Alastair Hilton is a social work consultant, based in Cambodia, where he has lived and worked for five years following a twenty year social work career in the UK. Since 1995 he has committed many of his efforts to research and practice with boys and men in relation to various issues and was a founder member of the 'First Step' project in Leicester, providing services to adult male survivors and their supporters. In 2007, he lead a team of researchers in Cambodia which carried out the very first specialist research on the subject of sexual abuse of boys in that country. "I thought it could never happen to boys" was published in 2008 by World Vision and Hagar. He is currently working with several organisations in Cambodia to develop specialist services for boys and young men, as well as a training and advocacy curriculum for practitioners. The new project, supported by Love 146, Child Wise Australia, Equitas and numerous others, will be launched in June 2010. Alastair recently received the news that he is to receive the Ken Singer award for Preventative Interventions, from the US based 'Male Survivor' organisation at their conference in, New York, March 2010.