The School of St Jude is a company limited by guarantee and has no share capital. Our school is governed by the board of directors who use their expertise in a wide range of backgrounds to the benefit our school. It is their role to ensure that the school’s mission and policies are maintained. They support the management team and ensure that strategic goals are being achieved within specific timeframes.
Two seats on The School of St Jude Tanzanian board of directors are designated for members of our Australian fundraising partner, The School of St Jude. The Memorandum of Understanding between the two boards can be found here.
The School is proud to count among its supporters and partners Rotary and American Friends of The School of St Jude.
To read more about our Supporter Accountability head to our Funding and Budget page.
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Bibiana has a close connection with St Jude’s and has been a member of the board since it started. She is a Chairperson on the St Jude’s Ltd Board. Her grandchild attends the school and Bibiana has a passion in helping fight poverty through education. She is a strong supporter of St Jude’s because the poorest children in the Arusha region are given a chance to study and become future good leaders of the nation.
She has worked on a number of school boards in Arusha and Moshi. Her expertise is in medical technology. She currently works for a medical technologist with Jobi Medical and Laboratory services. Previously, she worked in human laboratory diagnostics.
Bibiana is experienced, committed and dedicated to the St Jude’s cause.
Mary’s from Arusha. She is retired and previously worked for a bank for more than 40 years. She is a widow, and mother of 12 children.
She has known The School of St Jude since its foundation in Tanzania as they banked with her bank in Arusha. She loves children, development and the society at large.
My passion for St Jude’s and education in general is founded on three basic tenets:- Mathew ch. 25:33-45 – service to the needy as a moral obligation rather than an act of charity – Civic obligation – service to my nation – My perception of education as key to total emancipation of man from ignorance, poverty and disease.
Modest works as a lawyer and an advocate at the High Court of Tanzania.
He was proposed and invited to join the Board because of his participation in church-related matters in Arusha. It’s also due to his support and care of the marginalised and needy in the society, of which category, he believes that The School of St Jude falls squarely into.
Modest is a Christian and a Tanzanian. He is married and blessed with two boys.
Mark Cubit became a Director of The School of St Jude in 2010.
He manages two charitable foundations based in Australia which support over fifty projects in fifteen countries. In addition he advises on a number of investment portfolios, having previously spent fifteen years with Merrill Lynch Australia. He completed his formal education with a Bachelor of Economics from Monash University.
He became involved with St Jude’s firstly as a donor in 2005. As the years went by and the school grew, he came to the opinion that St Judes was one of the most successful solutions to poverty he had come across and so sought a greater involvement.
Gemma is the Founder and driving force behind St Jude’s and set up the school in 2002. She loves her family including her husband, Richard Sisia, and their four children Nathaniel, Jackob, Isabella and Louisa.
Gemma was the only daughter of Sue and Basil Rice and was raised alongside seven brothers on a fine wool sheep station outside of Armidale in the New England Tablelands, north of Sydney.
At 22 years of age, Gemma set off to Africa to teach maths, science and sewing to girls in Kalangu, a rural village in the middle of Uganda. While in East Africa, she saw how children, families and communities were crippled by a lack of education. Later, her father-in-law, gave her land on which to build her school in Arusha, Tanzania. The school started in 2002 and provides an education to the poorest children from the local region.
Gemma and St Jude’s supporters have tirelessly fundraised so the school can provide a quality education to the poorest of the poor.
Gemma’s mottos are to fight poverty through education and that education is a right not a privilege.
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