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Alexander McLean
Location: Uganda
Region: Africa
Sector: Criminal Justice
Alexander established the African Prisons Project (APP) to improve and advocate for the welfare, health and education of detainees in Africa. The project aims to restore the dignity of prisoners by improving detainees welfare, access to medical facilities and providing educational opportunities.
Ann-Marie Wilson
Location: Across Africa
Region: Africa
Sector: Gender Empowerment
While working overseas Ann-Marie met a 10 year old girl iwho had been raped and undergone Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). The girl would not have survived pregnancy without having a caesarean section at the Christian medical relief clinic where Ann-Marie volunteered. Meeting this girl changed Ann-Marie’s life and she spent six years studying and volunteering in fourteen countries with a view to launch 28 Too Many - a pioneering anti-FGM initiative working across 28 countries in Africa.
Caleb Rukundo
Location: Uganda
Region: Africa
Sector: Orphans and Vulnerable Children
Caleb grew up on the streets of Kampala. Today he reaches out to those who live on the streets, to help them on their individual journeys of transformation. In understanding his own route to wholeness, Caleb has designed an intervention that is simple yet transformative, sustainable and scalable.
Cally & George Magalhães
Location: Brazil, Sao Paulo
Region: South America
Sector: Criminal Justice, Orphans and Vulnerable Children
George and Cally are the founders of Associação Águia, also known as the "Eagle Project", in São Paulo, Brazil. They work with young people in youth prisons who have committed serious crimes and are frequent re-offenders.

Their wholistic approach is based on restorative justice principles, which involve psychodrama sessions, coaching & mentoring as well as family counseling sessions. Cally & George accompany the teenagers and their families for up to two years after their release, helping with education, professional courses and employment.
Carolina Rodriguez
Location: Bogota, Colombia
Region: South America
Sector:
Carolina Rodriguez is a young university graduate with a degree in linguistics, who is passionate about using her vocation to serve indigenous groups of Colombia that have been displaced from their traditional contexts to marginalized urban contexts.

During her studies in Linguistics, she was exposed to the challenging and unjust realities of the Wounaan peoples who were displaced from the Choco region of southwestern Colombia, to the slums of Bogota.

Carolina designed an educational and self-esteem building program to accompany the Wounaan Nonam children & youth to help them in their adaptation and learning processes within the public school system. She is now working to have a community based program to help this group adapt to their new environment while at the same time retain and value their native language and cultural heritage.
Cassien Ndikuriyo
Location: Burundi
Region: Africa
Sector: Environmental Sustainability
Cassien established the Help Channel Burundi project to address the massive deforestation of Burundi, which led to the loss of sustainable livelihoods. During the civil war that ravaged the country, Burundi's forests were completely destroyed due to neglect and targeted clearing.

As a response, Cassien has mobilised local communities to plant over 5-million trees as a way to revert the deforestation and promote community healing and reconciliation.
Celia Kaala
Location: Uganda
Region: Africa
Sector: Criminal Justice
Celia established Justice for Children to provide legal aid to the most vunerable in her society. Justice for Children works with various remand facilities to provide counselling and legal representation to the children to ensure they receive appropriate and effective access to restorative justice.
Claude Nikondeha
Location: Burundi
Region: Africa
Sector: Integral Mission
Claude is the founder and chief organizer of Amahoro Africa, a network of African leaders who are committed to the tangible manifestation of justice, mercy and goodness in their local context.

Amahoro Africa connects leaders to each other and helps to facilitate their theological learning and reflection.
Claudio Oliver
Location: Curitiba, Brazil
Region: South America
Sector: Environmental Sustainability
Claudio Oliver is an environmentalist, urban farmer and pastor that has been involved with social issues for the last 25 years.

He has worked in the Brazilian slums, among the urban and peri-urban poor, homeless and various local communities with creative development initiatives.

