Nothing is possible without community leadership.
Absolutely everything relies on the ownership, pride and inclusivity of the communities and partners.

The Incredible Hello World Team
We are so proud to have the most amazing team in the UK, USA, Uganda and Nepal, as well as a wide network of donors, trustees, partners and advisors.
Jo Henderson
Jo Henderson joined Hello World in May 2022 after 15 years working internally on a range of humanitarian and development issues. She has vast experience developing strategy, policy and programmes across a number of sectors.
She has worked across government, large humanitarian and development organisations, smaller NGOs and as a consultant and welcomes bringing this experience to Hello World to shape our strategy, programmes and impact.
Johnny Fenn
Team Leader - Nepal
Johnny is a professional photographer and former Lieutenant Colonel in the Gurkhas.
Although the Army kept Johnny busy, with service in Iraq, Bosnia, West Africa, the Far East and Nepal, his passion for photography persisted. He founded and ran a number of photographic clubs, sharing his knowledge and developing his skills.
Having completed two years in Nepal as Field Director of the Gurkha Welfare Trust, Johnny left the army to pursue a career in photography. Johnny has worked with a broad range of clients, from Coca-Cola, Lidl and EFG to members of the Royal Family, Hello World and the Gurkha Welfare Trust.
Katrin McMillan
Founder & CEO
Katrin is an award-winning human rights expert whose work has spanned political theatre and grass-roots international development, for over two decades. In her time in the arts she held leading roles including Producer for The Culture Project, New York's home of socially conscious theatre, and Producer at MahWaf Theatre for whom she won an Edinburgh Fringe First. She also produced and developed multiple events for leading human rights organisations including The UN (OCHA), NY University Centre for Global Affairs, and NY Public Library. Katrin was the Producer and Director of Development of Speak Truth To Power for The R F. Kennedy Memorial and she has led community-based development programmes across Nigeria and Ethiopia for organisations including Management Sciences For Health and the World Bank. It is during her time living and working across Africa that she co-founded the Bwari Soap Co. and founded Projects for All, precursor to Hello World.
Laura Harnett
Advisor
Laura is a former strategy consultant (Deloitte, Booz) and retail director (Kingfisher, Selfridges). She is now an advisor, angel investor and founder of a sustainable cleaning brand (Seep). She loves working on all things digital and customer-centred, particularly when working with organisations with a strong purpose. Perhaps most importantly of all she is a mother of two and believes passionately in Hello World’s mission of closing the gap in access to education.
Matovu Jessie
Security Guard
Jessie is hard working and eager to learn, his varied work experience has led him to Hello World where he protects our offices. Jessie is an animal lover and introduced us to Mario and Mitchone, our guard dogs.
Melina Shyaula
Nepal Team Leader
Melina, Team Lead Nepal is a fresh graduate from the Department of Conflict, Peace and Development Studies of Tribhuvan University, Nepal. She has been involved in the development sector for the past 5 years through a number of NGOs and INGOs in Nepal. Her passion for doing something for the community and giving back to the community made her shift from her engineering background into the development sector. She aims to make society a better place for everyone.
Musaazi Godfrey
Data and Technology Associate
Godfrey holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science and Technology from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China. He has worked in the Education, and Information Technology sectors for over six years. He enjoys building data-driven solutions, developing web applications, training people in Information Technology skills, and supporting innovations that make the world a better place.
Nathan Binomugisha
Communications Associate Uganda
Nathan is a Digital Content Producer and his goal is to attract an African and international audience through moving short films and documentaries that convey the story of Africa's positive evolution. He wants to demonstrate the power of locally developed ideas that are lifting Africa out of poverty and into wealth.
He enjoys writing blogs, creating graphics, developing and editing short videos and film stories to inspire hope. He loves staying informed and is always open to new learning and coaching opportunities. He also enjoys reading, travelling, and attempting new things from time to time.
Nathan Okiror
Project Liaison - Uganda
Nathan Okiror is a Community Development Practitioner from Uganda with over 7 years’ experience in the community development sector focusing on education, refugees and women’s empowerment. He founded Imagine Her, a non-profit working group to leverage the power and potential of every girl and woman to work towards sustainable development in their own communities.
He is also the Co-Founder & Country Director for Pangea Publishing. He is guided by the principle that one life changed initiates a pattern of change in any community.
Ned Morgan
Fundraising, Operations and Communications Coordinator
Ned has a Master’s Degree in International Development from the University of Bristol. He has managed staff in the busy restaurant industry and has worked as a campaign manager. A commitment to volunteering brought him to Hello World where he first worked as a community engagement officer in the Nakivale refugee settlement and the Kampala region. A love of travel and long-distance hiking has taken him around the world.
Paul Oluka
Associate Engineer
Paul Oluka works as an Associate Engineer- specialising in maintenance for Hello World, He is an enthusiastic quality controller, eager to contribute to team success through hard work, attention to detail, and excellent organizational and training skills. He has a clear understanding of engineering and is motivated to learn, grow and excel in the industry providing quality results.
Rabiraj Khadka
Technology Lead - Nepal
Rabiraj studied Computer Engineer & Psychology and is a System Designer & IoT Developer by profession. Following the process of Break-Make-Innovate, he strives to provide innovative solutions to the demands of the community. With seven years of experience working in the education technology sector, he has contributed to the development of curriculums on a national level while also providing mentorship to the young minds of Nepal on various indigenous and cutting-edge technologies.
When free from the confines of his profession, he loves hiking around the hills of Kathmandu valley and dabbling in poetry.
We work together.
Our approach is not traditional.
When we build, we collaborate in partnership with a community. We offer guidance on how to succeed in practice and how to make your work as respectful and effective as possible.

