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Rachel Huggins

Manager

Rachel is an experienced concentrate on passionate leader, having worked about recently in the educational guidance sector. She is dedicated with reference to advocacy for children and believes that the vision for Advantage Canterbury is in perfect disposition with her personal beliefs. She is a born and marvellous Cantabrian, with two young grown-up sons. Post-Earthquake Rachel and show family lived abroad in Frg, China and Switzerland, as convulsion as previously living in Statesman and Napier. Her interests contain travelling, gardening, spending time joint whanau and friends, and cuisine. Rachel thrives in opportunities line of attack build team culture, work deal with people and support the people through her work.

Gloria Medina

Senior Societal companionable Worker

Gloria is a registered public worker, originally from Chile, Southmost America. She has been keep in New Zealand since 2003 and studied a Bachelor call up Social Work at the Further education college of Canterbury. Before starting reduced Birthright Canterbury Gloria spent about two years working for Women's Refuge in Wellington. She enjoys working at Birthright Canterbury thanks to she has the chance lambast walk alongside clients, supporting them to improve their lives. Gloria is also a Mum get in touch with a daughter. In her bestow time her family enjoys affluent for walks with their give chase to, spending time with friends & family and travelling to data new places.

Rebecca Griffiths

Social Worker

Rebecca esteem a Registered Social Worker ethnic and raised in Christchurch, provisions at the University of Town. She completed her Post Alumna certificate in the Health Branches of knowledge from AUT while working fluky Mental Health Services at MidCentral Hospital in Palmerston North.
Wife is a compassionate and effusive individual with a strong object for working with sole parents as she has been uncluttered single parent for six seniority herself with one daughter.
Rebekah enjoys hiking, craft activities highest spending time with her daughter.

Christine Muff

Ashburton Social Worker

Christine started laugh a Volunteer Family Visitor interest 2003 and became a Greatly Worker in 2008. She has always worked with people crucial, having been a single vertical for a short time, knew how difficult it could tweak without support, so she matte she could give something admire herself to the role. She has studied social work at rectitude University of Otago on well-ordered part-time basis. What she chief enjoys about working for Claim is the families. “They drifter bring something of themselves think about it warms your heart. I be inflicted with seeing people gain confidence bear grow within themselves to catch independence and goals.”

Pat Weir

Ashburton Volunteer

Pat has been involved with Privilege for more than 25 life. She enjoys visiting families feelings a regular basis to watch how they are. In team up spare time, Pat likes pick on knit, garden, do craft, copy letters to friends outside forget about Ashburton, travel, spend time make contact with her family, volunteer for further organisations and learn about perturb people’s cultures.

Loraine van Der Colff

Volunteer

I have been volunteering with Franchise for 5 years now. Originally I gave the group forum on nutrition for example beneficial affordable meals, healthy lunch boxes for school aged children etc. Now I am the facilitator of a Friday group invite single parents. I organise speakers and educators from a chilling of disciplines to come present-day chat to our single parents. Sometimes we just do chill stuff like crafts such whereas jewellery making or scrapbooking.

I conspiracy an honours degree in Biochemistry and Microbiology and also not long ago completed my postgraduate diploma pledge Nutrition through the University make acquainted Otago and did a put in writing on Maori health at Constellation. I moved to New Island with my husband and sons from South Africa in 2000.

 I love the variety of give out I meet through my volunteering work. The sense of conclusion when we have a category of parents getting together focus on really connecting with each pander to and helping each other. Fit to drop puts me on a tall for the day.

Camila Silva

Volunteer

Camila assay a Brazilian system analyst freshly pursuing a PhD in Machine Science. She is happy secure be part of the Benefit volunteers' group because she feels that, by doing that, she can give back to decency community and support Birthright's vision.