Currently, Claudio is working to integrate his experience with theological reflections about the environment, agriculture and culture within an urban context. Caring for creation and sharing the message that loving God is better demonstrated by loving His creation: soil, air, water, plants, animals and human beings. Claudio challenge all to practice God's first call for them: To take care for creation, both human beings and the world's environment.
Consoler Meena
Location: Tanzania
Region: Africa
Sector: Orphans and Vulnerable Children, Gender Empowerment
Consoler is a trained social worker and the founder of New Hope for Girls Organisation. Her organisation offers free services to support and protect vulnerable young girls and women against physical and sexual violence.
Dairo Pacheco
Location: Monte Libano, Colombia
Region: South America
Sector: Environmental Sustainability
Dairo Pacheco is a committed Christian whose experience with Jesus, and discipleship process in the local church has taken root in his life such a way that his vocation, professional experience, connections and knowledge all have become integral parts of his faithful participation in God's mission of reconciliation and restoration. His life's experience is perhaps one that fits more in the minority of Colombians. He is educated, has a good position with a large mining company, and with that, he could easily rest in the stability that he has been blessed with. But, as a disciple of Christ, he has opened his eyes and heart to the realities that surround him, socially, environmentally, economically and spiritually and has directed his life to bless and the majority of his neighbors and fellow Colombians who have fallen through the cracks of Colombian society and who are living on the margins.
Damitha Rajapakse
Location: Sri Lanka
Region: Asia
Sector: Primary Healthcare
Damitha is preserving endangered species of medicinal, food and timber trees in Sri Lanka. He also seeks to preserve the indigenous knowledge of their uses for the benefit of the poor.
David Clemy
Location: Uganda
Region: Africa
Sector: Orphans and Vulnerable Children
David works amongst some of the poorest and most vulnerable in Uganda helping them to transform their communities through economic empowerment and education. David particularly focuses on people with disabilities, widows and orphans.
Domnic Misolo
Location: Kenya
Region: Africa
Sector: Gender Empowerment
Domnic established the Ekklesia Foundation for Gender Education to challenge gender stereotypes in Africa through education and dialogue. Coming from a polygamist family, he witnessed first hand how dis-empowered his mother was to provide for herself and her children. Now a young pastor, he also recognised that the church was one of the main bodies reinforcing negative gender sterotypes. Since 2009 he has been working tirelessly towards a church that will heal the country-wide gender divide.
Dr. SaSa
Location: Myanmar
Region: Asia
Sector: Primary Healthcare
Dr SaSa studied medicine with the goal of establishing a community-wide primary health care system amongst the Chin people, in Burma.

He established a primary health care training centre and has trained over 300 community health care workers from 150 villages. This is the first time these villages are able to access any form of health care provision at community level.
Edwin Fillies
Location: South Africa
Region: Africa
Sector: Integral Mission, Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation
Edwin co-founded Nations 2 Nations ministry of YWAM. He seeks to bring hope to Indigenous groups and promote their culture, while embracing who God made them to be and their unique gifts to serve others.

Having worked with the peoples of Samoa, Fiji, Sami in Norway, Australian aboriginals, Maoris, Malukans and others, God is now using Edwin to reveal the plight of the First Nation people in South Africa.
Ephraim Disi
Location: Malawi
Region: Africa
Sector: HIV / AIDS
Rev Ephraim Disi is the former Bishop of the Brethren in Christ Church, Malawi. He is living with HIV and is one of the founding members of ANERELA+ (the African Network of Religious Leaders Living with or Personally Affected by HIV and AIDS ).

ANERELA+ has a network of 40 ministers and it is an inter faith support group that seeks to uphold the dignity and human rights of people living with HIV. Through ANERELA+ and other projects, Rev Disi is active and involved in multiple HIV projects in Malawi and across the rest of Africa.
Gracia Violeta Ross Quiroga
Location: La Paz, Bolivia
Region: South America
Sector: HIV / AIDS
Gracia co-founded Bolivia's first organization for people with HIV. She is an an expert on sexual and reproductive health rights.

