Meet the team - India

Having a full time team in-country is absolutely essential to ensuring our programmes are the best that they can be. It enables us to build long-term, sustainable partnerships with our project partners and other stakeholders and develop a shared understanding of each other's work.

It also ensures that we can better train and brief all of our volunteers about a whole range of aspects that wouldn't be possible without having a permanent team in each country.

The Country Director and Country Programme Manager roles are quite different. The Country Director focuses more on our external relationships; project planning; funding and business development, while the Country Programme Manager focuses on delivery of the expedition programmes and management of our volunteer managers. This enables us to ensure that our projects not only respond to locally defined needs but that they are delivered safely and to a high standard.

"My time with Raleigh was so positive that, when the opportunity to move to India to set up Raleigh India presented itself in 2007, I grabbed it with both hands" Gavin Shelton is the Country Director for India. Read how he got into Raleigh here

"The reward of taking our volunteers on expedition through their own life-changing experience never diminishes" Mark Ashby is the Country Programme Manager for India. Read how he got into Raleigh here

"Raleigh has become like an extended family for me now" Vijay is the Host Country Venturer Co-ordinator for India. Read how he got into Raleigh here

"I have always dreamed of doing something for my nation and this has been made possible with the help of Raleigh" Deepak is the Permanent Facilities Manager for India. Read how he got into Raleigh here