William Bradridge BA (Hons); Dip. TESOL - Marketing and Websites
William’s role with Amigos involves working with the marketing of the charity and the Amigos website. William is TESOL qualified and lives in Exeter where he runs Global English with his wife Louisa.
Besides sitting on the management team of Amigos, William advises with marketing strategy, chairs the marketing sub-committee and provides support for website development, exhibitions and social media.

Alison Berridge - Fundraising
Alison; Mum of 5; and more recently following a visit to Kira Farm, an “adopted mother” to a further 38 children!, lives in North Devon with husband Ian and last son standing at home, Jack. They are excited to be moving to South Devon later this year, where they hope they can raise awareness of the work of Amigos into a new community.
With a long history of charitable fundraising, Alison has spent the last year building new events into the Amigos fundraising calendar, which she hopes will continue to grow. Alison would be delighted to hear from you whether your fundraising idea is small or as big as Africa!

Sam and Christine Chandler - Agriculture

Dick Chamings - Education/Spiritual

David Clapp - Accounts
Dave is a retired Chartered Accountant who was in practice locally for many years. He is married to Penny and they have three grown up children.
Dave has had a passion for Africa for many years and has visited East Africa several times as well as enjoying a visit to South Africa. Dave helps with the accounts and other financial matters in the UK, and oversees accounts in Uganda.  

David Hunt - Marketing
Dave sits on the Amigos marketing subcommitee and has been supporting Amigos for a number of years by donating office space in Barnstaple. Dave's very successful business now shares the Boutport Street facility that houses the Amigos office. Dave had previously visited other charity projects in Africa, including a home for ex child soldiers following the Sierra Leone civil war. He is “delighted” to be part of the Amigos team and is looking forward to bringing his marketing expertise.

Barry Jones - Funding and Finance
Barry’s main role within Amigos is advising in areas of grant submissions, certain financial aspects, proof reading and liaising with bodies such as Grosvenor Church. His financial expertise comes from experience as a senior bank manager until 1995, after which he and his wife Jenny ran a small hotel and self-catering complex in N Devon.
Barry and Jenny visited Kira Farm three years ago and felt that their business experience could add value to the organisation. Until the Kira trip he has been actively involved in local regeneration and enterprise initiatives but was more motivated by the needs of those in Africa.
Barry says: “I see Kira as a practical application of my business skills in a Christian environment.”

Rachel Lewis - Copy writer
Rachel lives in Barnstaple and is a freelance journalist. She has two small children who are convinced she travels to Uganda every Monday afternoon to help out in the Amigos office. Her duties range from writing articles, press releases, copy for the website, leaflets and any other blurb needed. She used to work in the media team at Christian Aid and was fortunate enough to visit a project in Angola during this time. Rachel attends Grosvenor Church and was instantly grabbed by Phil's five minute talk on Amigos. She got involved the following week.

Miriam Mansfield - Minutes Secretary and Marketing
Miriam lives in North Devon and is a receptionist at a local veterinary practice. A committed Christian; she has just completed a CertHe in Biblical Studies and Ministry in 2010 and is passionate about seeing people reach their God given potential. As well as sitting on the Amigos management she has also been part of the teams that travelled to Kira Farm to teach the 'Shine Girl' personal development program to the female students. Miriam has a 9yr old son who also has a heart for Uganda and diligently collects 2p’s for Amigos as well as writing to their sponsored child in Masindi.

Barry Moxey - Finance and Banking
Barry is married to Bridget with 3 grown children and 4 granddaughters.
Now retired with 40+ years experience in finance and general office work, Barry is a valued member of the small team of volunteers at the UK Amigos office.

Emma Pugsley - BA (Hons) - Marketing

Lisa Roberts - Child Sponsorship
Lisa lives in North Devon with her husband, 11 year old twins and 2 labradors.  She is company secretary for her husband's optical practice in Braunton.
Lisa's background has always involved children  and she worked as a nanny in many different countries for 7 years before settling down to raise her own family.
The Roberts family sponsor an 11 year old boy in Kampala and after receiving his letters and updates, Lisa felt inspired to become more involved with Amigos
In 2010 the Roberts' visited Uganda to meet their sponsored child and his family.  Whilst there, Lisa was also able to meet with Joseph Sabiiti (Amigos child sponsorship administrator) to see for herself how the child sponsorship programme works to support those in most need.
"Working as a volunteer for Amigos is an incredibly rewarding experience and I am keen to encourage more people to help educate underprivileged children in Uganda".

