Greg is a graduate of the University of Oregon with a Masters in Community & Regional Planning. He has worked in several developing countries and on different kinds of projects, such as training of national park rangers in rural Mongolia, teacher training in Bangladesh, HIV curriculum development in India, and establishment of an education program for jail inmates in rural Alaska. Greg also worked for two and half years in Nicaragua, building potable drinking water systems for rural communities. His wife Mercedes is SHI's Central America Coordinator.

Mercedes Alvarez  - Regional Coordinator (2005)
Mercedes has established an NGO in Nicaragua that builds solar ovens and solar food dryers in addition to promoting techniques for solar means to purify water.  She has an advanced degree in Chemical Engineering from the National University of Engineering in Managua, and worked for a number of years with the Nicaraguan Ministry of Health as an analyst of chemicals and pesticides in drinking water, and she taught organic chemistry at the National Autonomous University  of Nicaragua.  Mercedes has also worked with medical teams from the U.S. on health projects in rural areas of Nicaragua, and on ecological projects at the Laguna de Apoyo research center near Masaya.  She has traveled extensively in the U.S., Central America, Europe and India.  Her husband Greg is SHI’s Program Director.


Click on the below links to meet staff from each of our country programs.

Belize
Honduras
Nicaragua
Panama