My Purpose
My purpose is to use my skills as a teacher, trainer, a consultant, a writer and a coach to work with those who in turn work with young people or serve their interests (policy-makers, donors, teachers, health professionals, youth workers, social workers, religious leaders and others). I work with people to prepare for and then implement health and social justice projects that deeply involve young people and where their real participation is required.
My Core Values
The choices I make re: clients and methods of working are guided by my 5 core values:
- Community: The value of togetherness and that human happiness rests with being in positive relation with others.
- Clarity: The value of positive, powerful and meaningful spoken and written language
- Creativity: The value of using a unique mix of skills & experience that inspires.
- Compassion: The value of demonstrating to people that they can help themselves
- Courage: The value of overcoming the fear of others when using new ideas and approaches.
Professional experience
Read about my professional experience here.
Clare Hanbury started her professional life as a school teacher and for five years worked in schools in Kenya, Hong Kong and then in London. For the next six years she worked internationally with The Child-to-Child Trust based at the University of London’s Institute of Education. Here she specialised in bringing innovative approaches to teaching and learning that help parents, teachers and community groups understand the health needs of children and young people; and work with them to respond to these needs effectively.
She has worked in many countries in East, West and Southern Africa as well as Cambodia, Columbia, Romania, Vietnam, Yemen and the United Kingdom. She has worked with individuals and with groups of people in the formal and non-formal education sectors and in the health sector. She developed and strengthened participatory approaches to health education programmes addressing general issues and specific health issues such as sexual health, landmine awareness and HIV prevention.
Here she is with Southern Sudanese teachers and health workers living in Kakuma refugee camp northern Kenya, on a tea break during a workshop!
Her association with The Child-to-Child Trust continues to this day and her latest publication for the Child-to-Child Trust is on Monitoring and Evaluating Children’s Participation in Health and Education. More details on this and other CTC publications by Clare are available at the website, www.child-to-child.org.
Clare has worked within mainstream schools systems, health programmes and with non-formal education programmes serving marginalised groups such as refugees living in the Yemen, Ethiopia and Kenya and with street children in Vietnam and Ethiopia. She has written numerous teaching and learning materials and training courses and is a skilled trainer, facilitator, adviser, coach and mentor.
For the last two years, and with professional guidance, she has worked on providing many of her publications and training courses through a web-based system. She is currntly exploring the potential of using mobile phone and other e-technology to spread vital health messages and mobilise young people as health workers in their families and communities. She has several academic qualifications including an MSc in International Maternal and Child Health (distinction) and an MA in Education in Developing Countries.
Clare is currently working as a consultant, writer, trainer and mentor for those working in the international development sector in child health and education. In addition, in 2008, she has set up Young Solutions international, a social enterprise organisation focussing on strengthening young people’s participation in determining local solutions to health and social issues relevant to them. She is seeking to expand her work in the UK and to work with The Child-to-Child Trust to help expand their work internationally.
Further details can be found at her websites: www.youngsolutionsinternational.com and www.lifeskillshandbooks.com or by contacting her on clare@clarehanbury.com.
For TESTIMONIALS from people who have worked with Clare, Click this link. For Clare’s full CV and list of publications please contact her on clare@clarehanbury.com
Read about what gets me fired up here.
Testimonials
