Ian Robert Stark

Born Dunedin, New Zealand in 1953

Live in Townsville, North Queensland, Australia

Married to Donna (since 1975) & we have 2 sons (David [aged 28] & John [aged 25] who both live in Brisbane)

We have been family hosts to exchange students from Canada, Argentina, Belgium, Germany, Bolivia & Japan varying form 6-12 months, most of whom we are in regular contact with. John also spent 2004 away as an exchange student in Thailand. Our Bolivian host son (Jose) lives in Cochabamba with his wife & family & it will be really good to see him again & contribute to the community.

I have previously undertaken a HFH trip to My Tho in Vietnam in September 2009

I am a quantity surveyor (building cost engineer) by profession & have a small (but very busy) consultancy business based in Townsville.

I enjoy traveling, fishing, gardening & reading

Jessica Fong

Born in Hong Kong. Lived in Vancouver, Hong Kong, Shanghai and now studying in Paris. I am fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin, English and conversational French. I'm in my last year of university, double-majoring in Business Administration and Global Communications. At the same time, I'm working as a researcher in an architect firm. When I was in high school in Shanghai, I co-founded the Habitat for Humanity Club in my school (Shanghai American School-Pudong Campus) and I went on the first Habitat trip in the Guangdong province in China. I’ve wanted to get back on another Habitat trip but it never worked out until this trip that fits perfectly in my spring break holiday.
My passions are traveling, bikrim yoga, fashion design,art, architecture, golf, exotic cuisines and experiencing different cultures. I've always wanted to travel to South America and finally, I have the opportunity to. Looking forward to meeting everyone.

Yunkyung Lee

Hello, I’m Yunkyung from Gwangju, very south and western part of Korea,
2012 is my fifth year in Latin America, Bolivia is my fifth country here and Habitat is my first.
I am staying in Honduras, I came here because I love Spanish and Latin culture so I studied Spanish and Latin America language & literature in collage.
I wanted to find a job here to live in Latin territory after graduation and I made it, so lucky! Recently I quit my fourth year job to study in Argentina and find something to do the rest of my life.

I love travel, read and writing, learning language, going museum, animal, all kind of music, meeting people, and everything something new.
I was looking for some meaningful activity, not just travel before I become a student again, and I found this opportunity for me. I am so happy to start early year with you everyone.

Forrest Yelverton

This is my second Habitat International Build (Nepal 2010) as Roger’s allure just keeps me coming back for more. I am recently liberated from 21 years as Engineering VP at a major publicly owned corporation and do not miss a single thing about my old life. I spend roughly 300 hours on a plane every year between travel for work and travel for fun or both and this will be my second venture into South America but first time to Bolivia.

My passion is bicycles. I design them, I build them, I ride them and my latest focus is the development of more elegant and efficient ways of getting one and their “stuff” from where they are to where they want to go...on a bike. When not working or riding on a bike, I’m working on the house that my wife and I built in the Colorado mountains near Lyons. We recently installed 8 more solar thermal panels in a continuing effort to be energy independent in anticipation of the coming global economic and financial collapse.

Thanks to our geriatric bird dog my wife of 29 years unfortunately can not attend the Bolivia build (She did attend Nepal) but would have been a valuable addition with her vast quiver of construction skills spanning more than 35 years! But, I’ll be telling the great stories of this build to her and my 21 year old Daughter currently studying in Kenya and Tanzania.

Martine from NYC

I’m a native New Yorker focused on becoming an eternal nomad, one trip at a time. This is my first international habitat trip although I did do a Habitat build in the states back in college for spring break one year. I make an annual pilgrimage to Central America but somehow never made it down to South America, so I am looking forward to this trip. It should be fun getting my hands dirty—and playing with power tools.

I herd cats for a living—OK, not really but it is an apt way to describe my time in the ad world, think modern day Mad Men (and Women). When I’m not working crazy hours I can usually be found watching hours of sports center that is if I’m not out playing touch rugby or Capoeira.

Betti Krapfl, Volunteer

Hello Team!
I am Betti, and live in the metro Denver area in Greenwood Village, CO, but I’m
originally from North Carolina and went to UNC in Chapel Hill for my Physical Therapy degree. Yes! I am a Tar Heel!
I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bolivia, 1965-67 where I met Roger and am still married to the old goat!
We have two adult children: Heidi, who lives with her husband Erik in Santa Fe; Zach, who lives with his wife, Robyn in Paonia, CO—western CO.
I worked for many years as a Physical Therapist on a rehab team treating people with spinal cord injuries, some with traumatic brain injury. Loved it! Now, I teach in a Doctoral Physical Therapy program at the University of Colorado Medical School on our new campus. I love it as well!
Passions:
Friends, my family, running, IHN of Greater Denver (housing and caring for recently homeless families), March Madness, my small Lutheran church, our Siberian Husky, Nanook, desserts, oh, and did I mention running?? Teaching, mentoring current and prospective doctoral students.
I am a vegetarian. Should be interesting challenge from what I remember about Bolivian food. So eager to go back to Bolivia! And very excited about meeting all of you. Some of you I know already. We will be the BEST team ever!!

Jeff Moxley, Volunteer

I'm Jeff and this will be my second Habitat trip, but my first time in South America. I'm a FedEx courier, singer and bad at writing bios. I'm currently in school trying to become an EMT. Hopefully, by the time we all meet I will have been an EMT for a few months. I'm bad with computers and all forms of technology, but that shouldn't be an issue in Bolivia. Recently married to Trish and looking forward to our honeymoon in Bolivia. See you all soon.