News

Spring / summer 2010

Savina is still working as Overseas Programmes Director for the NGO Street Child Africa, keeping busy developing policies and systems to help strengthen the capacity of their numerous partners on the ground. In her spare time she continues to work on her extra-curricular video documentary projects and she maintains her keen interest in karate.

Elanor is trying to teach herself to paint with a small set of watercolours and a notepad while taking time out to travel extensively in Mexico and visit family in Central America. She is also writing travelogues and spending time on her photography. She is continuing to do some consultancy work long distance for FARM-Africa and CHAD-ET in Ethiopia.

Marie is helping the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child write a General Comment on CRC Article 19 and is contributing to a training manual on early childhood rights for professionals in Tanzania. She is still acting as Research Advisor to a Government / UNICEF research project on child protection in Samoa. She will be spending some time in Croatia in July keeping her partner company whilst on his policing exchange project. She will be speaking at the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse & Neglect (ISPCAN) World Congress in Hawaii in September. She's finishing up yet another (overly) ambitious DIY project on her boat (re-fitting the bathroom) and has embarked on some more knitting which, unlike the bathroom, doesn't involve a hammer or chisel. And will hopefully result in fewer cuts and bruises. Unless the pattern is mistaken.