Team – Katonda Afaayo Foundation

Emma Birungi

Our founder Emily grew up visiting her grandmother in Kiwumu village, Mukono District, a home nestled beside Kalungi Forest. That forest shaped her: it provided firewood, medicine, water, and a deep understanding that all life is connected. When she returned years later, the forest was gone. Cleared for farmland. Silent.That silence became a mission.

Today, Katonda Afaayo Foundation exists to protect, restore, and replant. We believe cutting a tree doesn’t just remove wood, it destroys entire ecosystems, displaces wildlife, and releases stored carbon built over decades. Forests are communities, not resources. We can’t stop every tree from being cut. But we ask one thing: if you cut one, plant ten.

This work is carried by our volunteers, guided by our founders, and made possible by every person who believes as we do, that life is a circle, and every living thing has a role in it.

Team Lead/ Founder

Nabunjo Florence

Florence ensures that every tree planted counts. As M&E Officer at Katonda Afaayo Foundation, she tracks the real-world impact of the Foundation’s conservation work from afforestation campaigns to community green space restoration.
She is driven by a simple belief: a greener world is a better world. Alongside a passionate team of tree planting advocates, Florence turns mission into measurable change, one forest, one community, one verified result at a time.

Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Sukka Benson Mubiru

Sukka keeps the mission moving. As Logistics Officer at Katonda Afaayo Foundation, he ensures every tree planting campaign, conservation drive, and field operation runs smoothly from the first plan to the last planted seedling.

A genuine lover of green spaces, Sukka brings both operational precision and real passion to the work. Behind every thriving forest the Foundation helps create, there’s solid groundwork and that’s his domain.

Logistics Officer

Joyce Namubiru

Joyce is the foundation’s voice and its teacher. At Katonda Afaayo Foundation, she designs programs that bring environmental awareness to communities; covering conservation, climate change, and responsible stewardship of natural resources. She believes lasting change begins with understanding. Through campaigns, partnerships, and direct community engagement, Joyce works to turn knowledge into action and action into a greener, more sustainable future for all.

Environmental Educator and Communication Officer

Namubiru Lindah

Lindah maps the mission. As GIS and Data Technician at Katonda Afaayo Foundation, she manages the spatial data that guides where and how trees are planted turning conservation goals into precise, actionable plans on the ground.

She holds a firm conviction: trees are not optional. They clean our air, anchor our soils, shelter wildlife, and push back against climate change. Every data point Lindah works with represents a tree and a future worth protecting.

GIS & Data Technician

Elia Mpirirwe

Elia leads with purpose. As Project Manager at Katonda Afaayo Foundation, he coordinates tree planting initiatives and community engagement programs that deliver real, lasting environmental impact across Uganda.
Growing up in a community where forests gave way to dry land and water sources disappeared, Elia witnessed deforestation’s true cost firsthand. That experience drives everything he does.

Today, Elia leads projects that restore ecosystems, build climate resilience, and keep hope alive, one tree at a time.

Project Manager

Nakazzi Agnes

Agnes believes volunteering can change more than landscapes — it can change lives. At Katonda Afaayo Foundation, she mobilizes and manages the volunteers who show up, dig in, and plant the future. For Agnes, tree planting is also about the people doing it: the connections formed, the purpose discovered, and the proof that anyone — truly anyone — can make a positive impact..

Volunteer Coordinator

Mubiru Timothy

Timothy brings communities together around a common cause. At Katonda Afaayo Foundation, he organizes and engages community members to plant and maintain trees, restoring ecosystems, expanding urban canopy cover, and building a culture of environmental stewardship from the ground up.

Community Mobilizer

Sharon Nankya

Sharon keeps the foundation strong from the inside. As Finance and Administrative Officer at Katonda Afaayo Foundation, she oversees financial management, budgeting, compliance, and administrative coordination — ensuring every resource is accounted for and every process runs with precision.

Her background in quality improvement means she doesn’t just manage systems — she strengthens them. Sharon brings structure and accountability to the work that makes everything else possible, so the mission stays focused, transparent, and built to last.

Finance & Administration

Emma Birungi

Nabunjo Florence

Sukka Benson Mubiru

Joyce Namubiru

Namubiru Lindah

Elia Mpirirwe

Nakazzi Agnes

Mubiru Timothy

Sharon Nankya

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