Meet our board of management & CEO
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Roos Demol, Co-founder and CEO
Roos, a Flemish woman from Cork and mother of 4, has been a passionate advocate for refugees and International Protection Applicants for many years. She has a background in nursing in a prison hospital, where she learned and witnessed all about racism, poverty, addiction, and trauma. It is there that she formed her views on life and politics, and where she learned to converse in many different languages. Roos also has experience working for medical equipment companies such as Baxter Healthcare and Procter&Gamble.u00a0 She is the co-founder and current CEO of International Community Dynamics and Recruit Refugees Ireland.u00a0 Having moved to Ireland in 1998, she has run a blog and podcast, Migrants in Ireland, and has been asked on many platforms, such as IHREC and IBEC to talk about the plights of refugees and International Protection Applicants in Ireland. Roosu2019 motto is to use positivity to implement change. Her own musical past and her childrenu2019s passion for sports have helped her to help others. She has been seen on stage with the world music band, Citadel, with residents of the Kinsale Accommodation Centre, and has been seen supporting the KRAC 11 cricket team, also from the same accommodation centre, which she helped form. Roos speaks fluent Dutch, English and French and can keep a conversation going in Spanish and German. Awards include the Leadership in Diversity Award in 2018, the Cork Person of the Month of March 2021, and together with her team, the Friendly Business awards for Cork and Ireland She lives in West-Cork.
The Board of Management
Nadia Moussed, Acting Chairperson
Nadia Moussed is a Youth and Community Worker with a BSc in Youth and Community Work from the School of Applied Social Sciences in UCC. For the last 5 years she has been working with young people from marginalised groups. she developed various outreach projects with the aim of capacity building in community integration which entails engaging with disadvantaged and marginalised groups while consulting and liaising with stakeholders to identify gaps in services.
nnNadia is a polyglot fluent in English, French, German, Arabic and Italian. For her Baccalaureat in Marseille, she specialised in Economics and Sociology before taking Applied Economics at the University of Aix-en-Provence. Her interest lies in the research of good practices in intercultural dialogue and integration models.
nnCurrently and for the last 4 years, she has worked as a global youth worker running the u2018UP Corku2019 LGBTI+ youth group in supporting the young people to explore global justice issues such as inequalities, protection of human rights, power dynamics, and the Sustainable Development Goals through the lens of environmental justice and creating space for advocacy through active citizenship.
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nHer engagement with those seeking protection is an ongoing endeavour as years of collaborations will witness at an individual, local, national, and global level
Norbert Nkengurutse. Founder and Director
Norbert is an electro-mechanic engineer from Burundi, East-Africa.
nnnnHe worked as a producer for Christian radio, Ijwi ryu2019Amahoro. This radio stationu2019s mission was to promote peace and reconciliation after the inter-social and ethnic crisis in Burundi between 1993 and 2005.
nnnnnNorbert joined the scoutsu2019 movement at the age of seven and grew up in the scouts, passing through every level of responsibility from the bottom to the top of the national organisation, when he became the Executive Coordinator of the Burundian scouts movement. As the national coordinator, Norbert developed and managed community projects financed by the European Union, Unicef, CCFD ( Catholic Committee against Hunger and for Development), and Eccomi, as well as the World Organisation of the Scout Movement.
nnnnnMr. Nkengurutse moved to Ireland in 2016 and received refugee status in 2019. He recently reunited with his wife and two children who joined him from Burundi, where they had been waiting for 6 years. He is committed to supporting other refugees and International Protection Applicants in Ireland and around the world.
Tolerance Mlambo, Chartered Certified Accountant, ACCA | CPA Ireland. Pro Bono Consultant, Accountant, and Treasurer for RRI.
Mr. Mlambo is a Certified Public Accountant in Ireland. He has a passion for helping charities and individuals to manage and grow their financial well-being. With a very strong accounting, tax, and business management background, he provides us with his expert advice, professionalism, responsiveness, and peace of mind.
nnnBeing a non-national who came to Ireland as a qualified accountant to work in practice, Mr. Mlambo fully understands the challenges faced by those coming from abroad with their dream to start a new life..
u00a0 u00a0 u00a0 u00a0 u00a0 u00a0 u00a0Michelle Todd,u00a0 u00a0 u00a0Acting Secretary
Michelle grew up in Essex, England, as part of a mixed race blended family and has lived in Cork for over 25 years. She is a lone parent with experience in Special Needs, advocacy, and has personal experience of systemic institutional bias in Ireland, along with more nuanced social varieties.u00a0 She is passionate about social change and supporting the most vulnerable people in Irish society through arts, creative spaces, and bridging the gaps in existing supports by creating new networks that facilitate the needs expressed by those struggling. Michelle acts as secretary to the board, and is a part of our volunteer team working directly with International Protection Applicants to become employment ready
Michelle was a parent Liasion at Wallaroo, she is a founding member of Cork Democratic School, and she currently teaches at Cork Life Center. She was involved with Coder Dojo for 4 years.
Albert Hakizimana,co-founder
Albert moved to Dublin, Ireland from Bujumbura in Burundi in December 2007. He studied Economics and Finance and attended Kimmage Development Studies Centre in Dublin, where he studied International Development. He worked as a volunteer for SVP and has recently rejoined his family in Canada. Passionate about helping communities, especially the vulnerable, Albert offers translating and interpreting services in different languages to refugees in Dublin. He is a member of Dun Laoghaire Refugees Project for Integration. Albert is staying involved from his new home in Quebec.
nn.His ultimate goal is to promote positive community development and economic growth in his surroundings and his home country.
nnAlbert is married and the father of two young boys.