She is a member of the Bolivian Network of PWAS (REDBOL), the International Advisory Committee of BRIDGE and the Expert Advisory Group in the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP). She is also part of the UN Women Civil Society Advisory Group for Latin America and The Caribbean and the community Representative for the TB-HIV Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership.
Heather
Location: South Africa
Region: Africa
Sector: Youth Mobilisation, Orphans and Vulnerable Children, Gender Empowerment
Heather lives and works in Kayamandi, an impoverished community in a traditional 'informal settlement' (term used by Apartheid Government for peri-urban slum) outside Stellenbosch. South Africa is considered one of the most violent societies in the world. Sexual and domestic violence is a normal way of life for many who live in the sprawling informal settlements that surround most cities. We Have Hope (WHH), the ministry Heather founded, is a basic level therapeutic intervention that empowers local people who have the capacity and desire to become agents of hope and healing for the children of their community. WHH aims to address issues related to children who experience continuous trauma; either domestic violence, sexual violence or other forms of abuse and neglect. The project is aimed at addressing these issues through local partnership in a variety of international contexts and has received requests for training from a variety of nations. Pilot empowerment projects were initiated in South Africa and Liberia in 2012.
Heather Costaras
Location: South Africa
Region: Africa
Sector: Gender Empowerment
Heather founded the Beautiful Life Project after years of struggling with low self-esteem and self-hatred, with a view to change her life and follow her dreams.

