About us
Village Life Outreach Project, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit international organization working in collaboration with the Shirati Health, Education, Development (SHED) Foundation in Tanzania, East Africa. Since 2004, we have partnered with SHED to help communities access clean, safe water, healthcare resources, and nutritional programs. TOGETHER… we act as a catalyst for change to revolutionize aid through relationships and sustainability!
Vision:
To unite communities to promote Life, Health, and Education.
Mission:
We believe that by developing partnerships to reduce poverty, disease, and malnutrition, we improve lives in Tanzania and our local communities.
Core values:
Service, Collaboration, Sustainability, Community, Partnership, Integrity.
Meet our Village Life staff
Coming Soon
CEO/ Executive Director
CEO/ Executive Director
Melanie Atwood
Chief Transformation Officer
Micaela Bresler, PharmD
Director of Programs
SHEDF and Roche Health Center (RHC) Staff
- Nyamusi Jo Magatti – SHEDF Executive Director
- Migera Migire – SHEDF Accountant
- Lucy Phillip – SHEDF Secretary
- Phillip (Adek) Okello – SHEDF Driver
- Benson Mathube – RHC Clinical Officer
- Musa Daudi – RHC Nurse Midwife
- Cecilia Weisiko – RHC Part Time Nurse midwife
- Ezra Keya – RHC Lab Technologist
- Rebekah Charles – RHC Nurse Assistant
- Tina David – RHC Nurse Assistant
- Hidaya Kayaka– RHC Nurse Assistant
- Jona Otota – RHC Security Guard
- Tobias John – RHC Security Guard
- Clife Jared – RHC Grounds
- Claris Onyango – RHC Custodian & Laundress
SHEDF Board of Directors
- Erick Kawira – Board Chair
- Nyamusi Jo Magatti – Board Secretary General & Executive Director
- Timothy Kawira – Board Treasurer
- Patrick Creary – Board Member & Education Director
- Esther Kawira – Board Member & Medical Director
- Otieno Shemaya – Board Member & Development Director
- Martin Nyambock – Board Member
- Ouru Abuya – Board Member
- Ellen Akinyi – Board Member
- Mrs Miriam Ngoya – Board Member
Nyamusi Jo Magatti
Executive Director
Village Life Board of Directors
Sharon Grenberg
Board Chair
Life Committee Chair
P&G Retired Principal Engineer
Board Vice Chair, Governance Committee Chair
UC Foundation
Lisa Reinhard
Board Secretary
Vice President & Chief Admin Officer, Chemed
David B. Haire, CFP
Board Treasurer
Senior Vice President, Financial Advisor, CAPTRUST
Marcel Mutsindashyaka
IT Committee Chair
Chief Information Officer
Oberlin College
Dean, College of Design
Senior Fellow, Design Futures Council
University of Oregon
UC Health Professor, Emergency Medicine
University of Cincinnati
Chief Marketing Officer
University of Cincinnati
Meet our founder
Christopher Lewis, M.D.
Vice Provost for Academic Programs, University of Cincinnati
Family Medicine Physician, UC Health
Associate Professor of Family Medicine, UC College of Medicine
Founder & Board Member, Village Life Outreach Project
After his first trip to Tanzania in 2003(link to beginning section), Dr. Christopher Lewis completed his residency and began building his practice with the group that became UC Health’s Primary Care Network, but his urge to return to Tanzania grew stronger and stronger.
He began planning a service trip with a core group of volunteers to accompany him. Chris’ idea quickly transformed from one person’s vision of helping into a full-fledged non-profit, non-government organization.
“I wanted to have an impact on the health of hundreds in a part of the world where there is one doctor for every 33,000 people.” (Dr. Chris Lewis)