Where are we today?
But it’s not just us and the communities.
A huge thank you to our all of our wonderful partners.
Without forming the key strategic partnerships on the ground, operationally, and commercially to fund our projects and communities across the globe, we wouldn’t be able to do the wonderful work that we do!
Key Partners

Commercial Partner
On July 5th, 2021 Hello World partnered with abrdn as they launched their new future-facing, client-supporting brand. Together we are building 64 new abrdn Hello Hubs across Uganda. Their multi-year support has allowed us to recruit new technical and support staff, revolutionising our capacity and allowing the leadership team to focus on development.

Internet Service Provider (ISP)
Roke Telkom provides 24-hour Wi-Fi to every Hello Hub in Uganda. That’s a lot of data! This vital partnership means that every Hub in Uganda has a fast reliable internet connection. And when things do go wrong Roke is on hand to help. Roke Telkom is Ugandan owned and operated and all of their knowledge goes into making every Hello Hub that much better.

Everest Link (ISP)
Everest Link is our lead Internet Service Provider in Nepal. They have led on Hub Builds, driven site selection and delivered training partnerships for Hubs across Nepal. Their knowledge of the unique challenges posed by Nepal’s mountainous terrain is invaluable (their network includes Mount Everest). With their help and guidance, we have taken Hub technology to communities that are close geographically but that take many hours to travel between.

Research Partner
60 Decibels use quantitative and qualitative research methods to ask tens of thousands of beneficiaries across hundreds of social change organisations to judge, based on their own lived experience the materiality of the impact those organisations make to their lives. Hello World is consistently in the top quintile of 60dB’s benchmarking overall as well as against both technology and education-related peers to Hello World.
Implementation Partners

Technology for All
Nepal NP

Imagine Her
Uganda UG

University of Gaza
Gaza 🇵🇸🇺🇳
Foundations
- Schroder Foundation
- Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
- Souter Charitable Trust
- Southall Trust
- Knickerbockerglory TV
- Renovering AS
- CAF Canada
- St James's Place Wealth-Management
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- UK Aid Direct
- Peter Stebbings Memorial Charity
- Texel Foundation
- Jephcott Charitable Trust
- Goldman Sachs
- Allan & Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust
- Didymus
- MIT solve
- PLR Trust
- Merck Family Trust
- Brian Mercer Trust
- Eleanor Rathbone Charitable Trust
- RCRT
Awards & Prizes 🏆

Andan Prize for Innovation in Refugee Inclusion - 2021, 2022

HP Prize for Advancing Digital Equity

Fred Morgan Kirby Prize for Scaling Social Impact - finalist

.org Impact Awards, Winner, quality education for all category.

