Childfund Caribbean has new National Director

Ana Maria Locsin

Childfund International has announced that Ana Maria Locsin is the new Childfund Caribbean National Director.

According to a release from Childfund Caribbean, Locsin, a national of the Philippines, brings to Childfund Caribbean a wealth of experience, having worked in different managerial positions for Plan International, as Country Director of Pearl S. Buck International in Vietnam and the Philippines, and as a National Director for Childfund India and more recently for Childfund Afghanistan.

At a press conference on Friday, she said, “Childfund in the Caribbean is going to be moving forward and I am going be leading that move. I am going to be leading the team in moving ourselves forward and being able to reach more. With the country strategy paper, which we are just about to complete, it will give us a better sense of what we want to do, where we want to go and what we want to achieve in [changing] the lives of children and the youth in the communities and the partners that we have in the islands of the Caribbean.”

Meantime, Childfund Regional Director for the Americas, Paul Bode admitted that the move to bring in Locsin, along with the decision to terminate long-serving, former National Director, Francis Joseph, is in accordance with the organization’s new strategic plan.

Bode emphasized, “The decision to part ways with Mr. Joseph was taken in the light of this new strategy. Mr. Joseph has had an important contribution to the work of Childfund, has been 15 years the National Director of the organization here in the Caribbean but the organization is changing. That comes with any organization, those types of strategic changes.”

He added, “So within that context and looking at his skills and his experience, it was my assessment that those skills and experience was not the set that we needed in order to move forward with the strategy that we are now developing.”

Bode also mentioned that the emphasis was placed on bringing in help and knowledge from outside the organization and region as well as experience with more participative development processes involving youth and children more directly, but stressed that the decision was taken in the best interest of the children and the organization.

He also sent a message that the organization is well equipped and ready to deal with any legal blow-back of its decisions.

Locsin, who intends to expand on many of the organization’s already existent programs, such as the Roving Caregivers program, as well as implement some new ones, will be responsible for Childfund Caribbean operations in Dominica and St Vincent.

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3 Comments

  1. Lawrence Boyle
    October 12, 2017

    It appears to me that sponsering three children in Dominica and visiting them two times that there is still a need for Childfund to remain in Dominica especially after Maria. In my opinion there needs to be an avenue for these children to continue on to opportunities that exist not only on the island but elsewhere in the world. As a former educator these children have no idea of the many careers they could aspire to. Thank you

  2. natural dominican
    August 9, 2011

    omg…does the country have any human resource of own

  3. Cassandra
    August 9, 2011

    At the end of April this year Vince Henderson signed an agreement in New York with Libran Cabactullan, Philippines ambassador to the U.N. establishing formal diplomatic ties between Dominica and The Philippines with an emphasis on “people-to-people” exchange. Coincidence? Is this the first concrete manifestation of this agreement? What next? It would be helpful if GIS would keep us informed, if only to avoid speculation.

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