Founder and Executive Director
Tito Gatkoi Kach
Tito is a South Sudanese national, born in Leer, Unity State, Bentiu. Professionally, he is a clinical officer (CO) holding a 3-year diploma in Clinical Medicine and Public Health from AMREF South Sudan (2005). He is also currently a distance learning student pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Humanitarian and Conflict Response at the University of Manchester in the UK.
Tito has extensive experience in the humanitarian sector, with 26 years of service as national staff with MSF-Holland in South Sudan (1989–2015). He also worked as international humanitarian staff with MSF-Holland, including in Nigeria’s Borno State malnutrition program, in Bangladesh during the Rohingya refugee crisis, as well as in Yemen at the Taiz Mother and Child Health Hospital.
Simon Bol Gatwech Joluong
Simon is the Programme Manager at CEDS (Centre for Emergency and Development Support, WASH). He is from the Republic of South Sudan and is personally very excited to be part of Tito’s dream. Leer, in Unity State, became the most devastated county in South Sudan; everything was destroyed, including the educational infrastructures.
Like Tito, Simon has a consistent determination and deep interest in promoting education. Before 2013, while working in Wau, Western Bahr el Ghazal, he began his own primary school initiative. He left Wau in December 2013, just one week after the Juba Massacre, fleeing because of the war. When he returned to the area in July 2023, he was overwhelmed with emotion—the school had expanded into a high school, and the primary school had grown to include many more classes. His reflection: “We can do the same!”