Heinicke-Motsch, Karen
Advisor on community-based rehabilitation
| Location: | Latin America/worldwide |
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| Project: | Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) |
U.S. citizen Karen Heinicke-Motsch grew up in a village in the mountains of Papua New Guinea, which was her home until she moved to the USA as a teenager.
After completing her university studies, she spearheaded the deinstitutionalisation movement in the USA before heading back to Papua New Guinea in the mid 1980s. There, she worked at a CBM-supported project for children with disabilities.
From 1987, Ms Heinicke-Motsch worked under a CBM contract, setting up and advising CBR projects in South East Asia and Latin America.
From 2002, she directed an international project on Development and Disability for another well-known organisation for persons with disabilities.
In 2006, she returned to CBM to work as an advisor on CBR for CBM's Regional Office in Ecuador. As a member of CBM's CBR Advisory Working Group and in connection with a WHO project on CBR guidelines, she is entrusted with international assignments.
Karen Heinicke-Motsch is an expert in special education and early intervention. She has two fantastic teenage children and is married to a German from the Baden region in southern Germany.
After completing her university studies, she spearheaded the deinstitutionalisation movement in the USA before heading back to Papua New Guinea in the mid 1980s. There, she worked at a CBM-supported project for children with disabilities.
From 1987, Ms Heinicke-Motsch worked under a CBM contract, setting up and advising CBR projects in South East Asia and Latin America.
From 2002, she directed an international project on Development and Disability for another well-known organisation for persons with disabilities.
In 2006, she returned to CBM to work as an advisor on CBR for CBM's Regional Office in Ecuador. As a member of CBM's CBR Advisory Working Group and in connection with a WHO project on CBR guidelines, she is entrusted with international assignments.
Karen Heinicke-Motsch is an expert in special education and early intervention. She has two fantastic teenage children and is married to a German from the Baden region in southern Germany.
