Our valued volunteers

Our Professional Volunteers

Fardowsa Yussuf

Fardowsa is Kyeema’s Workplace Giving Champion for Palladium Australia. Outside of work with Palladium, Fardowsa is a Youth Mentor for the African Youth Support Council. Fardowsa hopes to create social changes that positively impacts her community, both at political and community level.

Gina Muller

Gina supports us through communications and fundraising initiatives. Her passion is to support people around the world to be able to live their best lives and she does this through supporting organisations with missions that align with her own. Connect with her at Collective Views.

Nhi Pham

Nhi supports Kyeema finance and payroll. She appreciates the chance to apply her professional skills and knowledge to assist the team in creating a better community for the countries Kyeema have a foot print in.

Paolo Curray

Paolo volunteers much of his time and skills as an IT administrator to maintain and develop our website. He is the longest standing volunteer (other than our core team) at Kyeema.

Kondwani Chiumya

Kondwani is a Senior Language Expansion Intern at One Health Lessons – a partner at Kyeema helping us to expand One Health education in Australia and afar. Originally from Malawi with a background in school teaching, Kondwani is currently residing in Japan, studying at Okayama University to complete a Masters degree in Animal Pathophysiology.

Elena Domenech

Elena Gomez Domenech is the Director of Knowledge Management (KM) at Palladium and volunteers her time to provide insight into Kyeema KM systems.

Lana Baskerville

Lana is an environmental scientist who specialises in science communication and illustration, focused on coastal and freshwater wetlands and the Great Barrier Reef. She is a loyal supporter and volunteers on Kyeema fundraising initiatives. Maternal and infant health and chicken keeping are other big passions for Lana, hence the natural affinity for the work of Kyeema Foundation.

Aysegul Kayahan – SP Sub-Committee of the Board

Tarni Cooper – PME Sub-Committee of the Board

Pat Boland – PME Sub-Committee of the Board

Wendy Somerville – SP Facilitation

Sri Thillailingam – Financial management

Leo Wiles – Communications

Louise Grayson – Communications

Dr Elaine Cebuliak – Fundraising

Dr John Copland – Technical support (Agriculture for Development Programs)

Russell Parker – Technical support (Poultry Breeding)

Robert Hedlefs – Technical support (Veterinary)

Professor Joanne Meers – Technical support (Immunology and ND I-2 vaccine Master Seed UQ)

Taro Dodd – IT support

Tony Hunt – IT support

The History of our Australian Aid Volunteers

Tahereh Parker, AVID program, Fiji, 2017

Jo Clapham, AVID program, Kiribati, 2016

Max Barot, AVID program, Vietnam, 2015

Eliza Smith, AYAD program, Kenya, 2013

Tarni Cooper, AYAD program, Kenya, 2013

Simon Fraval, AYAD program, Kenya, 2012

Our first volunteer

Jarrah Young, AYAD program, Kenya, 2010

Always remembered.

Jarrah Young was Kyeema’s first Australian Youth Ambassador for Development volunteer. In 2010, having developed an interest in research, she commenced a 12-month volunteer assignment at ILRI in Nairobi, Kenya. Here she made valuable contributions to a World Bank zoonotic disease project, an impact assessment on the World Bank Avian Influenza project in Nigeria and a study on disease interaction between wildlife and livestock in Kenya. And she also undertook a major study on understanding adoption of vaccines by small-holder farmers, using control of Newcastle disease in Kenya and Tanzania as case studies.

The impact and calibre of Jarrah’s work with the AYAD program was reflected in her being accepted for an additional twelve month contract at ILRI. She was looking forward to continuing her work and using the findings of the study to identify and implement appropriate strategies which could be used to improve vaccine adoption. Her depth of satisfaction with her career choice and the passion for her role as a veterinarian in a developing country, where she could really ‘make a difference’, was truly inspirational.

Jarrah tragically passed away on a tour bus accident whilst holidaying in Namibia in February 2012 before starting back at ILRI. She made a lasting, wonderful impression on all she met and worked with, and is sadly missed. She is remembered as a very talented, dedicated, focused and committed veterinarian. She was personable, positive and an excellent communicator. She was instrumental in the development of several future AYAD assignments.

Website by Sprout Projects, Paolo Curray and Faith Considine.