FLASH is composed by a group of professional relief workers and experienced trainers, impassioned by quality in the areas of Logistics, Public Health and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene.
Andreas
Nathalie
Carlos
Jose A.
Teresa
Tarik
Fabio
Lino
Director of the consultancy and training enterprise FLASH.
More than 20 years experience in the sectors of emergency respond, assessment, evaluations, coordination and management of Water, Hygiene and Sanitation programs in relief and humanitarian aid. Worked also as Watsan Coordinator, Logistics coordinator, Logistician, Consultant and in research for Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders (Spain, Dutch section), Action against Hunger and Intermon Oxfam. As certified vocational trainer (1994 Germany) developed since 2006 the consultancy and training enterprise FLASH where he organizes and implements workshops and courses for technical specialisation in the Logistic, Water, Hygiene and Sanitation sector.
Professional experience in development and humanitarian aid in Nicaragua, Western Sahara, Iraq, Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Guatemala, Belize, Ecuador, Panama, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Tanzania, Georgia, Colombia, Palestine, Sudan, Kenya, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Yemen, Guinea Bissau, Zimbabwe.
Nurse, graduated in Tropical Medicine. Specialized in hospital hygiene, immunization, pharmacy management and medical logistic..
More than 20 years experience in humanitarian contexts in relief and emergency programs, in conflict contexts, refugee camps, rural area and vaccination campaigns for international agencies (Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without borders French, Belgium, Dutch and Spain sections). During 7 years, she worked as technical adviser for medical logistics, immunization, hospital hygiene related issues in the Medical Department of Doctors Without Borders-Spain headquarter. Consultant for Doctors Without Borders-International in the sectors of hospital hygiene, sterilization, personal protective equipment and pharmacy management.
Consultant for World Health Organization(WHO) in the sectors of hygiene and prevention of airborne diseases. She has published a technical guideline on Infection Control in Health Care Settings for Doctors Without Borders. Wide experience as trainer in several courses of the University of Barcelona and Doctors Without Borders. Since 2007, she collaborates as trainer with the enterprise FLASH in workshops and courses for technical specialization in the Logistic, Water, Hygiene and Sanitation sectors.
Professional experience in development and humanitarian aid in Sudan, Angola, Mozambique, Peru, Panama, Nicaragua, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Kenya, Ecuador, Mauritania, Dem. Rep. of Congo, Liberia, Ivory Cost, Colombia, Bolivia, India.
He started his way in the world of international cooperation and humanitarian relive in 1990 and worked sins then combining his experiences of field and HQ works in MSF (Spain) in the departments of logistics and finances or in Clowns without borders and others NGO linked to social works in Barcelona.
Before he entered in the humanitarian work he developed his profession as electrician/ refrigerator technician for more than 20 years. His professional experience in humanitarian relieve and development he developed in countries like Angola, Namibia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Sahara Occidental, Turkey, Georgia, Kosovo, Albania, Syria; Lebanon, Palestine, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. He worked in the specialisations of cold chain, rehabilitation and construction of health facilities, management, responsible for security management, exploratory missions, evaluations and human recourse coordination and management. In Head Quarters he established and coordinated operations and projects related con the great lake crisis in 1994, Somalia, Mauritania, Guinea equatorial, Haiti, Colombia and Mexico.
Sins 2008 and actually he is director of Clowns without Borders in Barcelona and collaborate with FLASH in the field of power supply, energy, and maintenance and mission management in the FLASH courses.
Alter an initial period of professional activities in the economical sector (banking) and in vocational training as teacher in economical and financing maters, Jose initiated his way in the sector of international development and humanitarian relieve work, counting in this sector with more than 13 years of experience.
Alter 5 years in Guatemala and Colombia as Project coordinator with different NGO (Doctors Without Borders, Medicos del Mundo, PTM) he developed the task as general director of Clowns without Borders Spain (Payasos sin Fronteras) in Barcelona. Sins 5 years he is working in the Human resources Department of MSF headquarter in Barcelona, where he implemented his knowledge in different positions and being their actually responsible for recruitment, selection and development of the technical profiles as logisticians and Watsan.
