Charles Mphande

Co-Founding Director and Secretary

He lectures in International Community Development with interests in discourse in development and other settings; network analysis, especially among emerging communities in Australia; knowledge democracy movements and the growing space for social economy and its promise to the Global South. Further, Charles is interested in learning and teaching in such interdisciplinary human sciences areas as community development. He brings to the International Development Course, not only his academic expertise and experience but also the benefits of his years of experience in international development practice with communities, grassroots organisations and multilateral bodies in international development.

From 2006 to 2007 Charles was the English Language/ESOL and Communication consultant in the Language Across the Curriculum Grant for the Electronic & Electrical Engineering Faculty at Victoria University, involved with the newly introduced problem-based learning (PBL) program. Charles developed the content and ran the orientation and clinical workshops for staff aimed at helping staff handle students’ academic communication and English-language needs in the problem-based learning context. While the orientation workshops dealt with theoretical bases of (English language) self-/participant–directed learning, the clinical workshops involved hands-on discourse analysis of students’ reports and reflective journals to single out student (English language) learning progress or/and problems, as well as their general progress in learning how to learn experience, to avert possible learner attrition.

Dr Mphande has years of experience working with civil society organisations overseas in long-term development and social mobilisation, especially for girls’ education, and health. Further, he has hands-on overseas experience doing commissioned evaluations of national development programs funded by World Bank. While he was engaged in evaluation of programs in general, he was particularly called upon to evaluate the information education and communication (IEC) functions.

Charles is an academic editor of The Asian English for Specific Purposes Journal. He is also an active member of the Communication and Partnerships team of Engagement Australia. He has received awards for excellence in research and research training, and excellence in work towards education of African-Australians and Africa.

Qualifications

• PhD, Victoria University, Australia, 2006
• Master of Arts, University of Warwick, U.K., 1997
• Bachelor of Education (Honours), University of Malawi, 1993
• Bachelor of Education, University of Malawi, 1983

Wesley Mwafulirwa

Legal Attorney

Co Founder of Kawelo Lawyers. Wesley is a skilled humble, passionate Attorney with a vision, within the few years of his career he has quickly risen to become on of the most prominent lawyers in Malawi. From winning big cases to international recognition and awards in the outstanding performance in Fighting against HIV and Injustice. Currently Managing Kawelo lawyers firm. Welsey possess a remarkable big five skill set for a great lawyers namely;

• Analytical ability.
• Attention to detail.
• Logical reasoning.
• Unresistant Persuasiveness.
• Sound judgment

Chikondi Mphande

Board Member

Fulata Moyo

Vice President & Project Manager

Dr Fulata Lusungu Moyo is a resource developer of the Healing Together and Parenting: A Journey of Love. She is Viktor Frankl’s Logotherapy student and a facilitator of the Healing of Memories. She is a co-founder of Stream, a trauma holistic healing accompaniment for survivors of sex
trafficking. She is a member of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians.

She has been the World Council of Church’s (WCC) consultant for Trauma Transformation and Resilience developing an ecumenical trauma resilience resource for churches in Nigeria, Sierra Leone and South Sudan. She served as WCC Programme Executive for A Just Community of Wo/Men 2007-2018. She was a visiting scholar at Harvard Divinity School developing an ethics of care in response to human trafficking and sexual violence with a strong component on how
trafficked and sexually violated women and girls can be accompanied for healing.

As WCC Programme Executive for A Just Community of Women and Men (2007-2018), she revived and globalized the Thursdays in Black campaign against rape and violence. She convened the process of gender justice policy, gender awareness and trainings in transformative masculinities and femininities, as well gender advocacy trainings in human rights instruments including the United Nation’s CEDAW, UPR, UNSCR1325, and SDG 3 & 5. She has convened several
international gatherings of women and men. She has researched and published widely in gender and religion.

She earned a PhD in Human Sciences from the School of Religion and Theology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa with a focus in gender and sexual ethics.

Rhoda Moyo

Project Manager and Accountant

Nelly Wendot

Doctor of Philosophy Candidate
Victoria University Footscray Park,
Melbourne, Australia

Nelly Natii Wendot is a doctoral student at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. She has worked in the hospitality industry and later moved on to work in the not-for-profit sector. She has broad experience with poverty reduction programs and projects operating in Kenya, and she went on to join the Table Banking movement in Kenya. She has formed one functioning Table Banking Group. Assisted in setting up other Table Banking Groups in Kenya. Her experience with Table Banking groups in Kenya drove her to do a robust study to contribute to their wealth creation efficacy.

The founder Baringo Natural Honey Pot enterprise in Kenya.

Her vision is to contribute towards strategies and policies which will raise the living standard of the vulnerable communities in Africa while considering the Agenda 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals. Which include number: 1, 3, 5, 8, 9 and 17 goals.