Quality still images and video content are an indispensable and powerful way, to showcase meaningful work. That's what AYASHA MEDIA aims to do: produce compelling, interesting and emotionally engaging digital media pieces that can help your organization/enterprise come alive online. The AYASHA team works diligently to understand client mission and values, organizational goals and target audience in order to determine what kind of storytelling will resonate best with that audience. 

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Having both been raised in Haiti, Melanie and Jean-Philippe have a particular interest and passion for capturing the work of organizations and social enterprises who invest their energies and resources into strengthening people’s livelihoods and capacity to auto manage their lives.

 

Through her studies in International Development at York University (Toronto) and past experience working in the field of health development as well as managing a social enterprise here in Haiti, Melanie has grown an understanding of the unique development challenges faced here. This understanding aids her in her process of working one-on-one with both development and business actors in underdeveloped country contexts.  Tasteful portrayals of what are in reality very complex, sad, frustrating, devastating parts of both the causes and symptoms of underdevelopment, Melanie and Jean-Philippe wish to assist in their subjects’ right to tell their stories in a dignified and tasteful manner.  At AYASHA the aim is also to help showcase the many social enterprises operating in the private sector, the strategic alliances between the NGO and private sectors and the potential that business and marketplace strategies hold to enhance effectiveness and sustainability of development initiatives.  

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Beyond audio-visual production and post production technical capacity their bi racial, tri lingual, pluri-cultural backgrounds have grown a cultural intelligence that makes them uniquely skilled at adapting to a wide range of people and situations. Whether their clients work be in the field of international development or in the commercial world of the private sector, their experience to date has sharpened their ability to very quickly interpret the true essence of the work that people do and visualize and plan the best way to capture and communicate this essence audio-visually.

 

They feed off of your enthusiasm and passion for your work to produce a media product  that has potential to significantly enhance your impact and reach. 

 

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