BACKGROUND The majority of personnel working with ISLAND AID have been volunteers, but as ISLAND AID expands its reach and scale of operations, additional staff will be employed to manage full-time administrative roles. The mission founders, Rick Cameron and Jane Liddon, live in Padang, West Sumatra and are fluent in Bahasa Indonesia. For the last ten years they have run a surf charter and other businesses in the area, giving them an integral understanding of the social and cultural environment of the island communities. This enabled ISLAND AID to mount an immediate and rapid response to the tsunami utilizing proven vessels, established local networks, and trusted personnel.

			PHYSICAL LOCATION Rick and Jane's mountain top villa is 15 minutes south of central Padang and 10 minutes from Teluk Bayur commercial harbor. 20 minutes south of our headquarters is Bungus Harbor, the preferred base for KM Lautan Megah's island supply boat service. We share a large 2 story office and mess building with an architect's practice just 5 minutes from our headquarters on the main road in to Padang. Both buildings have emergency power generation, autonomous water supply both are safe from a worst case tsunami.

			STAFFING ISLAND AID currently employs three local administrative staff in Padang. One will be retained at our home based mountain top headquarters and the remaining staff will work at our nearby Mata Air mess & office just 5 minutes from headquarters at the base of Air Manis hill. Communications and administration will be based at the existing hill top headquarters and a wireless link established to network with the office. The office and mess  can be used for volunteer accommodation to supplement our hill top villa and bungalow space. In total we can accommodate 10 to 15 volunteers in tsunami safe housing in Padang. Our office has a large drive in garage for storage of aid supplies and plenty of space for volunteers to work both on physical packing and on administrative tasks. To support the Supply Vessel Operation, Island Aid  will recruit the following additional full time staff: 1 x Vessel Operations Manager 1 x Engineering & Procurements Manager 1 x Administrator (existing staff) 1 x Accountant (existing staff) 1 x Storeman/ communication 1 x Captain 1 x Ships Engineer 2 x Boatmen 2 x Nightwatchmen 1 x Driver/purchasing 12 TOTAL In addition volunteers will be recruited from around the world with the emphasis on the following skills: - Boat Design / Marine Engineering - Boat Building - Electricians / Plumbers - Construction & Building - Sanitation / Water-supply - Administration and Technical Education - Fisheries Volunteers will be expected to pay all travel costs and make a small contribution to cover F&B during their stay. Accommodation will be provided by Island Aid at cost.

			BOARD OF DIRECTORS Rick Cameron BArch ISLAND AID Mission Coordinator Rick is the founder of the surf charter boat organization GBI Ltd / PT MWB - Mentawai Sanctuary, and has operated in the Mentawai Islands for the last 12 years. This has given Rick unique hands-on knowledge and an in-depth understanding of the social fabric and the political terrain in West Sumatra. Prior to this he worked with UNIDO, and his home-built wooden yacht the Electric Lamb set a mono-hull course record and took first in class in the 82 Darwin - Ambon yacht race. (See Appendix ) Jane Liddon ISLAND AID Humanitarian Coordinator / Reserve Mission Coordinator After the tsunami Jane worked full-time with Rick to establish ISLAND AID. For 3 months every year Jane skippers her 25ft 350hp aluminium jet boat in some of the world's most radical seas. Jane fishes in the breakers around the Abrolhos islands otherwise famous as VOC's Batavia's graveyard. After catching live crayfish all morning, Jane and her sons Jesse and Sam work on the family's pearl farm near their tiny atoll fishing camp. The balance of Jane's year is spent in Sumatra where she normally works in her studio designing and producing jewelry and textiles. Jane's family built wooden boats for over 40 years and she has an intimate understanding of fishing boats and gear. See: http://www.dogrockdesign.com Chris Ranken, MBA, BS, BEng Mission Administrator Chris is an environmental planner and civil engineer from San Francisco.  A former volunteer fire chief and Red Cross instructor/volunteer, he has 10 years' experience in rescue operations, emergency medical care, and disaster relief. Chris was the first overseas volunteer to arrive to help ISLAND AID just days after the tsunami. He currently runs ISLAND AID's U.S. non-profit charitable corporation. (see Appendix Q) Chris Willcox BArch Inaugural Chair and Fundraising Coordinator Chris was one of ISLAND AID's very first donors. The generosity of his family and friends so soon after Jane and Rick's initial web appeal was pivotal to ISLAND AID's early success. Chris runs one of Australia’s leading Architectural practices based in Margaret River, West Australia. (See Appendix Q) Adam Bailey ISLAND-AID and UVI Research Coordinator Since graduating from Indiana University in 2003, Adam has been a member of several research teams receiving funding from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as the National Institute of Health. After the Indian Ocean Tsunami, Adam took leave from his current multi-cultural studies at Uppsala University in Sweden to join the onsite ISLAND-AID team. He is now continuing his logistical and international fundraising coordination from his base in Sweden.

