Lynn Frank – Passage Coordinator & Co-founder

Lynn has lived in Luxembourg for 8 years. She has 2 children and an incredibly supportive husband. She has a Bachelor degree in Psychology and a Masters in Public Health Education & Promotion. She has worked in the voluntary sector all her life either as a volunteer herself or managing, training and supervising volunteers. Previously she has been a Manager and Counsellor for two national Helplines in the UK.

She has recently trained to be a Parent Group Facilitator in the UK. And presently she volunteers with several support and social networking groups in Luxembourg and is a fully trained Leader for the International Scout Group Telstar.

She also enjoys getting messy with paint, glue and ‘sticky backed plastic’ and loves to sing, dance and get up to mischief on stage if anyone will let her!

Revathy Menon – Passage Coordinator & Co-founder

Revathy is a full-time mom, part-time professional writer/editor and an all-time champion of empowered, informed and positive parenting. As an expat mom, the last 16 years of her were spent moving to places where her husband’s job took her and as a result her two boys have had a taste of growing up in 5 different countries.

Revathy began her career as a journalist in India and moved to Romania soon after she had her first child. After a brief stint in Holland, she first came to Luxembourg in 2008. Her personal experiences of living and raising children in foreign lands with different cultures, have given her some insight into the challenges faced by so many international parents today. This was one of her motivations for starting Passage with Lynn and Mei in 2013.

But no sooner had Passage taken off in Luxembourg than she was required to travel once again, this time to Kazakhstan, on new adventures with her husband and two boys.

Now, after 6 years, a couple more countries, and many more experiences under her belt, she is back in Luxembourg and ever so happy to pick up where she left off at Passage once again!

When she is not busy day-dreaming of new and wonderful projects (or yelling at her boys to pick up after themselves), Revathy loves working on that book she is never finishing, reading mystery novels, watching black-and-white movies.

Mei Henderson – Passage Coordinator & Co-founder

Mei’s professional background has always been in the creative and advertising industries and funnily enough a large proportion of her previous 14 years experience has been working for the children’s sector. She can also proudly boast to having designed a 930sqm kindergarten in Hong Kong, complete with pirate ship ball-pool, so surely that was a sign of things to come!

She moved to Luxembourg in 2003 – whilst heavily pregnant – and despite the difficult beginnings, she has since found a wonderful life here in her adopted country. Nowadays she is a mum to two spirited, loving children. However along the path of parenthood she has encountered many trials and tribulations. Consequently at the beginning of January 2013, she set up Passage with Lynn and Revathy, who both had similar ambitions to help and support other parents in need. This, she feels is the start of an incredible journey that she is blessed to share with her very understanding family.

In her spare time, she is happily volunteering with the Telstar Scouts and annually relishes the challenges of camping with the children, braving the elements like a real trooper! Likewise the same tenacity is still in evidence as she tries to master the French language, which is sadly continuing to elude her!

Melissa Elenes – Passage Coordinator

Melissa has lived in Luxembourg for eight years. She grew up in rural western United States. She earned an undergraduate degree in English and Spanish education, and a few years into teaching earned a masters in Special education. She is fascinated by the question about how one learns. She find things in Europe extraordinarily close together. Crossing country borders within minutes and experiencing the merging languages and cultures has been an unreal experience.

She loves sunshine and sky gazing. Gardens are where dreams are fostered and take shape. Active outdoorsy activities, she finds enjoyable. And what is even more cool about here is that Melissa can add the wonderful activities such as a shopping center, indoor pool, movie theater, or a nice restaurant without having to drive three hours.

Melissa devotes most of her time to her family of four children, volunteering at her local church, and learning how things work here — the education system, the clubs for kids, the languages etc. She is grateful for the help and perspective Passage has provided in this search and is happy to join their team.