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meet
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Harriet Linskey
Harriet's responsibilities include developing relationships
in the Eastern Caribbean, fundraising, overseeing the CLASS
program, setting up the logistics infrastructure, managing
finances and working with donors, recipients, volunteers and
board members. She is a trained secondary education teacher
with five years of experience teaching English, Journalism,
and Art History in New Zealand and Japan. At a rural secondary
school in New Zealand, Harriet led the refurbishment of a
dismal library and saw firsthand how the addition of new and
relevant books can inspire all levels of readers. Before co-founding
Hands Across the Sea, Harriet was for 18 years a marketing
and sales executive. Harriet has a B. A. from Yale and a Diploma
of Teaching from the Auckland College of Education, New Zealand.
click to e-mail
Harriet
Tom ("T.L.") Linskey
Tom Linskey uses his 30 years of writing, editing, and photography
experience to design and update the Hands website and create
print and video materials for Hands. T.L. also tackles hands-on
projects in Caribbean schools to help promote literacy, such
as building bookcases and creating "reading corners"
and "literacy centers" in classrooms. Back in 1986
T.L. built his own sailboat and sailed it, with Harriet, from
California to Mexico, the South Pacific, New Zealand, Australia
and Japan. T.L. also raced sailboats; he was a three-time
world champion crewman in the Olympic 470 class and a
member of the
1984 U.S. Olympic Yachting team. click
to e-mail TL
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meet the Board of Directors... |
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Adean
Bridges, Chairwoman, Director
of Community Relations, Communication Automation Corp.
Allegra Asplundh-Smith, Former
U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer; Founder of Open
Books Open Minds
Alan Barber,
DDS, Founder and Chairman, True
North Missions
Malika Felix,
Law school grad and event specialist with roots in Dominica
Geoffrey Garth,
Sales Director, Fiber Optic Center, Inc.
Ted Herlihy,
MD, Gastroenterologist
Harriet Linskey,
Co-founder, Hands Across the Sea, Inc.
Tom Linskey,
Co-founder, Hands Across the Sea, Inc.
Kathy Oberle,
Founder, Boaters for Books
Peter Van Alstine,
Internet Marketing Consultant
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meet
the Advisory Board... |
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Shermaine
Bardouille, Learning Support
Advisor, Ministry of Education, Commonwealth of Dominica
Andrea Bussue,
Special Education Coordinator, Ministry of Education, St. Kitts
and Nevis
Summer Edward,
Caribbean Children's Literacy Specialist; Founder of the chidren's
ezine Anansesem
Jeremiah Hyacinth,
Founder and CEO, World Scholar and Uni-Recruitement,
Inc.
Chris Lawrence,
Learning Consultant/Literacy Advisor, B.Ed.(Hons.) M.A., Founder
of Show-me-WOW!
Elaine Ollivierre,
Senior Education Officer, Ministry of Education, St. Vincent
and the Grenadines
Kara Stevens, EdM, Curriculum Consultant and Writing Specialist
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meet the base of operations... |
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 Hands
Across the Sea, a Dolphin 460 46-foot sailboat, is the
Linskeys' mobile base of operations for assisting children,
schools, and community libraries in the islands of the Caribbean.
In 2007 T.L. and Harriet sold their house in Massachusetts
and bought Hands Across the Sea which is now their
home. The Linskeys spend June to October fulfilling Wish
List requests, and then spend November to May in the Eastern
Caribbean, working hands-on with teachers, school principals,
and U.S. Peace Corps Volunteers. Please note that the Linskeys
own and maintain their sailboat with their own funds; no part
of any donation to Hands Across the Sea, Inc. goes toward
paying for any aspect of the sailboat nor for any of the Linskeys'
living expenses.
ways you can work with Hands...
how to donate funds
Cash donations can be made through
a check made out to "Hands Across the Sea, Inc."
and mailed to Hands Across the Sea, Inc., 411 Walnut Street,
PMB 4218, Green Cove Springs, FL 32043.
Or you can donate via the secure PayPal interface on the Donate
to Hands page. If you have a specific school or project
you'd like to "adopt," please tell us in the Comments
section of the PayPal interface or on your check. You'll help
us fulfill the specific Wish
Lists of our recipients.
how to donate books to
Hands
If you'd like to donate new and nearly
new books, please go to our Hands
Book Drop page or contact
us!
purchase books for Hands
If you'd like to help us purchase
nearly new children's books at a Friends of the Library Sale,
please contact us!
sort or pack books for Hands
Want to work hands-on? Please contact
us!
host a Hands presentation or Hands
fundraiser If you'd like to
do either— contact us!
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