Our Team

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Executive Leadership

Ruth Thomas

Ruth Thomas

Chief Executive Officer

Kathy Whitfield

Kathy Whitfield

Finance Administator/Donor Relations

Global Directors

Allieu Samuel Bangura

Allieu Samuel Bangura

Director of Health and Nutrition

Haley Clark, MA

Haley Clark, MA

Director of Anti-Trafficking and Gender-Based Violence

Heather Hill

Heather Hill

Director of Communications and Marketing

Katie Kirkpatrick

Katie Kirkpatrick

Director of Child Sponsorship and Village Partnership

Zachary Lawless

Zachary Lawless

Director of Business Development and Partnerships

Keith Norris, MA

Director of Water and Sanitation

Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Director of Information Technology

About Daniel

Global Specialists

Nicholas Boerema

Nicholas Boerema

CEO of WHI’s partner, TapEffect

Carrie Jo Cain, RN

Carrie Jo Cain, RN

Health Programs Specialist

About Carrie Jo

Desmond Pratt

Desmond Pratt

Senior Geologist

About Desmond

Tae Symons

Tae Symons

Sr. Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist

Kyle Winney

Kyle Winney

Conservation Specialist

Sierra Leone Team

Saidu Kanu, MA

Saidu Kanu, MA

Country Director, Sierra Leone

Abdul Bundu

Abdul Bundu

Infrastructural Program Manager (Engineer)

About Abdul

Sahr Kpakima

Sahr Kpakima

Child Sponsorship Program Manager

About Sahr

Miriam Fullah

Miriam Fullah

Trafficking-in-Persons Protection Manager

About Miriam

Salifu Samura

Salifu Samura

WASH Program Manager

About Salifu

Musa Tholley

Musa Tholley

Agricultural Program Manager

Anna Vines, MCSP, HCPC

Anna Vines, MCSP, HCPC

Program Director and Physiotherapist for Enable the Children Program

Bernadette Veronica Udo

Bernadette Veronica Udo

Trafficking-in-Persons Project Manager

About Bernadette

Liberia Team

Wellington Kollie

Wellington Kollie

Country Director, Liberia

About Wellington

Adolphus Swen, MA

Adolphus Swen, MA

Child Sponsorship Program Manager

Vera Woodson

Vera Woodson

Child Sponsorship Coordinator

Eastern Europe Team

Joshua Carter

Joshua Carter

Country Director, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Branka

Branka

Learning to Learn Program Supervisor

Marijana

Marijana

Educational Development Program Supervisor

Haiti Team

Dan Irvine

Dan Irvine

Country Director, Haiti

Cambodia Team

Emelita Goddard, PhD

Emelita Goddard, PhD

Country Director for Cambodia

Seng Mang, MS

Seng Mang, MS

Anti-SGBV Program Manager

Tori Chan, MPA-MPH

Tori Chan, MPA-MPH

Business Development and Partnerships Manager, Asia

Philippines Team

Adesty Dulawan, RPsy

Adesty Dulawan, RPsy

Trafficking in Persons Clinical Supervisor

About Adesty

AN ORGANISATION YOU CAN TRUST.

Please note that in the unlikely event a specific appeal becomes overfunded, surplus funds will be redirected towards a similar relief or community development project.

Miriam Fullah

Trafficking-in-Persons Protection Manager
Location: Sierra Leone

Miriam Fullah has served as World Hope International’s Trafficking-in-Persons Protection Manager and Case Management Coordinator since 2012. She was trained as a teacher by the Milton College of Education and Technology at the University of Sierra Leone. Miriam also holds a Diploma in Social Work and Psychological Care from the Institute of Public Administration and Management.

Prior to joining World Hope, Miriam worked at the Youth Readiness Intervention Project from Harvard University and before that, at The Center for Victims of Torture. She also worked four years at Handicap International, Sierra Leone, as a Psychosocial Counselor.

Branka

Learning to Learn Program Supervisor
Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Branka is the supervisor of the Learning to Learn tutoring program. She grew up in Livno, Bosnia and Herzegovina and is married with three children. Branka is an elementary school teacher in her seventeenth year working in a local elementary school. She joined World Hope in 2010 and currently supervises four teachers and over 30 elementary students in this program; she tutors 5 students weekly. She received both her bachelor’s degree and her master’s degree in education from the University of Mostar. Branka has also participated in a variety of further education opportunities to improve her ability to work with students in her classroom.

