Meet our team.
Directors
Majorine Namitala, Founder
Jenna Walsh, Founder & President
Lyndi Proudfoot, Head Director and Treasurer
Karina Yaceyko, Director
Evan Price, Director and Secretary
Change-Makers
Sarah Nakibuuka
Kaye Andrukow
Nabbala Harriet
ABOUT DIRECTORS
Namitala Majorine
Majorine received her bachelor's degree in information technology from Makerere University. As she received her degree, she interned as an officer with Rakai Local District government in the Health Department, working to update the Health Management Information System. She also worked as an enumerator for the Rakai Local Government in the Byakabanda subcounty during the 2014 national census. Visiting all the households in the Kasabukengere village made her aware of the socioeconomic status of the households in the area.
Following these experiences, Majorine volunteered with the Aids Support Organization under the Dreams project where she carried out household enrollments, monthly home visits, provided psycho-socio support to adolescent girls and young women who were victims of any form of violence and HIV/AIDS. This program encouraged girls to become leaders and reduce the spread of the epidemic.
Through this organization she also worked as a monitoring and evaluation officer under the SOYC project which aimed at improving the nutrition, health, education of children and youth through providing scholarships and psychosocial support.
She was trained through the non-profit organization, Send A Cow, on how to start internal saving and lending groups. With this knowledge she successfully started the Agalya-awamu kasabukengere women village ‘Saving and Lending’ entrepreneurship group, which currently has 20 members, and operates with the support of the Girls of Tomorrow Foundation.
Majorine is passionate about educating girls and empowering women. She believes that if you educate a girl you are empowering the whole family because a woman will never rest until all of her children are in a better life.
Jenna Walsh
Jenna received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Toronto where she specialized in Ethics, Law & Society, and Psychology. She is passionate about projects that expand women’s economic, social and political opportunities. Her early advocacy efforts include serving as president of the “Because I am a Girl” club at Rundle College Highschool and volunteering with young girls at Liberty Children’s Orphanage in Belize.
As a university student, she received the Elizabeth Brown Travel Award for her work with the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples where she developed policy proposals to address family violence against Aboriginal women. In 2017 she was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarship which enabled her to conduct research on Indigenous women’s experiences with Australian land reform at the UNSW Sydney Law Department. Through her work with the Indigenous Law Bulletin, she advocated for the missing and murdered Indigenous women of Canada.
Today she believes strongly in connecting business and philanthropy. Through her company Travel Purposefully Inc., she supports various Canadian non-profits that support local girls & women, including The Period Purse, Loaves & Fishes and Art for Aid.
Lyndi Proudfoot
Lyndi is a Registered Massage Therapist graduating from the Turner Institute of Orthopedic Massage. She holds a Permaculture Design Certificate from TreeYo Permaculture and is currently studying Northern Environmental and Conservation Sciences in the Yukon with the University of Alberta. She will graduate with a BSc in Conservation Biology and a Diploma of Renewable Resource Management. Lyndi is passionate about health and wellness and design’s role in environmental and societal resiliency.
From a young age she has been enthusiastic about the great outdoors due to an adventurous family who raised her experiencing the vast beauty of multiple Canadian ecologies. With direction from her mother, sister, uncle and Baba and Dido she grew up alongside home gardens, helping to plant flowers, trees, vegetables and occasionally pull the odd ‘weed’, with always enough time to wonder around neighborhood greenhouses. Lyndi holds a Diploma in Herbology from Dominion Herbal College.
Having a love for handicrafts, the first project Lyndi and Majorine worked on together in 2015 was the Women’s Basket Weaving Project. This was a result of Lyndi owning a fairtrade and local goods business, Kamhlaba’s. Kamhlaba’s served as the past platform for the G.O.T women’s high quality, environmentally friendly, handmade goods.
Lyndi is humbled to be able to listen and learn from the women and girls of the Girls of Tomorrow Foundation to together design and implement long-term agriculture and income generation solutions to address everyday challenges.