Here you will find a selection of testimonials from:
- Individuals and organisations who have worked with me
- Individuals and organisations who I have mentored
- People who have used my materials
Testimonials from individuals and organisations who have worked with me
Jacobs Foundation
Our partners found the workshop with Clare extremely useful. It didn’t only provide structured information and tools but also the possibility to practice elements of monitoring and evaluating life skills. And it was a lot of fun!”
Constanze Lullies, Jacobs Foundation, Zurich
Public Health Medical Fund of Georgia
Clare made new horizons visible for us, thus encouraged us greatly to move forward.
Lia Saralidze, Director, PHMDF
The Child-to-Child Trust
A full time member of staff from 1989-1996, Clare Hanbury has enjoyed a close association with The Child-to-Child Trust as an adviser and consultant for many many years. Consultancy projects in the last fifteen years have included:
- Mentoring colleagues working on a Child-to-Child action research project with CHETNA in Ahmedebad, India for 14 months;
- The publication of Children for Health;
- The publication of Part One of the manual: Child-to Child approaches to HIV Prevention; and
- The field handbook: Monitoring and Evaluating Children's Participation in Health and Education.
- Conducting a feasibility study on establishing Child-to-Child Research, Training and Consultancy services.
- Developing the training materials and toolkit on Children's Participation on Child Protection for the Child-to-Child Trust and the Keeping Children Safe Coalition alongside colleagues and children in Africa.
Clare continues to be an advisor to the Trust and we value her contribution in the area of materials development and training. We look forward to partnering with YSi to meet Child-to-Child's mission.
Tashmin Khamis, Director, The Child-to-Child Trust (2003-2010)
Training with the Child-to-Child Trust
During her years of working with the Child-to-Child Trust, Clare has developed a unique approach to training teachers, trainers and health personnel in participatory approaches to health education. She authored a modular training manual and this has been adapted and used globally. She has conducted training workshops with teachers, trainers, health professionals and government officials in Columbia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Romania, South Africa, Switzerland, Tanzania, Uganda, The United Kingdom, Vietnam and the Yemen. She supported government and non-government programmes and worked in extremely challenging environments with people who are refugees and with street children. She taught on short courses and Masters Degree courses at the University of London’s, Institute of Education and Institute of Child Health.
Clare’s personal training skills have deepened over time as she has undertaken advance skills training in the tools of coaching and mentoring. Here are a few selected voices from the many hundreds of people Clare has worked with over the years.
I’ve known and worked with Clare for over 15 years, starting with the time I was a volunteer with Child-to-Child in Uganda. I’ve always been impressed by Clare’s passion and drive, underpinned by her deep knowledge and experience. Clare combines an enthusiasm for the genuine participation of children and young people with a strong understanding of education and health promotion.
Kate Harrison, Senior Portfolio Manager, Comic Relief
I first met Clare in Ghana about 15 years ago where she trained me and colleagues from the School Health Education Programme in the Ghana Education Service. I have known and worked with Clare on various projects since then. Clare has deep insight in working effectively with children. She always demonstrated professionalism in her work and her use of participatory methods in her trainings made it easy for participants to understand the concepts which underpinned working with children.
Christiana Brown, Projects Coordinator, The Child-to-Child Trust
I have known Clare Hanbury for more than 20 years, we worked closely together when I was the National Coordinator of the Child to Child program based at the Institute of Teacher Education, Kyambogo, Kampala Uganda. Clare was my immediate counter-part based at The Child to Child Trust. In all that we have done Clare has been genius, quick at taking decisions and helping others to envision and act on their visions. Clare helped start the famous teacher education project of the Child-to-Child Trust which culminated into many books of curriculum and pedagogy. Clare raised funds for Child-to-Child programs in developing countries and helped them grow. I have always admired Clare's creative writing and the ability to envision and implement children's programs, she performs her duties with passion and love no doubt her legacy remains wherever she has been.
Violet Mugisa, Consultant, Kampala, Uganda
Escuela Nueva Foundation
Clare’s consultancy work with the Escuela Nueva Foundation (ENF) included writing 15 modules for health education, life skills and science. She developed new Scope and Sequence charts for the Language and Social Studies syllabus and she advised on the development of other topic areas including Mathematics. The innovative Escuela Nueva Foundation’s educational model is well established in Colombia and in 14 other Latin American countries. It is known worldwide for its proved effectiveness in the improvement of quality of basic education.
Clare’s input to the Escuela Nueva - International Prototype Kit we are developing has enhanced this curriculum especially in the areas of health and environmental education, Child-to-Child activities and the complex characteristics and specifics of the African context. We appreciated her constructive comments and recommendations to improve the learning guides our team was writing. With the exchanges and interesting discussions we are confident our end product will be a sufficiently robust curriculum that will serve as a solution to the lack of appropriate educational materials and teacher training for multigrade teaching in developing countries.
