Board Advisor
Peace Twine Kyamureku
Peace Twine Kyamureku is the Executive Director of the Ruth Fund Uganda. She is a secondary school teacher by profession, holding a Master of Arts Degree from Makerere University and has trained in Gender, Human Rights and Civil Society Studies .
Between 1982-1994, she worked with Uganda National Examinations Board( UNEB), in the Research department. In October 1994 she joined National Association of Women Organisations in Uganda (NAWOU)as Deputy Secretary General. In April 2005 she was promoted to head the umbrella women’s organization. In the 17 years she acquired knowledge, skills and more confidence working civil society for women empowerment and building a strong women’s movement. She contributed to increased membership and relevance of NAWOU.
In June 2012, she took early retirement to supervise administrative changes at Excel Millennium High School. She also took time to write. She wrote two essays-(He Will Kill Me and Wife of the enemy) published in Crossroads: Women coming of Age in Today’s Uganda, edited by Christopher Conte, 2015. She also published Contradictions in Human Rights and Social Attitudes :Case Studies of Abortion in Uganda, Ipas Initiatives Publication, University of North Carolina, 2000; Development in Practice Journal, (2014)Christie, Maria Elisa, Peace T.Kyamureku, A.N.Kaaya and A.Devenport-Farmers, Peanuts, and Aflatoxins in Uganda: A Gender Approach.
From October 2013- December 2014, VSO Jitolle recruited Peace Kyamureku as a Volunteer. Her placement at UN Women Tanzania as a Technical Advisor for Women Fund Tanzania (WFT) rekindled her passion for working with grass root communities . It was out of this experience that she, with other activists that in 2014, formed Rural Women and Youth Fund Uganda,( Ruth Fund) a human/ women rights national, Not-for Profit organization. Peace is the current Executive Director of Ruth Fund Uganda
She is a Director of Excel Millennium High School ,a Mixed, Day and Boarding Secondary school and sits on the Boards of national and regional organizations ( Ntulume Village Women Organisation (Nviwoda), Female Women Writers ( FEMRITE), Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA). A team player, committed worker, grandmother and a patriotic Ugandan.
She currently serves on the Advisory to the SIHA Board.