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Meet Our Leadership
US Staff and Key Volunteers
Laura Brady
Director
As one of Hands of Love USA’s first child sponsors, Laura was a long-time ministry partner well before joining Hands of Love USA’s staff in 2017.
Before working with Hands of Love USA, Laura spent 13 years in the private sector where she provided financial services to small organizations and businesses. After choosing to stay home with her young children, Laura volunteered to lead Dave Ramsey financial classes at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church for 9 years while handling the finances of several non-profit organizations.
Laura is a proud wife and mother, loves running, doing yard work, and spending time outside working on her urban farm. She has a huge heart for Uganda’s orphans and abandoned children and is thrilled to see how God will use her to further the mission of Hands of Love USA.
Nora Charlesworth
Intercessory Prayer
Before leading the Hands of Love USA prayer team, Nora spent seven years serving as the Director of Hands of Love USA. During her time as Director her two primary focuses were building the young ministry’s operations and strengthening the relationships between the US team, the Ugandan team and the US partner base.
While she knew that her work as Director would make an impact on the ministry, she did not know how much it would transform her heart and her life. Using the ministry leadership’s radical dependence on God as a model, the Lord began to cultivate a much deeper desire for intimacy with God in Nora. She is now more passionate than ever about studying scripture, discipling women and fostering intimacy with God in others.
Prior to Hands of Love USA, Nora served with High Tech Ministries, spent several years in corporate finance, and received degrees in both finance and marketing from Washington University in St. Louis. She is a full-time mom to two boys, lives in Johns Creek, GA, with her family and is a member of Perimeter Church.
Board of Directors
Anna Latshaw
Board Chairman
Anna Latshaw is married to Daniel and they have four beautiful girls. She and Daniel have pastored a church in their home, since 2010, called Our Refuge Atlanta.
In 2022 she founded Wholly Women a ministry which seeks to uplift and disciple impoverished women around the world.
Born and raised in England, Anna has had a heart for vulnerable children since she was a child. This passion has led her to actively serve the poor in Atlanta and South Africa and to participate in short term missions to orphanages in Romania, Russia, and Uganda. Anna founded Hands of Love USA in May of 2008. Through her fundraising efforts, the second Hands of Love orphanage and school in Kiteezi, Uganda was begun.
Daniel A. Rauch, PhD
Assistant Professor of Oncology, Division of Molecular Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine
Kort Herman, DMD
Kieffer Family Dental
Dr. Kort Herman is an associate at Kieffer Family Dental in Rapid City, South Dakota. He is a member of the American Dental Association and Black Hills District Dental Society. Dr. Herman received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Augustana University in 1997 and received his Doctor of Dental Medicine degree from Southern Illinois University in 2008. Prior to starting his career in dentistry, he worked for Wells Fargo Bank for four years as a personal banker. Kort and his wife Rebecca have been married for 26 years and have five children. They attend Rimrock Evangelical Free Church where they serve on the World Missions Team. Dr. Herman is also a board member for his home owner's association.
The Hermans were introduced to Hands of Love in 2015 when Kort went on a mission trip to Uganda. While there, he provided dental care to the students and staff at Kiteezi and Namadhi. Kort was able to go again with his oldest son, Gabe in 2016 and again in 2019 with his youngest son, Jackson. Rebecca went to Uganda in 2018 and was scheduled to go again in 2020 but was unable to go due to COVID. Kort and Rebecca introduced Hands of Love to their church in South Dakota in 2017. Since that time, Rimrock Church has sent a mission team, organized a sponsorship drive and trained a team to teach trauma healing counseling to staff in Uganda.
Barrie Jones
Barrie was born in the UK in 1935. He joined the Royal Navy as a cadet and graduated from the Naval Engineering College in 1959 as a Member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. He served in various ships and shore establishments until retiring voluntarily in 1974 as a Lt.Cdr. After a post graduate teaching course, he taught Physics in secondary schools for 20 years. After retiring he worked for seven years with Positive Parenting charity which his wife had founded. Final employed retirement 2003.
Since 1985, with his wife, he has been active in Time for Marriage charity helping to lead Christian marriage weekends in the UK. In 2007 an invitation from Pakistan led to a continuing international marriage ministry. Barrie and his wife have made regular visits to Uganda teaching Biblical marriage principles and becoming Trustees of Hands of Love UK.
Barrie and Eileen have been married 56 years and have four children, one of whom, Anna, founded HOLUSA.
Claire Alford
Claire Alford is originally from Uganda but currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband, son and little daughter joining them soon.
Claire has had a huge heart for vulnerable children since she was four years old. Having grown up in an environment where people didn't have much, she saw her parents share what they had and vowed to make a difference. At the age of 14 she volunteered at her mother’s workplace Global Care which helped support vulnerable children in rural the Northern, Eastern and Southern part of Uganda.
Coming from a poverty-stricken nation, she knows that education is the only source to success. Claire’s parents sent her to university in Uganda for software engineering and information technology. Throughout college and after, her passion was still to help the vulnerable children. After graduation, Claire joined Watoto Childcare Ministries an organization that takes care of orphaned children and vulnerable women in Uganda.
Claire relocated to the U.S to further her studies at Auburn University. She volunteered to tutor children in low-income areas and after graduating from Auburn she joined Teach for America an organization that helps bring better education to students in low-income areas.
Claire currently works with Cornerstone Healthcare Training a private school that supports healthcare professionals in Washington State.
Claire heard about Hands of Love through Anna Latshaw at Dwelling Place in 2018 and joined the board in early 2022.
David Ssekaboga
David Ssekaboga is married to Sarah and they have been blessed with four children; two sons and two daughters. David is the Lead Pastor of Purposeful Living Church-Kulambiro in Kampala, Uganda. Together with his wife, David founded the I am Kindergarten and Daycare in Kasangati Town Council, a suburb of Kampala City. David is also a Public Health Specialist with a Bachelors of Environmental Health Science, Masters of Public Health (International Health Sciences University), Masters of Public Infrastructure Management (Makerere University) and a Masters of Divinity (Teleo University). David currently works with Wakiso District as the Assistant District Health Officer in charge of Environmental Health. For fourteen years David has been leading the church youth ministry and as a Lead Pastor he organizes annual youth conferences that bring together both Church and university students for equipping.
Advisory Board Member
Lela Burbridge
Lela Burbridge is married to Andrew, and they live in the Cotswolds, United Kingdom with their three beautiful children. Having grown up in the slums of Kampala, Uganda, surrounded by poverty, Lela is passionate about supporting the holistic wellbeing of vulnerable children. She has a Baccalaureate in Health and Social Care and holds a Master’s degree in Public Health, both from the University of Essex. She’s an independent Policy and OVC advisor; a writer, author, philanthropist, and the founder of ‘THE LELA INITIATIVE’, a not-for-profit publishing company that promotes literacy in poor communities of Uganda.
Financial Information
Hands of Love USA Tax Returns
Independent Accountant Reports