Our People

Empowering with Expertise & Experience

Our team is made up of seasoned health, youth oriented and entrepreneurship professionals. We are dedicated to leveraging our knowledge and skills to support and guide youth and young people navigate challenges and achieve success.

Our Founder
Norman Manzi
Founder / Director

Staying with HIV positive relatives, friends has been learning experiences for Manzi. He shares their dreams, inspirations, challenges as well as their fear. He has seen the stigmatization that face from families, friends and communities. There are high rates of depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts among young adults living with HIV as they suffer with issues of self-confidence or trying to look for acceptance.

However much the government has done a lot of support mostly to provide treatment with ART, most people living positively with HIV still face stigmatization either among peers in schools, their communities and even at the work place. There are even personal stigmatization picked from how one feels the society thinks about him or her. For the world to reduce on stigmatization, we need to as well deal with self-stigmatization which in the long run promotes self-confidence and hope.

This has made Manzi get interest to create positive and sustainable social change among the same target group. He has worked with other organizations that support disadvantaged, orphaned children to get out of poverty. His conception however is that change is well brought about by survivors. People that have experienced the wrath of the society are the best to change it. This is what change from is within. The society is the driver for change and as development partners; we should aspire and motivate the community to do so.

Manzi believes that HIV positive youth have the power to determine the future by taking up HIV innovations and showing the society how instrumental they can be. He has the passion and zeal to make the world where HIV positive people are instruments of social change rather than victims of circumstances.

Niwowegusa Fiona
Cyiza Robert
Ingabire Sylvia
UWINEZA Yvonne
Epimaque
Winnie
Munyana Nadine
ISHIMWE Denyse
UWASE Gloria
CYUSA GIRAMATA Patience
NSABIMANA Gilbert
BIZIMANA Alexis
NKANIKA Alphonse
Nshizirungu Gustave
Murindabigwi Aimable
INGABIRE Benedict
NISHIMWE Marie Grace
NEMA Dany
Mukamana Nadine
IRADUKUNDA Evode
HAKIZIMANA Alphonse
TUMUKUNDE Jean marie vianney
MAHORO Marie Aimee
HAKIZAYEZU Revelien
ABAYISENGA Joanna
NIYONKURU BIENVENUE
INGABIRE Justine
MWEMANANI Angel
Kanani Camille
Dusaamana Chadrack
GATOYA JEANNETTE
IRADUKUNDA AISHA
Kwizera Eric
IRADUKUNDA EVODE
Masengesho Vestine
Mugarura Leandre
MUGISHA Amos
Mukeshimana Anitha
Niyonkuru Obed
Nsabamahoro Sandrine

“Every young person we meet carries a story of courage. At Dream Village, our work is to turn that courage into opportunity by helping youth rise above stigma, discover their strengths, and create a future filled with dignity and hope.”

Norman Manzi
Founder / Director