Staff Directory

Best Buddies Bolivia
Carla Lora Gonzales
Program Coordinator
Alto obrajes sector B Calle Octavio Linares 1216
Murilo – La Paz, Bolivia
Phone: +5177228109
Bolivia@bestbuddies.org

Best Buddies Brazil
Roberta Cruz Lima
Executive Director
Rua José Maria Lisboa 463
CEP: 01423001- São Paulo, Brazil
Phone: +55 11 96192-3039
Brazil@bestbuddies.org
www.melhoresamigos.org

Best Buddies Bulgaria
Tsetska Karadjova
Executive Director
Sofia 1404
8, Riccardo Vaccarini str.
Phone: +359 889 470 703
bulgaria@bestbuddies.org
www.bestbuddies.bg

Best Buddies Canada
Vicki MacCrimmon
Executive Director
1460 The Queensway, Office 110
Etobicoke, Ontario M8Z 1S4
Canada
Phone: +1-416-531-0003 / +1-888-779-0061
Canada@bestbuddies.org
bestbuddies.ca

Best Buddies Chile
Alejandra Escobar Peñaloza
Executive Director
Avenida Bustamente 250 of 102B
Providencia, Santiago de Chile
Phone: +56 9 91654548
Chile@bestbuddies.org
www.bestbuddieschile.org

Best Buddies China
Michelle Wang
Program Manager
Beijing Image Compound
1107#, Unit 4, Building 6
Haidian District, Beijing 100036
Phone: +159 1933 8728
wangxh@co-inclusion.org
www.www.co-inclusion.org

Best Buddies Colombia
Olga Lucía Lacouture
Presidente Consejo Directivo y Fundadora
Alejandra Arenas
Executive Director
Carrera 7b Bis # 124-58
Bogotá, Colombia
Phone: +57 1 702 60 44
Colombia@bestbuddies.org
www.bestbuddies.com.co

Best Buddies Costa Rica
LATAM@bestbuddies.org

Best Buddies Denmark
Camilla Overgaard Nielsen
Program Manager
Landsforeningen LEV
Blekinge Boulevard 2
2630 Taastrup, Denmark
Phone: +45 36359620
Denmark@bestbuddies.org
bestbuddies.dk

Best Buddies Dominican Republic
Maureen Tejeda
General Coordinator
Av 27 de Febrero 299
Edif. Chez Space Corporativo
Santo Domingo, República Dominicana
Phone: +1 809 334 1999
RepublicaDominicana@bestbuddies.org
www.bestbuddiesrd.com

Best Buddies Ecuador
FEPAPDEM
Daniel Salas
Executive Director
Av.10 de Agosto N37-193
Quito, Ecuador
Phone: +593 2259441 ext. 3
Ecuador@bestbuddies.org 
www.fepapdem.org

Best Buddies Egypt
Mr. Ahmed El-Etr
Friendly Family Association
12, Faisal Towers, El-Wataneya Towers
10th Floor
End of King Faisal St.
Pyramids, Giza, Egypt
Egypt@bestbuddies.org
www.friendlyfamily-eg.com

Best Buddies El Salvador
Mónica Aguirre
Cumbres de Cuscatlan
Antiguo Cuscatlan
La Libertad, El Salvador
Phone: +503 78602712
ElSalvador@bestbuddies.org
www.bestbuddieselsalvador.org

Best Buddies England
Sean Porter
Jobs Program Supervisor
337 City Road
London, EC1V 1LJ
Phone: +44 (0)20 3559 8390
england@bestbuddies.org

Best Buddies Faroe Islands
faroeislands@bestbuddies.org

Best Buddies Finland
Pia Björkman
Program Manager
Inclusion Finland Kvtl /Kehitysvammaisten Tukiliitto
Association of Societies for
Persons with Intellectual Disabilities
Pinninkatu 51
FI-33100 Tampere
Finland
Phone: +358505288381
Finland@bestbuddies.org
www.bestbuddies.fi

