Who we are.

Louise is a qualified Licensed Conveyancer and has owned and managed a firm of Solicitors since its inception in 2009. She has been a long time supporter of charities specifically in areas of children, women and foreign aid.

Her practice has maintained a firm commitment to being a business for the force of good with excellent working conditions, fair business practices and supporting the community.

As the employer of nearly 50 women Louise has a special interest in providing opportunities for women and catering for their specific needs. Her particular focus within the firm has been in the areas of training and advancement. Louise firmly believes in the rights of all women to receive the same opportunities that she has been given. She is proud to bring her managerial, compliance, financial and legal skills to this important charity.

Lucia Withers is currently advocacy and strategy advisor to the HAMRAH Initiative which supports Afghan civil society organisations in exile.

Previously she has worked as a human rights researcher, advocate and policy advisor specialising in transitional justice, children and armed conflict and other conflict-related human rights issues for INGOs including Amnesty International’s International Secretariat, the International Centre for Transitional Justice’s Nepal Office, Save the Children UK and War Child UK, as well as for UN missions in Afghanistan and Nepal.

She has also supported strategic planning and organisational development processes for various INGOs.

Jill has volunteered for an international children’s charity for a number of years, helping in the office, at fundraising events, at school assemblies and activities to promote the work of the charity. Before retiring, Jill worked as a teacher, at primary and secondary levels, in English and international schools where she had various posts of responsibility.

Jill’s passion is for all children to be given the right to education where their confidence and ability can be nurtured, so they can reach their full potential, despite any challenges they might be facing. She is delighted for the opportunity to support Angela in her goal of making access to education possible for Afghanistani girls, which they so deserve as a basic human right.

Mandy founded A More Balanced World with an instinct to right a world she recognised as being too skewed to be fair. With a life-long passion for social justice, her goal was to give under-privileged youth a chance to attain an education.

Putting her humanitarian instincts, multinational perspective, and management background to work, she has helped the organisation gain momentum, giving hope to the disadvantaged, and empowering them to forge a better future.

Prior to 2016, Mandy also worked as an IT Management professional in a Fortune 500 company. She is an avid traveller and considers herself a global citizen.