ZOA-Zambia
Meet the ZOA-Zambia team
Zambia Orphan Aids-Zambia affectionately known as ZOA-Z, lead on ZOA’s strategic programme development and management, monitoring and evaluation. The team is led by our Chief Executive Officer, Grace Kancheya Nkhuwa, and supported by Patricia Mbao, Project Coordinator, Given Kabota, Project Assistant and Ben Nonde Lwatula, Project Officer in Kasama and governed by a board of governors. ZOA-Z liaise directly with our grassroots partners and make sure that all the money you raise is spent effectively and that our projects are delivering the best they possibly can for all the orphans and vulnerable children we support. Their income comes from a variety of sources including ZOA-UK and ZOA-US.
To contact the team please call on +260 96 6740663 or email [email protected]
In the office
Grace Kancheya Nkhuwa
CEO
Grace joined the team in 2019 bringing over 20 years’ experience in development work including working with vulnerable communities on agriculture, financial inclusion and disability.
Grace is passionate about contributing to changing the lives of the less privileged in society. Coming from a humble background herself, she fully appreciates how education is an equaliser.
Patricia Mbao
Project Coordinator
Patricia has worked for financial institutions and the Non-Governmental Organisation sector and brings with her 18 years of management, procurement, accountancy and administration experience.
Patricia is motivated by her passion to do something positive for those less privileged.
Mubiana Mweenda
Finance and Administration Officer
Mubiana has a degree from the Zambia Institute of Chartered Accountants and joins ZOA-Z after two years at a law firm.
ZOA-Zambia Board of Trustees
Dr Tukiya Kankasa-Mabula
Chair
Tukiya is a passionate advocate of human rights for woman and children and worked with UNICEF to incorporate child rights into the Zambian Constitution.
Bernadette Mulenga
Treasurer
Professionally trained as a secretary, Bernadette worked in private sector mine and law firms. Alongside her secretarial career and after retirement she volunteered her time at a number of cooperatives and at her local church.
She is particularly interested in helping orphans and vulnerable children and was keen to contribute to the ZOA’s work.
Mrs Gertrude Zulu
Gertrude began her career in the newly independent Zambia’s Ministry of Social Welfare supporting disadvantaged families in the Copper Belt area. Later she completed an MBA in Finance and subsequently worked in accounting.
However, throughout her studying and working life she’s had an interest in organisations working for the welfare of girls and women. This lead her to meeting Shimwaayi and being involved in forming ZOA.
Robie Siamwiza
Monitoring and Evaluation Committee Chair
Robie is a former Senior Lecturer in the Social Development Studies Department at the University of Zambia and has been a consultant in the gender, health and education sectors for 25 years.
In addition to serving on the ZOA-Z board she is an active volunteer for civil society and faith based organisations in Zambia.
Robert Liebentha
Robert is a development economist and manager with more than 40 years of management and field experience covering Africa, Europe and Central Asia. From 1975 to 2002, he worked at the World Bank, where he held various professional and management positions.
Since retiring from the Bank and moving back to Zambia, he has worked as an economic consultant for various organizations.
Gideon Bulwani
Gideon is an Organisation Development consultant and specialises in providing capacity building services to public, private and civil society sector organisations.
His areas of expertise include institutional development, strategic planning, organisational change, leadership and executive coaching and board development support.
Pamela Thole
Pamela has over 40 years’ experience working in the agricultural sector specialising in food security with a focus on crop production, seed industry, livestock production and agriculture entrepreneurship and project management.
She has worked with Non Governmental Organisations on capacity building programmes and project evaluations.
Nkaka Kasonde
A highly successful Chartered Accountant with excellent knowledge of financial reporting and accounting, tax and audit.
Nkaka decided to volunteer his skills to ZOA-Z because of his passion to contribute to poverty alleviation and his belief that education support is a key intervention.