Father Stanley Hosie
Co-Founder, First Executive Director and Second President

Father Stan Hosie, a Marist priest who began his career working in the Pacific, met the Silversteins in 1963, and told them of the work being done by missions in Melanesia and Polynesia. He had carried out a survey of the needs of Pacific Island communities with respect to health services, village schools, technical training, rural water supplies and infrastructure. Father Hosie became the first Executive Director of FSP.
 
For its first twenty-five years, FSP stayed focused on the Pacific islands and developed a series of programs which built local partners in all of the islands – and then helped to build these partners into the regional organization which became FSP/International, now headquartered in Fiji with Solomon Islander former Ambassador Rex Horoi as its CEO.
 
In the nineties, the U.S. Agency for International Development invited FSP to go global and FSP changed its name to Counterpart International, Inc.. As a result Counterpart International spread first through the Former Soviet Union and then expanded to Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and the Far East.
               
In 2000, Betty Silverstein and Father Hosie were given humanitarian service awards by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
 
Father Hosie currently lives in Santa Monica, California.

Photo: © Counterpart International.