Posts Categorized: Organization

Claudia Verónica Ágreda Ajquí joins FTI Advisory Board

  Born and raised in Guatemala, Claudia Verónica Ágreda Ajquí’ has applied her formidable scholarship and dedicated activism towards improving the lives of the people of Central America. Currently a program officer for the justice access and food security programs for the Central American regional office of DanChurchAid (DCA), a major Danish NGO, Claudia has… Read more »

Elinor Sisulu Joins FTI Advisory Board

  Passionately dedicated to the written word and to human rights, writer and activist Elinor Sisulu has a natural affinity for the work of Fambul Tok—both as a storyteller and as an advocate. As a scholar, she brings keen insight into the forces shaping policy around development assistance and in particular, the lives of women… Read more »

Ishmael Beah, Activist and Celebrated Author, Joins the FTI Advisory Board

Few stories from Sierra Leone’s terrible Civil War have resonated so deeply or so widely as the personal narrative of Ishmael Beah, author, human rights activist and former child soldier. Mr. Beah’s biographical account, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, has moved, educated and engaged his readers with the plight of child… Read more »

Benedict F. Sannoh, Chief Human Rights Officer, UNMIS, joins FTI Advisory Board

In accepting Fambul Tok International’s invitation to serve on our Advisory Board, Benedict F. Sannoh, Chief Human Rights Officer of the United Nations Mission in Sudan and distinguished lawyer, activist and scholar, noted that the work FTI has done in Sierra Leone “represents the single most significant and constructive contribution to national reconciliation and the… Read more »