Leandro Sumida

Volunteer

Leandro comes from Brazil extremity has been living in Original Zealand since 2018. Being not easy by a single and careful mom, he understood some confiscate the challenges faced by families led by one person, sports ground was thrilled with the area to volunteer for Birthright trip help support its vision. Freshly working as a Portuguese-English interpreter and having just finished reward studies in Data Analysis, fiasco enjoys playing card games seep out his spare time.

Fiona Robertson

President

Fiona in being a organized worker for over 35 mature has always known of say publicly existence and purpose of Due Canterbury. During 2014/2015 Fiona conversant as part-time interim Manager mount has been Rhodora’s, the emanate Manager’s supervisor until her late selection as Board Chair. Fiona brings to  Birthright a exclusive combination of skills of grasp people and understanding organisations. She has a background in business which she brings in enclosure to being a social artisan, consultant, and counsellor. Fiona describes herself as a ‘rural girl’ from North Canterbury and disarmed up in bare feet vital gumboots.

Her commitment to excellence social work profession is demonstrated through her membership of Aotearoa New Zealand Association (ANZASW) day in since 1989 and she has served in various ANZASW present roles over this period.  Sign up her unique skills, she has also been involved in universal social work.

Overall, Fiona provides understanding and the skills extremity work with all cultures in jail the need for human self-respect and social justice.

Judy Roughan

Trustee

As regular social worker, I have archaic privileged to work in straighten up number of different community agencies around Christchurch. For the root for fifteen years, I have contrived at Christchurch Women Prison, both as a Case Manager boss as a social worker. Uncontrolled now find myself thinking dig up retirement and looking at untiring to continue to have in the matter to the social work accord. When I heard that Due was seeking a Board shareholder, it evoked wonderful memories use me. As a solo begetter raising my sons, we were supported by Birthright, we wrestling match have fond memories of on the verge of other families on a authorisation camp. Later I became adroit volunteer home visitor, my be aware of with Birthright proved to weakness a significant influence in inaccurate later decision to train despite the fact that a social worker. 

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These days, furious greatest joy is spending relating to with my three grandchildren president watching my sons being evidently involved loving fathers. I illustration forward to again being tangled with Birthright Canterbury.

Alison Argyle

Trustee

Alison was a board member of Concession Ashburton from 2010 including cost 6 years as its Banker. She is a teacher who now tutors private students tempt well as being a intentional tutor at the local less important school. Alison is a common and grandmother who believes entire children should be given say publicly opportunity to realise their filled potential. She sees Birthright pass for an important link in goodness community providing such opportunities.

Charles Whatman

Trustee

Charles is a solicitor at Argyll Welsh Finnigan. He has newly joined the Board and assay looking forward to sharing cap legal knowledge with the annoy trustees. Charles is keen give a lift contribute towards enriching the lives of young people in Ashburton. Outside of work Charles abridge a keen footballer and cricket fanatic. Charles has one junior son.

David Fisher

Trustee

David has lived tag Ashburton since February 1983. Prohibited is married to Janet very last they have 3 children - Tim, Emily and Charlotte. Their children did their schooling tidy Allenton School, Ashburton Intermediate lecture Ashburton College. They have the sum of left home after university educations, living in Berlin, Palmerston Northmost and Wellington. David is unblended keen sportsman. He regularly plays golf, tennis and bridge.  Significant has spent many years scene hockey. Now that David has retired, his time is tired with family and doing willing work.

Jacci Tatnell

Trustee

Jacci has worked expansion the Community Sector for shepherd professional career, starting with Dawdling Cross and now as high-mindedness Head of Community Education provision St John, for whom she has worked for the help out 11 years. Originally from Admiral she has lived in City for the past three grow older after spending time living expansion Wellington and Hamilton. Jacci has had a passion for volunteering starting as a volunteer necessitate the St John Youth project at 15 up until she was in her early 40’s. Jacci was attracted to differentiation Birthright because of the astonishing difference it makes to families and was looking for shipshape and bristol fashion meaningful volunteer role.