Former development workers: Where are they now?

Former development worker Napapan Der Kinderen in Timor-Leste.

Progressio development workers have been successfully working alongside local partner organisations in the global South since the 1960s. They have left a lasting impact on the communities they have worked with.

Read interviews with our former development workers and learn about these experiences, and find out where their experiences as development workers have taken them.

We change our interviews regularly so if you are interested in a particular field or geographic area that is not covered please keep checking this page and also our current development worker experiences page .

Latest interviews

Luis Pedro Vallés was a development worker in Nicaragua from July 2005 to December 2008.

Hans Joel Bernal was a development worker in El Salvador from November 2002 to November 2010.

Ian Agnew was a development worker in Namibia from 2002 to 2005. He describes his experience as a development worker, and what he learned from the experience that has helped in his future career.

Sarah Bradshaw was first a development worker in Nicaragua from January 1998 and August 2001 and since then has done a number of placements with Progressio.

Lainie Thomas was a development worker in Somaliland from August 1998 to July 2001.

Irene Betty Banda was a development worker in Zimbabwe from August 2002 to May 2006 in the area of participation.

Ernest Cañada Mullor was a development worker in Nicaragua from January 2005 until January 2009.

José Antonio Jiménez Vélez was a development worker in the Dominican Republic, between January 2004 and December 2008.

Mary Enright was a development worker in Somaliland from August 2002 to December 2003, and then from November 2004 to June 2005, with Amoud University/ International Labour Organisation in the field of information management.

Judith Turbyne was a development worker in Honduras from October 1995 to April 1999 in the field of community development.

Irfan Akhtar was a development worker in Yemen between 2005 and 2008 in the field of HIV and AIDS.

Mo Hume was a development worker in El Salvador between 1997 and 2000 in the field of gender and local development.

If you are a former development worker and you would like to share your story, we would love to hear from you. Please get in touch.

We also have former development worker interviews in Spanish here.