The Beautiful Life Project unites women who had been struggling with similar issues and creates a platform for them to impact their society. Heather has also founded VENT!, WODOO and Tapestry Of Dreams initiatives.
Jeanne d'Arc Muhongayire
Location: Rwanda
Region: Africa
Sector: Orphans and Vulnerable Children
Jeanne has developed a mentor-based support system for Child Headed Households that is far more sustainable that typical NGO-driven interventions.
Joel Tembo Vwira
Location: DR Congo
Region: Africa
Sector: Environmental Sustainability
Joel Tembo Vwira is a social-business entrepreneur living in Goma, DRC. He recognised a social need and business solution to the growing problem of waste disposal in the war ravaged town of Goma, North Eastern DRC. Alongside work in Church and community mobilisation, he established a waste and services company that collects and recycles waste. Joel is now looking at how to expand his social enterprise to other African cities.
John Smith
Location: Africa
Region: Africa
Sector: Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation
John Smith (not real name) is an activist currently working for the advancement of human rights in a very sensitive region of Africa.
Jomara Pineda
Location: Guatemala City, Guatemala
Region: Central America
Sector: Orphans and Vulnerable Children
Numbers of children living unprotected on the streets of Guatemala have risen over the las 2 decades. The inequalities, injustices, violence, corruption and unemployment that plague the country cultivate broken homes, and create the context in which children are left unattended and unprotected. The mass migrations from the rural to urban contexts coupled with the increase in devastating natural disasters have also made children more vulnerable. In Guatemala it is a common everyday encounter with children living on the streets, in the municipal dumps and forming part of child and teen lead gangs . They have become an under class, a group that is socially rejected. Jomara Pineda felt a call from God 13 years ago that connected her into the lives of many children who live in this reality.
Jonathan Jansen
Location: South Africa
Region: Africa
Sector: Youth Mobilisation, Drug Rehab, Integral Mission
Under South Africa’s apartheid system, Jonathan’s community were classified as ‘Coloured’ or ‘Mixed-race’ and were moved to a ‘coloured area’ outside of Cape Town. The forced origin of this community and ongoing marginalisation have cultivated a community rife in violent crime, gangsterism and drug abuse. Many children grow up subject to trauma and distress from an early age without positive father figures or role models, which perpetuate a cycle of dysfunctionality. Jonathan’s initiative, Fusion, aims to engage young people with an alternative way of life based on a new cycle, one of apprenticeship. Jonathan dreams this will create a new rythym of life for young people and a viable alternative to the prevalent gang culture.
Joyce Dube
Location: Zimbabwe
Region: Africa
Sector: Integral Mission, Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation
In 2003 Joyce established the Southern Africa Women’s Institute for Migration Affairs (SAWIMA) and has been a tireless advocate on behalf of this vulnerable population ever since. Being a refugee from Zimbabwe Joice always dreamt about being able not only to support refugees in Southern Africa, but also to help repatriate and support those refugees who return back to their home countries. In 2012, Joice had the opportunity to return to Zimbabwe and start an initiative amongst rural communities in Zimbabwe to help them become self sustainable, and by doing so prevent people leaving to seek their livelihoods in South Africa.
Kelvin Mwikya
Location: Kenya
Region: Africa
Sector: Criminal Justice
Kelvin is an ex-prisoner. He established Philemon Foundation to address the needs of other ex-prisoners especially to help them reintegrate back into society. His vision is for the engagement of churches across the country as places of refuge, for the establishment of halfway houses across East Africa, and for the total transformation of the Kenyan criminal justice system.
Likoko Eunice
Location: Kenya
Region: Africa
Sector: Gender Empowerment
Likoko works with sex workers on the streets of Nairobi. She has developed a year-long transformation journey that has been tested and shown to work in her local community. They journey starts with friendship and acceptance but goes on to address physical, spiritual, emotional and life-skill needs.
Lindsey Pettit
Location: South Africa
Region: Africa
Sector: Criminal Justice
Lindsey is working to bring hope and a future to juveniles caught on the wrong side of the South African criminal justice system. “Sometimes I feel so expectant about going to prison – it is like going to visit Jesus. I can see the eyes of Jesus reflected through the eyes of a wounded child.” Lindsey is introducing the principles of restorative justice into the South African criminal justice system.
Mabel Olga Manzato
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Region: South America
Sector: Gender Empowerment
Malena Manzato was exposed to the issue of gender based violence over 15 years ago and since that time has sought to gain training and a deep understanding of the problem in order to accompany and serve both the victims and aggressors. Early on in her call to serve the abused and the abusers, Malena felt her call would be mainly among women outside of the evangelical church. Yet when she started her ministry, she learned that the church was not immune to these problems and that it actually harbored and looked the other way to the many cases of domestic gender based violence that surfaced inside the communities of faith once she started teaching and raising awareness.
Manju & Lawrence Singh
Location: India
Region: Asia
Sector: HIV / AIDS, Primary Healthcare
Manju Lawrence & Lawrence Singh-India established the Agnes Kunze Society to transform the lives of people living in the slums and for working children in Dehra Dun, India. They provide education and vocational training as well as a broad-based primary health service. They have also set up the first comprehensive ART (HIV) care network for people living with HIV & AIDS.
Marco Davi Oliveira
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Region: South America
Sector: Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation
Marco is dedicated to eliminating racial divides in church communities in Brazil. A pastor who has personally experienced racism, he dreams of a church that lives out the Gospel of Christ in such a way that the authentic community which Paul described is realised; no Jew nor Greek, free nor slave, male nor female, black nor white. Marco is working towards a change in society which reflects this vision of freedom and equality.
Marcos Chumacero
Location: Bolivia, Potosi
Region: South America
Sector: Youth Mobilisation, Integral Mission
Marcos Chumacero is a Bolivian pastor who leads a dynamic church community with a high emphasis on youth ministry in the Andean highlands, located in the mining department of Potosi. He is a passionate visionary who sees the local church as God's primary agent of transformation in the context of poverty and hopelessness, a reality that most of the people of Potosi experience. Marco's has felt a passion to reach out to children and youth in need in his context and through service and discipleship has developed a vibrant youth ministry called "Eagles" (Aguilas) that is discipling and mobilizing large numbers of young people to be active witnesses to God's love through their community service, advocacy and integral evangelism.
Mario Morales
Location: Escuintla, Guatemala
Region: Central America
Sector: Environmental Sustainability
Mario is a passionate and visionary leader has spent many years working on community based solutions to environmental and agricultural problems, while also raising awareness in the church of the biblical mandate to steward God’s creation. Having improved living conditions through sustainable farming techniques, alternative crops and vegetative barriers to prevent flooding, he is currently driving an initiative to increase good stewardship of the environment through innovative re-purposing of discarded waste.
Matt LeBlanc
Location: Philippines
Region: Asia
Sector: Environmental Sustainability, Integral Mission
Matt is the son of an elder of the Mi'kmaq first nations people from eastern Canada. Like many people from first nation tribes, Matt has been on a personal journey to learn and embrace his true identity as a Mi'kmaq Indian. A part of that journey has also been discovering his faith in Jesus and embracing both his identity in Christ and his identity as a Mi'kmaq Indian.

