Several companies, one mission
The mondofragilis group of companies have one thing in common: a desire to cause change. Whether we are providing our consulting services, offering creative output, printing or selling eco-friendly or fair trade products, we keep our mission in the forefront.
mondofragilis network provides strategic media and communications consulting to civil society and UN family organisations. It provides campaign assistance and analyses. It is mondofragilis group's principal contractor for all media and communications services. It is also responsible for all special media and communications projects including joint ventures and coproductions.
The company was the result of a merger between the mondofragilis network studios and those of naturaprint in 2005. It brought together two creative teams with highly complementary skills. Together, they are able to deliver output that is either local in flavour or global in scope. The team is spread across timezones allowing it to deliver content almost 24/7.
Setting up an environmentally-friendly printing facility is no small task. It requires strict rules as regards raw materials, cleaning supplies, garbage disposal and energy consumption. If, additionally, you wish to be considered respectful of sustainable development criteria and human rights, the road is even longer.
Even clients that are prepared to use recycled or environmentally-friendly papers and inks expect great looking printed documents. The marriage of the two has taken some time to master. Clients are, admittedly, not always keen on using recycled or even FSC or PEFC papers. But with time, and allowing for a transition period, we have found that most clients are ultimately open to trying them out. And fortunately for us, most eventually switch to environmentally-friendly papers altogether.
São Paulo creates noise. Literally, it is caused by more than 6 million cars, half a million motorbikes, one of the world’s largest urban fleets of helicopters, planes, construction sites, you name it. In a more abstract way, it is created by an extremely diverse and vivid civil society which forms a continuously growing part of this megalopolis. In São Paulo alone you find hundreds of civil society organisations, ranging from small grassroots organisations to international NGOs and foundations. Opening our Latin American office in this vibrant city was only a natural thing to do.
Nairobi is truly in the heart of Africa. It is geographically on the Equator. Its airport is a hub. There are dozens of UN agencies located there. Civil society is vibrant. It is the perfect place to have a mondofragilis office.
mondofragilis africa, is both a customer relations office and a production hub. From Nairobi, we service both our local Kenyan and our wider African clientèle. Our proximity provides them with on the ground contacts for all their dealings with our international production facilities.
Nairobi is also a production hub with equipment and expertise. From Nairobi, we are able to film and photograph on the ground. This office is young but set to expand rapidly as Jamie, its new director, gets underway. More will follow as he and his team progresses.
The company has a simple goal, to make vegan foods and fair trade products widely available to the mass market. Its guiding principle is that iImprovement and change must be fun. The assumption is that the more consumers enjoy something the more willingly we'll do it. If recycling is difficult and painful, they won't do it. If to reduce fuel consumption they have to travel in overcrowded busses, they won't do it. If better health means eating raw carrots and corn, again, they won't do it.


