Leadership

Our board

Rudo Maritsa is founder. Mutsa Simango is business partner. The other seats are marked “To be chosen”. No biography or credential is published here.

The lists under each role are draft examples for the board to confirm. They are not a record of what anyone does today.

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Founder
Rudo Maritsa
Still to be written[placeholder] A short biography of Rudo Maritsa, in her own words. No credentials until she supplies them.
Draft example · for the board to confirm
- Hold the vision of the foundation.
- Lead the causes she has named.
- Bring that vision to the board for the board to confirm.
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Business Partner
Mutsa Simango
Still to be written[placeholder] A short biography of Mutsa Simango. No credentials until a biography is supplied.
Draft example · for the board to confirm
- Work with the founder on the business of the foundation.
- Help the board weigh practical questions about how the work is carried.
- Join partnership conversations when the board asks.
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Chair
To be chosen
This seat is open.
Still to be written[placeholder] A biography once this seat is filled.
Draft example · for the board to confirm
- Guide the board’s governance.
- Help the board keep to its purpose.
- See that safeguarding is on the board’s agenda until the board confirms where that duty sits.
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Treasurer
To be chosen
This seat is open.
Still to be written[placeholder] A biography once this seat is filled.
Draft example · for the board to confirm
- Oversight of the foundation’s finances.
- Help the board understand money coming in and money going out.
- Bring financial questions to the board. No figures are stated here.
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Secretary
To be chosen
This seat is open.
Still to be written[placeholder] A biography once this seat is filled.
Draft example · for the board to confirm
- Care for notices, minutes, and the board’s records.
- Support orderly governance of meetings.
- Keep a record of decisions the board confirms, including safeguarding decisions.
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Community Programs Director
To be chosen
This seat is open.
Still to be written[placeholder] A biography once this seat is filled.
Draft example · for the board to confirm
- Shape programmes for the causes, once programmes exist.
- Keep the causes in view as programmes are drafted.
- Keep safeguarding in view wherever a programme would meet a person.
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Partnerships & Fundraising Lead
To be chosen
This seat is open.
Still to be written[placeholder] A biography once this seat is filled.
Draft example · for the board to confirm
- Conversations with partner organisations, sponsors, and referral partners.
- Fundraising for the causes, on terms the board confirms.
- No partner is named here, and no fundraising target is set.

Safeguarding, governance, finance oversight, programmes, partnerships, and the vision of the causes are all still for the board to place. Nothing above is a confirmed duty.

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