Patron: Lord Pilkington of Oxenford

After Cambridge University, Peter Pilkington served as a missionary in Masasi Education Department of Tanzania. On returning to the UK, he taught at Eton College followed by Headmasterships at King's School, Canterbury, and then at St Paul's. After his service as Chair of the Broadcasting Complaints Commission, he was elevated to the House of Lords, where he still plays an active part. He is Canon Emeritus of Canterbury Cathedral. A founder member of RLT

President: Dr Alex de Waal OBE

Alexander is the founder and President of the Rufiji Leprosy Trust. Currently he is Research Assistant at the Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and Director of Justice Africa in London. He has written extensively on African issues. Alex was awarded the OBE for work in development and conflict resolution in Africa.

Chairman: Geoff O'Donoghue

Geoff and his wife Jenny spent almost three years working as Project Officers in Kindwitwi and have continued in development work since then. Geoff is a founder member of Mango CIC, a small consultancy working with Charities and community based projects. Geoff is the International Director for the UK-based charity, CAFOD. He has been a Trustee since 2001 and is the current Chairman of the Trust

Financial Trustee: G W W (aka Bob) Laverton MBE

Bob spent forty-two years with Lloyds Bank plc, of which 22 were in branch management. He saw war service in the RNVR 1941 - 1946, extending his service with the RNR to 1971 (Reserve Decoration). A founder member of RLT. In 2004, Bob was awarded an MBE for "services to RLT in Tanzania".

Bob on the right photographed in 1992 with Canon Robin Lamburn, the founder of Kindwitwi Leprosy Care Centre, and of whom he says 'The man who inspired us all'.

Nick Bowley

A year spent as a volunteer teacher in the Sudan inspired Nick to spend a further 16 years of his career in education in Africa. It was while teaching at the International School in Dar es Salaam that Nick became involved with Kindwitwi. Despite living abroad, Nick remains an active Trustee and his specific goal is to write a biography of Father Robin Lamburn. If you wish to contribute memories or photographs, please be sure to contact Nick through the contacts tab on the website.

Victor de Waal

Victor is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Birmingham and a former Dean of Canterbury. A founder member of RLT.

Sarah Feather

Dr. Sarah Feather works as a GP and Family Planning doctor in Shropshire, UK. She became a trustee of the Rufiji Leprosy Trust in 1998, but first visited Kindwitwi in 1983 with a group of young people from the Diocese of Hereford. Inspired by the work of Father Robin Lamburn, she returned for two months in 1985 for her medical student elective and again for six weeks in 1989. She is especially interested in the work of the outreach team and the prevalence rates of leprosy in the Rufiji region.

Valerie Mead

For most of her career, Val was a teacher of Economics both in schools and at the University of East Anglia. She has worked for the GAP organisation, being responsible for preparing and placing volunteers in both South Africa and Tanzania. Val is the Administrative Trustee.

Stephen Plant

Stephen worked as a volunteer in Kindwitwi from 1986 - 7 and was also briefly the RLT Secretary. He is a Methodist minister and has worked in ministry in west London, and as Europe Secretary of the British Methodist Church. He is currently a Senior Tutor at Wesley House, Cambridge and an Affiliated Lecturer in Cambridge University. He has published several books and articles on twentieth century theology, particularly on theological responses to Nazism. He has also written extensively on the theology of international development, on which he is currently completing a book. He is a regular contributor toThe Times.

William (Bill) Powell

‘It was in 1983, while working at the International School in Dar, that Bill first led a group of students to do community service work in Kindwitwi.   From that time on, he has maintained an active interest, becoming Chairman of the Kindwitwi Board of Management and then a Trustee of RLT.   His career as a school educator has taken him all over the world, both as a headmaster and as a consultant whose expertise is in supporting the professional development of teachers, particularly in Africa.  In 2007, he and his wife, Ochan, wrote Making the Difference:  Differentiation in International Schools.’

Burchard Rwamtoga

Burchard worked as the Administrator of Kindwitwi Leprosy Care Centre for 14 years. He was responsible not only for the day-to-day running of the Ward, the Clinic and Dispensary and the Outreach team but also for shepherding the whole Village towards independence and self-sufficiency. He left in 2005 to develop his own career and, having obtained an MA in micro-finance, he is now a consultant with a particular interest in providing micro-credit for persons with disabilities. Burchard took over the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Kindwitwi Leprosy Care and Community Development Association from Paul in August 2009.

Paul Smithson

Paul first went to Kindwitwi as a young Oxford graduate in 1987 to establish the Outreach Programme, setting up a network of leprosy case-finding clinics in the Rufiji District. After working in Sudan, Vietnam, Nepal and Ghana, he joined the Department for International Development in Dar and has stayed there ever since. At present, he is a consultant there with the Ifakena Health Research and Development Centre, a non-profit making organisation. His interest in Kindwitwi has been a constant thread throughout these years and he was the Chairman of KLCCDA until August 2009.

B K Tanna

Bilharilal Keshavji Tanna, known globally as 'BK', is a Chartered Accountant who started in local government in Dar es Salaam in 1964, progressed through various international companies until he set up his own accountancy firm in 1970. Since then he has been on many boards both as auditor and adviser, some positions at the request of the Tanzanian Government. In his busy life, he finds time to take an active part in charities such as the National PolioPlus Committee, the Tanzania Society for the Deaf, the Tanzania National Museum, the International School of Tanganyika and the Wildlife Conservation Society of Tanzania. In 1999, he joined the board of the Kindwitwi Leprosy Care Centre, simultaneously becoming a Trustee of the RLT, since when he has helped to guide the Care Centre through to its inauguration as a Tanzanian limited company.

Henry Wilding

First visited Kindwitwi in 1993 after his Advanced Levels. It was following this six-month stay that he decided on his career in nursing and Infectious Diseases. He has returned to Kindwitwi on a number of occasions, including a further six months in 2002 as Project Officer. Clinical Nurse Specialist HIV and Sexual Health' working at Royal Bournemouth Hospital