The Santiago Partnership is excited to introduce you to our new staff member Kaleigh Anderson who began as our Development Coordinator. Please join us in helping to welcome her to the ministry of the Santiago Partnership. Here is a little bit about her:
Kaleigh resides in small town Georgia, USA and has had an almost lifelong love for Ecuador. At the age of six her family’s best friends moved to Quito as missionaries and those became her first memories of and connections to missions and travel. Just a few years later Kaleigh was able to take her first trip to Ecuador for the adoption of her sister. Over the years God continued to call her to Ecuador to visit the friends who moved there when she was little, to volunteer, and to experience the beautiful country and culture.
Shortly after Kaleigh’s high school graduation, she and her family returned to Ecuador for the adoption of two more Ecuadorian girls, both of whom, like Kaleigh’s sister adopted years earlier, had been unable to return to their families of origin, had special needs, and had not been able to be placed with adoptive families in Ecuador. The time spent there in Ecuador over that summer changed and grew Kaleigh’s faith in ways she is still feeling the impact of now years later.
After returning from that trip Kaleigh worked as a development assistant for a nonprofit children’s ministry in Quito. In the years since Kaleigh completed her undergraduate degree, worked for several years as a legal assistant, managed an artisan locally owned coffee shop and gathered a few other eclectic work experiences, all of which she believes have prepared her to return to the world of nonprofit development. Kaleigh is excited to come alongside the Santiago Partnership and work with them towards their beautiful vision of sustainable care for the least of these in the name of Jesus. Her love for the ministry has grown ten-fold during her initial training as she has learned more about the model and practices that the Partnership, the Delps, and Rolando and his staff seek to implement in their work. She looks forward to meeting fellow Santiago Partnership supporters and to connecting with new supporters as well.