Best Buddies France
Thais Trobaugh
Executive Director
Phone: +33 635777264
France@bestbuddies.org
www.bestbuddiesfrance.org

Best Buddies Germany
Tim Thielicke
Executive Director
Germany@bestbuddies.org

Best Buddies Ghana
Kojo Danquah Amankrah
Executive Director
P.O. Box CT 9887
Cantonment
Accra, Ghana
Phone: +233244815710
Ghana@bestbuddies.org

Best Buddies Greece
Penny Papanikolopoulou
Executive Director
TACT HELLAS
26 Kapetan Varda St.
Athens 11744
Greece
Phone: +213 09 96 052
bestbuddiesgreece@gmail.com
www.bestbuddiesgreece.gr

Best Buddies Guatemala
María Cristina Bosch
Program Manager
Blvd. Los Próceres, 24-69 zona 10
Empresarial Zona Pradera, Torre 1 Nivel 18
Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala
Phone:+502 2375 7794
Guatemala@bestbuddies.org

Best Buddies Haiti
Bethany Appleton
Executive Director
myLIFEspeaks
P.O. Box 100972
Nashville, TN 37224
Phone: 1-855-541-5433
Haiti@bestbuddies.org 
www.mylifespeaks.com

Best Buddies Hong Kong
Steve Fong Fu-fai
Ground Floor, No. 2A, Po On Road
Cronin Garden, Sham Shui Po
Hong Kong
Phone: +852 2307 7049
HongKong@bestbuddies.org

Best Buddies Indonesia
Lanny Darmawan
Executive Director
lannydarmawan@hotmail.com

Best Buddies Ireland
Linda Keane
Executive Director
Ability West
Blackrock House, Salthill
Ireland, Galway R254 H91
Phone: +353 879971558
Linda.Keane@abilitywest.ie
www.abilitywest.ie

Best Buddies Israel
Avi Marcovitz, Ed.D.
Executive Director
Rechv Tseret 4, No. 1
Jerusalem, Israel 9346304
Israel@bestbuddies.org

Best Buddies Kenya
Enouce Ndeche
Executive Director
288-00610
Nairobi, Kenya 254
Phone: +254723954556
Kenya@bestbuddies.org
www.bestbuddieskenya.org 

Best Buddies Lebanon
Pascale A.Khalil
Executive Director
Kesrouan
Ain el Rihani
Lebanon
Phone: +9619230856 / 9613669708
Lebanon@bestbuddies.org

Best Buddies Macao
Yanming Tsui
Executive Director
Avenida Comercial de Macau, FIT Centre, 5 Andar A, Macau
Phone: （853）8294 6894
Fax: （853）8294 6895
yanmingtsui@bestbuddies.org
http://www.bestbuddies.org.mo/

Best Buddies Malaysia
Joanne Lean
Program Manager
Oasis Place
Level 16, Menara Sentral
Vista, No. 150, Jalan Sultan
Abdul Samad, Brickfields,
50470 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Phone: + 603 2276 9111
malaysia@bestbuddies.org

Best Buddies Mexico
Claudia Y. Camacho Ocampo
Program Manager
Plaza Carso Lago Zurich 245
Edificio Falcón Piso 20
Col. Ampliación Granada
México D. F. C. P. 11529
Phone: +525591386527
Mexico@bestbuddies.org
www.bestbuddies.org.mx

Best Buddies Mongolia
Ariunaa Gombosuren
Executive Director
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
ariun777@gmail.com

Best Buddies Netherlands
Rob Pennings
Board Member
Postbus 16
3240 AA Middelharnis
Netherlands
Phone: +31187471237
bestuur@bestbuddies.nl
bestbuddies.nl

Best Buddies Nigeria
Opeoluwa Alonge
Executive Director
Phone: +2348039340945
Nigeria@bestbuddies.org

Best Buddies Northern Ireland
Linda Mc Kendry
Executive Director
CAN (Compass Advocacy Network Ltd)
20 Seymour Street
Ballymoney
County Antrim
Northern Ireland
BT53 6JR
Phone: 028 2766 9030
Fax: 028 2766 8271
linda@compasspeople.org
www.compasspeople.org

