Gill Garb
As the founder and Executive Director of the Bantwana Initiative under World Education, Inc., Gill Garb sowed the seeds of today’s Bantwana Regional Network. Retiring at the end of 2022, Gill brought over 25 years of experience in development management, implementation, and research in sub-Saharan Africa, to a broad range of projects. In 2006, Gill launched the Bantwana Initiative to address the urgent and comprehensive needs of orphans and other vulnerable children (OVC) in East and Southern Africa. Under her leadership, the Bantwana Initiative grew to work with over 100 local NGO partners reaching over 90,000 OVC and their families in Zimbabwe, Uganda, Swaziland, and Tanzania through inventive and sustainable program models. She expanded programming to a portfolio of over $30 million and was instrumental in mainstreaming HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment into all World Education programs in Africa.