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What We Do
Educational Programmers
Environmental Programmers
Research Programmes

Who We Are
Board
Advisors
Meet the Executives

What We Do
Educational Programmers:

Aimed at young people aged 11-18, this programme is perfectly adapted to the four Key Stages of the PHSE/Citizenship programme within the National Curriculum. It provides a curriculum context within which schools can offer planned and coordinated opportunities for pupils to explore attitudes and values and to develop knowledge, skills and understanding that support inclusion and appreciate nature and natural resources.

Environmental Programmers:

The implementation of a carbon emission off-setting project to part-fund an educational programme for the indigenous population of the Loreto Province of Peru. This is the most northern and largest region of Peru, consisting entirely of over a million hectares of rain forest and dense vegetation. The people in the region survive at a subsistence level.

Working with the regional government and two long-standing, locally based environmental agencies we are supporting a programme which aims to deploy local people into low-impact, sustainable alternative employment as well as making them aware of the need to conserve their environment. Managed forestry, replanting and fish-farming are all alternative sustainable sources of employment. Currently an estimated 250,000 hectares of forest are slashed and burnt each year, with people being paid barely 15p a tree.

Research Programmes:

Contributing towards the development of a body of knowledge and identifying best practices, particularly in supporting sustainable development for impoverished communities and Educational Programme for appreciation of diversity.

Who We Are
BOARD

Mr. Richard Rampton QC
Leading British libel lawyer, titled the king of the libel Bar

Reverend Ryder Whalley

Mr. Leon Menzies Racionzer MA

Dr. Martin Corner

ADVISORS

Professor Hamid Aghvami

Lord Nazir Ahmed
Labour member of the House of Lords. Life peer of Rotherham in the County of South Yorkshire 1998

Professor Alison Assiter

Dr. Martin Corner

Professor Abdou Filali-Ansary

Professor Anthony Flew

Professor Costantino Giorgetti

Professor Daniel W. Hardy

Patricia Lascelles
Countess of Harewood

Stephen Lloyd
Senior Partner BWB, Chairman Charity Law Association (2006).

Dr Eva Novotny

Lord Bhikhu Chhotalal Parekh
Labour Member of the House of Lords. Life peer of Kingston upon Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Anne-Marie Piper
She is a Partner in Farrar & Co.

Professor Jack R Pole MA (MA Camb, PhD Princeton), FBA, FRHistS

Mr. Leon Menzies Racionzer, MA, RGN, ONC (hon)

Lord Dick Taverne QC
In 1996 he was created a life peer as Baron Taverne, of Pimlico in the City of Westminster

Professor Alex Whinnom

Professor Stephen Whittle, OBE, PhD

MEET THE EXECUTIVES
Hamid Bayazi  

Hamid Bayazi

Hamid is the CEO of Tolerance International. He has over 25 years experience in the charitable sector, he has started up and lead 12 different organisations providing Aid and Relief, Education, and environmental services worldwide. Hamid has a strong passion for people and the planet. He has written extensively on social development and cultural and religious diversity, some of which have turned in to documentaries. Hamid was also the originator of a number of fundraising models now widely used in the charitable sector.

     
Naftali Mandela  

Naftali Mandela Onchere

Naftali is Director of Operations TI-UK. He has a long history in negotiations and implementation of a number of environmental treaties at local, national and international level. He has published widely on issues related to the environment. Naftali has worked in several ministries including agriculture and foreign affairs. He has served as Director of Fundraising for ACORD, Motivation Charitable Trust, Africa Fundraising Coordinator -ActionAid, Land Use Team Leader -Oxfam, and the Netherlands Development Organisation.

     
Renzo Franchuscutti Dannecker  

Renzo Franchuscutti Dannecker

Renzo is the President of Tolerance Peru, an engineer by training and an archaeologist by passion, he is one of the founding members and vicepresident of IISSAA (an International Institute for research and development of the Ando-Amazon region). In the last twenty years Renzo has been active in the promotion and implementation of development programmes for local communities in the Andes; equally at ease with ministers and peasants, he is a vigorous advocate of direct action for development.

     
Martin Alarco   

Martin Alarco

Martin is the Executive Director for Tolerance Americas,based in Peru, he studied Business Administration and has post graduate degrees in Management and Marketing. He has work experience in several sectors in Peru and the Americas and before joining Tolerance International has been doing consulting in the leisure industry. He is a passionate golfer and loves helping people.

     
Christine Kasiva Ombongi  

Christine Kasiva Ombongi

Christine is Director of Tolerance Africa. She is lawyer by profession, a Human Rights Activists and advocates for Children's rights, Women's rights and protection of our environment. Christine has a Diploma in Business Management and a B.com Degree from B.A.M.U India, Banking and Finance. has worked for Family Mediation and Conciliation (FAMEC) and private law firms. She admires Mahatma Gandhi's principles of life.

     
Simone Giorgetti  

Simone Giorgetti

Simone is Director of Tolerance Europe, has a MA in International and Diplomatic Science and has worked in several sectors in the field of marketing and promotion in Italy. After having volunteered for some years in support of fair trade and human rights, he is now busy in "welfare to work" policies for the Italian Ministry of Work. His activity today consists mainly in helping disadvantaged people to find a proper place in the labour market.

     
Víctor Raúl Vela Linarez  

Víctor Raúl Vela Linarez

Víctor is Agronomist Engineer in Iquitos, Peru, and has 14 years of experience in planning and execution of development projects in the Amazonian forest. He has worked extensively with organizations as well as natives and farming communities in the region. He has also worked as an independent professional in Consultancy; Elaboration of Public Investment Projects; and Trainer in aspects of organization and formalization of enterprises.

     
Leon Menzies Racionzer  

Leon Menzies Racionzer

Leon is a retired Scottish businessman now heads TICOFFs business relations,and has over 40 years of experience in the financial sector. Leon has been instrumental in the founding and running of several charities including the largest housing association. Leon has a strong passion for helping those in need and is a graduate in theology from Heythrop College University of London.

     
Anne Cooper  

Anne Cooper

Anne is Project Manager for TICOFF. Anne has held numerous senior positions in fundraising and campaign management in a number of major charities including Macmillan Cancer Support, Marie Curie Cancer Care and Victim Support. Anne is passionate about the charitable sector and is nonstop in her campaigns and activities to make this a better world.

     
Ling NG  

Ling NG

Ling heads the carbon footprinting team of TICOFF. She has a BSc in Environmental Science and a MSc in Climatology (Quaternary Science). Ling is passionate about the environment and has been actively involved in recycling campaigns in Singapore. During her travels, she also worked as a volunteer in a reforestation project in Guatemala.

 
 

 
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