Right Sharing of World Resources has team members in Guatemala, India, Kenya, Sierra Leone, and the United States.
Guatemala
Eva Ramírez is one of the Country Coordinators in Guatemala. Eva visits vulnerable communities and presents on the RSWR program to women there. If the women decide to form a group, the comprehensive training process begins, where she and Ruth provide training and support in finances and entrepreneurship and how the groups can improve their quality of life. Eva has a degree in education and lives with her daughter.
Ruth Bueso is one of the Country Coordinators in Guatemala. Ruth reaches out to new groups of vulnerable women and offers comprehensive training on behalf of RSWR. She and Eva help women's groups draft business plans and prepare proposals for grant funding. Ruth hopes to improve the quality of life for women in Guatemala. She is a Quaker and stewards a church called “Ambassadores Amigos" with her husband who is a pastor.
India
Dr. Abinaya Murugesan (Abi) is the Indian Country Coordinator She provides orientation trainings to the women groups and conducts need assessment. She focuses on quality-of-life related components and takes care of the social action programs. She does Monitoring and Evaluation of the projects along with the other Indian country coordinators. She ensures effective program delivery to the target women and conducts impact assessment.
Purushotham Nallandala is Dr. Kannan's partner as India Country Coordinator. He is the former founder and director of the NGO SPREADS. He assists with the NGO training workshops and the site visits. He also helps RSWR's NGO partners liaison with the banks, facilitating their acquisition of the proper permits to receive their funds and carry out their work.
In India, RSWR works through NGO partners that provide much of the capacity building and business training that coordinators provide in the other partner countries. The Country Coordinator in India, Dr. R. Kannan, seeks out new, small NGOs that are already doing good work and trains their leaders in how to create a micro-enterprise project and carry it out successfully. He oversees the work of the funded NGOs and assist them in overcoming problems and making reports to RSWR.
Kenya
Lotan Migaliza conducts the in-depth Business Management training for newly funded groups. Although he is very strict and emphasizes rules and procedures, his manner is funny and engaging, and the groups love his training.
Pauline Andisi Musinga is the assistant Country Coordinator in Kenya. She offers initial Capacity Building training for newly identified groups. She assists them in registering as an official women's group with the Kenyan government. She also helps them set up their membership and account books and instructs them on how to keep their records properly.
Samson Ababu is the Kenya Program Coordinator. He seeks out new groups that could benefit from RSWR funding and introduces Right Sharing to them. He oversees all the programming, assessing the needs of each group and arranging and attending all trainings. Additionally, he keeps on touch with all of the past funded groups
Sierra Leone
Ahmed Muckson Sesay, director of his own NGO, Organization for Peace, Reconciliation, and Development Sierra Leone (OPARDSL), is well-known development professional in Sierra Leone. RSWR contracts with him to provide training for new RSWR project partners. He instructs new beneficiaries in how to run a business and support one another as part of a self-help group.
Sallian Sankoh is the Sierra Leone Country Coordinator. She seeks out new groups that could benefit from RSWR funding and introduces Right Sharing to them. She is also available to help new groups write proposals to RSWR. Additionally, she oversees the funded groups, helps them write their reports to RSWR, and keeps in touch with them after their projects are completed.
Sibella Swaray is the Assistant Country Coordinator for Sierra Leone. works closely with Sallian in identifying and helping vulnerable women groups across Sierra Leone to develop project proposals for Right Sharing of World Resources grants. She learned about Right Sharing through its connections to the YMCA in Freetown. Sibella assesses and verifies ongoing funded project activities in communities and monitors beneficiaries' project activities. She advocates for bigger pieces of land and project sites on behalf of project beneficiaries from key community stakeholders. Sibella also evaluates project activities, recommends projects for funding, and organizes community meetings for beneficiaries.
United States
Caitlin Gaylord Churchill is the Communications Director. Caitlin grew up in Salem, Massachusetts and was introduced to Quakerism as a child at Friends Camp in Maine. She spent two years living at an intentional community in Scotland that has similar values to Quakerism. In 2008 she traveled to India for an artist residency where she made a piece about the impact of chemical fertilizers on Indian farmers. She felt an instant connection to the work of Right Sharing as a result of her experiences in India. Caitlin holds a degree in Social Science from Harvard University and has extensively studied communication and visual art. In her spare time she enjoys making ceramics and watching women's basketball.
Jackie Stillwell is the General Secretary of Right Sharing of World Resources. Jackie is a member of Monadnock Meeting, New Hampshire (New England Yearly Meeting) and has been a lifetime Quaker. She is a graduate of Friends World College with a B.A. in Education/Psychology, and Antioch University New England with an M.S. in Organization and Management. Jackie has lived abroad in England, Norway and spent nearly a decade in Guatemala, 3 years of which were serving in the Peace Corps. For 22 years (1990-2012), Jackie served as Head of The Meeting School, an experiment in education and simple living in Quaker community. She has traveled among Friends with FWCC, FGC and FUM, serving as an elder and workshop facilitator at monthly, quarterly, yearly meetings, and Friends schools. From 2011-2015, Jackie served as clerk of New England Yearly Meeting.
Kim Schull is the Executive Assistant. She worked for over twenty years with Friends United Meeting serving as their Administrative Assistant. She has been married to her husband Mark for 44 years. She has one daughter (Erin) and a son-in-law (Andy) and they have given her six beautiful grandchildren. She enjoys spending time with her family and she also loves watching movies.
Megan Fair is the Associate Secretary of Advancement. Born and raised in rural Ohio, Megan began attending Quaker meeting as a teenager, which compelled her to go to Guilford College in Greensboro, NC where she studied Peace and Conflict Studies and Nonprofit Management. She has served in various development and administrative roles in the nonprofit sector over the last decade. Megan believes that RSWR offers a unique opportunity for supporters to work towards equity through meaningful partnerships with women around the world. She is moved by those who seek to unburden themselves from the weight of materialism and recognize the impacts of our choices and history in an interconnected world.
Nathan Kleban is the Program & Advancement Associate. Nathan is inspired by RSWR's mission and enjoys a Friendly organizational work culture. In his past Nathan has served as an environmental volunteer with the Peace Corps in Mali, lived and served in Catholic Worker communities which he continues to support, worked as a Park Manager in Vermont, and has been and continues to be actively involved with the Alternatives to Violence Project, on local and international levels. He currently lives in Iowa City.
Sarah Northrop is the Program Director. A graduate of Earlham College and a member of West Richmond Friends in Richmond, IN. Sarah has worked at RSWR since 2007, first as Assistant to the Program Director and as Program Director since 2013. Sarah’s job includes liaising with RSWR Country Coordinators in our four countries, preparing information on projects and overseas partners for board, staff and donors, receiving and processing reports and other communications from our partner NGOs and women groups, and maintaining the database of RSWR past and present projects.