Alumni

Hundreds of people have directly contributed to our work since we started out in 2012. Here are just a few of them…

Sir Christopher Alejandrino

A former ship painter, Chris came to us in 2018 as our first Filipino employee. He served as part of our growing Philippine team until 2022. There aren’t many parts of our Philippine bases that he didn’t paint! We were sorry to hear of his death in 2025, and we thank God for his service.

Dr Jeffrey Clarke

A consultant psychiatrist in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), Jeffrey joined our two co-founders in 2015 as our third UK director. He then gave us eight years of incredible service, including as chair of our UK board for around half that time, until July 2023. He was generous in so many ways. We thank him for his stamina, wisdom and thoughtful brand of leadership. And we will remain forever in his debt.

Dr Emily Cullis

Then a medical student at the Hull York Medical School, Emily worked for us from 2018 until mid-2022. First of all, she spent a gap year working as personal assistant to our chief medical officer. Then after returning to medical school, she served part-time as our IT manager. During this time she created our website from scratch including building us an intranet, a telemedicine portal, and an online training platform from which we run our web-paged training courses. We thank her for her service, and we wish her all the best for her resident doctor years within the NHS.

Mr Henry Delacave

Having done his medical school paediatrics placement with us in 2016, Henry returned to volunteer with us after his foundation jobs. He did a year as one of our clinical fellows, in 2020-2021. The onset of the pandemic prevented him from serving at our Philippine base. But he rose to the challenge, taking our medical school course online and creating an in-house course for Filipino staff engaged in patient welfare checks. He also worked with our partner Outreach EMR, to oversee our switch from paper records to electronic medical records. We thank him for his service, and we wish him all the best for his training as an Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) surgeon within the NHS.

Mam Amy & Sir Nestor Gatos

Amy came to us as live-in housekeeper in early 2022, as soon as pandemic restrictions eased enough to allow her to move house. She brought her husband Nestor and two grandchildren, Charlotte and Geraldine. Amy’s housekeeping and catering skills quickly became legendary. And Nestor helped out whenever he could. Geraldine became a firm favourite with Cattuchino, our resident cockroach catcher. Housekeeping is hard physical work, from which she had to retire at the start of 2025. She and her family have returned to live on their family plot in Twelfth Street, Olongapo. Hopefully we will be able to continue using her now and again for lighter pieces of work. We thank them - especially Amy - for their service, and we wish them well.

Dr Esme MacKrill

A graduate of our first health & justice track, Esme volunteered with us after her foundation jobs. She did a year as one of our clinical fellows, in 2021-2022. She did a brilliant job including helping to run the second year of the track and writing many web articles. We thank her for her service, and we wish her all the best for her training as a psychiatrist within the NHS.

Mam Amelia Magtaas

Mamie A came to us at Easter 2023 as part-time book-keeper. She worked with Mam Loy in the office. And we enjoyed her contribution to our team. But her health and other commitments took their toll and so she decided to concentrate on home book-keeping from Easter 2024. We thank her for her service and are grateful that she continues on our Philippines board.

Miss Rosie Masters

Rosie worked for us from 2019 until late 2023. First of all, she spent two years working as personal assistant to our chief medical officer. Then she served as office manager whilst training in book-keeping. She was absolutely indispensable, overseeing the move to our current accountancy software and developing many of our personnel systems. We thank her for her service, and we wish her all the best for her career within the financial team of a large London church.

Dr Lavinia Miries

A Romania-trained doctor, Lavinia joined us in the non-clinical role of chief operations officer in 2021. During her two years with us she became a mother, improved our health & justice track, and developed many of our administrative systems. Sadly, due to pandemic-related cuts, we had to make her redundant in 2023. We thank her for her service.

Mam Luisa & Sir Paulito Napalan

Loy and Papi came to us in September 2019 when their previous employer, Helping Hands Healing Hearts, left Olongapo to concentrate their services in Baguio. Loy became our services manager and Papi took on the role of estates manager. We enjoyed their upbeat partnership for five years until April 2024 when they went on a well-earned three month period of unpaid leave to Australia. Upon their return, Papi took scheduled retirement, and Loy resigned in order to concentrate on her family - caring for her mother in Australia and enjoying her elevation to the status of grandmother! We thank them both for their service and wish them well. Later in the year, Papi relinquished his role of staff representative on our Philippines board.

Dr Rachel Owusu-Ankomah

A speciality general surgeon within the NHS, Rachel volunteered with us as a part-time clinical fellow for two years from 2021 until 2023. She did a great job including running regular pandemic-era telemedicine clinics into places of detention. We thank her for her service.

Ms Diana Palma

Having done her MSc in international health’s research project with us in 2017, Diana stayed on for three months to serve as personal assistant to our chief medical officer. She did a wonderful job including writing our first funding applications and improving our Medics & Justice course. We thank her for her service, and we wish her all the best for her sociology career in Colombia.

Drs Melody Redman & Alexander Cary

A paediatrician and clinical geneticist, Melo joined our UK board in 2018. Her husband, GP Xander followed suit in 2020. They gave us five and three years respectively of highly engaged service. Then in July 2023 they stepped back following the birth of their first child. We thank them both for their service.

Dr Amy Watson

A trainee GP at the time, Amy joined our UK board at the end of 2017. She gave us five years of loyal service and her quiet reflective wisdom was much appreciated. Her life changed and, after becoming a wife and mother as well as a busy inner-city GP, she resigned in early 2023. We thank her for her service.

Dr Ellie Webb

A graduate of our second health & justice track, Ellie volunteered with us after her foundation jobs. She did a year as one of our clinical fellows, in 2022-2023. She did a phenomenal job including deputising as chief operations officer during Lavinia’s maternity leave. We thank her for her service, and we wish her all the best for her training as a GP within the NHS.

Dr Fiona Woodhead

Then a medical student at the Hull York Medical School, Fi worked as our part-time IT & social media assistant from 2021 until 2023. She did a wonderful job: she ran the technical side of our health & justice tracks, and she grew our social media presence. We thank her for her service, and we wish her all the best for her resident doctor years within the NHS.

 …the body is not made up of one part but of many. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be?
1 Corinthians 12:14-17