TAHRE Program Manager / Director
Joana dos Santos Camoes
Ba Futuru’s National Program Manager studied at the Faculty of Teacher Training Education at the National University of Timor-Leste (UNTL) and completed an internationally accredited human rights based programming course. She has formal teaching experience as well as leading informal educational activities for street children. She has two years of program management experience and has acted as a guidance counsellor for children when working with the Silesian Sisters. She is able to do both written and spoken translation from English to Tetun.
Program Manager / Co-Founder
Ba Futuru’s International Capacity Development Program Manager has a Masters Degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs where she focused her studies on conflict resolution and education in emergencies. She also has more than 5 years of program management experience with various NGOs and has consulted with the United Nations. In her free time, she is likes to paint.
Co-Founder
Leilani Ujvari, Ba Futuru's Co-Founder, is a dedicated human rights and development advocate, with specialised academic and professional experience in the field. Her research has included the international protection of human rights, child soldiers, cultural relativism and women's rights, and multinational corporations. In the development arena, Leilani has focused on children and conflict, human rights education in post-conflict reconstruction.
Project Coordinator
Juliana ("Lica") de Oliveira Marcal
Lica graduated from UNTL’s Agriculture Faculty. She is a highly skilled facilitator and has experience working with PLAN International on issues pertaining to child rights and performing base-line surveys. She has also worked with the World Food Program and UNHCR.
Project Coordinator
Vidal Campus Magno
Vidal has academic experience in the Faculty of Teacher Training Education at UNTL and is a skilled translator. He has extensive conflict resolution and facilitation experience with Peace and Democracy Foundation. He has also attended the International Peace Jam conference in 2006 in the United States with Nobel Peace Laureate Jose Ramos Horta and represented his University at a comparative education conference in New Zealand.
Community Response Team Coordinator
Helio is a very tallented facilitator that is passionate about his work. He studied at UNTL and is a skilled translator who previously worked translating for the United Nations Police. For a person message from Helio about his work with Ba Futuru please see Helio's profile.
Facilitator
Emilia ("Mimi") Savio
Academic experience: Faculty of Teacher Training Education at UNTL. Experience as a facilitator with Alola Foundation’s scholarship program for low-income children. She also assists with administration systems and teaches English at the Seroja Center.
Team Leader
Jacinta ("Shinta") Florenca Ximenes
Academic experience: Santa Madalena de Canosa, Comorro. Experience working at Tropical Bakery and has good people skills. She acted as Ba Futuru's Team Leader in Baucau between 2006 and 2008 and is now back in Dili assisting with the management of the Seroja Center.
Project Liaison Officer
Dawn Carmin
Dawn Carmin holds a joint Masters Degree in International and Intercultural Communication from the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies (JKSIS) and the School of Communication. Dawn also holds a Certificate in Humanitarian Assistance from JKSIS and focused her studies in cross-cultural communication, gender, psychosocial well-being of youth and education in emergencies. Dawn has over six years of experience working with youth and is passionate about working with diverse groups of people. When at home, Dawn likes to spend her free time hiking, camping, snowboarding—anything outdoors.
Finance Office
Maria Elisabeth ("Bety") Pereira Chan
Academic experience: UNTL in the Engineering and Information technology program. She has taught Microsoft Office at Timor Telekom and Tetum for Timor Aid.
Some of Ba Futuru's other dynamic facilitators...
What the kids think of Ba Futuru staff:
Seroja Student Natalino Ximenes “Ino”, Age 11, comes to Ba Futuru’s Serjoa Center everyday as he lives in the community just behind the center. When asked what he thinks about his experience at the center he said: “I have learned a lot from the Ba Futuru staff, like Maun (brother) Vidal, Jo, Helio, and an international woman who worked here, Mana (sister) Marie; they always speak nicely to me and teach me a lot. Sometimes, before, I liked to act up.
I threw rocks at the center, put nails in car tires, and I wasn’t scared to disrespect the Manas [women working at Seroja], but now I think that I can forget and get rid of those bad behaviors because I’m starting to learn better the things that they are saying and also that my father says to me.” Ino adds, “For the future I want them to takes us on more outings at fun places, bring more skateboards to the centre and have skateboarding tournaments because I really like riding skateboard. And maybe if we could put in some small goals, like for football, we could play the games properly and not fight over who scored a goal.”
