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Peru is the only growing economy in South America since 2002. But poverty still lingers. And to make matters worse, people are more concerned about economic growth than paying attention to poverty.
THE PROBLEM: INVISIBLE POVERTY.
TECHO, a volunteer-only NGO that builds emergency housing for the poor was losing a lot of young members because they are not too aware of poverty around them.
THE SOLUTION.
TECHO decided to make this problem visible so they created Pandora. A visual artist with a not-so-sensitive way to fight poverty: hiding it. They used social media to spread Pandora’s artistic proposal through Facebook, a Youtube Channel, Twitter, Linkedin and WordPress. And it succeeded. Even mass media criticized her work.
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TECHO came out and announced it had created this fictitious artist.
Negative comments were replaced by positives ones. Media coverage and free press increased. Volunteer call-ins increased.
But the most important thing is that hiding poverty was the most effective way to make it visible to an entire country and moved everyone to take action.