MIT solver, 2021 Cohort
UK Board of Trustees
Lopa Winters
Lopa is a medical doctor working in Leadership and Organisational Consulting with a two decade clinical background in child and family psychiatry. She believes our earliest experiences continue to colour how we show up in the systems around us and that we should never grow out of asking the all important ‘why’ questions. A keen advocate for equity in access to health and education; she is delighted to be part of Helloworld’s innovative and progressive approaches to working with marginalised communities.
Lopa Winters

Tom Adams
Tom is a co-founder of 60 Decibels. Tom has held various leadership roles across the public, private and charitable sectors. Immediately before 60dB Tom was the Chief Impact Officer at Acumen, and prior to that worked in Ethiopia and Nigeria for the Department for International Development. Tom has also worked for the Foreign Office, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, and Credit Suisse. He holds a Masters degree (distinction) in Development Economics from SOAS.
Tom Adams
Frances Baawuah
Dr Frances Baawuah (MBChB MRCP MRCGP DFSRH PGMedEd) is a General Practitioner with over 15 years of clinical experience. Frances has shown leadership qualities since being awarded Head Girl at School. She continues to use these skills in her clinical work, and also as Partner of a 19,000 patient inner-city London Practice. She has recently been appointed as the clinical lead for her local Covid Response unit, as well as the Covid Schools surveillance study with Public Health England.
Frances Baawuah
Laura Harnett
Laura is a former strategy consultant (Deloitte, Booz) and retail director (Kingfisher, Selfridges). She is now an advisor, angel investor and founder of a sustainable cleaning brand (Seep). She loves working on all things digital and customer-centred, particularly when working with organisations with a strong purpose. Perhaps most importantly of all she is a mother of two and believes passionately in Hello World’s mission of closing the gap in access to education.
Laura Harnett
Marcus Exall
Marcus has been involved in Hello World since before the first hub was built. He has worked in the digital industry for the last 23 years, cutting his teeth just prior to the early days of the dotcom boom after an early career in sales and marketing in the UK & Japan. He built his own digital marketing business until its acquisition in 2011 and is an angel investor in, and advisor to, early-stage UK and international businesses.
Marcus Exall

Jonathon Asante
Jonathan Asante worked in the activity of investing in lower income countries for over twenty years. Through Footprints Africa he has focussed on ways to help small African businesses offer opportunity to the next generation of people. He spends time writing on issues of history and development and also investing in private and listed companies.
Jonathan Asante
Stephanie
Lopa is a medical doctor working in Leadership and Organisational Consulting with a two decade clinical background in child and family psychiatry. She believes our earliest experiences continue to colour how we show up in the systems around us and that we should never grow out of asking the all important ‘why’ questions. A keen advocate for equity in access to health and education; she is delighted to be part of Helloworld’s innovative and progressive approaches to working with marginalised communities.
Stephanie Bruce
Jonathon Stadlen
Jonathan is an award-winning television producer, who set up an independent production company Knickerbockerglory in 2011, with the aim of being the first production company to share its profits with staff and freelancers, and giving to charity. In the last three years they have produced more documentary hours than any other company in the UK. In 2017 Knickerbockerglory were voted the best place to work in TV.
Jonathan Stadlen
USA Board Members
Liz Smith
Co-Founder & Chief Executive of EYElliance, Liz has spent the last 12 years working in international development. After 5 years with the UN Office of South-South Cooperation, Liz joined VisionSpring as Director of Business Development where she and Founder Jordan Kassalow explored collaboration to provide access to eyeglasses on a global scale. Liz is a graduate of the University of Vermont, a member of the Explorers Club, and two-time National Geographic Society grant recipient for her work documenting endangered song.
Liz Smith

Liz McEnaney
Liz has over fifteen years’ experience in historic preservation, urban design, and non-profit leadership. She has worked with community-based collaborators in locations ranging from New York City to New Delhi, India to Maputo, Mozambique. She is a co-founder of the urban design collaborative Design For. Previously, she served as Executive Director of Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation. Liz is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
Liz McEnaney
Anna Southage
As an award-winning Writer-Director and Co-Founder of VR company, moVRshaker productions, Anna’s expertise lies in storytelling. Since 2016 she has also been Creative Director of ‘The Conversation’ - an annual live event hosted by Dame Emma Thompson in aid of the Helen Bamber Foundation, a charity that supports the survivors of trafficking and torture. She has created content for Human Rights advocacy across all media, and worked with both BAFTA and Oscar-winning talent as well as the National Youth Theatre (UK). In 2020 she scripted a BBC4 Radio Appeal which was made on Hello World’s behalf by actor, author and broadcaster, Stephen Fry.
Anna Southgate