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Last updated: 20/08/2008
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Meet the team

Project Committee

Kerstin Reemtsma

Training programs with the Guatemalan Church for refugees living in Mexico 1989-93

Preparation of delegations working on constructing development programs for the CPR-Ixcan and CPR-Sierra, 1993-97

Advisor to the CPR Sierra negotiating team with the Guatemalan government 1993-97

Coordination of different projects of education and health in the CPR communities 1994-99

Consultant for various projects of the CPR and other groups in the Ixil Area 2000-02

Preparacion of training materials for the Manuel Colom Argueta Foundation 2000-02 

 

Eva Scarfe (Australia)

PBI El Salvador Team Member 1988-90

Accompaniment of Guatemalan Refugees in Mexico 1991-1992

Accompaniment of CPR-Ixcan 1993-98

Facilitated workshops with Guatemalan refugees and with the CPRs in the Ixcan.

PBI Colombia Team Member 2000-01

Member of PBI Exploratory Delegation to Guatemala 2001

Member of the PBI Guatemala team 2003

Worked for the Diocesis in the Ixcan and representing PBI in Guatemala 2002 

 

Maria Serra (Spain)

PBI Guatemala Team Member 1988-1990

Facilitated workshops in Peace Education and Political Analysis with Guatemalan groups 1990-96

Served on the coordinating committee of PBI Guatemala in the role of advisor

Executive Director of Entrepueblos 1991-2000

Experience in preparing and leading PBI trainings in political analysis

 

Tara Ward (Canada)

Volunteer for Canadian International Development Agency with Rural Committee of the Highlands/Tatamagouche Center in Guatemala, 2002-03

PBI Guatemala Team Member, 2004

Masters of Education, Studies in Lifelong Learning 2007

Member of the PBI Guatemala project training team since 2005

 

Estefanía Sarmiento (Colombia)
 

Qualified social and political psychologist

PBI Guatemala Team Member 2005-6

Member of the PBI Guatemala project training team since 2006

Experience of work and investigation of psycho-social accompaniment of victims of socio-political violence in Colombia

Project staff

Montse Garcia Blas (Spain) - PBI Guatemala Project Coordinator

Member of PBI Spain until 1996

PBI Guatemala Team Member 1997-98 WOLA (Washington Office on Latin America) 1999-2000

Consultant for the WOLA "Programa Centroamericano de Capacitacion en Incidencia"   as part of their Central America Program

Experience in the preparation and leading of PBI trainings for the Guatemala Project

Maria Teresa Quesada (Spain) - Administration worker

Member of PBI Spain until 1994

PBI Spain Administrator, 2001-2005

David Avila (Portugal) - Finance worker

Member of PBI Portugal since 2002

Finance worker for various NGOs

Finance worker for PBI Mexico Project

Guatemala Field Team

Owen Campbell (Canada)

Enrique Riestra Rozas (Spain)

Virginie Barber (France)

Jacques van Luytelaar (Netherlands)

Vanessa Marcos (Portugal)

Nadia Graber (Switzerland)

Emma Marshall (United Kingdom)

Daniel Carey (United Kingdom)

María José Urgel Riquelme (Spain)

Marion Sornay (France)

Maren Enders (Germany)

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Since the Guatemala Project was restarted in 2003, the project has produced a Monthly Information Package detailing the team's activities, alongside a quarterly bulletin which deals in greater depth with the issues affecting Guatemalan human rights defenders.