Management team
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.
Part of a Clinton Global Initiative commitment to establish 50 ‘Self-Sufficient’ schools by 2017, under his stewardship Teach A Man To Fish has grown into an international network whose membership now numbers over 2,500 education institutions and experts in more than 125 countries. Over 10,000 young people have now benefited from Teach A Man To Fish programs across Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Erica Bertolotto joined Teach a Man to Fish in May 2010 as Programmes and Business Development Manager.
She is responsible for the management of the projects and working with partners overseas, helping to develop the existing programmes as well as establishing new ones.
Prior to working for Teach a Man to Fish Erica graduated from the LSE with a Masters in Social Policy and Development and worked for a community development NGO in Peru and for the UK National Audit Office.
She has spent time traveling and living in Latin America and Africa.
Lindsey Crouch is the newest member of the Teach A Man To Fish team, joining in January 2011 as Project Officer.
She is responsible for overseeing the School Enterprise Challenge, the Pan African Awards for Entrepreneurship in Education and the Overseas Volunteer Programme. She is also responsible for the project management of Teach A Man To Fish's existing programmes in East Africa.
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.
She has travelled extensively in Latin America, South East Asia and Eastern Europe.
