Involved in World Without Orphans from the beginning, Barbara has worked with children since 1990 and has extensive cross-cultural experience. She has served with street children in India and in a group home for teenagers in conflict with the law in Switzerland, and she has been a children’s ministry leader in a large Swiss church for several years. From 2002 to 2022 Barbara was part of the international leadership team of King's Kids/YWAM. For many years, Barbara helped to care for the children in her sister and brother-in-law’s foster family. She is a trainer and coach in trauma and attachment and has written her own training manual on that topic. She has an MA and a PhD in holistic child development and travels widely to train people who work with children, especially with orphans and children in foster care. Barbara experienced orphanhood herself as a child and has a big heart for all vulnerable children, both in her own country of Switzerland and internationally.