The boards of Sibusiso Netherlands and Arusha are pleased to appoint Martha Lukasi as Executive Director of Sibusiso, succeeding Casper van Kempen who held this role from 2 July 2022. Martha has held the position of General Manager Finance & Operations since September 2022, a role in which she has demonstrated exceptional leadership, dedication and expertise. Her contributions have played an important role in strengthening the organization's activities.
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Our anniversary year will mainly be dominated by the continuation of our so successful project and also by the preparations for our new 5-year plan. In doing so, we will mainly focus on bringing Sibusiso even closer to the community and strengthening the cooperation with the villages, regional, local and national governments as well as the schools in the immediate vicinity. We would like to come back to this in more detail in our next newsletter.
We look back on a very nice year. The programs for the children in the center were optimally attended and carried out by a highly motivated and enthusiastic team in Arusha. We also celebrated a number of events, not only to celebrate the (small) successes but especially to ensure that children with disabilities belong, are accepted in their own environment with the involvement of many health workers, schools, students, government employees. We show this in the overview of photos below.
Next year, Sibusiso will celebrate its 25th anniversary. Where we then arranged everything for the children with disabilities from a backpackers hostel in Arusha, Sibusiso is now run from a professional and well-equipped center. Every year, hundreds of children and their families can visit the center and we visit many at home and/or at school.
With the mediation of Sibusiso, the children can visit their own school in the village after completing one of the programs at the center. The teachers encourage the children to do this because special education is often not available. That is why the employees of Sibusiso regularly consult with the schools about the development of the child. We are convinced that the school has an important function in the integration and inclusion of the children.