New Ways Directors

Alex Campon, Chairman

My name is Alejandro José Campón Brugada, the long Spanish name for Alex, by which I am best known by my friends and contacts. I have spent half my life in the arid and semi arid areas of northern Kenya, working first as a lay missionary and, since 1996 when I was ordained, as a catholic Priest. I first made contact with New Ways in 1996 when they
supported small health and education initiatives in the East Coast of Kenya at the Wema Mission where I was based. Now, almost 15 years later, we have grown exponentially in funding, professionalism, and in our development programmes - water resources and nutrition being our two key themes. Above all else, in New Ways we continue to be people who are passionate and totally devoted to improving the lives of those most deprived.
  

Angela Docherty, Chief Executive Officer

I first began working with the charity as a volunteer in London in 1995. With many years experience as an investment consultant in corporate arena, I brought significant business experience and knowledge to New Ways. My first task was to help put together a business plan to develop the fundraising focus and efforts that would grow the charity in the UK. Then I supported the directors and volunteers by helping them to implement these plans. On a visit to Nairobi in 1996, I saw firsthand the implementation and impact of the first major project New Ways was supporting as a result of the success of the fundraising efforts of the team in UK. When I returned I decided to make a personal and permanent commitment to New Ways and the work it supports in Africa.

Albert Salvans, Founder

I am a Catalan, Spanish by birth, English by adoption and Kenyan by vocation. I founded New Ways in 1994 when we started with a small group of missionaries from MCSPA and volunteers from London meeting in Kentish Town. After 6 years working in London, in 1997 I was sent to Turkana, northern Kenya, by Cardinal Basil Hume. Since then, with deep joy in my heart, I have been building dams and other water infrastructures, setting up nutritional units for young children, trying to develop agriculture in this famine-prone area, and fostering the integral development of all human beings of the region
 

Stuart Garner

I first started volunteering with New Ways in 1994 and over the years have been involved in many fundraising events. I first visited New Ways projects in Kenya in 1996 and have returned several times over the years to see more of them in Kenya and Mozambique. I have found it inspiring to see that small scale, local development projects, deeply rooted in a community can have a long lasting impact and change lives for the better. The fact that New Ways has a long term commitment to the areas it supports means that we really see the benefits over time.

Franck Margain

 
I became involved with New Ways when I met Angela and Albert in 1995 - helping with the very first fund raising event. I have always been interested in ways that I could help some of the most deprived peoples of the world, and I'm a great believer in the education of children as a solution to fighting against ignorance and exploitation. I was attracted to working with New Ways as it maintains low running costs and yet is both pragmatic and efficient. I have visited Turkana many times organising teams of student volunteers to work with the local communities there. Today as a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank, I am based in Paris in my native France. I'm also a regional Christian Democrat MP in the Ile de France Parliament.

Steven Ochieng

I am a Kenyan and the inspiration to begin working with the nomadic communities in Turkana came during Christmas of 1993. I was moved to see people coming from far off countries in Europe helping people who were suffering in northern Kenya, my own country! I was challenged by this it was the main motivation to be engaged in this work. Today I manage nursery projects in Todonyang, a fishing programme along the lake, and play an integral part in cross border peace initiatives in the region.

 William Carson