Community Capacity-Building for Responding to HIV/AIDS

Mark Lorey was a Hart Fellow from 1996-1997 with the Malawi Field Office of Save the Children. He worked with the COPE program to strengthen community capacity to care for people suffering from HIV and AIDS.

Mark graduated from Duke in 1995. After his Hart Fellowship, he worked as staff in the Malawi field office until beginning service as a Rotary Scholar in South Africa. While pursuing a master's degree at the University of the Western Cape, he became a visiting lecturer and researcher in the university's Institute for Social Development. He also worked with the South African office of the Deputy President on an international comparative study examining policy coordination at the Cabinet level. In 1999, Mark returned to the US and consulted for organizations including Save the Children, USAID, and a foundation focused on children orphaned by AIDS. Mark recently developed a handbook for USAID-supported programs to assist AIDS-affected children. He is currently Director of the "Models of Learning" HIV/AIDS education program at the non-governmental organization World Vision.