Patricia Crossley: MA, Dip.Ed:

Patricia is a retired educator and an experienced administrator, accustomed to working on organizational policy, staff training and educational projects. Her strength is team building and working collaboratively with changing and inexperienced staff. Over the course of her career she has traveled widely and worked with diverse groups, both educators and others. While assigned to the Canadian Department of National Defence in Germany she played a major role in selection of Canadian personnel and orientation as well as supervising a staff of forty teachers, of whom one third changed every year. She is therefore able to interact positively with managers and administrators. The working language for most of her career was French.

She has been working as a volunteer in the Kakamega area of Kenya as Education Secretary of the Anglican Diocese of Maseno North since 2003, where she has been involved with training of teachers and head teachers in forty-eight elementary and fourteen high schools. This has covered school visits as well as the organization and delivery of seminars.

She is designated by Virtues International as a Master Facilitator. In Kenya she has compiled and delivered teaching materials on the Virtues Project for communities, families and schools, having trained over 300 teachers. In 2008 she worked with the Western Province Sustainable Peace and Harmony Task Force in promoting Virtues training.

Rod Crossley: MSc, P.Eng

Rod is a retired engineer who has worked in the Aerospace and Industrial R&D fields in Europe and North America.
After a short stint as an aerodynamicist in the aircraft industry in the UK, most of Rod's career was spent working on the design of microprocessor-based devices, despite qualifications in aeronautics and automatic control systems (you do and learn to love what the company needs next).

For six months each year since 2003, Rod is a volunteer working in Kenya. Besides supporting Patricia's ongoing work as Education Secretary of the Anglican Diocese of Maseno North and other charitable activities, he was instrumental in starting a computer school that year.
In addition to the above, Rod has been active in installing wells and protecting springs in the region; he developed a standard method to track contractor estimations for this work which has helped to make budgeting more reliable. Future plans include the development of building materials from agricultural waste and the manufacturing processes appropriate for a rural society as well as the introduction of simple technology to improve the quality of life.

Rod enjoys learning new things both practical and academic, relatively fast-paced fiction and sailing.

Helen Goodchild:

When Helen retired as a manufacturer's agent for a large Canadian office furnishings company,she began volunteer work for Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria where she was Warden and chair of the Finance Committee for a number of years. Helen is Treasurer of Tembo-Kenya.

Nancy Carson:

Nancy is a retired teacher who has spent a total of two and a half years in volunteer positions in Western Kenya. She worked for organizations giving scholarships to needy students and still supports some boys and girls at school. In Canada, Nancy volunteers for Seniors organizations and coaches ESL students. She is Vice-President and Secretary of Tembo-Kenya.

Peter Norman:

Peter Norman emigrated from Liverpool, England to Canada in 1963. He and his wife Dana raised 3 children in Cranbrook, BC where they lived for 30 years. They moved to Victoria in 1999 when he was with the provincial Ministry of Lands. Now he is a realtor, walker and biker while Dana plays bridge and spoils him. They have always been active in service clubs, including Rotary, and visited Kenya in that capacity in 1978.

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