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Building lasting change with communities worldwide

In many parts of the world, people face overlapping crises of poverty, displacement, poor health, climate shocks and gender inequality, yet remain excluded from decisions about how development funding is spent.

Despite decades of aid, too many programmes still fail to shift power to the people they are meant to serve. What is broken is not only infrastructure, but the systems of trust, accountability and local control that enable communities to recover, adapt and thrive.

Good Neighbours UK exists to help rebuild those systems, working side-by-side with communities and local partners to support locally led, lasting change.

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Zarina Douglas-Sori
Chief Executive
Zarina studied international development at the University of East Anglia and since 2001 has worked for charitable organisations in the United Kingdom and overseas in the fields of poverty alleviation, inclusion, food security and sustainability.

Zarina is passionate about community-led development and empowering minority and disadvantaged groups to lead positive and impactful development and social change. Prior to joining Good Neighbours UK, Zarina worked as a grant officer for Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust. Zarina has experience of leading and managing development programmes. She spent 13 years in West Africa supporting farming families to improve their subsistence and commercial agriculture. Zarina is bi-lingual in English and French and loves learning languages. In her free time Zarina enjoys crochet, karate and yoga.
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