Excited to deliver the materials created by the senior graphic design class at Drexel University, I was back in Rwanda this past June. The class had worked hard to complete the assignment funded by the Sappi Foundation Grant Ideas that Matter to develop an identity and brand tools for the Sunflower Oil Cooperative in the Rugerrero Survivors Village in Rwanda. Many ideas for an identity were distilled down to the one selected by the Cooperative members then developed into a logo, label tags for the oil bottles, posters as gifts for potential customers, table cloths to create a branded display along with banners as signs. We printed a substantial inventory of the materials. The things we carried: 200 posters, 300 business cards, 500 bottle tags, 2 large banners and 2 branded table covers. This did not include the Solar energy materials, sock puppet workshop supplies and two games of Twister. The extra baggage charges were considerable. One of the challenges of getting stuff from the US to Africa.

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