“Education doesn’t change the world, it changes the people who will change the world” (Paulo Freire)

Travelling through Latin America I am offering my expertise free of charge to people who want to make their community a better place to live. I am passionate about social justice and committed to community participation. Therefore I work with communities, promoting partnership work and collaboration.

I have worked for 15 years as a senior research fellow in community development, youth work and social policy at the Centre for Social Action at De Montfort University. In 2013 I decided to leave academia and to use my skills and experience to help community development. Having grown up in Peru and speaking Spanish Latin America was the obvious place to go.

In November 2013 I packed my rucksack and headed off to Buenos Aires, the gateway for my journey. Since charity begins at home, after a month I went to Santiago de Chile to support my sister to look after her two disabled sons. During February and March I worked in Tucuman(Argentina) with a local voluntary organisation capacitating the staff in participatory evaluation. The next stop will be near Cuzco in the Peruvian Andes to work in a school of one of the poorest villages of the region.

Who knows what comes next, but the journey is developing whilst I am in each place meeting people and offering my work.

Please feel free to get in touch if you like.