Many tribal (indigenous) groups continue to face colonial (both political and religious) influence to pressure them to become “civilised” and give up their “backwards ways” in favour of a western idea of faith and development. We believe that when dignity, respect and honour are given back to a people, they will once again see the treasures that the Creator has placed in them; they will govern their people with wisdom and boldly lead their communities into a positive desired future. Our goal is to see this transformation in the communities we are working in. For young leaders to emerge that have purpose and vision for their community founded in the Creator’s design of their people and rooted in the traditions and understandings of the generations before them.

iEmergence was founded to help indigenous communities rediscover their true identity and destiny. iEmergence approaches development with the understanding that each community needs to be the architect of their own future.
Miriam Mondragon
Location: Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Region: Central America
Sector: Criminal Justice, Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation
Miriam seeks to address and promote dialogue and reconciliation in an increasingly divided and fragmented Honduras. She is catalyzing a network among church leaders and Christian organizations that actively promotes reconciliation and peace, starting among the churches themselves. She works to promote justice among the poor and combat violence in all its aspects; and together with other Christian organizations work to support the church to become a signpost for the Kingdom Way of life and community and a"prophetic voice" in society.
Musa Njoko
Location: South Africa
Region: Africa
Sector: HIV / AIDS
Musa is a renowned inspirational speaker, HIV positive activist, musician, educator, counselor and entrepreneur. She is one of the first women to publicly disclose her HIV positive status in South Africa.
Naomi Hendricks
Location: India
Region: Asia
Sector: Orphans and Vulnerable Children
Naomi works with a network of churches in Mumbai and across India to help them be agents of transformation in their communities.

