Books by Stan Burkey

Stan Burkey started university life at Pennsylvanian State University where he studied Forestry for two years before winning a scholarship to Yale University where he took a degree in Engineering. He subsequently did post-graduate studies at Oxford University in Development Economics and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Business Administration. His interest in the Third World began during a three-year teaching stint in Nigeria in the early 1960's. Afterwards he moves for personal reasons to Norway where he first worked at the national Computer Centre and later for the Norwegian Scout Movement. in 1977 he joined Redd Barna as a programme co-ordinator which work took him to countries as diverse as India, Thailand, the Maldives, Guatemala and Kenya. In 1981 he was poster for three years to Sri Lanka as Redd Barna's Country Representative. After a short period as a development consultant, he went to Uganda in 1986 to set up and run self-reliant participatory development programmes there for the development consortium ACORD. Since 1990 he has been employed by Quaker Service Norway training change agents throughout Uganda.