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SDG Progress Report 2016-2020

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted in September 2015 as a successor to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The SDGs list ...
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International Women’s Day with Hyejoung Yang, Director of Good Neighbours UK

Written by Sorina Antonescu It began with a simple idea – that on International Women’s Day we would celebrate the women of the world and all the...
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Good Neighbours Global Response to Covid-19

Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was first reported in December 2019, the disease has spread worldwide at an astonis...
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When girls’ dreams come true: Tione’s story of becoming a qualified nurse

      This is the real Tione – A now aspiring twenty year old who never stopped dreaming of becoming a nurse. As a young gir...
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Season’s Greetings from our Good Neighbours UK team

2020 has been a year like no other. As we socially distanced and coped with lockdowns, we also came closer together like never before, connecting...
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‘Tanzania feels like a second home’ says our trustee Siobhan Skerratt

Tanzania feels like a second home to me. It is a place that gave me friends, family and perspective. I have visited Tanzania on two previous occa...
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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.