Volunteers/Interns Living Near Waupaca, WI

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Marne Petersen,
Marketing & PR Intern
Waupaca, WI
Cora Rose Lewicki,
Fair Trade Certification Researcher and Product Designer
Westby, WI
Kathleen Kosnar,
Export Logistics Analyst
Milwaukee, WI
Pam Wyrowski,
Project Leader
Milwaukee, WI
Brittany Campanelli,
New Product Development
Huntley, IL
Courtney Hageman,
Business Volunteer
Ossian, Iowa/USA
Carol Rivers,
Quality Control Consultant & Cook Book Author
Leland, Michigan
Kiley O’Brien,
Graphic Designer
St. Charles, Illinois
Keely Jones,
General Projects Manager
Evanston, IL
Hillary Van Ham,
Design Intern
Batavia, IL
David Ripley,
Production Management Analyst
Winfield, IL
Katie Boyer,
Fair Trade Advisor
Cadillac, Michigan
Robin Ross,
Business Consultant
Chicago, IL
Sarah Schepker,
Apparel Design and Technical Manager
Naperville, IL
Gretchen Sunko,
Business/IT Consultant
Chicago, IL/USA
Kara Scheer,
New Product Development
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Liz Lampman ,
Writer/Designer
Hudson, WI
Grace Yoon,
Fair Trade Consultant
Chicago, IL
Chris Johnson,
Production Consultant
Chicago, IL
Kellogg Corps,
Organizational Development
Chicago, IL
Jennifer Christiansen,
Human Resources Consultant
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Marne Petersen
Marketing & PR Intern
[Waupaca, WI]


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Vacation
The outcome of Marne's suggestions to write out the words to the songs being taught.

Description: Although Cape Coast is a major tourist destination in Ghana, visitors tend to either pass through briefly or as they visit the castles. Women in Progress began working with several women entrepreneurs to create more activities in Cape Coast in order to generate more income for women. Marne worked with several micro enterprises to define, market, and implement activities for tourists. In addition, Marne assisted WIP with its own marketing and PR.

Accomplishments: Marne enabled several women entrepreneurs in Ghana to generate additional income for their businesses through expanding their businesses to include tourist activities:
  • Assisted Eli-Emma Batik & Tye-Dye in developing a half-day batiking workshop for tourists.
  • Helped Antoinette Drumming & Dancing to condense a month-long drumming and dancing workshop into a half-day tourist workshop.
  • Set the stage for a young woman to offer fishing village excursions to tourist.
  • Designed and distributed flyers advertising each new workshop.
  • Created content to market the tourist workshops on the Internet.
  • Expanded WIP's website to include Volunteer Highlights.
 Highlights: Marne noticed a big change in the women as they became more proficient, more organized and more self-assured that they are able to work with tourists. Marne's highlight was when the women showed just how happy her work has made them. Elizabeth, co-owner of Eli-Emma, said "I never could have imagined that someday we would be having this business and tourists would come here to see us!"

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