Marijana

Educational Development Program Supervisor
Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Marijana oversees educational development programs through World Hope in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is from Livno, BiH and is married with three children. Marijana is a licensed speech therapist and is in her sixteenth year working in a local elementary school. She joined World Hope in 2010 and currently organizes a variety of programs including educational seminars and workshops. She works one-on-one with children who have speech difficulties, autism, and communication challenges. She received her bachelor’s degree in speech therapy (studij logopedije) from the University of Zagreb. She is also certified Neurofeedback, Talk Tools (Oral Placement Therapy), and More Than Words.

Rev. Dan Irvine

Country Director, Haiti
Location: USA

Rev. Dan Irvine has most recently served as the Caribe Atlantic Area Director for Global Partners, the overseas mission auxiliary of the Wesleyan Church. He is an ordained minister in the Wesleyan Church and has a combined thirty-eight years of ministry experience as Pastor, Christian Educator, Missionary, and Administrator. Dan has a Master of Arts in Ministry from Indiana Wesleyan University and has a graduate certificate in International Family and Community Development from Clemson University and is currently pursuing further graduate studies. Dan and his wife Joy have been married for forty-one years and have five children and five grandchildren. The Irvine’s have been engaged in cross-cultural ministry since 1981 and has resided outside of their home culture for more than eighteen of those years, most of that time in Haiti.

Dr. Emelita Goddard

Director of Community Development and Agriculture
Location: Cambodia/Phnom Penh

Dr. Emelita Goddard is a community development strategist with more than 20 years of experience in design, management, monitoring, and evaluation of integrated community development programs for vulnerable communities and key affected populations in the Asia-Pacific Region. Throughout her career, Milet has maintained a special focus on at-risk women and children and survivors of gender-based violence. At World Hope, Milet is the organization’s lead strategist and program designer, responsible for setting and implementing the vision for programs to serve vulnerable communities throughout World Hope’s target countries. Prior to World Hope, Milet served as a consultant to USAID and France Expertise Internationale for the Global Fund’s Governing Body in Cambodia, World Health Organization, International Labour Organization, TEAR Australia, World Vision, and several other global development agencies. Milet holds a bachelor’s degree and a doctorate in Technical Science in Aquaculture, which she received from the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok, Thailand through scholarship grants from the British and Australian governments.

Mang

Seng Mang, MS

Anti-SGBV Program Manager
Location: Cambodia/Phnom Penh

Seng Mang is World Hope’s Anti-SGBV (sexual and gender-based violence) Program Manager in Cambodia. Seng is a professional clinical psychologist who specializes in trauma-informed care for victims of sexual and gender-based violence. Seng has experience providing direct counseling and trauma-focused therapy to victims of violence. Before World Hope, Seng worked as a counselor at Hagar International, where he provided therapy to victims of gender-based violence and sex trafficking. Seng holds a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from the Royal University of Phnom Penh.

Tori Chan, MPA-MPH

Business Development and Partnerships Manager, Asia
Location: Cambodia

Tori is an experienced non-profit and public health professional with 9+ years working with international organizations, charities, and foundations. She worked with World Hope from 2015-2016 as the International Grants & Partnerships Manager based in Sierra Leone and now rejoins World Hope again in 2020 as the Business Development and Partnerships Manager, Asia. Her expertise is in partnership development, project management, research, and grant writing. Prior to re-joining World Hope, Tori worked with Partners In Health based in Liberia where she worked closely with the Ministry of Health and other stakeholders on laboratory systems strengthening and community-based disease surveillance projects. She also has experience in philanthropy, previously working with ELMA Philanthropies on their humanitarian and relief portfolio, helping to identify and fund underreported humanitarian disasters around the globe. Other organizations she worked with include World Vision International and the Women’s Foundation of California. Tori holds a BA, Art History from the University of California, Riverside and an MPH, Global Health and MPA, Health Policy & Management from New York University.

In her role as the Business Development and Partnerships Manager, Asia, Tori will focus on developing new partnerships for World Hope in the Asia region. As needed, she will provide support on other World Hope initiatives where there is a focus on public health and health systems strengthening.

Adesty Dulawan, RPsy

Trafficking in Persons Clinical Supervisor
Location: Philippines

Adesty Dulawan is the Clinical Supervisor of World Hope International in the Philippines. She is a licensed psychologist and counselor with more than 10 years of experience in the mental health profession specializing in psychological assessment and psychotherapy for treatment of mental disorders.

Prior to WHI, Adesty was a Counselor in the academe providing case management for students with clinical disturbances. She also worked actively in implementing prevention and intervention programs for adolescents’ growth and development.

She completed her Masters at the Cagayan State University and ranked 6th place in the national Counseling board examinations in 2011. She is presently completing her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Santo Tomas Graduate School.

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