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 directly with over one hundred projects in many countries in East, West and Southern Africa as well as Cambodia, Columbia, Romania, Vietnam, Yemen and the United Kingdom. She works 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. She does this with policy makers, through government programmes, with project managers in international non-government agencies and with other individuals and organisations interested in using her approach to children's participation in their work.
Here she is with Southern Sudanese teachers and health workers living in Kakuma refugee camp northern Kenya, on a tea break during a workshop!
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.
Since 2008, and with professional guidance, she has worked on providing many of her publications and training courses through a web-based system. She is currently 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 which she got with distinction and an MA in Education in Developing Countries.
In 2008, she set up Young Solutions international and Lifeskills Handbooks, both social enterprise projects focusing on strengthening children and young people’s participation in determining local solutions to health and social issues relevant to them.
Clare is currently working as an independent consultant, writer, trainer and mentor for those working in the international development sector in child health and education.
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
