A world in which everyone has the access to health, education and participation; where everyone can fulfil their potential.
OUR VISION
OUR MISSION
To enable people to make a practical, positive and lasting difference to the lives of others, through volunteering.
OUR GOALS
Facilitate quality education
Educate children in need through volunteering and community enablement.
Support deprived communities
Sponsor local projects that favour those who live in deprived areas.
Empower local
people
Create flourishing, locally-led societies through training and sponsorship programmes.
MEET THE TEAM
Raj Khalid
Raj is a Housing professional who is the Chief Executive of a housing provider in Lon-don. He has been a member of several Boards including Spitalfields HA and Clays Lane Housing co-operative as well as being the trustee of Newham Music Academy. He has previously set up social fund and self-help groups in Pakistan and in India. He has worked in social housing, urban development and regeneration.
Alex Durham
Alex is a freelance writer & content marketer, with experience in the technology, travel and non-profit sectors. In 2011, following her BA graduation in Literature, she trav-elled to Mumbai and around India, where she volunteered with Slum Aid and worked as an intern for three months. She has also supported a Bangladesh-based education charity with marketing initiatives and fundraising campaigns, and continues to engage with art & culture projects locally and overseas with Bizarre Culture, an independent digital magazine she co-runs.
Tony Fernandes
Tony has worked in community development all his life. He presently runs a tenant management organisations in central London. He has previous experience of village level projects in India and Africa. He has also managed on the job training schemes in London and the delivery of courses in immigration law throughout the UK.
Nadine Fry
Nadine has worked within social work and other fields since 1991. She has given evi-dence in Family Courts for Local Authorities as an expert witness in Children’s Ser-vices. Nadine has worked with children and families with complex needs and also has experience of recruitment and training within the public and private sectors. Nadine currently works as a Senior Practitioner for Coram, the UK's first dedicated children's charity with a heritage that spans more than 275 years. She has been a Trustee with SlumAid since its inception.
Louis Julienne
Louis is a writer, journalist and management consultant. He was previously the direc-tor of EIN (Electronic Immigration Network) which provided legal information on im-migration to all immigration legal practitioners in the UK and beyond. He was the founder and first director of FBHO (Federation of Black Housing Organisations) a very successful umbrella and lobbying group for black and minority ethnic housing groups in Britain.
Iris Lange-Brencick
Iris was born in Chicago Illinois to a German mother and American father but grew up mostly in Germany. She has a BSc in Psychology and History of Art. In 2008, she started her psychotherapy training at the CCPE. Owing to her professional interests, she became very involved with different voluntary work such as working with survi-vors of abuse, those struggling with suicidal ideation and other types of mental emo-tional difficulties. In 2017, she volunteered with SlumAid in Nairobi, where she spent around seven weeks working at a social office in a primary school there. In 2018, she become SlumAid’s trustees, wishing to continue to help African slum dwellers.
Sinead Mcloughlin
Sinéad is a health and wellness communications professional based in London, servic-ing global pharmaceutical and healthcare organisations. In 2016, as part of a career break, Sinéad travelled to India for a few months to practice and study yoga. As part of this trip, she decided that she wanted to volunteer with young children to not only provide valuable support to local NGOs, but also to get a real insight into life in India. Through SlumAid, she arranged a volunteer placement in Mumbai for six weeks. Sinéad has been part of SlumAid’s board since 2018. Previous volunteer experience includes being a mentor to a young person with a mental health condition for over two years and a mentor to members of a women’s empowerment group in London.
Krishna Maharaj
A strong leader with a track record of achievements across a wide range of organisa-tions in the UK and International sectors. Specialist expertise includes human rights, housing and homelessness, BME communities, mental health and HIV & AIDs. 22 year’s experience as CEO including at Naz Project, Positive Parenting and Children. Internarial work experience includes positions of Head of International Advocacy at Minority rights Group International; Head of Programmes at Healthlink Worldwide: and a Trustee at Peace Child.
Vilma Redican
Vilma has a 20+ years track record of achievement as a senior manager in social hous-ing and community development mostly in inner city areas. This includes spells as As-sistant Director of Housing, Corporate Service Manager and Housing Association Di-rector. Her most recent position was as s Corporate Director of Housing and Public Protection in Dunstable. She also has many years of voluntary sector committee level service.
OUR STORY
From London to Mumbai, SlumAid was born from a desire to create change for those struggling against the tide of poverty, found in such concentration within India’s slums.
SlumAid’s first volunteers were struck by a surprising truth when visiting some of India’s poorest communities. Children as young as five were learning how to make less than a penny in street crime, begging and litter-picking; when every passing second could be spent learning how to lift themselves from the cycle of destitution – through quality education.
SlumAid wanted to help break this cycle, by building a community of the young – and young at heart – driven to make a difference through volunteering. Over a decade and hundreds of helping hands later, SlumAid supports volunteers as they stay and work with local partner NGOs to make worthy contributions to their projects and establishing long-lasting relations.
OUR CHARITY DETAILS
SlumAid is a UK-based charity. Charity Registration
number: 1063494.