Jacques B. Mwendabandu Email and Phone Number

Jacques has five years of experience in community development. Jacques is a Diploma Learning Facilitator at Jesuit Worldwide Learning, JWL. He also co-facilitates a community development course at Jesuit Refugee Service, JRS in the Dzaleka refugee camp of Malawi. In addition, Jacques is the founder of Vijana Africa, a community-based organization, focused on the promotion of peaceful coexistence, gender equality and reduction of poverty and hunger. Vijana Africa promotes income-generating activities, such as pig, rabbit and turkey farming and gardening. To address gender equality, the organization facilitates peer education activities. Jacques holds a diploma in Social Work from Regis University and is currently a student at the Southern New Hampshire University.He is committed to creating an environment without human rights abuse. Jacques dreams of a community in which men and women participate in the community’s development in peace. Jacques is motivated to make a world of self-reliant refugees by creating socioeconomic change in the Dzaleka camp and surrounding villages. Jacques and Vijana Africa empowers widows and single-mothers.