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GAA's Tunaimi Center is dedicated to providing vocational training skills to youth orphaned by AIDS in order to help them access formal sector employment.

 
 
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GAA Board Chair and Treasurer
J. Allan Kayler, MBA
Managing Director
Midwest Mezzanine Funds

GAA Board Secretary
Phyllis Joan Shadwick, LCSW
Community Case Management Services
EZRA MULTI-SERVICE CENTER

Jeffrey D. Schauer, MBA
President, Schauer Consulting, Inc.

Van E. Holkeboer, JD
Chapman and Cutler LLP

Thomas Wren, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Philosophy
Loyola University Chicago

Joseph M. Burns, JD
Jacobs, Burns, Orlove, Stanton & Hernandez

Grace Leon Harris, JD

Senior Staff
Thomas Derdak, Ph.D.
Founder and Executive Director, Chicago

Samantha Dwyer, BA
Assistant Director, Chicago

Katy Egan, BA
Director of Development and Communications, Chicago

Simon Kihiko Kimani, BA., MSW
Director of Programs, East Africa

Linda Stolz, BA
Program Officer, Educational Initiatives, Chicago and East Africa

Boniface Kimboka, MA
Director, GAA Tumaini Vocational Training Centre, Arusha, Tanzania

Anthony Macharia, BA, CPA
Financial Management and Program Accountant, East Africa

Francis Thuo, BA
Asst. Program Officer, Animal Husbandry and the Environment, East Africa

Josephine Aloo
Asst. Program Officer, Micro-enterprise Initiatives and Women’s Cooperatives, East Africa

Laurent Sabuni
Asst. Program Officer, Tanzania

Garlo Williams
Director of Programs, Monrovia, Liberia


 
     
 
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