Staff

CEO: Dr Alan McIlhenny started his career as a high school mathematics teacher in Belfast, Northern Ireland. This was followed by six years as Head of Mathematics in a college in the Seychelles (Indian Ocean) and then four years as a professor of mathematics education in Tribhuvan University, Nepal. This time in the Seychelles and Nepal brought awareness to Dr McIlhenny that traditional schooling does not effectively meet the needs of all children in developing countries. With Nepali colleagues, he co-authored a book on the teaching of large classes and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Surrey in UK researching alternative approaches to schooling with particular reference to the problems facing educators in developing countries.

Dr McIlhenny was the Principal and Founder of the Kathmandu International Study Centre, a unique high school in Nepal catering for the needs of young people from many nationalities. After eleven years of service in Nepal, he returned to Northern Ireland and became the Director of Tearfund for Ireland. Tearfund is the largest UK and Ireland evangelical relief and development agency. His time with Tearfund gave Dr McIlhenny hands-on experience of work with street children and AIDS orphans in a number of countries around the world. This combination of development and educational experience has uniquely prepared him to lead OSWW. Dr McIlhenny has been consulted on education/development problems in Nepal, India, Seychelles, Pakistan, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Thailand, Brazil and Bolivia.

 

Curriculum Development Consultant: Rev. Vivian Subramoney has a deep compassion for marginalized, abused or traumatised children. He also serves in the South African Police Service as a voluntary Police Officer and holds the rank of Detective Sergeant where he trains volunteers to help traumatised victims of crime. Vivian completed a Diploma in Theology in 1979 and was ordained in April 1990 as a Pastor and served in four parishes in South Africa. He continued to study Theology and Industrial Psychology through the University of South Africa and the Institute of Personnel Management. He was appointed the Human Resources Director of a South African mission organisation that established two hospitals, shelters for destitute people, training centres for unemployed people, children’s homes for abused and abandoned children and two Street Children Shelters. He joined ACSI’s children at risk program in 2007 to further the aims of the project with Children at Risk and is currently responsible for the development of resources used in OSWW.

Training Director: Dorian Slingers worked for the City of Cape Town: Sport andRecreation. He was involved in growing the city’s Community Participation program: Greening the City. He was later appointed Senior Recreation Officer for The Greater Germiston Council, Johannesburg. One of his main tasks was to provide recreational and intervention programs for disadvantage communities. He co-wrote two hand books for the National Department: Sport and Recreation. Dorian is registered with the South African Council of Educators (S.A.C.E). He was an educator at an Independent Christian School in Pietermaritzburg and was part of the school’s management team, headed up the Primary School and coordinated the OSWW program teaching street children.