Kileni Apuki Fernando

Kileni Apuki Fernando has two years’ experience advocating and producing advocacy materials for the San people in Namibia. Kileni is a board member of The Namibia San Council and is a co-founder of a San youth organization called //Ana-Jeh San Trust. She also volunteers at the Women’s Leadership Center for a program called ‘Speaking for Ourselves: Voices of the San Young Women’. Kileni is studying towards her Law degree with the Open University of Tanzania. Kileni Apuki Fernando has completed several short courses sponsored by the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations Institution for Training and Research, and The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa. Upon completion of the Mandela Washington Fellowship, Kileni is planning to continue her advocacy work in promoting the rights of San communities and the rights to education of San children and youth.