HIV/AIDS Information Center in Rural Zimbabwe

32 Donations from 5 Donors:

Project Personnel

Kisha Montgomery - IDEX Program Director

In 2002, Kisha returned from a 6 month solo and self-funded tour of NGOs in Southern Africa. Before that, Kisha worked for 2.5 years as a coordinator of a welfare to work program that empowered women to self-sufficiency through employment at law firms. She also worked as an advocate for survivors of domestic violence for a year after graduating from Syracuse University Law School in 1996.

Prudence Chingwena - Executive Director

Prudence became a member of YAZ in 1996 and received training on how to launch a small sewing business. After pulling herself and her family out of poverty, she came back to YAZ in 1999 to become a YAZ trainer. Completely committed to YAZ and one of their strongest examples of success, she was appointed executive director in 2001.