Naomi and the network of churches work in the slums of Mumbai to especially help transform the lives of children through educational support to those not formally in the education system.
Njihia Njoroge
Location: Kenya
Region: Africa
Sector: Integral Mission
Njihia works with those caught in alcohol addition in Nairobi's slums. As a business-social entrepreneur he opened a bar, that provides a safe environment in the midst of the slum. Here he employs a resident pastor who builds relationships with the clientele. This process encourages relationships as a discipling strategy rather than condemnation.
Nyasha Manyau
Location: Zimbabwe
Region: Africa
Sector: Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation
Nyasha established a ‘community healing’ initiative in Zimbabwe to restore peace, love and dignity to people. She spends time with both the survivors and perpetrators of political violence to listen to their stories and provide them with counseling in order to help them deal with the anger, bitterness and hatred that they feel.
Pamela Leon
Location: Guatemala City, Guatemala
Region: Central America
Sector: Criminal Justice, Gender Empowerment
Pamela is a Guateamala lawyer who left the legal system to become the director of El Refugio, after having encountered the horrific injusticies and abuses suffered by vicims of domestic violence. El Refugio offers a holistic response to protect women and children who are victims of violence. She and her team provide psychological support, friendship and prayer as well as supporting the women to study, set up small businesses and find work. Pamela also trains and equips pastors and church leaders to raise awareness and create ministries that serve the many women who suffer violence.
Patricia Mbithe Kyama
Location: Kenya
Region: Africa
Sector: Criminal Justice, Orphans and Vulnerable Children
Patricia established the Tunza Project to give hope and dignity to young offenders and to support them and their families after their release from prison. Her organisation aims to reduce re-offending and reintegrate youngsters back into society.
Patricia Sawo
Location: Kenya
Region: Africa
Sector: HIV / AIDS
Patricia is the leader of a church in Kitale, Kenya, and is herself living with HIV. She specialises in gender and women’s issues and public awareness of HIV and AIDS. She was one of the founding members of ANERELA+ (African Network Of Religious Leaders Affected And Infected With HIV), and is the founding member of KENERELA+ (Kenyan Network).
Phil & Rachel Bowyer
Location: South Africa
Region: Africa
Sector: Integral Mission
Phil and Rachel Bowyer are co-founders of Soul Action South Africa which facilitates opportunities for Christians who are passionate about transforming people’s whole lives through integral mission to network, train and work together, in order to serve the poor and marginalised in a sustainable way. Rachel established a child literacy initiative in some of the least resourced communities in the Durban area. As an ex-teacher her initiatives trains teachers in skills to teach literacy to children.
Philbert Kalisa
Location: Rwanda
Region: Africa
Sector: Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation
Philbert established REACH in Rwanda to enhance local capacity for healing, reconciliation and peace-building in communities deeply affected by violent conflict. Philbert is currently expanding his initiative to Burundi and DRC.
Rev Mai Ki
Location: Myanmar (Burma)
Region: Asia
Sector: Integral Mission
Born in a poor remote rural village in Chin State, Burma to illiterate parents, Mai
Ki managed to complete her education before travelling to India where she later obtained a Masters in Theology. Mai Ki became the first ordained female minister of the Mara Evangelical Church and has initiated many life-changing church based social interventions across Chin state.
Roy Soto Herrera
Location: Costa Rica
Region: Central America
Sector: Integral Mission
Roy is a pastor, leader, and practitioner of integral mission through his local church, and promoter both nationally in Costa Rica as well as in the larger Latin American region of the church's role and responsibility in God's all encompassing plan of restoration in the world. Through his personal and church based testimony Roy is networking among pastors and church leaders throughout Latin America and inspiring them towards this vision of God's restorative mission in the world and the church's role in it through integral mission.
Sabrina Mahtani
Location: Sierra Leone
Region: Africa
Sector: Criminal Justice
Sabrina established AdvocAid in Sierra Leone to support women on death row who have often being convicted without legal representation, and denied any right to appeal.

