David Thomas supported the collaborative humanitarian mission between HART and the Mende Nazer Foundation in Sudan in January 2016.

He has been the project and logistics coordinator of the international NGO, HART (Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust), for 12 years and works closely with Baroness Cox. He has often visited the Nuba Mountains in the course of his work. For the first time in 2007. His greatest joy is “… to communicate and support the wonderful creativity, independence, energy and intelligence of the local partners.” He was a priest in the Anglican Church for over 30 years, 20 of which he was a chaplain in the Royal Navy.