We have an excellent track record in recruiting and sending professionally trained volunteers into the field. PBI's current UK field volunteers are listed here:

John is 34 and comes from Derbyshire. He previously worked in climate research. In 2004, John volunteered with a human rights project (not PBI) in Guatemala, and after he this started thinking about joining PBI. He was a volunteer in Papua with the PBI Indonesia project from Aug.2006 – Sep.2007 Read more

Billy is 28 years old and comes from Oxford. He spent over a year working on the Mexico project. Prior to this he did amongst other work as a tour leader in Latin America. He will be starting his Masters in Human Rights at LSE in October 2008. Read more...

Mary is 55 years old and lives in Wales. She spent a year working on the Guatemala project. She raised her three sons as a single parent. When her youngest son left home she successfully completed the TEFL training course and went to Peru where she taught English to adults for 5 years. Read more

Katharine Mote started volunteering with the Indonesia Project in Wamena, Papua in August 2006, when the team’s focus was on socialising PBI throughout the highlands. After working in Wamena for 5 months, Katharine was transferred to Banda Aceh, where she stayed until her contract finished in October 2007. 

Prior to working with PBI, Katharine worked in Sri Lanka with the Business for Peace Alliance, a joint International Alert-UNDP project.  Moving from Sri Lanka to Aceh, Katharine has been fascinated to compare the differences between these two areas historically affected by conflict and subsequently hit by the tsunami.