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Having a long standing interest in the peoples of the world and their cultures, has led to much travel and interest in the ancient world.
With a background training in Law and Economics, then trained in Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy.
Worked for Home Office, educational establishments including research for World Health and various European establishments.
This led to the development of practical projects such as housing, centres, training and support for vulnerable young people and others
with special Mental Health needs. Over the years Ilona has sought to address her research and professional practice with reference to
other disciplines, at times is consulted on various cases where there has been irregularities and injustices.
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Educated at Lancaster and Oxford Universities, he spent his working life in Education and Sports Tourism.
He was Head of Department and Housemaster, and founder-member of The Sir Garfield Sobers International
Schools' Cricket Tournament in Barbados in 1987.
Rod was a serving Magistrate for twenty-five years and chaired both the Licensing and Betting & Gambling Committees.
He was church warden for fifteen years and for the past seven years has been a volunteer for the National Trust.
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Eamonn Townsend has been working in the Information Technology sector for over 47 years, having worked with
large retail organisations such as Asda Stores, Yorkshire Building Society, NEC computers and Wyevale Garden Centres. Eamonn started
work using large mainframe computers and has adapted to new technologies - more recently forming his
own company designing and building websites. Eamonn can advise on how best to make use of the internet
and all its facilities to improve the visibility and contacts of PROSPER.
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Alan has 25 years of experience in working for people with disability and mental health issues in many Hertfordshire Job Centres.
Since leaving the Job Centres in 2006, Alan has been involved with advocacy work first with ethnic minorities, and then became
an advocate working with NHS Complaints, and helping those that are in care homes, with Deprivation of Liberty (DOLS), and mental
health and learning difficulty clients, so hopes to bring much to this charity.
Alan was involved as a trustee in a previous charity chaired by Countess Ilona, Ashram Int., which involved him, amongst many others,
supporting the charity with fundraising in the UK to support poverty alleviation projects in Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, India, Nepal and Pakistan.
Alan enjoys going to the theatre, swimming and travelling.
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