Country Chapter Chairperson
Alia Hafez
Helene Delcommune
Solange Borini
Gulrukh Khan
Geysa Borini Rodrigues
Magdalena Sieradzka
Catherine Cullen
Alia Hafez
Country Chapter Chairperson, Egypt
Alia Hafez is an artist and teacher for Music, English, Arabic and swimming. She is also a stage performer. She loves Helping people who are scared of the sea ,or those who to do not know how to swim, how to enjoy and receive healing from the sea. Currently working on a Cause, teaching Arab women how to swim and conquer their fear of the sea.
She focuses on teaching people how to depend on their selves and self-educate. She also worked as a Volunteer for Soothing and helping shocked and abandoned animals that were rescued from the Hurricane Katerina before they were relocated to shelters or homes.
She teaches children how to use stilts and diablos’ for a choreographed piece, manage a musical dance performance. All part of a Childrens Circus performance in Dahab, South Sinai, Egypt. Also participates in workshops and festival surprise performance pieces.
Helene Delcommune
Country Chapter Chairperson, Egypt
Hélène Delcommune, owner of Helene Diving centers, NAUI Course Director et Instructor Examiner, EFR Instructor Trainer et PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer (635319), felt under fantastic underwater landscapes’s charms more than twenty years ago. Her passion led her to teach scubadiving in all water of the world, where she acquired at the same time her thorough knowledges of the aquatic environment and serious teaching competences.
Since 1993 she has shared her passion with thousands of divers to whom she always offered a personalized attention. Through patience and rigor but also loads of humor, she always knew how to offer to each one the best of the underwater experience.
In 2010, Hélène launched Helene Diving with 1€ only in the pocket : a diving center based on the concept of personalized diving coaching, which offer you the best conditions of training at your rhythm according to your schedules and your objectives in compliance with the PADI/NAUI/IDDA code of practice and standards.
The formations are given by a team of instructors based around the world and selected on basis of their relational aptitude, their professionalism, their specific knowledges, answering Helene Diving and PADI/NAUI/IDDA quality standards.
Started in Jan, 2014, Helene Diving Travels offer now exclusive diving holidays in many still untouched areas around the world As EFR Inst. Trainer (Emergency First Response) Hélène is working on a beautiful project that would enhance survival chances in very poor countries by teaching women (costs free) how to teach Emergency first response, especially to help babies and kids, as she consider that the first right of a mother is to be able to do all what she can to give a chance to her child, and because she know how long it may take for EMS to arrive if they could even reach. By teaching female Instructors they should be able to afterward to teach for free as many women as possible.
Solange Borini
Country Chapter Chairperson, Brazil
Gulrukh Khan
Country Chapter Chairperson, UK
Gulrukh, a fully qualified Holistic Practitioner has been dealing with mind, body and spirit for more than 15 years. She also works with ‘Life Activations and Alignments’, ‘Quantum Healing’, Distant Healing and ‘Scalar Wave, Light Spectrum Therapy’ (Cold Laser).
She has extensively studied Energy Medicine, along with other Holistic modalities and holds Professional Certification in Advanced Law of Attraction, Clinical Aromatherapy with Acupressure Massage and Oriental Diagnosis, Clinical Aromatherapy for Skin Conditions & Other Ailments, Advanced Theta Healing, Intuitive Body Scanning and Advanced Baby Massage.
Gulrukh is a natural ‘Empath and Intuitive’ and is able to work on subtle as well as physical levels. She has been raised from a lineage of Complimentary Medical Practitioners; her Paternal Grandfather Sir Maqsood Jung, was the Unani Practitioner to The Nizam of Hyderabad (at one time the World’s richest man), and the President of India.
She is also an award-winning International film maker. She has directed, produced and scripted diverse range of short films, education videos and documentaries.
Geysa Borini Rodrigues
Country Chapter Chairperson, Brazil
Geysa Borini works towards developing bio natural products for beauty. She visited India as part of a gained knowledge about the Indian culture. Shew wants to start her own company in beauty care.
Magdalena Sieradzka
Country Chapter Chairperson, Poland
Magdalena Sieradzka is a global PR and communications specialist with wide experience in countries like UK, US and Poland at national, state and local level. She also gained prominence as a researcher in a university, non-profit organizations and business world. She is a renowned personality in the field of Event Management. She has worked as researcher and project manager in number of fields like leadership, emerging economies, sustainability and cultural competence issues.
In Warsaw, she served as Marketing Director for ‘Liderzy’ (Leaders magazine) and has worked with high profile political figures. She was responsible for political marketing, promoting leaders from academia, business and politics. While working for ‘Liderzy’ she started cooperating with Polish communities in the United States and Canada.
Catherine Cullen
Country Chapter Chairperson, France
Catherine Cullen is the President of UCLG´s Committee on Culture and Councilor for Culture in City of Lille France. UCLG plays a major role in the promotion of the place of culture in sustainable development. For the past 30 years, Catherine Cullen has created, managed and supervised cultural projects and events based on her experience of different cultures and artistic activities.
After several years in publishing, editing and journalism she became editor in chief of LIBER. As a writer and translator, she has contributed to many national and international meetings on various aspects of culture.