TEAM
OceanLove is being built by an international group of young, enthusiastic volunteers. We would like to tell you more about our founder, the core team members, and the non-profit foundation behind OceanLove.
Our Founder- Ilco van der Linde
Ilco has been the initiator of successful international social events and campaigns. In his native Netherlands, he set up the Liberation Festivals, which involve one million people every year in human rights and freedom. Internationally, he is co-founder of dance4life, which involves hundreds of thousands of young people in thirty countries in the fight against HIV/AIDS, and of MasterPeace, which involves young people in peace-building works in 45 countries.
Mathematics researcher and Freediver
Raghda Ezzeldin Aly 
Core Team Management
Media and Website design
Mahmoud El Wakil 
Core team member and lead digital strategist
Social Media & Research
Raquel Cayuela 🇪🇸
Communications officer
Olivier van Diepen
Social Media
Carmen Haitsma 
Social Media (Growth)
Student activist
Hana Ajam 
Communications officer
Charles Sylvanus Boye 
OceanLove West Africa
Video Editor
Jokūbas Bliujus
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Designer & Web administrator
Donja Hoorn 
Marketing Consultant
Our Foundation – The Board
OceanLove is officially an initiative run by the Dutch non-profit foundation “Stichting Mandelahuisje” (the Mandela House Foundation). This foundation aims to fuel and promote Nelson Mandela’s Ubuntu philosophy, about respect, unity and interconnectedness. The board of the foundation controls budget, progress and the important non-profit principle: nobody is making any money with this initiative, only the oceans gain ‘benefits’.
OceanLove founder Ilco van der Linde is chair of the foundation and currently there are two other board members:
Han Kempers
Treasurer
Mpanzu Bamenga
Secretary
Tamara Richards
Board Member
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry