From the community and back to the community. Isra Amin Ali has experience working and studying together with the community through empowerment programs in Maluku Province for about 10 years under the flag of local and international institutions such as the Bina Swadaya Foundation, UNIDO, Mercy Corps Indonesia and USAID.

Rifay Toisutta has more than 12 years experience in Administration, Logistics and Procurement.  He started working as a laborer in the distribution of packages for refugees with ACF after the riots in Maluku in 2000. Rifay then worked as a packager and was placed in a warehouse with + 50 workers whose daily work prepared food items to be distributed in various refugee shelters scattered in various regions in Maluku. For his achievement, Rifay was appointed as a head packager and later worked as a counter to the ACF organization in Ambon until mid 2001.

Marie Irene de Fretes has 11 years of experience working in non-government organizations, including community development, capacity building, project management, programme development, formal & non formal education particularly in early childhood care and development (ECCD) and Basic Education (BE) and child rights. She has spent 10 years working with Save the Children in the Education Sector through programnes funded by Ausaid, NZAid, Hempel-Denmark, the European Union, Bvlgari and Thomson IFR in Maluku, NTT, NTB and Jakarta.

Kitty Garden is an international development specialist from Aotearoa New Zealand who joined the NZMATES team in April 2018. Kitty brings to NZMATES her extensive experience in the development sector, and her strong knowledge of good practice in delivering development projects.