Genevieve Lamond

Research Project Support Officer / Teaching Associate

Location: Bangor, Gwynedd, United Kingdom (Llandudno, United Kingdom)
Industry: Research

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Genevieve Lamond's Overview

Current

Volunteer Network Coordinator at Railway Children
Chief Executive at Wamumbi Orphan Care

Past

Research Officer at Bangor University
Consultant at World Agroforestry Centre

Education

The Center for Sustainable Development
University of Wales, Bangor
University of Wales, Lampeter

Connections

78 connections

Websites

Wamumbi Orphan Care website

Volunteer Network Coordinator

Railway Children

Nonprofit; 11-50 employees; Fund-Raising industry

December 2011 – Present (1 year 7 months) Manchester, United Kingdom

I manage a team of volunteers in Manchester and co-ordinate fundraising and awareness raising community events.

Chief Executive

Wamumbi Orphan Care

October 2010 – Present (2 years 9 months)

Since co-founding a community based organisation in Kenya to provide care for orphaned children living with extended family or on the streets, I have been actively involved in fundraising and managing our projects. I developed a website, facebook page and group to raise awareness of our activities and regularly update these to show where donations are being spent. Recent workshops we have run in the community are ‘How to make reusable sanitary pads’, ‘Nutrition and balanced meals’, and ‘Nutritional home gardening’. We will be running more workshops like these to provide life skills training for our group of young people and those who are trying their best to provide for them.

Research Officer

Bangor University

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Higher Education industry

April 2008 – August 2011 (3 years 5 months)

My key responsibilities were conducting primary and secondary research, coordinating local knowledge research activities across East Africa, India and Central America, supervising overseas colleagues’ research, and producing successful project output. An important role was liaising with stakeholders in partner countries and making sure that effective communication was taking place. I regularly taught a research methodology course to postgraduate students which involved preparing and delivering lecture material, arranging interviews with relevant stakeholders, and ensuring all students had a good grasp of the subject. The role involved supporting MSc students carrying out overseas research for their dissertations, and representing the university at various workshops and conferences.

Consultant

World Agroforestry Centre

Nonprofit; 201-500 employees; Research industry

June 2010 – April 2011 (11 months) Nairobi, Kenya

I was contracted to co-ordinate a survey in Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda; this involved designing, implementing and analysing a survey that focused on farmer ranking of physical attributes of trees found on coffee farms in three research areas. I was responsible for methodology training, data entry and analysis, and supervising data collectors. I worked closely with the data collectors to implement the survey successfully; this involved training them in the methods to use and supervising them throughout the fieldwork and data entry stages. The overall objective was to inform a decision support tool for encouraging tree diversity on coffee farms, informed both by local and scientific knowledge.

Chicken project
- March 2012 to Present
Team Members: Genevieve Lamond

We initiated a small project in 2012 to ensure that the 55 children in the Wamumbi group are getting enough protein in their diets, particularly those who are HIV+. We started with five households and gave them each four egg laying hens and one cockerel as well as the materials to build chicken houses for themselves, with help from other members of our group. Towards the end of 2012 and beginning of 2013, they started breeding them and at the last count we have 36 cockerel chicks and 72 hen chicks which makes a grand total of 108 to share amongst our remaining 31 households and to leave a few with the five households that have reared them so far.
Nutritional home gardening project
- September 2012 to Present
Team Members: Genevieve Lamond

Since our group received the necessary training in September/October 2012, we have made four seedbeds and eight demonstration home gardens using biointensive agricultural techniques. Seedlings were handed out to those who attended the training days and we are optimistic that it will lead to 100% uptake of kitchen gardening by all of our 36 households given the positive response and feedback we have received.