WADS Leadership Team
Meet the dedicated leaders guiding Women Actions For Development and Solidarity (WADS) in serving communities across Kigoma
Mederine Ayubu
Ms. M. Ayubu is the WADS Chairperson and has been leading women groups for the past six years and has the passion to empower women to recognize themselves and be involved in leadership and economic wellbeing in order to prevent violence against women and girls.
Subira Lendaiga
Ms. S. Mkumule Lendaiga SERVES AS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE WOMEN ACTION FOR DEVELOPMENT AND SOLIDARITY (WADS ) and The Technical coordinator for the Disability Management Programme in Tanzania (DMP-T).
She is a Physiotherapist and supports in coordinating Disability support activities with Key disability inclusion actors, committees and networking in western part of Tanzania as the Technical Coordinator of the medical Rehabilitation Programs with The Disability Management Programme in Tanzania (DMP-T) and over the past 18 years of experience she has worked with International humanitarian Organizations, Faith based Humanitarian organizations , National and host community organizations for the past in the refugee community and Tanzanian host community , she has been managing programs with Major grants in the humanitarian setting, in the past she had different opportunities for international and national travels for technical conferences with regards to medical rehabilitation , livelihood , PSN support and protection of persons with disabilities ,women and youth with specific needs and Managing major grants and Leadership roles . Her current role as The Executive Director she leads programs and supports in preparing and implementing strategic plans of the Organization and the specific committees , in coordination with the programs team she develops proposals for fundraising and helps in leading the teams to ensure all Organizational objectives are met while implementing strategic plans for the sake of protecting the rights of women, girls , youth, children and persons with specific needs including persons with disabilities and supporting their identified developmental initiatives and needs. She helps in implementing programs that falls under The WADS organization and Disability actors as follows:
– Health component: Health education on management of functional inabilities, disabilities through functional assessment and support, advocates for meaningful inclusion of persons with specific needs in the community, prevention and management of disabilities, awareness raising and referral.
Community mobilization and awareness on Protection of women girls, children, disadvantaged groups and youth rights (rights, Gender equality, and health education and development activities).
– Advocacy: Through referrals and advocacy sessions with windows in relation to property inheritance (Legal awareness and linkage for legal assistance).
Community Education: community based awareness and support to improve social assistance and involvement of the community in supporting the target groups : links with peer groups and community health workers during awareness
– Livelihood and leadership initiatives support: women and girls groups are mobilized to formulate income generating groups in order to promote and boost their economic
status and income to support their families.
M.s S.Mkumule Lendaiga fulfills her technical goal to ensure women ,girls ,children and youth with specific needs attain meaningful inclusion is all aspects of right based services to have equal opportunities in the community as per community based protection guidelines , medical rehabilitation guidelines and global practices and standards.
Jacob Tunga
MR J. TUNGA is the WADS PROGRAMS MANAGER who supports in managing WADS programs in line with the strategic plans ,objectives and work plans . he supports in developing proposals in coordination with the management team to ensure that WADS secure resources to be able to implement the inteted objectives . plays an important vital role where men are involved in desining programs that protects the rights of women ,girls ,youth and children to be free from any forms of violence . he is well expereinced in supporting community economic and social needs as a qulaified social worker ,also with a community Economic Development professional of wich his professional background helps the WADS team to capture needs and interventions with regards to
social and economic interventions
His previous eperenices over 19 year of practice in the community need social economic support include : management roles , coordination roles , supervion roles with regards to social work lectures, Non Forma Education , Trainer of HIV awareness and prevention for youth and women programs , Livelihood and social economic development support with diffrent International organizations, National insitutions, faith based Organization and colleges as an instructor at the social work colleges in Tanzania.
He had many opportunities to attend International and national HIV trainings , Livelihood, qualitative data analysis , and Social workers forum professional froums within the country and international forums , Genderbased violence prevention training and curriculum development.
M.R J.Tunga is passionate about his Career Objectives to pursue a challenging career in a progressive environment and he values learning, innovation and creativity are encouraged, where my knowledge and skills can be enhanced to their maximum potentials to contribute to the overall success and growth of the WADS organization and the public at large.
Zai Kihembwe
Ms.Z. Kihembwe she is the Youth group leader has been involved in youth livelihood groups in the faith based organization and groups of which she was the focal person to initiate their economic initiatives for the past 1 year experience with youth groups . being a Youth leader makes her fulfil her purpose to ensure her fellow youth group members are fully integrated in the economic initiatives and all relevant youth integration opportunities within the community and she is eager to see youths are free from all forms of violence and thus become productive economically to be able to help their families for future well being.
Suzana Malumbe
Ms S. Malumbe is The WADS Livelihood Officer and has been the Focal person of the women livelihood groups in terms of income generating activities. She has been advocating and leading the women income generating groups for 10 years and has the passion to see women are empowered economically so that can be free from all forms of violence at the community level .
Martin Nago
Mr. M. Nago is the WADS Public Relations Officer and has a professional background in relation to Rural Community Development. In addition to the professional background he also attended different courses on Cooperative Management for three months and on job trainings on Data entry using PROGRES, Peace Education, Refugee camp Community Services and training on Finance and Logistic management and activities.
He has experience in the need community Services especially Refugees and Asylum seekers over 10 years in different Refugee camps and holding centers in Kigoma Regional, Kagera and Tabora and in Tanzania host community ;
he has been working in Saving and credit Cooperative Societies, CBOs, Community Groups and NGOs as initiator, consultant and manager. Initiated and managed SACCOS such as HOPE SACCOS, HURUMA SACCOS, and MUUNGANO SACCOS
he initiated Community Groups as follows :TUJIJENGE Women group, Lake Tanganyika Women Group, Azania Vijana Kazi Group (Bakeries).
MINERAL INVESTMENT LTD builds good relationship with the company, government and community, procurement roles ,data verifications , Distance learning facilitation and has over 10 years of working experience in the refugee setting and Host community with international and national NGOs and CBOs .
He is passionate about building good relations with key actors within the country and international wise in order to maintain good practices and approaches with actors.