Dirk Juttner

 

First visited Tanzania on a mission with USPG for two years to the Diocese of Masasi in 2000 where he stayed with the CMM Sisters. As a result in seeing the hard work of the Sisters with little support, he founded this charity to assist their mission across all houses in Tanzania and Zambia.

Every year since then, he has returned to visit the CMM Sisters in their various locations in East Africa to follow up on projects and advise on future developments.

Dirk is a retired businessman with ten years experience of working in Africa in the banking sector and also international engineering firms.

 

 

Gillian Mary Brooke

 

Gill is a qualified teacher of English to Speakers of Other Languages.   In 2003 she visited Tanzania  for the first time for three months and met CMM Sisters in Kilimani, Rondo and Mtwara. She provided two short language courses and  saw some of the important work in which the Sisters were involved such as the heifer project, the milk, fish and milling projects. She has visited the Sisters again in August 2012. Both visits have led her to realise what huge potential the Sisters have to make a difference in the areas where they work.

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Martin Cooper

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Martin is a qualified Chartered Management Accountant and a Commercial Director in a French multi-national company working in the areas of IT and Business Process Engineering.  He has been living in Warwick for 30 years.  Worshipping at St Mary’s Church for many years, he has also been active as a server.  It was whilst at Saint Mary’s that he first became aware of the work of the Sisters through Dirk Juttner and has met and chatted with one of the Sisters on her visit to the UK.  He has been helping the Charity with commercial and financial issues and produces the accounts.  He looks forward to continuing to help the Sisters in their important work.

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The Revd. Andrew de Smet

 

Andrew De Smet is an Anglican priest, counsellor/psychotherapist, spiritual director and mediator.  He recently retired as Pastoral Care Adviser in the Diocese of York.  He has been visiting the Sisters in Tanzania 2009 and 2024.  He was a Trustee (2007 - 2015)  and rejoined in 2024.  Visiting the Sisters in Tanzania with Dirk Juttner has made Andrew very aware of the value of the social outreach the CMM Sisters do, their monastic pattern of prayer, and the pressures they face.  Early in his working career Andrew worked in hospital microbiology, so the work of the medical centre at Sayuni is of particular interest.

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Janet Evans

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I was born in Warwick and have always lived here.  As a child I regularly attended St. Mary’s with my Mother.  I started work at a local firm of solicitors and then moved into local government working for Stratford upon Avon District Council.  The Council gave me the opportunity to train as a Legal Executive and become a Chartered Legal Executive specialising in corporate property law.  I am now retired.  When my sons were attending School I was an elected Parent Governor at Aylesford School.  With My husband, Clive, we have for many years been and still are volunteers for Guide Dog for the Blind caring for puppies and dogs in training.  For some years I was also a committee member of the local fund raising team for Guide dogs.
I became aware of the CMM  Sisters through my attendance at St. Mary's and with gentle encouragement from Dirk I became a Trustee and hope I can help.

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To contact any of the trustees, please navigate to the Contact page.

 

Thank you. 

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