Best Buddies Panamá
Aileth Vasquez de Grieco
Advisor
Calle 77 San Francisco
Edificio 29 PB
Panamá, Rep. De Panamá
Phone: +50766792132
Panama@bestbuddies.org

Best Buddies Paraguay
Fundacion Saraki
Edgar Gayoso
Program Manager
Avenida Artigas, 1389 c/ General Santos
Asunción, Paraguay
Phone: +595 21 202 155
Paraguay@bestbuddies.org
http://www.bestbuddies.org.py/

Best Buddies Peru
Rocio Ballón
Program Manager
Cal. Ramadal Nro. 188 Dpto. 101
Urbanización La Virreyna, Surco
Lima, Perú
Phone:+51947493971
Peru@bestbuddies.org
www.bestbuddiesperu.com

Best Buddies Philippines
Michelle Aventajado
Executive Director
Manila, Philippines
Phone: +63 0920 9472759
Philippines@bestbuddies.org
BestBuddiesPhilippines.com

Best Buddies Poland
Jagoda Bazylko
PSONI Gdansk Branch
ul. Jagiellońska 11
80-371 Gdansk, Poland
Phone: +48 502 891 767
jagoda.bazylko@psoni.gda.pl

Best Buddies Qatar
Laalei Abu-Alfain
Executive Director
Phone: +974.4495.6000
bbq@bestbuddies.org.qa
www.bestbuddies.org.qa

Best Buddies Russia
Denise Roza
Executive Director
Letnikovskaya st 11/10 bld 5
Moscow 115114
Russia
Phone: +74957253982
Russia@bestbuddies.org
bestbuddies.ru

Best Buddies Saudi Arabia
Asma Batool
Program Manager
ACCEL International
3732 Ajyal Dist
Dhahran, Eastern Province 34512-9278
Saudi Arabia
Phone: +00966506662948
Saudiarabia@bestbuddies.org
www.accel.sa

Best Buddies Scotland
international@bestbuddies.org

Best Buddies Serbia
Marija Marjanovic
Executive Director
Phone: +381 60 7501101
serbia@bestbuddies.org

Best Buddies South Korea
Tae Young Kim
Executive Director
AI Corea
45 Jangji-dong
Songpa-gu
138-732 Seoul
Republic of Korea
Phone: +821094940908
Fax: +8224433841
liebekind@aicorea.org
www.bestbuddies.kr

Best Buddies Spain
Maria Luisa Lanau
Executive Director
Fundación Best Buddies España
Carrer Llibertat, 47 bajos
Barcelona, Spain
08012
Phone: +34 644 974 330
Spain@bestbuddies.org

Best Buddies Tanzania
Moses Mongo
Executive Director
Tanzania@bestbuddies.org

Best Buddies Thailand
International@bestbuddies.org

Best Buddies Turkey
Hasan Barış Uz
Program Manager
Barbaros Mahallesi Fesleğen Sok. No:8
Batı Ataşehir, İstanbul, Turkey
Phone: +90 216 688 31 53
Fax: +90 216 688 74 92
www.bestbuddiesturkey.org
Turkey@bestbuddies.org

Best Buddies Uganda
Christa Numbers
Executive Director
Embrace Kulture
Phone: +256 790 534 643 / +1 508 498 5338
christa@embracekulture.org

Best Buddies Ukraine
Tetiana Mykhailenko
Executive Director
Phone: +38 (066) 487 5703
www.bestbuddiesukraine.org
Ukraine@bestbuddies.org

Best Buddies United Arab Emirates
International@bestbuddies.org

Best Buddies Vietnam
Trinh Thi Le
Program Coordinator
Action to the Community Development Center (ACDC)
P905 Dream Center Home
282 Nguyen Huy Tuong Street
Thanh Xuan District, Hanoi, Vietnam
Phone: +84 9 8774 0351
Vietnam@bestbuddies.org