28/08/2026
"Being in TIME changed nothing about our impact and everything about how people perceive it."
In his latest reflection, Sea Ranger Service Founder, CEO Wietse van der Werf explores the tension between impact and visibility, and why organisations working for positive change ultimately have two jobs: making an impact on the ground and communicating it to the world.
Because the best-known organisations are not necessarily the most effective. Sometimes, they are simply the ones whose stories have been heard.
Read Wietse’s full reflection: https://searangers.org/blog/time-magazine-featured-our-work-peoples-response-was-revealing/
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