BOARD OF DIRECTORS
	Charles Spencer Miller | Co-Founder and Director | Portland, Maine Upon graduation from Dartmouth in 1969, Charlie taught for many years at St. Mark's and Andover Academy before teaching internationally at high schools in Spain, Ecuador, China, Japan and Hawaii. Twenty years ago, he established East India Salvage, importing and selling exotic arts and handcrafts from Asia. Combining his love for travel, foreign cultures, and the outdoors, he has hiked, climbed, and canoed all over the world. His dedication to educating and helping children led to his involvement with the village of Catdang in Vietnam, the Hope Community Orphanage in Mekelle, and co-founding The Children's Initiative.
	Jeremy Hubball | Co-Founder and Director | Key Biscayne, Florida Following four years of teaching after Princeton, Jeremy enjoyed a successful business career, eventually becoming President and CEO of Northland Investment Corporation. He has earned numerous industry and community honors, and currently is Senior Managing Director at Gibraltar Private Bank & Trust.  Married with four children and three grandchildren, Jeremy has pursued interests in high altitude mountaineering, working with underprivileged children in Boston's inner-city, and traveling to developing countries on five continents. He has cycled through China and Vietnam with his son Josh, and climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro with his daughter, Samantha, who has worked at The Hope Orphanage in Mekelle, Ethiopia. Co-Founding The Children's Initiative is a natural progression for Jeremy, emanating from his commitment to education, service, and application of his business acumen to the benefit of resource-poor communities.
	Randy Knight | Treasurer | Weathersfield, Vermont Randy is a medical doctor trained and boarded in family medicine. He has worked for eleven years as a full-time Emergency Physician at Valley Regional Hospital in Claremont, New Hampshire. Randy and his wife, Grace, have been frequent volunteers at orphanages in Addis Ababa helping children with HIV infection and working to support TCI's programs with Hope Community Services in Mekelle. His first-hand experience with the medical needs of children, particularly those coping with AIDS, is invaluable to TCI's mission. In addition, Randy and Grace's knowledge of agriculture and tending animals helps TCI's efforts in creating sustainable nutrition programs for children
	Phi Bou Chau | Secretary | Hanoi, Vietnam Hanoi University, 2007 Business Administration Thomson Reuters Vietnam
	Lien Nguyen | In-Country Director, VN Lien is an English teacher at Hanoi University and Business Advisor to Artex Hanoi, Vietnam's largest export company.  Serving as The Children's Initiative's in-country Director, she combines her love of teaching and children with a savvy business mind. She oversees TCI's spending initiatives and coordinates the local authorities and program participants in Yen Tien and Catdang Village, where she is highly respected.
	Gebre Medhin Beyene | In-Country Director, ET Gebre ("Gabe") is a native Ethiopian who, with his wife Connie, founded Hope Community Services in Mekelle, the provincial capital of Tigrai province, Ethiopia. They previously worked in New York City, but returned to their native land to help address the humanitarian needs of children in Ethiopia. Gabe, a civil engineer by training, runs the newly built orphanage in Mekelle, while undertaking an expansion to the complex that will eventually be home for 100 children. He also supports 80 blind students at a local boarding school, has been responsible for revitalization of the nearby public school, is active with the local hospital, helps feed the most desperate in the local village, and has established a safe home for blind girls that TCI helps support.
	Dean Seibert | ACTS, Country Director, HN Dean is Doctor emeritus at The Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, New Hampshire. Dean has dedicated his life to teaching medical students while helping the poor and underserved around the world. He has been a mainstay on numerous medical relief missions to countries devastated by war or natural disasters, and for over 20 years he has been dedicated to improving the medical care, nutrition, hygiene, and community development in and around El Rosario, Honduras. Dean coordinates and participates in an average of six ACTS trips to El Rosario each year, leading a team of doctors, dentists, teachers, and contractors to care for the sick, work with the community committees on projects and programs to raise the local standard of living, and help the most in need.
	Joshua Hubball | Brooklyn, New York Georgetown University 1997 Columbia University, MBA, 2004 Head of Business Development, ConduitLabs

Some of Our Valued "Partners"

ACTS: Americans Caring, Teaching, Sharing:
The mission of ACTS is to promote sustainable programs for health, education and development in collaboration with rural Honduran communities and to foster cross-cultural understanding.

Sustainable Harvest International | www.sustainableharvest.org | (FUCOSA in Honduras):

SHI provides farming families in Central America with the training and tools to overcome poverty while restoring our planet's tropical forests.

Engineers Without Borders | www.ewb.neu.edu | The Northeastern University Chapter
Engineers Without Borders is a humanitarian organization established to partner with developing communities worldwide in order to improve their quality of life. This partnership involves the implementation of sustainable engineering projects, while involving and training internationally responsible engineers and engineering students.

The Catdang Basket Project | Portland, Maine
This special program, developed 12 years ago, is an integral part of our holistic approach to helping villages and children. Local handcrafted baskets are purchased from the villagers who make them, imported into the United States where they are sold, and all proceeds are returned to help the children of Catdang. This not only strengthens the local economy, but also helps support and preserve an ancient art-form, while providing much needed money for the benefit of the village and its children.

Special Thanks To:

Nixon Peabody, LLP Boston, Massachusetts

The Dorothea Haus Ross Foundation Rochester, New York

The Considine Foundation Denver, Colorado

Harvey and Wallis Blumm New York, New York

Karen Levison Key Biscayne, FL

Matthew Tremblay Newport Beach, CA