Clarita Arboleda, Escuela Nueva Foundation www.escuelanueva.org
Danida
If I want to be short, Clare can be described in one sentence. ‘Bridging the know-do gap!’ Indeed the very difficult task that so many development agencies, policy makers in the South and North as well as NGO's are struggling with, is exactly what Clare is good at. I say that as a health development professional having worked at all levels of development for the last 20 years, and as a friend who has known Clare for the last 15 years.
Kirsten Havemann, MD, MPH, PHD, Senior Health Adviser, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark
Voices from individuals who have worked with me as their mentor
Sally Price, Consultant. Clare has been a mentor for Sally over several years and during her consulting project as an evaluator of the Catholic Relief Services Life Skills programme.
It has made a big difference to me in my professional life to work with Clare. It comes at a time when I am expanding my skills and using my experience and expertise to set up challenging and visionary programmes. In reality, as a consultant, we are often expected to be able to do and know everything, often wider than our original area of expertise. Having Clare's support whilst I was working on developing the programme in Sierra Leone gave me the confidence to feel safe to spread my wings and develop my potential. Her support was consistent, wise, understanding and humorous. She helped me to stay focused, resourceful and optimistic at all times. Since that time, I have used the wisdom I learnt from working with Clare, to go on and set up and develop other international programmes around the world. So thank you Clare!
Natasha Mecurio, a social entrepreneur working with young people in South Africa. www.tretchikofftrust.com
My experience was that you were totally in my world. I felt completely understood and supported. Thanks to the way you compassionately and powerfully listened and guided our work together.
Marie Munro, a social entrepreneur who teaches lifeskills to and coaches parents and teenagers in the UK.
Our sessions have helped me to focus on what is important to me. Making things clear in my mind. I have been through a very busy and productive time throughout our time together. Having someone to share all that was happening and having your support during this time was absolutely wonderful. I appreciated you reminding me of all that I had achieved. It is often too easy to focus on what you haven’t done; forgetting what has been done already.
Testimonials from those who have used my materials
Natalie Roschnik, School Health and Nutrition Senior Specialist, Office of Health, Development Programs for Children, Save the Children USA
SCF USA purchased a licence to adapt and translate Clare’s First Choices curriculum in Mozambique and Ethiopia . This curriculum introduces 9-13 year olds to sexuality and relationships education and equips them with knowledge and skills to protect themselves from HIV. She assisted SCF USA with ideas for implementation, adaptation and evaluation at the start of the project.
The life skills materials which Clare developed for 9-13 year olds fit perfectly with the needs of rural African schools SCF USA is working with. Teachers in these schools often have little experience of active participative teaching approaches and are working in difficult conditions. Clare has an excellent understanding of the level and the context these teachers work in. The materials provide clear and simple guidance on how to lead sessions on life skills for HIV prevention using innovative and participative approaches. They have been used in Mozambique and Ethiopia with great success and we hope will be used in other countries in the future. From a personal point of view, Clare is one of the most enthusiastic and positive people I know who always has ideas on how to do things better, differently and more effectively. She has a huge amount of experience and an intellect which I wish I could draw on more often.
Alison Lane, Director General, Juconi, Mexico
It is a relief and exciting to find such a well thought out and designed programme as this. The book addresses the crucial issue of HIV prevention in clear straightforward terms and more importantly provides a methodology for doing so which is understanding, non-judgemental and supportive towards participants. This makes it quite unique.
Sharon Wilkinson, Country Director, CARE Australia Cambodia/Myanmar cluster
We were especially impressed by the logical flow and the range of activities that support out work with youth in Cambodia and in the region. We are also impressed with the contextualization of the life-stories and the exploration of decision-making. We see this as an essential tool to introduce this very subject into both school and work place interventions.
Johann Heteleer, Plan International, South American Region
There are very few books which target young people, with their specific problems and vulnerability and also very few which combine theoretical knowledge with a lifeskills approach. Your publication covers all these issues. I found the different sections of the book very useful: they provide trainers with useful tools not only with what to do but how to do it.
Claire O’Kane, Save the Children, Afghanistan
It is an excellent, practical, empowering resource for a range of organizations (children and youth-led organizations, local NGO’s, INGO, UN, government agencies) who are evolving in empowering, preventative work with and by young people on HIV.
Cosmus Maina, Project Coordinator, Teens Watch Centre, Mombassa, Kenya
The lifeskills handbook has proved to be a great resource tool and companion for our peer education and volunteers, especially die to its user friendly, step-by-step instructions on how to conduct sixty lifeskills activities. Its advice and learning activities are absolutely necessary and a sure must for every school, Especially in our present generation are now more than ever before faced with a great challenge to make wise and responsible choices. This can only be achieved by implementing programmes of teaching lifeskills, and I assure you this that the handbook has made out lifeskills implementation very easy and practical.
