Executive director, European Disaster Volunteers
Andy Chaggar co-founded European Disaster Volunteers (EDV) in 2008.
He originally qualified as an Electronic Engineer and worked for five years as a semiconductor designer in Munich, Germany. However, in 2004 he was seriously injured and bereaved in the South-East Asian tsunami.
Following his recovery he began his journey as a disaster response volunteer. Before founding EDV he managed house reconstruction in Thailand, obtained a Masters degree in International Development and implemented sanitation projects in Peru.
In 2010 he was named a winner of the Vodafone Foundation’s World of Difference International Programme. This award is enabling him to direct EDV’s operations in Haiti where the charity is supporting earthquake survivors in achieving sustainable recovery.
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You learn something every day, they say, and Andrew Chaggar is certainly finding this the case as he delves deeper into the leadership of European Disaster Volunteers.
After 18 months spent on the frontline in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake, aid worker Andrew Chaggar finds it hard to adjust to the 'reality' of life back in the UK.
Almost two years since the earthquake that saw Haiti crumble, the country is still reeling and in desperate need. So why are charities abandoning a country which can not yet fend for itself? Andrew Chaggar blogs from the frontline.
Andrew Chaggar asks why slow onset disasters take so long to drive press attention, and ultimately, donations for aid.
Charities face frustrating legal barriers to housing provision following a disaster, being forced to go with the political flow, says Andrew Chaggar. But tensions are high in Haiti, he warns, and time is running out for the 634,000 people still in survivor camps.
Blogging from Haiti after the recent election of Michel Martelly as President, Andrew Chaggar casts a spotlight on the new leader's promises for the hopeful nation.
Andrew Chaggar responds to renewed criticism of humanitarian aid programmes which accuses "new aid" providers of ignoring less publicised disasters.
Andrew Chaggar, a tsunami survivor and head of disaster relief charity European Disaster Volunteers, has been transfixed watching Japan's circumstances unravel, but will not be rushing in to help. Here he explains why...
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