Management Team

Karen Beattie, along with her husband, Dave Hopson, first visited the Luangwa Valley in 2006 with the intention of staying for three or four days.  They fell in love with Mfuwe and its people so much that they stayed for the whole month and kept returning for two or three months every year, spending half of their time in the Park and the rest trying to help the community.  In particular they funded the building of a small community school in Malama village.

At the end of 2009, when Project Luangwa was formed, they were offered the job of managing Project Luangwa.  An opportunity that they felt was too good to miss.

Karen

Karen has a long proven track record of starting and running a variety of successful small businesses and had a very successful career in the travel industry in the UK.  She has also recently managed a large equestrian facility in Saudi Arabia.  Karen’s drive, enthusiasm and caring nature fits perfectly with her business management skills to make her an ideal manager for us.  Karen specialises in the management of small and medium size projects, pupil sponsorship, volunteer coordination and small business development. She is keen on developing  "Class to Class" where a school in the Western world is encouraged to twin with one in Zambia. Karen can be contacted at karen@projectluangwa.org

Dave

Dave joins us following a career with the UK Ministry Of Defence. He is a highly qualified and experienced engineer and project manager.  His engineering skills and past property building and renovation experience, along with large scale project management knowledge is perfect for us at Project Luangwa.  He is responsible for long term fund raising and development and building of a vocational training centre. He is also responsible for maintaining our website and IT systems. Dave can be contacted at dave@projectluangwa.org