Goumbook · Brand stories · Community impact films
Sustainability through people and action
Four Ayni Studios films for Goumbook: its founder story, Give a Ghaf, food-waste recovery, and coastal conservation in the UAE.

Goumbook’s work brings together sustainability education, businesses, and communities. These four films offer different ways into that mission: the organization’s story, its origins in tree planting, and two examples of community action.
Our role
Ayni Studios created these video samples for Goumbook, which published the films on its own YouTube channel.
Changing Mindsets in the UAE and Beyond introduces the organization through its founder, Tatiana, and the work connecting education, business engagement, and regional collaboration.
The Give a Ghaf origin story uses the tree-planting programme to explore Goumbook’s beginnings and its connection to desert biodiversity, water awareness, and the natural world.
Fighting Food Waste, Feeding Communities follows the Eat It or Save It initiative during Ramadan. The film connects food recovery with meals for communities in Dubai.
Community in Action documents a coastal clean-up and marine release at Jebel Ali Wildlife Sanctuary, with Goumbook’s Drop It initiative supporting the event.
Together, the collection shows how an organization can communicate at different levels: explain its purpose, preserve its origin story, and share specific examples of its work. Each film has a dedicated watch page below.
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The films

Founder & brand story
Goumbook: Changing Mindsets in the UAE and Beyond
Goumbook · 2025

Environmental storytelling
Give a Ghaf: Goumbook’s Origin Story
Goumbook · 2025

Community impact film
Fighting Food Waste, Feeding Communities
Goumbook · 2025

Conservation & community film
Community in Action at Jebel Ali Sanctuary
Goumbook · 2025
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