Meet the Team

Jo Knight 

Chief Executive Officer -Anglican Overseas Aid
BA (Hons), LLB (Hons)

Jo is an Anglican with two decades’ experience in global justice and environmental sustainability initiatives, organisational strategy and operations, legal and compliance matters, resource generation, and church and public engagement. Prior to joining AOA she was Tearfund Australia’s Advocacy Director, a leader with the Renew Our World movement and Micah coalition, and headed the Brotherhood of St Laurence’s Ecumenical Migration Centre. Other responsibilities have included being founding Board Chair of youth poverty movement Oaktree, Board member of Green Collect and Section Chair leading the Law Institute of Victoria’s administrative law, human rights and refugee committees. Jo currently serves on the ACT Alliance Membership and Nominations international committee.

Kylie Wingjan

Senior Manager Development Programs
BA, Grad DipEd, MSocSc (IntlDev)

Kylie has more than 17 years’ experience in international development, working with partners in Africa, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific. She also brings corporate experience in financial services, people, culture and learning. Kylie builds close relationships with local partners to help support sustainable and impactful change. She is dedicated to seeing communities leading their own transformation through equality and justice, with special attention for women and girls.

Joyce Kidulu

Country Director – Uganda

As an experienced community development leader, Joyce joined WCFL in 2015, having served as a Project Director with Compassion-assisted projects in Mbale Diocese for over 15 years. Currently, she also serves in the Church as the Vice President of the Mothers’ Union, Mbale Diocese.

Initially, she was the Regional Coordinator and was later appointed to the role of Country Director, Uganda. In the latter position, Joyce is a full member of the Ugandan Board.

Married to James Kidulu and proud parents of four beautiful children, the couple has embraced the Marriage Ministry and are Marriage Counsellors. Joyce is passionate about sharing the positive impact that good parental skills have on whole communities.

Wise Choices For Life is a platform through which Joyce reaches out to the vulnerable communities, enlightening the people on reproductive health and encouraging them to embrace life skills that can ultimately break the poverty cycle.

Joyce holds a Master of Arts in Organisational Leadership and Management, a Bachelor's in Primary Education, a Diploma in Primary Education, and a Certificate in Primary Education.

Sam Tumwa

Program Operations Manager

Sam is the Program Operations Manager at WCFL, bringing over 10 years of experience in program implementation, Monitoring, and Field Operations.

Sam provides oversight of program activities, ensures operational efficiency, leads teams to deliver impactful results, and leads M&E efforts for organisational accountability. Sam brings into WCFL a 10-year career with Evidence Action, having progressed from field officer to monitoring and evaluation (M&E) Field operations.

Sam is proficient in large-scale data collection and comprehensive report writing, ensuring that field-level insights are accurately captured to support evidence-based decision-making.

His technical foundation is further bolstered by his extensive work with the Makerere University School of Public Health, where he served as a research supervisor and research assistant on several projects. In these roles, he was responsible for overseeing rigorous field research and delivering high-quality data that informed critical public health initiatives.

Sam holds a postgraduate Diploma in Monitoring and Evaluation (Second Class Upper Division) from the Uganda Management Institute, a Bachelor's of Social Sciences, and a certificate in administrative law from Makerere University. Data integrity, team leadership, and successful execution of complex field operations define his career.

Fred Mukisa

Project Coordinator

Fred has been working with communities since 2013. First experience of community development (child sponsorship department) was under Teen Missions International in northern Uganda.

Fred joined WCFL in 2016 as a volunteer trainer. In 2018, he was enrolled as part-time staff. In 2019, he gained the skills and became a certified trainer. Since then, Fred has trained, mentored, and coordinated training teams both local and part of African communities. He is currently coordinating trainings and supervising champions implementing the new Project design funded by AOA for quality delivery of Reproductive Health and Life Skills in universities, schools, prisons, remand homes, churches, and the wider community groups.

Fred is a member of the Wise Choices For Life training and assessment subcommittee, and contributes to curriculum development, training designs, and delivery methods.

He is a trainer of Reproductive Health with good communication skills, a better understanding of African culture, and integration of theology, which enhances effective training.

Fred completed the renowned Leadership Matters Course, which, among others, equipped him with communication skills and leadership abilities. He is a graduate with a bachelor's degree in Christian ministry from Livingstone International University. He is currently pursuing a postgraduate Diploma in monitoring and evaluation course from Uganda Management Institute.

Janet Nabalayo

Project Coordinator

Janet has 26 years of experience working with communities as a social worker. She holds a Bachelor of Community Development from Nkumba University Faculty of Social Sciences.

Janet is very passionate about providing counselling, reproductive health, life skills, and socially relevant knowledge. She has good community mobilisation skills, is a team player, trainer, facilitator, has leadership skills, coordination, reporting, and communication skills.

Janet currently works as coordinator for the WCFL Uganda Reproductive Health and Life Skills Training Project, which is implemented in schools, prisons, and communities in Eastern Uganda, Mbale District and City.

Janet is an accredited WCFL trainer from Global Leadership Alliance and a Reproductive Health and Life Skills Trainer of Trainers (TOT). 

Currently, Janet oversees WCFL trainings for more than 3,000 children in 20 schools, 1,000 adults, and 700 inmates in 6 prisons in Mbale City and Mbale District for transformed lives. Janet carries into WCFL a vast experience from World Vision Uganda as a Child and Development facilitator, The Salvation Army Uganda Territory as a Coordinator for Community Family Planning Project, and Uganda Women Concern Ministry as an Assistant Women Department Coordinator.

Aaron Bwana

Finance & Administration Manager

Aaron is a Born-Again Christian Professional, a holder of a Master of Business Administration (Accounting) from Islamic University in Uganda, Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) degree from Makerere University with postgraduate training by the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Uganda (ICPAU) and a holder of Marketing Management from Makerere University Business School.

Aaron brings into WCFL the experience in Project Finance Management and accounting with different donor requirements and standards, supervising different line staff to ensure adherence and efficiency.  Aaron has over 18 years of experience in NGO management and Community Development with Compassion International as Project Director and with Howie Christian Charitable Trust (UK)-My Father’s House as Project Manager.

Aaron has rich experience in NGO financial planning and budgeting, and reporting for projects, with good coordination and leadership skills, and is creative in producing results with good analytical and problem-solving skills. Aaron’s experience of work in a multicultural environment, with good communication skills and being a good team player, brings professional spice to the WCFL team.

Grace Namulinda

VSLA Trainer

Grace serves as the VSLA trainer at WCFL, bringing over 15 years of experience in VSLA training, record keeping, and audit of saving groups. She ensures the formation of new saving groups, keeping of good records, Audit of the saving group to ensure the safety of the group’s savings, and integrating the VSLA groups in RH and LS.

Before joining WCFL, in Feb 2024, she worked with JENGA CDO as a Women's project officer for 15 years. In her capacity, she has experience in forming new savings groups, training on record keeping in VSLA, and auditing of savings groups.

Her passion is to see vulnerable families come out of poverty through saving the little they have to enable them break the poverty cycle.