He is licensed in business administration of enterprises and have a post degree in humanitarian relieve and Human resource managment.
Her experience in the international cooperation and development sector started in 1996 and sins than she is working permanently in this ambient with different tasks and positions. After some years in the field, she settled down in Barcelona where she worked in the headquarters of Medicos sin Fronteras Spain and Intermón Oxfam where she is actually director of Human Resources in emergency relieve.
Licensed in psychology and specialised in Human Resources Management, she realised technical missions for team building and training and HRM training in countries like Colombia, Guatemala, Ecuador, Honduras, Palestine, Morocco, Mozambique and Afghanistan.
Water management and engineering consultant. Bachelors in Environmental Sciences. Masters in Environmental managment. Specialized in wastewater engineering.
He has over 8 years of experience working in the private sector both in Spain as well as Bermuda in the field of water treatment and management as well as environmental risk assessment.
In the sphere of international development and humanitarian aid he has worked for over 5 years in emergency response and development projects. Starting in 1998 and 1999, the first missions consisted of disaster relief work in Honduras following hurricane Mitch followed by awareness and educational campaigns in Peru through the international organization, AGAPE
Over the last three years he has collaborated extensively with the Barcelona-based NGO, emsimision, as coordinator / consultant of WATSAN and environmental assessment projects and instructor of courses on water analysis in Burkina Faso. Since 2007 his work as a water management consultant in development and humanitarian aid projects has extended to several other NGO such as REMAR, ASFES, ACUA and Nuevos Pasos that are currently working in Burkina Faso and Peru.
Tarik has been a friend and supporter of FLASH ever since its conception and since the beginning of 2009 he was incorporated as an instructor in periodic FLASH courses in the area of water and sanitation.
Geologist, specialized in water/sanitation programmes and use of Geographic Information Systems and field mapping techniques.
He started his interests for international cooperation programmes during his study in Geology at the university in Milan, followed by a postgraduate in groundwater and a master course in water resources surveys at ITC (Institute for Aerospace Surveys and Earth Sciences) in Enschede – Holland, where he specialized in techniques of field mapping and geographic information systems for surveys and management of water resources. He has 15 years of experience in international cooperation programmes, mainly in the field of water and sanitation (emergency, post emergency and development), as well as disaster risk management, food security and environment. He worked as technician of water/sanitation and mapping/analysis of geographic data with GIS, program coordinator, expert for project design and evaluation. He has worked with Oxfam GB, Intermon Oxfam (as he was regional humanitarian coordinator for East and Southern Africa), MSF-Spain, UNICEF, Water Resources Authority of Argentina and several smaller NGO.
He has worked in Latin America (Ecuador, Argentina, Nicaragua), Africa (Ethiopia, Chad, Burkina Faso, Mali, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi, Angola, Mozambique) and Asia (Pakistan and Palestine), participating on humanitarian, development and institutional support programmes.
He has given course in different masters concerning international cooperation (Venice, Milan, Madrid, Seville), mainly in the aspects of techniques of field data collection, mapping and GIS for assessment, monitoring and evaluation of cooperation programmes (in particular water/sanitation and risk management). He has also given modules in introductory courses for NGO volunteers and he has worked as science teacher for different periods after 2001 in secondary school in Milan.
“Over all he is philosopher of live and the good soul and person in charged of -everything else- in the FLASH courses”.
He is journalist and solar technician from profession and travelled a lot in “live and the globe”, being many years owner and manager of a small neighbourhood coffee shop, writing books, working as language teacher in euskera, working as backer, farmer and in many different initiatives for ecologic live, renewable energies, ecological urban transport solutions and environmental trainer. Sins the early 90tys he worked in different development projects in Nicaragua, Tanzania, Kenya and different countries in Latin America as volunteer. He specialised in renewable energies and is licensed solar technician
Sins the early beginning in 2007 him covers the internal logistics and catering and transports in the courses of FLASH, but also is a helping hand in the rehabilitation of the training centre Can Mola.
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