Staff
Our organogram of permanent staff and long-term (more than three months) volunteers…
Senior management
Chief medical officer
Dr Rachael Pickering MBBS MA MRCGP DRCOG
One of our co-founders, Rachael is a British-trained family medicine specialist (known in the UK as a general practitioner or GP) with significant experience of offender healthcare - in the UK and internationally.
Dr Rachael Pickering
Acting as our chief executive officer (CEO) as well as CMO, the voluntary leading of our organisation takes up most of her time. As a result, she is in Asia for up to a third of each year. Aside from what she does with us, when back in the UK she does occasional locums in prisons and helps a hospice adapt its services to vulnerable patients including prisoners.
She is married to a fellow prison doctor, our other co-founder Mark. Outside of medicine, she enjoys many things including kick boxing and SCUBA diving. A qualified instructor, she just loves wreck diving, diving against debris and teaching adaptive divers.
Philippines management
Mrs Jhen Oreio
Administrative officer
Mrs Jennifer ‘Jhen’ Oreio TM1 CG NCII
Jhen came to us in 2023 as an on the job trainee (OJT) during her caregiver course at Subic Bay College.
She stayed on to volunteer and proved to have a real talent for healthcare administration. She is now in charge of our Philippines office.
Outside of work, she loves homemaking and spending time with her husband and daughter. She also finds time to do a bit of weekend freelancing. To relax she enjoys listening to music, gardening, nature getaways, swimming and baking.
Ms Lora Solis
Projects officer
Ms Loreta 'Lora' Solis CG NCII
Like Jhen, Lora came to us in 2023 as an OJT during her caregiver course at Subic Bay College.
She stayed on to volunteer and proved to have particular zest for our police detainee work. She is now in charge of delivering our outreach programs within Philippine places of detention.
Outside of work, her children are grown and she has found true love with an Australian gentleman. She loves nature trips, hiking and bonding with friends.
Other Philippines-based staff
Buttermilk (bottom) and Cattuchino (top)
‘Psycatogist’
Mam Cattuchino
Cattuchino and her brother Buttermilk came to us as kittens in 2019 during a monsoon storm. With his sister half-drowned and near death, Buttermilk scaled the front wall of our clinic building and appeared in a ventilation hole, mewing for help. We then found Cattuchino at the bottom of the wall. Cat-loving Kelly, one of six elective students we had with us at the time, nursed them both devotedly. All these years later, Buttermilk has moved on to pastures new but Cattuchino remains a senior member of our team. Her teeth keep the cockroaches at bay, and her cuddles keep us emotionally content. And we pay her in sardines!
UK-based staff
Mrs Zoe Butler
Advocate & office assistant
Mrs Zoe Butler
A zero-hours employee, Zoe helps out occasionally in our UK office. And drawing on her lived experience of autism, she is able to advocate for neurodivergent detainees.
Aside from what she does with us, she works part-time in a performing arts college.
She lives with her husband Jack and their adorable dachshund Albert. She loves art, baking, crochet and homemaking.
Miss Sarah-Louise Bedford
Illustrator & trainer
Miss Sarah-Louise Bedford DipHEd FdA
With us since 2016, Sarah is our longest serving volunteer.
She has been a vital cog in our publications outputs. She has even authored a book with us. Outside of what she does with us, she is an occasional expert by experience for the CQC.
To relax she enjoys crochet, creating yet more beautiful art, playing the recorder and cycling in the park.
Alumni
We’ve been going for well over a decade now, so we thought it appropriate to honour the former staff, trainees, volunteers and governors who have helped to get us to where we are now.
Commit to the Lord whatever you do…
Proverbs 16:3