MOSAICQUE EZINE Team wishes you all a Very Happy & Prosperous New Year.

In the January quaterly ezine, we are  featuring the following Future World Leaders:
*Joan Baker, & Rudy Gaskins, Senior Vice President & Founder, Push Creative Advtg, United States,
*Andrew Muir, Executive Director, Wilderness Foundation, South Africa,
*Joseph R. Miller Molina, Bay Islands Trust Fund; Honduras and
*Melaine Giard, Communications Officer, World Water Council, Paris.

These dynamic young leaders have written articles on Voice Over Technology; Biodiversity as a means to adapt to climate change in South Africa; Bay Island Investment opportunity in the range of $50,000,00 to $200,000,000 to transform Honduras; and about the upcoming World Water Forum in Marseilles, France in March 2012.

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                          Secrets of Voice Over for Success

Joan Baker, and her husband Rudy Gaskins, took an ambitious mission to transform entertainment industry with Voice Over technology and started Push Creative Advertising, an innovative marketing and promotion company that includes training the voice in 2001.

"Voice-over(also known as off-camera or off-stage commentary) is a production technique where a voice which is not part of the narrative (non-diegetic) is used in a radio, television production, filmmaking, theatre, or other presentations. The voice-over may be spoken by someone who appears elsewhere in the production or by a specialist voice actor."

Profile: Joan Baker is a Voice Actor, Voice coach, author of Secrets of Voiceover Success and spokesperson for Neumann Microphones. Rudy Gaskins is an Emmy award winning, Director, Producer and writer as well as Founder Push Creative. For training http://joanbaker.tv/voice-over_coaching.php for Marketing and promotion work www.pushcreative.tv

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                       Biodiversity as a Resource for Adapting to Climate Change
Andrew Muir, talks about how South Africa can invest in maintaining, restoring and building natural capital to fulfil our goals of:

1. Creating work and sustainable livelihoods
2. Achieving rural development, food security and land reform
3. Delivering water for the nation's needs
4. Providing protection against climate change

He further recommends "business as usual" will have significant impacts on South Africa. Creating landscape-level corridors of biodiversity will help the nation to become more resilient to climate change, e.g. by retaining water in catchments, maintaining indigenous vegetation along rivers  and creating corridors for species. Keeping wetland ecosystems in a healthy state is also critical to preventing floods. About 115 000 wetlands covering 4.21 million hectares, or 3.5 % of our country's surface area, have been mapped in South Africa.

Profile:Andrew Muir Executive Director of the Wilderness Foundation

Described as an environmental activist, conservationist, and community leader, Andrew Muir has dedicated his life to conservation and social development.

Andrew was mentored by conservation icon Dr Ian Player for 13 years, and took over his legacy in the management of the various organisations that Player had founded, including the world famous Wilderness Leadership School and Wilderness Foundation.

As director of the Wilderness Foundation, Andrew is involved in a number of projects dedicated to social and environmental sustainability including the South African-based Umzi Wethu programme which he founded in 2006. The programme targets vulnerable youth that show resilience and ambition, but despair of opportunities to support their households, and gives them the skills and training to become highly employable young adults.

The programme saw Andrew honoured as an International Rolex Awards Laureate in 2008 as well as the South African Conservationist of the Year in 2007. He was also the winner of the 2011 Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur Awards Programme in the Social entrepreneur category. The award was won based on the large number of sustainable programmes that the Wilderness Foundation runs dedicated to social and environmental sustainability.

Andrew has a Masters Degree in Environment and Development from the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg and serves on a number of non-profit and conservation boards.

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The Bay Islands: An Outstanding Opportunity for Investment in Honduras

The Bay Islands of Honduras are undergoing a transformation. As a result of a number of emerging macro and regional economic trends, the region is evolving from an economy based on fishing and agriculture into one based primarily on tourism. This transformation is evident in the significant tourism growth the region has been experiencing over the past 5 years, growing.

The GP, Joseph Miller, is a native to the Bay Islands with over 20 years of experience investing in the region. The Miller family has been active in the development of the Islands for generations, creating strong business relationships along the way.

This network should give the fund preferential and early access to investment opportunities as well as an advantage in securing attractive terms. The Fund will follow a disciplined investment strategy, choosing investments supported by underlying regional economic trends to which the GP has preferential access, combined with a reasonable probability of exit and suitable collateral whenever possible.

Total offering size of investment is US$ 50,000,000 -US$ 200,000,000. Minimum investment size in the trust is US$ 1,000,000 (minimum subsequent investment of US$500,000).

Profile Joseph Molina Miller:

*President of the Bay Islands Trust Company, the fastest growing local financial institution

* Founder of BIT Capital Management, native to the Bay Islands of Honduras.

* Over 20 years of international business experience -active investor in the Bay Islands, the greater Caribbean region, the United States, and parts of Latin America.

* Experience in tourism, real estate, transportation, banking, and business development.

* Excellent access to the major business, financial, and government leaders across the Caribbean.

* The fund's investment program will draw substantially on Mr. Miller's business relationships, regional experience, and record of identifying promising opportunities.

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                                                      Solutions for Water
Every three years the World Water Council organizes a World Water Forum in close collaboration with the authorities of a host city and country. The World Water Forum is the largest international event in the field of water-over 20,000 participants from more than 190 countries attended the last edition. In 2012, the world water Forum will be organized in Marseilles, France.

                                Prime Minister Gul, Turkey during 2009 World Water Council annual event in Istanbul

The Panel's objective was to address ways and means of attracting new financial resources to the water field. It comprised 20 personalities with top-level experience in government, finance ministries, international development financial agencies, commercial banks, water companies, NGOs active in the water sector and a number of eminent independent professionals.

Ten big cities like Vienna, Lausanne, Incheon, Paris and Buenos Aires have even committed to become "champion cities" of the IWC and will build on the momentum and coordinate the work carried out for specific subjects. 

Profile: Melanie Giard, Communications Officer, World Water Council.

After 8 years of experience within her travel agency in Marseilles, France, Melanie joined the World Water Council in January 2002, initially as a translator and assistant. After handling logistics for various international events, she progressively took on greater responsibilities within the Communication Department.

Her academic background includes both communications and languages: Following studies in Tourism & Geography, she acquired a master's degree in 2002 in Applied Foreign Languages and technical translation in both English and Russian at the University of Provence. She also obtained a master's degree in Information & Communication Sciences from the same University.

In 2006, Melanie became Communication Officer at the WWC, in charge of overall communication activities, including publications, media and public relations, web development and coordination of projects such as the "Water & Film Event", amongst others. She is also responsible for coordinating the communication activities related to the 6th World Water Forum that will be held in Marseille in March 2012.