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title: "Team"
description: ""
url: "https://demo.uichemy.com/kindling/team/"
updated: "2026-10-27"
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# Team

# Thirty Eight

![Nine people of a partner workshop standing together in front of the open workshop frontage.](https://assets.uichemy.com/6a8d825924a2067386875cf4/uploads/6adb23cd7e30ade6259bba63/afa626af41c580f5.webp)

![Two technicians on a tin roof lifting a panel into its bracket between them.](https://assets.uichemy.com/6a8d825924a2067386875cf4/uploads/6adb23cd7e30ade6259bba63/284b9e30f07697e6.webp)

![An instructor and five apprentices around a workbench in an open-sided training workshop.](https://assets.uichemy.com/6a8d825924a2067386875cf4/uploads/6adb23cd7e30ade6259bba63/41e36891750f9c28.webp)

![Three people from a partner organisation walking a dirt track away from a hillside village.](https://assets.uichemy.com/6a8d825924a2067386875cf4/uploads/6adb23cd7e30ade6259bba63/64da21a91d238202.webp)

![Nine people of a partner workshop standing together in front of the open workshop frontage.](https://assets.uichemy.com/6a8d825924a2067386875cf4/uploads/6adb23cd7e30ade6259bba63/afa626af41c580f5.webp)

![Two technicians on a tin roof lifting a panel into its bracket between them.](https://assets.uichemy.com/6a8d825924a2067386875cf4/uploads/6adb23cd7e30ade6259bba63/284b9e30f07697e6.webp)

![An instructor and five apprentices around a workbench in an open-sided training workshop.](https://assets.uichemy.com/6a8d825924a2067386875cf4/uploads/6adb23cd7e30ade6259bba63/41e36891750f9c28.webp)

![Three people from a partner organisation walking a dirt track away from a hillside village.](https://assets.uichemy.com/6a8d825924a2067386875cf4/uploads/6adb23cd7e30ade6259bba63/64da21a91d238202.webp)

## In The Field

Twenty nine of us live in the nine countries where the work actually happens.

Meet Everyone

## Behind Every Light

## Behind

![Thandiwe Banda, Executive Director of Kindling.](https://assets.uichemy.com/6a8d825924a2067386875cf4/uploads/6adb23cd7e30ade6259bba63/cd63699eb51d878d.webp)

### Arun Shrestha

Programmes Director

![Arun Shrestha, Director of Programmes.](https://assets.uichemy.com/6a8d825924a2067386875cf4/uploads/6adb23cd7e30ade6259bba63/4a5a79febb08e03e.webp)

### Ruth Nakato

Monitoring & Eval

![Grace Mwale, Head of Technician Training.](https://assets.uichemy.com/6a8d825924a2067386875cf4/uploads/6adb23cd7e30ade6259bba63/5a3043f4e653f0cc.webp)

### Thandiwe Banda

Executive Director

![Joseph Phiri, Lead Installer.](https://assets.uichemy.com/6a8d825924a2067386875cf4/uploads/6adb23cd7e30ade6259bba63/125fe42be258a73b.webp)

### Grace Mwale

Head of Training

![Priya Raman, Head of Finance.](https://assets.uichemy.com/6a8d825924a2067386875cf4/uploads/6adb23cd7e30ade6259bba63/c6cff1b164d13daf.webp)

### Joseph Phiri

Lead Installer

## Every

![Tomas Ixil, Regional Lead for Central America.](https://assets.uichemy.com/6a8d825924a2067386875cf4/uploads/6adb23cd7e30ade6259bba63/3599260fb97444f2.webp)

### Priya Raman

Head of Finance

![Ruth Nakato, Monitoring and Evaluation.](https://assets.uichemy.com/6a8d825924a2067386875cf4/uploads/6adb23cd7e30ade6259bba63/e4adcf356b5e0d5c.webp)

### Sam Adeyemi

Engineering Lead

![Daniel Okeke, Partnerships.](https://assets.uichemy.com/6a8d825924a2067386875cf4/uploads/6adb23cd7e30ade6259bba63/8b008aded1579509.webp)

### Tomas Ixil

Regional Lead

![Samuel Adeyemi, Head of Engineering.](https://assets.uichemy.com/6a8d825924a2067386875cf4/uploads/6adb23cd7e30ade6259bba63/40b96d11e470f922.webp)

### Daniel Okeke

Partnerships

## Light

##### 214 local partners

## What We Work By

Four rules decide who does the work and where the money goes. They hold in all 9 countries, and they keep 91p in every pound on programmes.

See the Work

### Led From Nearby

The technician who fits a system lives twenty minutes away, and is still nearby in five years.

### Repair Is the Point

A fitting takes a morning. The nine-month apprenticeship exists for the fault two years later.

### 91p in Every Pound

That is the share of your giving that reaches programmes, and the books stay open.

### $47 Lights a Home

A $40 lantern changes an evening. A trained technician keeps it working.