About #message4peace

Byline BIO: Creator of #message4peace, Katherine Davies is walking 600 miles across Europe to help end the 5-year-old Syrian war. People from around the world can post messages through message4peace.com that she will deliver to peace negotiators in Geneva. Katherine is founder and CEO of iguacu (pronounced igwah-soo), a global platform for effective giving. Learn more at www.message4peace.com and www.weareiguacu.com.

Broadcast BIO: We often feel hopeless when we think of massive disasters like the Syrian civil war, but one London woman decided to take action. Katherine Davies is walking 600 miles across Europe to deliver messages from ordinary people worldwide to peace negotiators in Geneva. You can learn more at www.message4peace.com – that’s message, the number 4, peace dot com. Katherine, your organization iguacu (SAY igwah-soo) created #message4peace to give ordinary people a voice to help end the war. How is it going?

Full BIO: Creator of #message4peace, Katherine Davies is walking 600 miles across Europe to help end the 5-year-old Syrian war. People from around the world post messages through social media and at message4peace.com that Katherine will deliver to peace negotiators in Geneva to help increase pressure to end the war and relieve the suffering of millions of Syrian refugees.

Katherine is founder and CEO of iguacu (pronounced igwah-soo), a global platform for effective giving. The organization is named for gigantic and beautiful waterfalls in South America, signifying how the actions of millions of people can combine into a torrent to bring about change.

iguacu exists to channel the compassion of millions of people who feel thwarted in their desire to help ease suffering such as we are witnessing in Syria. Katherine brought together a team of top researchers and developers to create the not-for-profit social enterprise, registered in the UK, to help people worldwide get the maximum impact for their charitable giving.

Katherine holds a master’s degree in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She worked as a journalist, campaign manager, and researcher for a member of the British House of Commons and Goldman Sachs prior to founding Iguacu in 2014. Learn more at www.message4peace.com and www.weareiguacu.com.