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Bienvenu Byamungu
Bienvenu Byamungu
Founder and global director
Bienvenu Byamungu is the founder of P4T and was Executive Director for 10 years before he settled in Norway.
Bienvenu was forced to flee his home country in 1996 when he was only 6 years old, and crossed the border into Uganda where he stayed until he resided in Norway in October 2019.
The DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo) is the worst country in the world for women and children. Rape is used as a "weapon in war", and children are forced to be soldiers. Shooting, murder and violence throughout the region forced many to flee, leaving behind everything they owned.
Bienvenu witnessed these extreme human rights violations, In 2011 UN reported that 1,000 women are raped daily is an understatement. The source of his commitment to empowering women and protecting children, which he now practices through the organization Planning for Tomorrow (P4T), are his unpleasant memories of his home country. He was separated from his parents and experienced bloodshed before reaching Uganda. More than 6 million of Bienvenu's friends and countrymen have been killed in his home area, and he was one of the few survivors who reached the refugee camp. After living in Uganda for 10 years, he started the organization P4T in 2007 when he was 17 years old. To date, the organization has supported over 1000 young people and women with vocational activities, built a kindergarten and a primary school (2015) that offers quality education to over 500 underprivileged orphaned refugees and vulnerable children. P4T has also built latrines for over 41 disabled refugees. Bienvenu is very involved in social development and gender equality, and has graduated in Development Studies from Gulu University thanks to his sponsor brother Davide and Sanguini's family in Denmark.
Bienvenu is a professional with 14 years of experience from community development, protection of children and strengthening of women's rights, program development and execution. Fundraising, organizational development and capacity building in the voluntary sector. In 2019, he worked with Save the Children as a caseworker and head of the Child-friendly Spaces Center, as well as supervising caregivers. He also provided training for the Child Protection Committee as well as social workers to protect the children in the camp and the surrounding community. "Together we can build tomorrow", is his life motto.
Bienvenu always want to bring positive change in the lives of his fellow refugees and immigrate. Many of them had to leave their homes after losing family members and property, and he knows how it feels as he went through the same refugee situation, that’s why he want to help.”
Likonga Ikotela
Board Member
Likonga
I'm a professional Basketball Coach and Entrepreneur currently located in Norway with 20 years of significant experience within the sports industry, education, and entrepreneurship.
Born and raised in Brussels Belgium with a Congolese background, I’m a 42 years old father of a 8 years old girl and a multilingual speaking fluently French, Dutch, English, Spanish, Lingala, Danish, Italian, and Norwegian.
It is in the US where I received my higher education including a Bachelor’s degree in Communication at University of Maryland University College and an Associate degree in Foreign Languages at Montgomery College in Maryland.
My playing basketball career started in Belgium and led me to play US College Basketball and in the Scandinavian top leagues. Eventually, I've been coaching youth basketball development, US College Basketball, professional teams and senior national teams.
In addition to my 20 years career coaching, I worked as a para-educator and physical education instructor in both private/public school systems and private institutions.
Besides coaching, I've been a fitness certified personal trainer for 15 years in the US and in Norway with specializations in Corrective Exercise and Functional Training.
On the entrepreneurial side, I founded RINTCH ACADEMY - The first and only basketball academy in Norway since 2011 with over 1800 players. Now, we have 2 new locations in São Paulo Brazil and New England Massachusetts USA. Our academy is specialized in Player Development including Athletic and Cultural Exchange programs.
My areas of interest besides traveling are art, and cultural activities in which I can be actively involved by sharing a legacy.
Speaking of legacy, I chose to sit as a board member for Planning for Tomorrow to help the organization with fundraising and networking nationally and internationally.
Kristina Dziedzic Wright
Board Member
Kristina holds two master's degrees from the University of Illinois, Chicago, USA and a PhD from the University of Leicester, UK. She has over twenty years of experience working with non-profit and non-governmental organizations in North America, South America, Asia and Africa. She was former administrator of the Murphy Scholarship Foundation in Chicago and a member of the City of Elgin Cultural Arts Commission in Illinois, USA.
From 2005 to 2010, she was the Development Director of Graduate College at the University of Illinois, Chicago, where she started and implemented "Project Global Village" to engage teachers and students in humanitarian aid.
From 2015 to 2017, Kristina volunteered with Teach North Korean Refugees in South Korea and was on the advisory board of "Conviva Brazil" - a non-profit organization that works with and supports high-risk ecosystems and low-income communities in the eastern Amazon. She helped organize the "Korea-Amazon Encounter" program in Seoul and co-founded the International Faculty Association at Seoul National University, and served as a board member and treasurer.
Since 2017, she has also served on the board of Open Heritage, a Cape Town-based NGO that creates digital solutions for the management of cultural heritage across Africa. She is currently developing a digital heritage project at Hano Academy in Mogadishu to train Somali students in the preservation and dissemination of their material culture and oral history.
As a board member and co-founder of P4T Norge, Kristina brings her passion for social development and cross-cultural exchange together with decades of international experience to implement organizations' vision of promoting multicultural diversity in Norway and promoting transcultural understanding between Norwegians, refugees and other immigrants.
Kristina
Dr. Tayseeer Alkarim
Board Member
Dr. Tayseer Alkarim is a Syrian physician, and humanitarian based in Paris, France. He had over a decade of field experience in responding to humanitarian crises. Functioning in a variety of roles within both local and international organizations, he focuses on complex humanitarian crises, especially in armed conflict settings.
When armed conflict broke out in Syria in 2011, Dr. Alkarim co-founded the Doctors Coordinate of Damascus, a pilot initiative providing healthcare services to civilian victims outside the state health system controlled by the Syrian regime. He also co-founded the Syrian Non-Violence Movement, which led a wide range of civil and peaceful activities across Syria.
