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Carmel Gaillard
Global Executive Director
Carmel Gaillard is a purpose‑driven leader advancing the rights and wellbeing of children and young people across Southern Africa. As Executive Director of Sentebale, she drives an integrated strategy across Health, Wealth Creation, and Climate Resilience, turning children’s rights into lived reality in a region where HIV remains a defining, but not solitary, challenge.
With deep regional and global experience in child and youth development, Carmel’s leadership is grounded in addressing the chronic, interconnected adversities shaping young lives, where HIV intersects with poverty, inequality, mental health pressures, and climate vulnerability. She is focused on advancing responses that move beyond single‑issue interventions, strengthening healthcare and psychosocial support, unlocking economic opportunity, and building resilience within communities facing layered and persistent stressors.
Carmel serves as a Board Member of the South African National Child Rights Coalition and St Anthony’s Child and Youth Care Centre, contributing to national advocacy and frontline child protection.
Ntoli grew up in Lesotho and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Education obtained at the National University of Lesotho. She has been with Sentebale for 15 years starting out as a volunteer rising through the ranks to country director.
Ntoli brings experience in strategic development, design and implementation of programmes in Southern Africa and has worked with regional and international organizations to develop and facilitate programmes.
She is an alumni of the IVLP (International Visitor Leadership Programme) of the US State Department.
Moemedi Keakantse
Moemedi has over 10 years of dedicated experience in driving organizational growth and impact within the realms of resource mobilization, grant management, stakeholder engagement, program design and implementation, research coordination, financial management, and strategic planning. He is adept at identifying and securing funding from diverse sources, and possesses demonstrated success in crafting compelling proposals and cultivating strategic partnerships to drive organizational growth and impact. He excels in ensuring compliance with donor requirements and maximizing the impact of funded projects. In addition, Moemedi has a strong ability to build and nurture relationships with stakeholders across sectors, including government officials, NGOs, corporate partners, and community representatives. His career includes 7 years in resource mobilization, grants management and consultancy at ACHAP, 15 months in marketing and program coordination at Limkokwing University Botswana and over three years as Programs Director at Sentebale Botswana.
He holds the following qualifications: MSC in Strategic Management (University of Derby)-2022, Master of Arts in Politics & International Relations (University of Botswana)-2019, BA (Double Major) International Studies & Psychology (Monash University Malaysia)-2012.
Moraoetsi Rakuoane
Moraoetsi is a result-oriented professional with vast experience in community and development programs, organizational capacity development, Programmes design, planning and implementation and monitoring and evaluation. He has over 19 years of experience working with the communities in Lesotho focusing on Health, Sexual and reproductive Health and rights, HIV and AIDS management, Home Based Care projects, Environment and climate resilience Programmes and other transformational development initiatives for the rural communities and the vulnerable households in Lesotho.
His experience includes the work he did with several organizations in different capacities that Include: Pact Lesotho as Country Office Point of Contact and Programs Manager for the Global Fund Supported Civil Society Programmes under the dual tracking financing Mechanism; World Vision International- Lesotho office as HIV and AIDS officer for Taung Area Development Program; and Lesotho Red Cross Society as Integrated Community Home Based Care Project Officer.
Moraoetsi has also been involved in consulting assignments and has particularly been involved the national level evaluation of European Union’s cooperation strategy with Lesotho for the review of the 10th European Development Fund (EDF) as a consultant assigned by Analysis for Economic Decisions (ADE). He consulted with several civil society Organizations on several assignments where he developed the proposals for funding and for dissemination research findings, including Stigma Index Study findings. He also co-facilitated the evaluation of IOM’s Socio-economic reintegration for COVID-19 Returnees in 2022.
Matseliso Mosoeu
Matseliso is a dynamic strategic leader with expertise in planning, coordination, and monitoring of business operations. She is highly skilled in process optimisation, cross-functional team management, and driving operational efficiencies while ensuring the organisation meets its financial objectives. Her strong grasp of financial matrices and their interpretation for strategic decision-making has been pivotal throughout her career in both business and development institutions.
She brings a unique blend of experience as a Business Finance lecturer at the Institute of Development Management in Maseru and as a Financial Planning and Analysis specialist – enriching her commercial mindset with a focus on growth and long-term sustainability. Passionate about inclusion, Matseliso also maintains a sharp awareness of innovation in finance, adapting quickly to change and positioning the organisation for success in a rapidly evolving environment.
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