Margaret is a retired Canadian nurse with extensive experience in international women's empowerment and development initiatives, having worked in numerous humanitarian organizations across Africa. She is also the Co-Founder of Kar Geno's Hope Designers program.

She plays a crucial role in our organization because of her commitment to women empowerment, girls' education, and to Kar Geno's core values that empower HIV-affected women.

Papa currently serves as the Executive Director, bringing extensive experience in nonprofit management and donor-funded projects. With a degree in community work, he is deeply passionate about community development and has been instrumental in inspiring and guiding communities to engage proactively with development challenges.

His expertise includes building strong networks, mobilizing resources, and maintaining excellent donor relations, making him a key figure in driving sustainable development initiatives.

Roseline is a dedicated school teacher with a degree in English Literature and a strong focus on girl child education and women's empowerment. With extensive experience in both education and sustainable agriculture, she plays a pivotal role in developing and expanding solutions to address food insecurity while promoting sustainable farming practices.

As a part-time smallholder farmer, Roseline integrates her practical farming knowledge into her work, helping to empower women and improve their livelihoods through agricultural education. Her passion for community development and her expertise in education and farming make her a key contributor to tackling food insecurity and promoting long-term sustainability of the organization.

Jane is a trained Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) teacher and paralegal officer, bringing valuable legal expertise to the Board. She is deeply passionate about Kar Geno's core values of inclusiveness and works to combat marginalization, discrimination, and gender-based violence.

Jane's enthusiasm and commitment to these causes help guide the organization in creating an equitable environment for all, ensuring that women and marginalized groups receive the support and protection they deserve. Her unique blend of educational and legal experience makes her an essential advocate for justice and gender equality within the organization.

Bithun is a Toronto-based documentary photographer and an engineer. Born in Bogra, Bangladesh, Bithun spent the bulk of his childhood in north Bengal before immigrating to Canada at an early age. To the adolescent eyes, the two worlds appeared vastly different – the landscape, the culture, and the climate. Yet he discovered that while our similarities give us a common ground, it is really our differences that allow us to be fascinated with each other.

Through his work, Bithun aspires to capture those very similarities and fascinating differences that tell the collective story of our shared human experience. Bithun's work focuses on socioeconomic and climate change related environmental issues, and explores potential solutions in vulnerable and marginalized communities around the world. Bithun holds a masters degree in chemical engineering from the University of Toronto. When away from the camera, he manages sustainable infrastructure and environmental projects.

Rachel Coleman is a senior Researcher in USA with PhD in Ecology and Environmental Sciences, she first joined our organization as a grant writer where she developed successful applications for women empowerment projects. To date Rachel is still a key contributor in advising organization on Grants and fundraising.

She's passionate about using respectful and equitable intersectional research and policy to improve outcomes in society in context of climate change.

Heather O'Shea is a Water Resource Engineer and a member of Engineers Without Borders USA. She is also the founder of Global Hydro with interest in Water resources and desire to make a positive contribution to society by finding practical and effective solutions to challenging water resources problems.

Heather is so compassionate in supporting developing countries and has previously volunteered in Kenya with Engineers Without Borders-USA in implementing a sustainable water supply to vulnerable communities in rural Western Kenya. She sits in the board as advisor on partnerships.

Shana Greene has been a social entrepreneur working in sustainable development, social justice, and environmental conservation for over 35 years. She is the founder of our partner organization & fiscal sponsor, Village Volunteers. As founder and Executive Director of Village Volunteers, she collaborates with visionary leaders in Africa and Asia to develop sustainable solutions to community challenges.

Shana provides strategic leadership in the conceptualization, fundraising, and oversight of all Village Volunteers initiatives. The initiatives cover a range of issues like access to clean water, gender equality, sustainable agriculture, micro-enterprise development, and education. She has spearheaded projects such as the ceramic water filter plant in Kenya that makes 10,000-12,000 water filters a year; has facilitated through local partners the setup of thousands of micro-enterprises for women in Asia and Africa; funded training programs in sustainable farming methods and seed saving; fund raised to put in community water systems; developed moringa tree projects to grow the super food to distribute to children in areas of malnutrition; set up a Sickle Cell Anemia Initiative to speak to a major cause of childhood mortality in Sub Saharan Africa; fund raised to build schools and implemented hundreds of scholarship programs for orphans and vulnerable children. Shana spearheaded a program to develop biodegradable sanitary pads that are manufactured in mini manufacturing sites in India and Kenya where marginalized women are employed.

Nadia is a Canadian registered nurse with over 20 years of practice in Amaranth, Ontario Canada. She has served on several boards in Africa prior to joining Kar Geno as a board member late last year.

Nadia has been actively mobilizing resources and fundraising for Kar Geno and is currently playing a key role in the board, advising on the sustainability of our projects.