Staff
Anthony Morton-King: Executive Director |
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Anthony has been involved in humanitarian aid and development overseas for more than fourteen years. During this period, he has led or worked as part of emergency programmes in many countries across Africa, the Middle East, The Balkans and South Asia with organisations such as Tearfund and Christian Aid. In response to the Asian Tsunami of 2004, Anthony headed a highly complex emergency programme across India, Sri Lanka and Indonesia, working with local partner organisations throughout the emergency and rehabilitation stages and into the relative stability of a development programme. Since then until his appointment with Street Child Africa, Anthony has been living in Haiti, leading a programme for victims of the earthquake that occurred in 2010. |
ProgrammesSavina Geerinckx: Overseas Programmes Director |
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Savina has an M.A. in Children's Rights from the University of Fribourg, an M.A. in Social Anthropology of Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies, and a B.A. (Hons) in History of Art, Archaeology & Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. She is a founding member of the consultancy group CREATE (Child Rights Evaluation, Advice and Training Exchange). She has worked as a street worker, programme officer, field researcher, trainer, external evaluator, and advocacy worker for various child rights organisations. Email: savina@streetchildafrica.org.uk
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Ashley Damewood: Senior Overseas Programmes Officer |
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Ashley has a B.A. in Law and Policy from Dickinson College and an MSc in Human Rights from the London School of Economics. She specialises in socio-legal approaches to human rights, legal philosophy, transitional justice, and complex emergencies (with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa). She joined Street Child Africa in 2009 as the Legal Research and Policy Intern and was appointed Programmes Officer in January 2010. E-mail: ashley@streetchildafrica.org.uk |
Fundraising |
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We currently have a vacancy for the position of Head of Fundraising. Please go to Current Vacancies page for further details. |
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Emma Burton: Special Events Co-ordinator |
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Emma is a trained nurse in Mental Health and has worked as an Advocate for Deaf people in the community. She then moved into the Events sector where she organised health and awareness workshops for Deaf people with minimal access to information and education. Her most recent work was organising events for teachers in Further Education who needed an opportunity to professionally develop and to raise their profile in the Education Sector. Emma's background and experience is a great asset to Street Child Africa so keep an eye on our Event's page! |
Alison Gilhespie: Trust Fundraiser |
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Alison has worked as a fundraiser at a number of national charities, and enjoys all aspects of fundraising. Her focus is on trust donations, including applications, building relationships with trust donors and reporting back on our work. |
Jacqui Hegarty: Schools and Community Development Officer |
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Jacqui spent several years volunteering for Street Child Africa, which culminated in her delivery of our first Schools Conference in Autumn 2006. We were so impressed with her talents that we have formalised the relationship, and Jacqui now works for the charity on a part-time basis, managing the schools and community fundraising activities of the charity. |
Cara Cahill: Support Group Co-ordinator |
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Cara Cahill is a part-time member of staff in the Fundraising Team. Cara looks after our amazing support groups across the UK, as well as helping with the organisation and management of events and community projects. Following more than three years as a volunteer, Cara now works one day a week and volunteers on other days. |
SupportSarah Hutton: Office & Online Communications Manager |
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Sarah joined Street Child Africa in 2004 as Administrator, and since then her role has developed and she now manages the running of the office and all digitial and online communications.
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Hazel Lucas: Finance Officer |
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Hazel joined Street Child Africa in 2006 as part-time Finance Officer, having first worked for another local charity, Scope. She is responsible for overseeing the logging of donations, ensuring that funds are correctly used, through the recently developed Sage Project Management system, making payments to our African Partners and maintaining proper financial records. Hazel is supported by a group of enthusiastic and well-qualified volunteers who play a vital role in maintaining and developing our financial systems and together they provide financial feedback to Street Child Africa Staff and Trustees. In addition, she enthusiastically supports our fundraising activities and is always keen to recruit new runners for the annual 5K Women’s Challenge in Hyde Park. |
Debby Metcalf: Assistant Finance Officer |
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Debby began volunteering at Street Child Africa in 2007, inspired by her many family connections with Africa, and now combines working part-time one day a week with volunteering most of the rest of the week! A Chartered Accountant by training, she has taken on responsibility for preparing the annual accounts as well as assisting with budgeting and forecasting. She also looks after our Gift Aid claims and helps the Programmes team manage their projects. |
