WILLIAM ILEMBO JOHNSON

BOARD SECRETARY


Biography


William I. Johnson is the Secretary of the Board of SHEEO NGO.

He is a teacher by profession, philosopher and Spiritual mentor and coach for grieving children and adults.

William was born and raised in a very peculiar environment with no hope to achieve his dreams through education.

He was raised in a very extreme poor family and succeeded to get his nonetheless education from the support of countless hands.

Giving his life for others is his main focus as he always says; he wants God the Almighty to be praised through his good deeds as he is a living miracle.
He is an experienced Human rights and social activists advocating for the rights of women and children since 2012.
He assumes Board advisory and volunteer roles at different organizations helping women and children in Tanzania and around the world.

He is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Savvy Brain Pre and Primary English Medium School which is a private nursery and primary school he started in October, 2014 purposefully to empower and help poor, rural orphans and vulnerable children to have access to quality education, food and care free of charge. This is one of among the huge achievements and contributions towards the betterment of lives of vulnerable rural children in Tanzania.

Also, William is among the Global Coordinators of Memory Books for Children International (www.memorybooks4children.com) based in the USA where he serves as one among the Tanzania Coordinators of this huge organization which helps vulnerable children to tell their stories, grieve their losses, heal and discover their special role in the greater story of God. He is currently the Volunteer Lead Coordinator for Lake Zone Victoria Tanzania Memory Books Clubs under Memory Books for Children International.

He believes in compassion and uses his resources to support humanitarian actions in Tanzania. He is the Founder member and initiator of SHEEO NGO with other local young people he mobilized to establish this organization which started in April, 2020.

William worked from 2018 to 2019 as Project Coordinator for Magu district project site in Mwanza region under an immense project which was known as "Achieve Sustainable Development Goal 5 in Tanzania", under a coalition of 8 non-governmental organizations  which was funded by the Bill and Gates Melinda Foundation through Women Thrive Alliance - USA and then Equal Measures 2030 also based in the USA.

“From a very poor family and being a victim of children’s rights and witness of women’s right violations in my community, I decided to mobilize my fellow community members to start this organisation to change the narrative of the lives of the marginalized, rural adolescents’ girls and young women. We are the true sacrifice for the well-being of impoverished members of our nation and the world. Let us be kind towards one another and build our strength using the little we have to make the change we want to see in our Nation and the world. SHEEO NGO remains the right vessel to make the difference and break the silence on the sufferings of adolescents girls and young women as we witness daily under our traditions and culture favoring patriarchal systems and undermining women and girls. SHEEO NGO is initiated to bring young people (boys and girls) together and raise their awareness in order to change their mindset from being witness and or actors to comforters and change makers regardless of our sexual orientation, socio-economic, cultural, religious and ethnical, educational and political backgrounds. ” Quote from William when he was asked what inspired him to start SHEEO NGO during the introduction of SHEEO NGO at Magu district council in September, 2020.