Eastern Africa

Welcome to CRWRC Eastern Africa! Learn about CRWRC’s work in the region by visiting the KenyaTanzania, or Uganda pages.
 

 

Regional Team
 

Davis Omanyo
(Eastern Africa Team Leader)

Davis is the sixth born in a family of 10 children. He was born in a rural village in western Kenya, and grew up in a village called Ganjala. His parents took him to an elementary school in the village, where he attended first through seventh grade. He then joined a missionary boarding high school. Davis’s father was a teacher, and he also worked on the family farm with Davis’s mother. They held onto Christian values that they passed on to all their children.

After high school, Davis trained as a pilot - a career he held until 1982 when he joined college to train as a public health specialist. Davis worked with the ministry of health, Government of Kenya for 5 years before joining the Anglican church of Kenya, diocese of Eldoret, where he worked as a health coordinator until 1994. It was in 1994 that he came to know about CRWRC through its partnership with the Anglican Church of Kenya, Nambale diocese.

Davis started working with CRWRC in 2000 at the home office in Grand Rapids in the area of HIV/AIDS response program, after completing his masters degree in Public Health- international health, from Boston University, USA. After 9 months working in the home office, Davis moved to work in East and southern Africa region as CRWRC-regional HIV/AIDS coordinator, a position he held until June 2004 when he was hired as a Country consultant in Uganda. In 2006, he took over a new role as team leader for East/South Africa.

Davis is married to Beth Wambui Omanyo. They have four daughters:  Joan, Marion, Julian and Helen. Three of their daughters (Joan, Marion and Julian) are in boarding high schools in Kenya. Davis and Beth live in Kampala with our last born daughter, Helen, who is in grade 5 this year. Beth wife works as a physiotherapist in one of the mission hospitals in Kampala. Davis and Beth were born during the same month and year but three days apart. They celebrate their birth days together.

EMAIL: domanyo@crwrc.org

Nema Aluku
HIV/AIDS Response Coordinator
for Eastern and Southern Africa

Nema is leading the CRWRC response to the HIV/AIDS crisis in Eastern and Southern Africa. Nema works with staff providing assistance through consultation, networking, and training on how to integrate a response to HIV/AIDS programming into their daily work. Nema has a bachelors degree in Community Development from Daystar University (Kenya) and a Masters of Arts in Rural Sociology and Community Development from the University of Nairobi (Kenya). As well as speaking English, Nema is also fluent in Chichewa, Kiswahili, and Bemba.

EMAIL: naluku@crwrc.org

 

Mbonambi Khuzwayo
Justice Education and Service Learning Coordinator

Rev. Mbonambi Khuzwayo serves as CRWRC’s Justice Education and Service Learning Coordinator for the Eastern and Southern Africa region. He has a B.A. in Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies as well as a Diploma in Theology. He is married and has 3 children and 2 grandchildren.

EMAIL:  mkhuzwayo@telkomsa.net

Newsletters

Aluku_Sept09.pdf
Aluku_June09.pdf
Aluku_Feb09.pdf

Aluku_Nov08.pdf
Aluku_July08.pdf
Aluku_April08.pdf
Aluku_Aug07.pdf
Aluku_Apr06.pdf

Omanyo_Oct09.pdf
Omanyo_Oct08.pdf
Omanyo_Jan08.pdf