Address
Plot 2652, Block 111 Birongo Road | Mutungo Kigo | Wakiso District | Uganda
P.O. Box 129225 Kampala
Telephone & Whatsapp: +256 0780 239 834
E-mail: info@simoshi.org
THE TEAM
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Address
Plot 2652, Block 111 Birongo Road | Mutungo Kigo | Wakiso District | Uganda
P.O. Box 129225 Kampala
Telephone & Whatsapp: +256 0780 239 834
E-mail: info@simoshi.org
Project Officer
Yasin has a Bachelor degree in Social Sciences from the Islamic University in Uganda. His has over 5 years experience in the cookstove sector, focusing on monitoring and evaluation, usage surveys such as Kitchen Performance Tests, and stakeholder engagement. He brings his vast capacity building expertise to Simoshi as his main focus is to help schools smoothly transition to electric cooking.
Administrator
Sandra was born in Lira, where she attended primary and secondary school. She joined Simoshi to support with the daily office activities, focusing on data entry, the reconciliation and recompilation of all indicators collected from the schools, to ensure the information is neat and ready for Simoshi’s various audit exercises.
IICS Testing
Marius was born in Bushenyi, Western Uganda, and has recently graduated from Kampala International University with a Bachelor in Business Administration. Marius has previously worked as a marketeer with a travel agency, and has a year of experience in the field promoting local travel. She helps Simoshi when testing the institutional improved cook stoves (IICS) in operation is schools since 2016.
Maintenance Officer
Kabogooza was born in Kampala, central Uganda. He gained excellent expertise on stove manufacturing (welding and insulation) while working for Uganda Stove Manufacturers Limited for over four years. Today he supports Simoshi with all repairs and maintenance provided to all participating schools during the three holiday periods throughout the year.
Security Team
These 2 ladies have been rescued from the streets in Kampala, and are the sweetest companions in the office. When things get complicated and stressful, they know how to make us feel relaxed again.
Managing Director
Born in Argentina, Virginia has got an MSc in Sustainable Environmental Management from the Natural Resources Institute (2007, UK) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration from Warwick Business School (2018, UK). Her past experience includes project management at Africa Conservation Fund of an alternative fuels programme in Virunga National Park in DR Congo, project management in Tai National Park, Ivory Coast, for Proyecto Gran Simio, project management of the registered CDM and Gold Standard ICSEA Programme of Activities from Uganda Carbon Bureau in East Africa, and currently serves as a strategic adviser to several organisations seeking access to carbon finance mechanisms in Sub-Saharan Africa.