Sabrina's vision is to see the end of the death penalty and to advocate for the rights of women in systems where women's rights and access to justice are often compromised.
Salim Munayer
Location: Jerusalem, Israel
Region: Middle East
Sector: Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation
Salim was born to a Palestinian Arab Christian family in the city of Lydda (today Lod) in Israel. In 1948 his family was forced to flee and became internally displaced. Salim’s own search for identity led him to become a follower of Jesus. He attended Tel Aviv University and later travelled to the US where he obtained a Masters in Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary, returning to Israel in 1985. Salim then began working for the reconciliation of Christians of Palestinian and Jewish origin. Out of this, the ministry of Musalaha was established, a non-profit organisation which aims to bring peace and reconciliation amongst Christians, Jews and Muslims in the Middle East.
Silvana Grandi
Location: Brazil, Sao Paulo
Region: South America
Sector: Environmental Sustainability, Drug Rehab, Integral Mission
Silvana is dedicated to using all of the pillars of sustainable transformation to come alongside and serve the lost and hurting of "cracolândia" a section of the city of Sao Paulo that is known as the last stop on a downward spiral for men, women and children addicted to crack. She currently leads "Ecoliber" the Ministry of Environmental Sustainability of Liberty Baptist Church of Sao Paulo where she promotes and disseminates a vision of creation care and sustainable living in and among evangelical churches and communities through an integral understanding of the transformative power of the Gospel (spiritual, social, environmental and economic transformation). Her initiative seeks to recover and restore the lives of people suffering the terrible consequences of drug addictions through spiritual, physical, emotional and vocational empowerment as a means of a healthy social reinsertion through various works of sustainable income generation including recycled crafts, recycling cooperatives, permaculture and other creative alternatives for sustainable living.
Stephen Watiti
Location: Uganda
Region: Africa
Sector: HIV / AIDS
Dr Stephen works at the Mildmay Hospital in Uganda as the Senior Medical Officer, treating people living with HIV. Stephen is HIV+ himself so has personal experience of the need to live positively and being able to access the right support. He has a vision for working through faith-based organisations, including the local church, to help them conduct advocacy work on HIV and mainstream HIV work into their core activities.
Sum & Chan
Location: Undisclosed
Region: Asia
Sector: Drug Rehab
Sum and Chan (not their real names) are changing lives through a drug rehabilitation and vocational training center in extremely difficult circumstances which offers life-on-life mentoring, counseling, a community in which addicts can learn to serve, dream and grow, and a program which identifies and develops the potential of each individual to make a difference with their lives.
Theresa Malila
Location: Malawi
Region: Africa
Sector: Integral Mission
Theresa established Somebody Cares to work with pastors, community leaders and communities to bring about community wide transformation. She pioneered an approach that has brought over 1500 churches of different denominations as well as traditional leaders together in 260 villages.
Tinashe Chitambira
Location: Swaziland
Region: Africa
Sector: Environmental Sustainability
Tinashe is one of the founding members of AfricaWorks, which helps communities to establish viable agri-businesses to improve the livelihoods of those impacted by HIV and AIDS, in particular rural women and orphans.
Titus Masika
Location: Kenya
Region: Africa
Sector: Integral Mission
Titus is a retired high school principle and church leader who founded Christian Impact Mission (CIM). Since 2006, CIM has transformed the economy and local environment of the rural and semi-arid region of Yatta, Kenya. CIM has become recognised in Kenya for transforming an arid landscape into a lush green area of high value crops planted for both export and local consumption. Titus has now mobilised over 5,000 households and the results have caught the interest of the international community.
Tracey Webster
Location: South Africa
Region: Africa
Sector: Orphans and Vulnerable Children
Tracey has founded many initiatives to respond to the orphan crisis in South Africa. Tracey currently heads up the Richard Branson School of Entrepreneurship, as well as being an active member of the Desmond Tutu Fellows which comprises of young emerging leaders across the African continent.
Vardan Tadevosyan
Location: Armenia
Region: Eastern Europe
Sector: Primary Healthcare
In 1999, Vardan moved to Nagorno Karabagh to establish the first Rehabilitation Centre in war torn Stepanakert.
Vincent and Grace Munyosi
Location: Uganda
Region: Africa
Sector: Integral Mission
Vincent and Grace minister in a predominantly Muslim community. Instead of trying to gather together converts, they focused on community transformation. They restored the water supply, introduced better farming methods, sponsored livestock for widows and orphans, rebuilt the primary school, and facilitated community wide health education. Through this transformational work many people’s lives are transformed holistically.
Wangu Kanja
Location: Kenya
Region: Africa
Sector: HIV / AIDS, Gender Empowerment
In 2002, Wangu was carjacked and brutally assaulted. After this traumatic event, she faced depression, stigma and frustration over the lack of support options for victims of rape. She soon became an active public speaker and advocate against gender based violence. Her Foundation now supports survivors of sexual violence in accessing medical assistance, psychological services and legal aid, as well as takes an active role in awareness raising and campaigning for legislative change.
Yinho Marcella
Location: Bogota, Colombia
Region: South America
Sector: Youth Mobilisation
Yinho Marsella is a passionate leader who lives out a God given vision and call to reach out to Colombia's vulnerable children and youth. Asociacion Cristiana de Deportes (Christian Sports Association) shares the Gospel and carries out wholistic discipleship among vulnerable children and youth through their soccer clubs and sports outreach programs.

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