Ruth Mumba is Director of Abundance and the champion that leads most activities of Abundance. She is also a Mandela Washington Fellow 2019 and an inspiring young leader. Based in Zomba, she works as a Geologist at the Geological Surveys and has a BSc in Earth Sciences and Geography from University of Malawi. She has received training in USA, Finland and France and represented her department in meetings in South Africa and elsewhere. A reliable and trustworthy person, Ruth is the backbone of Abundance and she works with ease with communities at Mbando village, the village adopted by Abundance. Ruth mobilized funding for the social enterprise (Rice mill) project through World Connect.
Community Coordinator: Moses Phulusa
Moses Phulusa lives in Mbando village and is Abundance's Community Coordinator. He is a influential leader in his community, a rice farmer and father to five children. Abundance relies on Moses for organizing community meetings. Moses has worked with several NGOs to support his community at Mbando village and in the district of Machinga.
At Abundance, Moses has successfully mobilized community members for several projects including setting up the eLearning Center, tree planting, organizing trainings for adolescent girls on reusable sanitary napkins,
Research and Project Manager: Stewart Paul, MSc
Stewart is an enthusiastic, results-driven youth and community-focused project development and implementation professional. Over the past 6 years, he has built up extensive experience in end-to-end programme and project management, with a demonstrated history in stakeholder management (identifying and maintaining partnerships), project design and implementation, service delivery and documentation and financial management, including reporting. Stewart has held senior organizational management roles, including overseeing organizational establishment, growth and development by driving the core organizational agenda. He has also been successful in resource mobilization in wide developmental contexts including consortium grant acquisition, project implementation and reporting.
Stewart holds a Master’s degree in Educational Studies (Adult Education, Community Development and Youth studies) from the University of Glasgow - United Kingdom as well as a Bachelor of Social Science credit degree obtained from the University of Malawi. Apart from being pragmatic, innovative, industrious and disciplined, Stewart is also a fast learner who works perfectly with little supervision while guaranteeing high-quality deliverables within a specified period.
Communications and Project Officer: Chikondi Andrew Kamvazakazi
Andrew has a bachelors degree of Social Science majoring in Community development from Pentecostal life University, Malawi. He has worked with Abundance Worldwide voluntarily for past few years. He also has a Diploma in Agriculture obtained from Lilongwe University Of Agricultural and Natural Resources (Luanar). He is interested in developing the welfare of the communities and also working in the agriculture sector. He is well experienced in graphic designing and in his pare time he plays volleyball.
Administrator: Grace Moyo
Grace Moyo is the Administrator of Abundance. She lives in Zomba and is also an entrepreneur in addition to undertaking a full time Masters programme at Chancellor College, Malawi. She organizes the day to day administration for Abundance including managing financial accounting, purchases and liaising with partners for meetings. Ruth and Grace worked together to deliver trainings for adolescent girls at Mbando village and is currently actively involved in our Bioenergy project. Grace underwent training at Cape Town for Research Administrators through the Sustainable Futures in Africa Network.