Management team

Meet the Team...

Nik Kafka, Managing Director & Founder

Nik Kafka is the founding and managing director of Teach A Man To Fish. Leaving a successful banking career in the City of London for a local microfinance institution in Paraguay, Nik discovered an innovative school aiming not only to teach the poor how to become rural entrepreneurs, but to do so as a self-financing social enterprise. Having helped transform this school into a replicable model, and realising the huge potential for funding education through enterprise rather than charity, he returned to the UK to found Teach A Man To Fish.

Lindsey Crouch,  Programme Development & Learning Manager

Lindsey Crouch is Teach A Man To Fish's Programme Development and Learning Manager and joined the team in October 2010.

Lindsey developed the School Enterprise Challenge programme, and has managed it since its inception. As well as being responsible for overseeing a number of Teach A Man To Fish's existing programmes, she also works to develop and manage new ways of working with schools and partner organisations. She developed and manages the Fellowship programme, which works to help talented new development workers reach their full potential as part of the Teach A Man To Fish team.

Lindsey holds a BA in Politics and International Relations from the University of Warwick, and an MA in International Conflict Studies from King's College London.

Lindsey is usually based in the UK office, but has also done work for Teach A Man To Fish in Kenya and Tanzania. She has travelled extensively in Latin America, Asia and Europe.

Anna-Joy Rickard, Programmes & Business Development Manager - Latin America

Anna-Joy Rickard joined Teach A Man to Fish in February 2013 as Programmes and Business Development Manager - Latin America.

Prior to that she was Director of The Humanitarian Centre, an international development network affiliated with the University of Cambridge specialising in innovation and cross-sector working.

Anna-Joy has a background in project management and child rights and has previously worked for World Vision UK and The Children's Society. Her experience overseas includes two years supporting community development in Argentina and Brazil, working in Costa Rica on advocacy against commercial sexual exploitation of children and carrying out research in Pakistan on women’s rights.

Anna-Joy has edited a number of publications on child rights, technology for development and global health. She is a graduate from the University of Oxford and holds an MSc in Poverty Reduction and Development Management from the University of Birmingham.

Emily Boothroyd, Programmes & Business Development Manager - Africa

Emily Boothroyd joined the Teach A Man To Fish team in September 2010, and has spent most of that time based in East Africa, initially as Field Officer and later as Uganda Country Coordinator. She now works in the London office as Programmes and Business Development Manager - Africa, using her wealth of experience to support programmes in Africa and beyond.

She has a background in teaching and school administration, as well as extensive field experience, particularly in school business implementation. She is experienced in supporting organisations in diverse contexts to plan and establish school businesses. To date, she has worked on Teach A Man To Fish projects in Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania and Afghanistan, supporting the implementation of a wide range of businesses including poultry production, maize milling, in house training courses, and internet cafes.

Emily holds a BA in Social Anthropology from the University of Kent and is a CELTA qualified teacher.

Rachel Dale, Programmes & Business Development Coordinator - Central America Region

Rachel Dale is Teach A Man To Fish's Programmes & Business Development Coordinator for the Central America region and joined the team in January 2011. 

After working on the pilot of the School Enteprise Challenge competition in London for several months, she moved to Nicaragua to become Field Officer at La Bastilla Technical Agricultural High School. Rachel spent a year at the school, supporting with the implementation of the business plan and developing the school´s 7 micro-enterprises in order to help the school to reach financial self-sufficiency and offer high quality vocational education to its students.   

Since May 2012 Rachel has been based in the capital of Nicaragua, Managua, and conducts technical assistance and consulting work based around entrepreneurship and education with a variety of partner organisations in Nicaragua, whilst also continuing to support both the La Bastilla and Honduras school projects.    

Rachel has a BA in Spanish & French with European Studies from the University of Southampton, and an MSc in Development Management from the London School of Economics.   

Teach A Man To Fish Fellows

Lizzie McFarland

Lizzie McFarland joined Teach A Man to Fish in October 2012 as a Programme Support Fellow and is primarily jointly managing the School Enterprise Challenge.  In addition she provides support to Lindsey and Emily on other projects, as well as managing our volunteer network.  

Lizzie joined us from a marketing and business development position in a small retail business, before which she graduated with a BSc in Social Anthropology from the LSE. She has volunteered on both teaching and community outreach programmes and has travelled extensively throughout India.

Jenny Bowie

 Jenny Bowie joined Teach A Man To Fish in September 2012 as a Programme Support  Fellow and is primarily jointly managing the School Enterprise Challenge. In addition  she also works on the Pan-African Awards for Entrepreneurship in Education and  provides support to Lindsey and Emily on other projects.

 Jenny joined us after working on an education project in Tanzania, before which she graduated with a BA in African Studies and Political Science from the University of Birmingham. She has volunteered and travelled throughout east Africa, working on education and arts projects.