Text to Change (TTC) is a nonprofit organization and was founded in 2007. Text to Change develops mobile phone based systems in developing countries on health, mobile education quizzes and economic development and innovates towards various other mobile telephony tools. Our devoted team consists of the following persons:

 

Bas Hoefman, Founder/Managing Director, Uganda.

Bas has over 6 years of marketing and advertising experience in the banking sector. Bas lives in Uganda and works on the current TTC programs from the office in Kampala. bhoefman@texttochange.com

Hajo van Beijma, Founder/Partnership Director, The Netherlands.

Hajo has been working for more than 10 years in the ICT field in Europe and Africa. Hajo works on new programs/partnerships and heads the finance department. hvanbeijma@texttochange.com

Jan-Willem Loggers, Program Manager East and West Africa, Uganda.

Jan-Willem worked in Barcelona at an international trade company before joining Text to Change. He is currently involved in setting up new partnerships in Uganda and heads a team of data analyst for the Text to Change quizzes. jwloggers@texttochange.com

Jennifer Alum

Jennifer Alum, Administration, Uganda

Jennifer Alum is a Ugandan Citizen who joined the Text to Change team early this year as an Administrative Assistant. Before that she worked for an NGO in Uganda called Voluntary Action for Development as a project coordinator under the water Hygiene and Sanitation project funded by a Swiss NGO called Nouvelle Planete. Jennifer holds BA in Development studies from Makerere University. kampala@texttochange.com

Bonny Apunyu Bonny Apunyu, Research, Uganda & Norway

Bonny is a Ugandan, currently completing a Master’s Degree in Media Studies at University of Oslo, Norway. He is currently conducting a research study with TTC with a working title: Mobile Communication and Behaviour Change in Action: Using the case of Text to Change (TTC) to evaluate the effectiveness of text messages in HIV/AIDS campaigns among young people in Uganda.

Marieke Hoefman, Medical Manager, The Netherlands.

Marieke is a medical doctor. During her studies she worked in Malta, Scotland and South Africa. Currently she specializes in tropical medicine. Marieke works on the medical issues at TTC. mhoefman@texttochange.com

Phillip Sparks Sentamu, Program Manager, Uganda.

Sparks works as a HIV/AIDS specialist from Kampala on the TTC programs. He worked for the US government and mobile providers in Uganda. ssentamu@texttochange.com

Josette de Vroeg, Communications Manager, The Netherlands.

Josette has 5 years of experience in education programs and works as an education and communication specialist. jdevroeg@texttochange.com

Maaike van Veen, Epidemiologist & Nutritionist. External advisor in Uganda and The Netherlands.

Maaike has worked in infectious disease epidemiology (HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections) for more than seven years and was an intern at Text to Change in 2010. amsterdam@texttochange.com

 

 

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