YOURS is very excited to announce the establishment of our new group; The CORE Group. After nearly two months of applications, selection, interviews and recruitment, we have finally found our CORE Group, the Coordinators of the Regions from around the world who will work with YOURS on our network expansion and bolstering of our global reach.
We are finally here, after months of rigorous selection from a highly competitive group of applicants, YOURS has established its CORE Group of Coordinators of the Regions from around the world. Each Coordinator comes from a highly skilled background and has a wealth of experience in youth and road safety issues along with incredibly strong networking abilities.
Coordinator of the Global Network for Road Safety, Mr Manpreet Darroch said, ‘This group is an exciting opportunity for YOURS to expand its global reach and offers our network the chance to work with their Coordinators to create personalized plans to increase road safety efforts in their regions’. On the recruitment process he said, ‘The calibre of candidates made our job at YOURS extremely difficult, there were many discussions around the final candidates because they were just so experienced and committed but in the end we have found the best of the best’.
Our new CORE group will be kicking off their roles immediately and their first tasks will be to oversee the implementation of our new global awareness campaign to see an increased level of participation from around the world.
YOURS Director, Mr Floor Lieshout said, ‘This group of young people are truly inspirational and are true leaders.They will be a strong part of our global success and we shall see an exponential growth in our network capacity. We are proud that such quality young people are committing themselves to our organizaion and we are excited to work with them’.
They are:
- Mr Aliou Oumarou – Coordinator of the African Region (French Speaking Countries)
- Mr Axel Druart – Coordinator of the European Region
- Ms Jennifer Heatley – Coordinator of the North American Region
- Mr Joel Tucker – Coordinator of the Western Pacific Region
- Ms Sheila Atieno – Coordinator of the African Region (English Speaking Countries)
You can meet our CORE Group and read their profiles here.
While we have found our Coordinators for these regions, we are still searching for our CORE Group in Eastern Mediterranean, South East Asia and South and Middle Americas. You can find out more on our vacancies page,