After leaving Syria in 2012, Dr. Alkarim has worked on humanitarian interventions in armed conflict zones in Syria, Iraq and Yemen, in addition to short-term medical missions to crisis-affected countries in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia.
Dr. Alkarim currently leads the Medical Training Program (MTP) to increase the capacity of frontline health workers responding to the humanitarian crisis in Yemen.
Dr. Alkarim has published in English and Arabic on the impacts of armed conflicts on vulnerable populations in the MENA region.
Dr. Alkarim is also a non-resident fellow with the Center on International Cooperation - New York University and the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies - Brown University.
Tayseer
Deo Silver Katushabe
Board Member
Deo Silver Katushabe is from Western Uganda. His family fled war in Rwanda when he was young and settled in Mbarara in 1992. As a young boy, he experienced a tough time when their house was bombed and destroyed, causing the family to lose everything they owned.
Deo has a Bachelor from Uganda Christian University and he has also studied Business Administration and Management at Makerere Universty. He also holds a Master's in Management Science and a Post Graduate in Human Resource Management from the Uganda Management Institute.
With over 10 years of experience in humanitarian intervention, especially in refugee response and disaster management, he is a dedicated professional. His experience ranges from Project Management, Reproductive Health and HIV, WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene), Protection, Community Work, Food Safety, and to Process Improvement and Leadership.
He has an impressive background as well as strong interpersonal, organizational, and co-ordination skills. He is an exceptional leader who works efficiently and creatively in environments where prompt action is required. He has previously worked with various organizations in leading positions, including Action Africa Help International, Medical Teams International, the International Rescue Committee and Self Help Africa.
He is committed to helping the disadvantaged by helping people to have a better future by removing the obstacles that stop progress in these communities.
Deo
Amwony Josephine
Board Member
Amwony Josephine is a south Sudanese refugee who lived in Pader district Uganda in 1994 together with her family and later UNHCR shifted them to kyangwali Refugee settlement because but lord resistant movement (LRM) rebels in northern Uganda that claims thousand of south Sudanese lives that was massacred in 2002 July.
Josephine is one of the resilient , strong and empowered lady with high reputation with strong passion toward girl child education and youth.
She hold first class bachelor’s degree in business administration and Management majoring in procurement, Supply Chain and Logistics from Bugema University with several certificate in Project planning and management, Monitoring and Evaluation, Leadership, Mentorship and coaching, Entrepreneurship education, Computer science and Counselling.
Josephine was introduced to P4T in 2011 and she felt so interested to make an impact in her community, She became committed member and she was among P4T Volunteers to start P4T dream school program with 25 children in 2015. She was teacher, head teacher, parent and school focal person till August 2015 when she Joined Bugema University for her further studies, she is currently P4T board treasurer.
Josephine has worked with several organization, she worked as a peer educator with FAWE Uganda, youth mentor with Winning Choices Uganda, medical missionary worker with Bugema University, Procurement Specialist with AFARD Youth Initiative, Program Officer with Ayero Foundation , Business Developer with Legacy Insight Uganda, ADRA and IYG mentor and advisor. Apart from that Amwony is an Author, public motivational speaker, and mentor.
She strongly believes that there is a hope beyond a breaking point to everyone to do better and mostly the refugee story, as P4T we can do and do it better for our community.
Josephine
Bridget Mortell Harden
Chair Person
Bridget Mortell comes to Planning for Tomorrow (P4T) with a background in neurobiology and electrophysiology that she turned into a career in Intraoperative Surgical Neuromonitoring; safeguarding the nervous system during surgery.
Bridget hold masters of science in Biomedical/Neurobiology and CNIM (Certificate in Neurophysiological Intraoperative Monitoring). Currently, Bridget work as Executive Director at Americare Neurosurgery International (AMCANI) and surgical neurophysiologist at Denver Neurodiagnostics.
It was within this capacity that she volunteered and participated on her first medical mission trip providing surgery to children with complex spinal column deformities at no cost to the patients and their families. While maintaining her leadership position managing in the private sector, her passion for helping others led her to become a dedicated volunteer and mission trip organizer, filling in where needed on medical outreach trips while immersing herself in the philanthropic world.
Bridget has now participated in over thirty medical missions in five different countries. She worked in the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Colombia, Poland and Uganda while continuing to grow her personal mission to improve access to medical care and optimal medical resources to the most vulnerable communities around the world. She is focused on improving quality, safety and universal access to care for marginalized communities by working with and along-side those communities and their leaders. Bridget has participated with numerous international NGOs and worked as the Executive Director of Global Spine Outreach (GSO), a US-based nonprofit organization providing 1000s of surgeries safely to children with complex spinal deformities internationally.
Bridget had lead marketing and fundraising efforts ensuring effective and efficient day-to-day administration of programs, lead goal setting and developed metrics to ensure progress and success of programs, while building partnerships and long-term relationships with volunteers, donors, industry representatives, and international mission collaborators. Bridget is also dedicated to building and orchestrating ongoing educational opportunities for international medical teams and has led, organized and executed multiple symposia both in the US and internationally.
Bridget is inspired and invigorated by the work Planning for Tomorrow has done, is currently doing and their planning for the future. And is a proud member of Board of Directors of P4T.
Bridget
Fathima Jaffer married and live in Canada. Fathima is a Marketing and Human Resource professional working in the Canadian Finance sector. She is the author of the Amazon children's bestseller, the ABCs of Islam.
She is an avid traveller, volunteer, and recently completed her first humanitarian mission to the Kyangwali Refugee Settlement in Uganda, Africa. One of her goals is to lend her time and expertise to support the development of self-sustaining initiatives for vulnerable populations around the world
Fathima Jaffer
Board Member
Fatima
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