Cultural Exhibit:

5 Continents20 Photographers

25 Nations35 Photographs

About the Global Symposiumwww.EngagingMen2009.org

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil30 March - 3 April,

2009Host Organizations:

PromundoSave the Children-SwedenWhite Ribbon Campaign

Instituto PapaiUNFPA

MenEngage Alliance

what we focus on

we get more of

We are all more alike than different.

We all want the very

best for our children.

pakistan - pernilla norström

The joys of a happy childhood.

vietnam - nicholas pitt

“She is my greatest motivation. I understand what it would mean to give my life for hers. I am her protector for

life.”

Jason with daughter

usa - carol ross

“My father left when I was a kid.

I want to be here for my kids,

no matter what.”

Ryan, with Natashia-Grace, 7 weeks old

Estepona, Spain Viktoria Roxie

Father and daughter - Vietnam

vietnam- nicholas pitt

Chinese father on a walk with his 3

children

hong kong, china

Boogie CHIU

Baby sleeping comfortably

hong kong, china

Ping-hang CHENG

“The father teaches the daughter how to choose a companion that will treat her right.

The son knows how to treat women with dignity and respect.”

Kendrick with daughter and son.

USA - carol ross

San Bushman father and child

south africa

paul weinberg

Father and Son - Peru

david isaksson

Father and Son, also Peru.peru - jan sandberg

“Baby Admired” - Nicaragua

david isaksson

Pamela reading with her father

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Naomi Onaga

Father with his newborn baby

07.55

South Africa

Eric Miller

Neiva with her cousin Roque

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Jon Spaull

Father and son - El Salvador

david isaksson

Sazi Dlamini with daughter Zweli preparing for ballet class

Durban, south africa - Paul Weinberg

Change?

Yes, We Can!

“Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or

exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind.”

Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

PROJECT GOALS:

1. Engaging Men in Achieving Gender Equality =

More Gender Equity Globally

2. Promoting Positive Male Role Models for Men & Young Boys =

Strenghten a Positive Male Role

3. “Win/Win” for All:

* Better Life Quality - Women, Children & Men

* Less Violence

* Better Health

* Social, Peace and Economic Developments.

WHY is this exhibit important?

To create long-term, sustainable change, it is necessary to work on removing

“core problems” - which only can be done by changing attitudes and consciousness.

WHY should I support it?

Rather than putting band-aids on the symptoms, Hope Exhibits works to change attitudes that lead to behavioral

change

-with the potential of creating real and lasting positive change.

PRACTICAL EXAMPLES:

Instead of building more prisons for gang members...

Let us reduce the need by giving young boys more positive role models to look up to and

emulate.

Rather than building more women’s shelters for victims of physical and sexual violence...

Let us change negative gender attitudes and work to halt the violence.

Rather than building more treatment centers for victims of armed conflicts,

or for HIV patients...

Let us create a more peaceful society.

Let us work preventatively with HIV/aids.

Let us work for more gender equity.

Rather than building more children’s homes for AIDS orphans and abandoned children...

Let us create a better chance for the next generation to grow up with present and

healthy parents.

Rather than focusing on what’s wrong with the world,

and what’s not working...

Let us focus on what’s RIGHT with the world, and create more of the same

- more GOOD.

Sang with baby at UNICEF’s “Caring Dad” campaign

"I think it's a good idea. We hear a lot about mothers and kids here but not

much about fathers.

It's encouraging dads to be involved with their families - and stop HIV too."

cambodia(approval pending unicef ny)

Douglas Yungo, HIV+ single dad of 6.

After his wife and sister died of AIDS, Douglas cares for his own 3 children, as well as his sister’s 3 children.

In Douglas’ household, all 6 children get to go to school, and grow up

in a loving home.

David herdies - Kibera, kenya

Miguel Moreno, former gang member, mentor to Sammy.

After losing his brothers, and being shot and stabbed, he finally left gang life behind.

Miguel now mentors kids through the Hope for Youth

Alliance.

“If I would have known all the losses that gang life had to offer, I would never have chosen to be in a gang.

Now I want to help others.”

new mexico, usa -daniel arellano

“Making sure that my daughters get the best education possible is my way to offer them the best life possible.”

Afghanistan - lisbet helleberg

Photo to be exchanged

Born with mental and physical challenges, this boys’ parents chose not to care for him.

But his grandfather did - “He is my greatest joy!”

St. petersburg, Russia - pernilla norström

Everybody can be great, because anybody can serve .

sudan - sophie joy mosko

Teaching computer skills at an after school program.

Moldova - jan sandberg

Preschool teacher playing with his class.

ethiopia - Marie Swartz

“Children need role models, not critics.”

yemen (children refugees from somalia) - lisbet helleberg

Young men in a Somalian football team who“Say No to Female Genital Mutilation”

garissa, somalia - malin sävstam

Douglas Yungo, HIV+ single dad of 6 - here with his young daughter Sylvie.

David herdies - Kibera, kenya

The boxing club “Luta Pela Paz” is located in the Favelas of Rio de

Janeiro, Brazil.

Marco (grey T-shirt) started training and studying there as a young boy.

He now trains other youth.

The club successfully keeps youngsters from a street life of gangs

and drugs. It also gives both the young boys and the older trainers a

place of purpose, joy and hope.

rio de janeiro, brazil

pernilla norström

“In my children, God gave me a responsibility, a gift, a teacher. I love being a father- a single parent.

My children are a lifetime of beautiful experiences”

Jackie with his son

usa - carol ross

• Photographers: Daniel Arellano, Boogie CHIU, Ping-hang CHENG, George Hallett, Lisbet Helleberg, David Herdies, David Isaksson, Eric Miller, Sophie Joy Mosko, Pernilla Norström, Naomi Onaga, Nicholas Pitt, Carol Ross, Jan Sandberg, Jon Spaull, Marie Swartz, Malin Sävstam, Paul Weinburg, Gisele Wulfsohn

• Countries: Afghanistan, Brazil, Cambodia, China - Hong Kong, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Kenya, Moldova, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Peru, Russia, Spain, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Sweden, USA, Vietnam, Yemen

• Photographs to be added: Australia, India, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and more.

What we are looking for:

Hope Exhibits will use brand pooling to finance the cost of printing, travel and promotion of the project INFLUENTIAL MEN

What do you get?* Co-branding on all print, promotional and online

publications.* Representation at the exhibit

* “Glocal”, global and local PR appeal* Main sponsor also licensing right of photographs

for advertising efforts

15,000 euros (+ licensing rights to use photographs in conjunction with

advertising efforts)

10,000 euros(+ full representation at the exhibit)

5,000 euros

* Visibility * CSR Opportunity * Positive Press & PR

Logo All Marketing Material / Exhibits / Partner Websites. Media Article Coverage

HOPE EXHIBITS- a part of the “solution”

Join HOPE EXHIBITS in creating a global positive “ad campaign”:

* promoting positive role models for men and boys

* achieving and welcoming more gender equity

* creating lasting, positive change and development globally

www.HopeExhibits.org

info@hopeexhibits.org

+46 70 483 6896