Liz Slocombe - Data input and Records
Liz is a faithful volunteer at the Amigos office and helps with anything from envelope stuffing to card making. She also has the very important job of inputting bank data and looking after our child sponsors and donor database.
Liz is a retired Primary School teacher, and has spent her working life teaching every age group from 4-11 years.

Mrs. Grace Komakech B.Ed. M.Sc. (Home Economics & Nutrition)
Kira Farm Training Centre’s Principal or ‘HM’ as she is more fondly known.

Grace writes….January 2006 saw us as a family prayerfully committing to a New Year’s resolution - to help and care for more disadvantaged young people.
God spoke to me powerfully after being involved visiting and researching the shocking circumstances surrounding northern Uganda’s Internal Displaced Persons (Refugee) camps as a result of the LRA rebel activities.
A close family friend introduced me to Amigos and their dream to help and train disadvantaged young people with vocational skills.
Kira is an answer to our prayers. After spending most of my teaching life in one of the top schools in Uganda, I now have a chance to serve God and my country, sacrificially in my role as Kira principal.
Grace also regularly participates in Kira’s morning devotions.

Mr. Joseph Sabiiti (aka Mr. Fix it!)
Amigos Child Sponsorship Coordinator (and so much more)!

When God created Joseph he broke the mould!
Joseph oversees our Child Sponsorship programme - which means…
Visiting all of our sponsored children in Uganda at home and at school (travelling thousands of miles each year)
Collecting Letters and school report cards of all our sponsored children to send to sponsors.
Paying school fees and coordinating the children’s savings programme of all sponsored children.
Joseph also helps to select young people to be KFTC students. 
He plays an active role in receiving and hosting international volunteers in Uganda: arranging travel, accommodation, home visits, and safaris.
Joseph is also Amigos Ug photographer and scribe and has great counselling skills being a real 'Dad' to all the Kira students.
Joseph also regularly participates in Kira’s morning devotions and speaks 17 languages/dialects!

Miss. Mary Kayaga
Kira Farm’s Catering and Guesthouse Manageress (and so much more)!

Mary is the most important person on Kira, she tirelessly works to keep all our students, management, farm workers and guests satisfied and contented. Mary is in charge of our kitchen and store, working closely with the farm to produce nutritious culinary delights for all.
Mary also manages Kira’s guesthouse/student learning centre, enabling a ‘real-life’ training environment for students that want to train in catering and hospitality.  
Mary is a valued member of Amigos management team, regularly participating in Kira’s morning devotions.

Mrs. Doreen Adokorach PGDE
Kira Farm’s Warden/Matron

Doreen is responsible for the welfare, attendance and involvement of each Kira student. Doreen works closely with Grace to support the ‘spirit’ of Kira, making sure each student is fully involved and contributing to Kira’s daily life and chores. You will often find Doreen in the field with a Hoe in her hand alongside the students digging. She is a great hands-on team member, emulating a hardworking African lady and mother to all.
Besides being a teacher, Doreen’s other job was as a prison warden – not much gets past the watchful eye of Doreen at Kira Farm Training Centre! 
Doreen regularly participates in Kira’s morning devotions and is charge of all evening activities.

Miss. Joeline Namakula Dip IT
Amigos Child Sponsorship (assistant)

Joeline was the first ever child that Amigos sponsored. Since gaining her ‘A’ levels she has gone on to help fund herself through evening classes to gain a diploma in IT.
Joeline has come onboard to help Joseph in all aspects of our growing child sponsorship programme, dealing mainly in data entry, children’s history files and keeping of accurate records.

Mr. Richard Komakech BSc. PGDE
Business and Life Skills Trainer

Richard is married to Grace (Principle) and teaches maths and physics at one of the top schools in Uganda, but also has a real heart for disadvantaged young people. 
He is one of Kira’s most loved trainers, teaching Basic Business Numeracy and much needed Life Skills.
He helps each student discover and develop their full potential with self discovery and self-esteem, handling areas like: stress, emotions, peer pressure, forgiveness, inter-personal relationship, friendship formation, creative thinking, decision making, conflict resolution and AIDS/HIV awareness. 
Richard is a highly valued member of staff and we hope that all our students emulate his kindness and love for others.