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Copyright 2004 World Vision Inc. |  | Nigel Marsh is World Vision’s communication manager for Africa. In this role since 2000, Marsh spends much of his time reporting on the global AIDS crisis as and World Vision’s work in Africa to combat the spread and impact of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, which has infected some 40 million people worldwide, most of them in Africa.
Marsh worked as a reporter and sub-editor with regional British print media for seven years, before joining Youth with a Mission (YWAM) as a full-time volunteer in 1990. Working in two villages in Uganda, he was variously administrator, reporter, gardener, driver and Bible teacher. During that time, he gained first-hand insight into the effects of poverty, HIV and the rebel insurgency in Uganda’s northern region.
With other YWAM volunteers, he worked until 1995 to help establish a low-budget community response to HIV that village churches could emulate, incorporating care for orphans, prevention campaigns, and innovative food security initiatives.
He joined World Vision in 1997 to help with the post-genocide reconstruction in Rwanda. In 1998, he helped in crisis communications in Sudan, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya and Burundi as East Africa Communications Manager. In his current position, Marsh travels throughout Africa, writing about individuals and communities affected by the AIDS crisis.
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