Talmage Payne - CEO Hagar International

Talmage is an American citizen and has lived in Cambodia for most of the past 16 years where he has served in both the non-profit and social enterprise sectors. With a background in economic development and environmental sciences, he began his career in humanitarian relief operations in Asia.  Before joining Hagar in 2006, Talmage was the Executive Director of World Vision Cambodia.  He is the founding Chairperson of Vision Fund Cambodia, a micro-finance institution and First Home PLC, a low income housing social enterprise.  Talmage currently serves on the Hagar USA and Hagar New Zealand Boards.  Talmage is married to Finn, has three teenage children, and enjoys orchid gardening, reading, and the color purple.

Sarah Bearup - Country Director, Cambodia

Sarah is an Australian citizen who has lived in Cambodia for five of the past eight years. She has a passion for developing programs that advance the rights of abused women and children. Sarah has been married to her husband, Luke, for over ten years and they have two sons, Jediah (3) and Jamal (2). Sarah's professional career began in human resources before moving into management roles in international development, emergency relief, research, advocacy and policy development.
 
Sue Hanna - Residential Operations Manager

Sue's passion has always been to assist the poor and the oppressed - a passion that grew while travelling the world in her 20's. She was impacted forever in a dirty, run down hospital in Cambodia, where she met a 16-year old girl dying of AIDS.  The girl had been sold by her mother when she was 11 years old to a brothel.  "The absolute waste of this young girl's life will never leave me," Sue said.  Sue's experience setting up two homes for at-risk young women in New Zealand prepared her for joining Hagar's team in 2005 where she set up Hagar's Aftercare Program for Sexually Exploited Girls.  Currently, Sue is Hagar's Children's Program Manager where she overseas 400 children from backgrounds of trafficking, violence, and disabilities find hope and healing.
 
KIM Yoeum - Sectoral Operations Manager

Yoeum was born and raised in Cambodia. His background includes work in the medical, development, and microfinance fields, and as translator/interpretor.  Before joining Hagar in 2006, Yoeum worked with the Christian and Missionary Alliance, the Catholic Office for Emergency Relief and Refugees, different departments of the United Nations, World Vision and Vision Fund.  He has an Associate Degree in English, a Bachelor's Degree in Education and a Masters Degree in Development Management.  Yoem is married to his wife Yem Sambath, whom he met in a refugee camp in Thailand in the 1980s.  They have two adult daughters.
 
DETH Bunthok - Education Program Manager

Deth Bunthok grew up in a farming family Kampong Cham province in Cambodia.  In 1999, he graduated from the Royal University of Phnom Penh majoring in Khmer Literature.  In 2009, Bunthok joined the Hagar team as Education Program Manager where he oversees Hagar's CLC and early childhood education.  Bunthok has a Bachelor of Arts Degree, a Masters of Education and has authored or co-authored many publications.  Bunthok was recently married in June and hopes one day to continue his studies at the PH.D level.
    
SAM Sreyna - Recovery Shelters Manager

Sreyna was born in a refugee camp after the Khmer Rouge Regime.  In 1992 she moved back to Cambodia with her family and later studied at a Bible college in Phnom Penh.  After graduating in 2000, she taught at the college.  Sreyna has always been passionate about children - especially children in Cambodia growing up in a society impacted by post-traumatic stress disorder from the Pol Pot regime.  In 2005, Sreyna started as a counselor for Hagar's children's program.  Two years later, Sreyna became Hagar's Aftercare Manager.  "On the journey with Hagar for these four years, I really love what Hagar's doing for vulnerable women and children in Cambodia.  I strongly hope that children in Hagar's care will become leaders in Cambodia and change their country for the better.
 
VANN Chhorvy - Reintegration Manager

Chhorvy was born in Kandal province near Phnom Penh.  Before joining Hagar in 1995, Chhorvy worked as a teacher at a local school, a researcher with an NGO, and as a midwife supervisor with Youth with a Mission (YWAM).  Chhorvy started serving with Hagar as the vocational training and production manager and then the logistics and production manager for Hagar Crafts and later Hagar-On-Time or HOT.  In 2004, Chhorvy now works as Hagar's Reintegration Manager, supporting the reintegration of women in Hagar's programs.  "I extremely enjoy working with Hagar," she said.  "It serves my passion to help people and it uses my experience and skills."
  
Sue Taylor - Counseling Manager

When Sue Taylor first came to Cambodia and met a young girl dying of HIV who had been trafficked into a brothel at the age of 11, her life changed forever. "My heart was broken by the hopelessness of her life and I decided then that I wanted to come back one day and work with other girls like her," Sue said.  Several years later, Sue did in fact leave her home country of New Zealand to come back to Cambodia where she started Hagar's Aftercare Program for Sexually Exploited Girls.  Her years of experience in education and counseling clients from backgrounds of sexual exploitation, has prepared her for the work she does in Cambodia as Hagar's Counseling Manager.