Executive Team

Rev. Emmanuel Mutabaazi

Chairperson, Board of Directors & Co-Founder

Diploma in secondary Education (Arts), Diploma in Human Resource Management, Bachelor of Education (Arts), Masters in Divinity.

An ordained priest and high school head teacher. He states that the worst experience in his years of teaching was sending kids home because they hadn’t paid their fees and then returning to school empty-handed. Therefore, he is a strong advocate for the education of children who have no one to pay their school fees.

Mrs. Loy Sengoma

Member, Board of Directors

A strong advocate for women’s rights and a women’s representative at the local sub county.

She has spearheaded several campaigns to promote women’s welfare and financial inclusion especially through village savings and loans associations.

Dr. Jonathan Atukunda

Co-Founder, Managing Director and Member, Board of Directors

Diploma in Comprehensive Nursing, Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, Obsterics and Gynecology Resident

A medical doctor from low social economic background with great passion for children’s education. He is currently a resident doctor at St.Francis Hospital Nsambya, a top and high quality referral hospital in the Ugandan Capital Kampala specializing in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Until 8 months ago before joining Residency he worked with Medical Teams International (MTI) Uganda as Medical Officer in-Charge for Rwamwanja refugee settlement overseeing clinical services in diverse humanitarian communities. He has also been a volunteer medical officer with Hospice Africa Uganda (HAU).

As a compassionate youth, he met and worked briefly with Dr. Prudence Barrett Nelson in 2013 at Matanda refugee transit center, a poverty-stricken refugee arrival point in Kanungu district before he joined medical school.

Rev Christine Kembabazi

Treasurer, Board of Directors

Diploma in ICT, Bachelor of Arts. She is a former radio presenter and an ordained priest, a strong advocate for community empowerment, gender equality, spiritual transformation and education

Rukundo Joshua

Secretary, Board of Directors
Bachelor of Economics and Management, Master in Diplomacy and Global Studies.
Joshua has spearheaded the improvement in quality and quantity of coffee in Kanungu District and the entire Kigezi sub-region. He is the Executive Director for Kigezi Coffee Development Academy. He is also the Chairperson of Production and Natural Resources Committee, Kanungu district and a local sub-county representative in the District Council. He has accumulated vast experience in community development, youth in agriculture and women in leadership and has been a critical figure in community empowerment and poverty eradication through promoting commercial agriculture, which is Uganda’s

Atamba Holiness

Member, Board of Directors

Ms. Atamba Holiness is a Principal Health inspector for the local town (Kihihi Town Council). She had previously served as a health assistant and as a health inspector of the same town council.

She is currently the Vice chairperson, Board of Governors, Nyakabungo Girls’ secondary school, Treasurer for Kanungu District Environmental Health workers, General Secretary Kihihi United sisters, a Rotarian from RC Kihihi where she served as RTF chair, among others.

Ms. Atamba Holiness is a great mobiliser and loves doing humanitarian work.

Mugisha Peter

Member, Board of Directors

A senior Production officer with the local district, Kanungu. He worked with HIJRA as Field coordinator,  Project manager and later Camp manager, He was also a volunteer with Uganda Red Society. He is the Chairperson Board of Governors, Nyakinoni Secondary school and a member of the school management committee, Nyakinoni primary school.

Peter is also a Rotarian and the current Club Treasurer, RC Kihihi. He loves, and has been involved in a lot of humanitarian work. He is a strict disciplinarian, an excellent resource mobiliser and possesses vast knowledge and experience in project management and implementation