Board of Directors

WCDP is currently re-building its Board of Directors. Interested parties may submit their resume or CV to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with a statement of interest and how you feel you can contribute to the success of WCDP.

Dexter Davis, Founder and CEO, D Street Media Group
Mr. Davis executive produced the acclaimed Arthouse film "The Reception" written and directed by John G. Young that premiered at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival and is currently in post production on the director's third film, "Rivers Wash Over Me". Mr. Davis brokered the first of its kind co-marketing deal with Volkswagon AG that allows the automotive giant to support the distribution efforts of D Street Releasing. Davis also sits on the board of "The Reel World Film Festival".

Richard Kajumbula, M.Sc., Lecturer, Makerere University
Mr. Kajumbula is an assistant lecturer at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. He works in the departments of Distance Education and Accounting, as well as the Institute of Adult and Continuing Education. Kajumbula is working to develop the World Community Development Institute, the research branch of WCDP and to establish a collaboration between WCDP and Makerere University.

Sarah Kimakwa
Ms. Kimakwa was born and brought up in Halala, a province in western Kenya. She has a Msc. Degree in Agriculture and an MBA in International Development. She has served the world community in different capacities as a high school teacher, an agricultural extension officer with the ministry of agriculture in Kenya, and program coordinator for an NGO. As an extension officer Ms. Kimakwa worked on several agricultural community projects in different parts of Kenya.

After seven years of government work Kimakwa moved on to work for PELUM Association, a network of grassroots organizations in eastern and southern Africa. She coordinated a seed security program that aimed at ensuring that our indigenous seeds were conserved especially with the advent of genetic engineering. She conducted training for community workers on seed and other related topics. She co-authored and edited a seed security manual for community workers

Kimakwa has served as a board member for three organizations. She volunteers her time as a taskforce member for a membership organization based in the US whose aim is to unite all Luhyas living in the US to help them contribute to the socio-economic development of Halala, Kenya where Luhyas come from.

Robel Gizachew
Mr Gizachew, Ethiopian by origin currently resides in the US and Ethiopia. He has done business consulting, mainly market researches, organizational studies and business plans. More recently He has developed financial models for some companies in California. Currently he owns and operates Edge International Inc that among other things hosts the www.pickanitem.com site (Pick an Item).

Gizachew has been active with WCDP since 2001. Since that time he has committed himself to realizing the objectives of WCDP; creating poverty free societies worldwide through the full integration of the five development sectors.