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Our Core Team

EDV's Core Management Team (CMT) is responsible for the organisation as a whole. Led by our Executive Director, this group shapes and directs EDV policies and practice in line with our mission statement and operating principles.

The CMT is made up of the organisation's directors, each of whom has responsibility for an important area of EDV activities. As a group, our directors have a huge amount of experience as international disaster response and reconstruction volunteers. In this section, they introduce themselves in their own words.

 

Executive Director

Name: Andy Chaggar

Contact: executive@europeandisastervolunteers.org

Place I Call Home

Leicester, UK, but I'm frequently away

Languages Spoken

English, German to a reasonable level, plus some basic Spanish and Thai

Volunteer Experience

I've got about two years, full time experience volunteering in two different disaster zones pretty much all of which has been in supervisory positions.  Overall, I have directly managed around 500 volunteers and contributed indirectly to the management of about 4,000. Read more »

Volunteer Resource Director

Name: Sarah 'Essex' Hughes (on the right!)

Contact: volunteer@europeandisastervolunteers.org

Place I Call Home

Well, my instinct is to quote a well known Paul Young song and say, wherever I lay my hat that's my home. I do tend to move around quite a lot, but to be more precise, my family home is in Harlow, in Essex and. I currently call the lovely city of Bristol my home.

Languages Spoken

Unfortunately only English very well, but also a bit of French and Spanish

Volunteer Experience

I've now volunteered on two deployments, 6 months with TVC in Thailand and 6 months with BWB in Peru. The majority of my work was in Peru, being office based in the capacity of Volunteer Support/Resource Coordinator. Read more »

Media & Marketing Director

Name: Emma Taylor

Contact: media@europeandisastervolunteers.org

Place I Call Home

Easton, CT, U.S. but I’m rarely at home

Languages Spoken

English (clearly) and a decent amount of Spanish

Volunteer Experience

I wandered into HODR’s disaster response programme in Peru on Thanksgiving of 2007 thinking I would stay for two weeks at most. I didn’t leave until August of 2008. My time in Pisco was split between HODR and BWB. Read more »

Finance & Accounting Director

Name: Ben Smith

Contact: finance@europeandisastervolunteers.org

Place I Call Home

Leicestershire, UK.

Languages Spoken

English and sub-school boy French; “baguette, Gérard Depardieu, la Gare et al a droit” etc.

Volunteer Experience

I have very limited volunteer experience in respect to EDV's activities, but I work very closely with a number of voluntary sector organisations in the Leicestershire health economy and have been inspired by many of the amazing, committed and generous people I've encountered. Read more »

Fundraising Director

Name: Buffy Price

Contact: funding@europeandisastervolunteers.org

Place I Call Home

London

Languages Spoken

English, and GSCE level French: “Ou est la Gare?”

Volunteer Experience

I was strolling along London's Southbank in early 2006 and saw an outdoor photography exhibition called “After the Wave." This inspired to me to go to the nearest internet café and search for a volunteer project, which didn’t require particular expertise or thousands of pounds. Read more »

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