GUBA AWARDS RWANDA 22 | Sandra Zawedde - Excellence in Infrastructure Development

Описание: SANDRA ZAWEDDE
Sandra is the Chairperson of East of Eden (U) LTD, the exclusive licensee of a Spanish construction solution in Africa. The firm promotes innovative and affordable construction solutions along the housing value chain and is a major player in ensuring that the housing gap of over 50 million units in Africa is met.
Sandra is a resource magnate, an African expert, development professional, turned social entrepreneur, with over 15 years of combined experience with government, multilateral organizations, development consulting firms, private sector, and civil society organizations.
Her passion for improved infrastructure was ignited during her formative years in post conflict Uganda. Although, born and raised in suburban Kampala, the capital of Uganda, her first tap running water experience was at 13 years of age. Even at that early age, she aspired to see better infrastructure in her native Uganda and was ready to change the status quo.
As a teenager, she volunteered with International non-profit organizations, i.e. Habitat for Humanity, as the founding President of the first Habitat for Humanity Campus Chapter in Africa. At Habitat, she led both local and international volunteer teams to build low cost housing, raised financial resources from corporate Uganda and globally and organized her fellow youths to engage in the Habitat builds.
By age 22 she became the youngest Chair of the Habitat for Humanity Board in Uganda. Under her leadership, youth participation in housing construction grew and the country hosted Habitat’s 100,000 th house global build celebrations. It was at that event that the HFH founder, Mr. Millard Fuller inspired her to dream bigger if the face of Ugandan housing was going to change.
As an early careerist, she worked with John Snow Inc. headquartered in Boston Massachusetts, the Mayor’s Office of Health Insurance Access in New York City during Mayor Bloomberg’s era promoting health inclusion, the Executive Office of the AIDS Institute of State of New York, Albany and General Electric in Schenectady, New York.
Sandra later worked with Intergovernmental and multilateral organizations, the United Nations, advising governments and working on development issues in Africa. This enabled her to have an eye for opportunities that would otherwise be perceived as challenges in the region.
Sandra continues to volunteer and serve communities in different capacities.
She holds an MS in Health Services Management and Policy from the New School University in New York City.