			ADVISORY BOARD Professor Ralf Buckley International Center for Eco-Tourism Research - Griffiths University, NSW, Australia. Ralf is a world authority on appropriate tourism development and the author of over 500 papers on this subject including two papers specifically focused on the potential for eco-tourism in the Mentawai Islands. Surf Tourism and Sustainable Development in Indo-Pacific Islands. I. The Industry and the Islands. http://www.mentawai.com/Buckley_paper1.html   Surf Tourism and Sustainable Development in Indo-Pacific Islands. II.  Recreational Capacity Management and Case Study http://www.mentawai.com/Buckley_paper2.html Zukri Saad Past head of WAHLI, Indonesia's respected environmental NGO. Pk Zukri currently consults to the ADB, IMF, World Bank and other agencies. Bp Zukri was recently elected to Panglima Nelayan status in Aceh to advise on the rehabilitation of the fisheries sector. Mick Stevens Honorary Consul for Australia – Medan CEO of The Australia Center - Medan The Australia Center is recognized as one of the most prestigious English Training institutions in Indonesia. Mick has an unrivaled network in North Sumatra and his assistance during the most intense period of tsunami and quake relief was critical to Island Aid volunteers arriving or exiting via Medan. Mick and his wife Lianne provided airport pickups, visa support and in many cases accommodated our volunteers at their home during rotations. Dr Aliza Weisman M.D., M.P.H. Dr Weisman is the emergency Medicine physician at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. She has worked extensively providing health care in developing nations, including Indonesia, Tanzania, and Vietnam. She has also worked in Israel and France, and has additional education and experience in Public Health and Disaster Preparedness. She has been dividing her time between Indonesia and New York ever since the tsunami. Nasdion Chalidi SH, M, Kn Nasdion has been involved with Rick Cameron's various company activities in Indonesia for over 12 years.  PT MWB's have engaged Nasdion as their inhouse lawyer for many years. Nasdion established the West Sumatran Bar Association in 1998. More recently he was part of the founding committee for the MMTA. Nasdion has done all the legal work to secure the KM Lautan Mega pro-bono. Gerard Dijkstra - Lutra Design Group http://www.gdnp.nl/ Naval Architect and Development consultant. Gerard partnered with Rick to establish a boat building industry under UNIDO project INS 85/037 and later direct G2G funding by the Dutch Government. Gerard Dijkstra & Partners was originally founded as Ocean Sailing Development Holland BV in 1969 by Gerard Dijkstra. For the first ten years the office was mainly involved with (short handed) ocean racing. However, the specialization soon included yacht design and the building supervision of ocean going sailing boats and fast short handed racers, using the experience of Gerard Dijkstra as skilled sailor. Much attention has always been given to research and development. Experience in all aspects of yacht and boat building has been built up. From design, lofting, building, rigging, sail making to the actual sailing and maintaining.  New designs are tested in towing tanks and wind tunnels, strength of hull and rig is studied with finite element analyzes. The bureau holds an unique combination of theoretical and practical capabilities and has good knowledge of boats, seamanship and yards worldwide. Gerard is considered one of Europe’s leading yacht and rig designers and he has played a leading role in the rebuilding of the only remaining J-Class yachts, Shamrock V, Endevour and Velsheda. Wolfgang Besigk - PT Polytech Indonesia Wolfgang has been advising ISLAND-AID since January. He manages a state-of-the-art PE roto-molding factory in Jakarta for PT Polytech Nusantara, suppliers and part donors of our beach landing skiffs. The company has provided over 100 of the 6.2m hulls to various donor organizations for use in Aceh and they are now seen in almost every port in the area. Wolfgang is a professional diver and for many years he operated a large dive ship in the Eastern part of Indonesia. Wolfgang has vast experience with marine engines and equipment and he has access to metal workers should we need complex fabrication. After prototypes are thoroughly developed and demand is confirmed via micro credit programs, it should be feasible for PT Polytech to invest in the mold fabrication for a design that has a large market potential. PE rotomolded boats possibly represent the ultimate solution for small mass produced watercraft. The material is buoyant, recyclable and the production time can be reduced to hours for blank hulls. The double skin hulls are truly unsinkable and they are much stronger and more impact resistant than GRP or wood epoxy. Their greatest disadvantage is that they tend to be more expensive than plywood boats and the current designs are best suited to larger engines. Transport of the finished boats remains a key factor in the final price and viability but shipping is an option and if volume is large, the costs will be manageable.

			Island Aid Organization Chart Note: Some AMTC staff will hold dual roles and will be called on to assist with field work in an emergency. The ship advisory committee has been super-seeded by the Advisory Board