Deb Naybor

Deb Naybor is founder and executive director of Both Your Hands, a nonprofit that connects caring communities for global self sufficiency. She owns her own small land surveying business, is working toward her PhD in Global Gender Studies and remodels her 1940’s log home in environmentally responsible methods and materials in her “spare time.” She is an award winning photographer and poet and author of “Making A Difference: 182 ½ Ways to Change the World.”

But Deb’s true passion is helping communities in impoverished areas of the world to create their own opportunities through economic, educational, infrastructure and health development programs. Both Your Hands works with adults and children on over 60 projects in 14 countries. Her programs range from as little as a $50 microloan to $5000 in school improvements. Both Your Hands has provided Christmas gifts of snow suits for children of battered women in arctic Alaska, built the first free secondary school in Malawi and provided traditional drum making lessons to orphans in Uganda. Deb has a hectic life but she believes that if she can find time to help the poor, anyone can. “I work 60 hours a week, go to school at night and save the world on weekends,” Deb says with a smile.