Mor is the Director of VCF – The Victoria Climbié Foundation UK. He co-founded VCF with Mr and Mrs Climbié (Victoria’s parents) to campaign for improvement in child protection policies and practices and to ensure effective links and coordination between statutory agencies, care services and BME communities.Mor has developed a specialist role of having dialogue with African/Afro Caribbean and Asian, in particular South Asian communities. His commitment to the protection of children from minority ethnic backgrounds has been heightened since he took on the role of advising and supporting Mr and Mrs Climbié during the course of the Victoria Climbié Public Inquiry. This role gave him a pivotal understanding of the need to work with BME communities to ensure that the rights of children within these respective communities are upheld equally to those children of the dominant community.
Mor has been widely consulted within the statutory and voluntary sectors regionally and nationally on new initiatives to protect children of BME communities and in individual cases.
As a civil libertarian and human rights activist, Mor has substantial experience of working for community-based organisations. In his experience in working with families who have been victims of crime, Mor has had the opportunity to work with the Lawrence family, in the case of Stephen Lawrence; the Menson family in the case of Michael Menson; the Reel family in the case of Ricky Reel; the Mubarak family in the case of Zahid Mubarak and the Bamu family in the case of Kristy Bamu. He is well-versed in advocacy and negotiating with people of ethnic minority communities and with agencies.
Mor is also spearheading the Victoria Climbié Charitable Trust (VCCT), set-up to build a school in Victoria’s home town, in the Ivory Coast. The school – Centre d’Education Primaire Victoria Adjo Climbié – opened its doors in 2009 with capacity to teach up to 360 children, including ICT and English.
As the Foundation moves forward to progress its vision for the future, Mor will continue to work with strategic partners striving for excellence around the rights and protection of children.
