Board of Trustees

The KICS board is comprised of men and women of Christian character, who are moral stakeholders of the school. They are tasked with the governance oversight of KICS. The KICS Board is responsible for ensuring the vision, mission and values of KICS are being lived out; for the hiring, care, and evaluation of the KICS Director; and to ensure fiduciary responsibility of KICS. The Board operates under a Policy Governance (Carver) Framework and is a self-perpetuating board. KICS has two owner agencies who appoint the Chairperson of the board along with ratify all other board members. The KICS board models servant leadership as they are volunteers who give generously of their time, prayer, and expertise.

Christine Baingana

Board Chair

Christine Baingana

Board Chair

Christine Baingana joined HOPE in 2010 to work with HOPE’s savings group programs,going on to serve as Africa Regional Director of savings group programs and providing business development leadership to various HOPE departments.

In 2017, Christine stepped into the role of CEO for Urwego Bank in Kigali, Rwanda. She holds a Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School of Government; a Bachelor’s of Business Administration from Newport University, U.K.; and a diploma as an associate of Business Executives from Cavendish College, London.

Christine’s professional background includes over 20 years of experience in financial services, corporate management, and development work.

While working in Kigali, Rwanda, from 1995 to 2009, Christine held the following positions: Program Manager at Tulane International LLC; Managing Director of the privatized National Printing Company (INR); Director of Banking Operations at the Bank of Commerce, Development, and Industry; and Senior Manager for the Credit Card Department, where she launched the first electronic payment service in the country.

Anthony Farr

Board Vice Chair

Anthony Farr

Board Vice Chair

Anthony Farr is the CEO of the Allan & Gill Gray Philanthropy Africa. Anthony completed his CA(SA) at Deloitte in Cape Town and Luxembourg, before working at Standard Bank in London for a number of years in their international corporate finance team.

He then co-founded the Starfish Greathearts Foundation in 2001 which now supports the region of 12,000 orphaned or vulnerable children across South Africa.

He was the founding CEO of the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation, established in 2005, growing this pipeline of responsible entrepreneurs, known as Allan Gray Fellows, to a cohort of over 1,000 individuals ranging from high school, through university to their careers and enterprises, and creating businesses to the value of approximately $1bn.

Anthony is married to Susannah and lives in Kigali, Rwanda. They have three children.

Juliet Mbabazi

Board Member

Juliet Mbabazi

Board Member

Juliet Mbabazi and her family have been part of KICS since 2007. She is the owner of Real Innovations, a company that specializes in Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, Exhibitions, and Events.

Prior to that, she served at MTN as Training Manager and in other capacities between 1998-2006. She has a BA in Social Work and an MBA in Leadership & Organizational Development & Human Resources Management.

Juliet has served on other boards and has been a member of the KICS Board of Trustees since 2015.

She also serves as a representative of ROC, one of KICS’s two owner agencies.

Janvier Faradja

Board Member

Janvier Faradja

Board Member

Janvier Faradja is the Lead Pastor of Christ's Church Rwanda (CCR). Prior to being Lead Pastor, He served CCR in the capacity of Associate Pastor for 5 years.

He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Divinity from Oklahoma Christian University.

While a university student Janvier answered God’s call to serve God in ministry in his home country, Rwanda. It is in response to this call that he returned to Rwanda to serve as a Pastor and currently as a Board Member of KICS.

Janvier's passion is to see communities transformed by the gospel of Jesus Christ and consequently cherishes the opportunity to serve KICS and to further its vision of impacting the world for Christ.

In addition to his role, Janvier serves as a representative of ROC, one of KICS’s two owner agencies.
Janvier is married to Claudine, and they live in Kigali.

Rev. Dr. Darrell Bustin

Board Member

Rev. Dr. Darrell Bustin

Board Member

Rev. Dr. Darrell Bustin has been serving in Rwanda for the last 10 years with his wife Laura Lee. Darrell and Laura Lee are parents of Bronwyn and Caleb Bustin, KICS class of 2017. Caleb was recently married to Aynsley and they live and work in Canada.

Darrell and Laura Lee serve with Canadian Baptist Ministries. The Bustins joined CBM in 2002 to teach at the Kalimantan Theological Seminary in Pontianak, Indonesia, where they helped to train and mentor future leaders for local churches. They moved to Rwanda in August 2012 to work with CBM’s church partner, the Association of Baptist Churches of Rwanda (AEBR). Darrell’s primary focus is on pastoral training and church leadership development.

He works with pastors, as well as those studying to be pastors and church leaders. Laura Lee is responsible for overseeing the administrative details for the short-term mission (SENT) teams that come to Rwanda.

In addition to his role as a former KICS parent, Darrell serves on the KICS Board as a representative of B2TheWorld, one of KICS’s two owner agencies.

Florida Kabasinga

Board Member

Florida Kabasinga

Board Member

Florida Kabasinga is the founder and Managing Partner of CERTA Law chambers in Kigali. She is also the Founder and Executive Director of Certa Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that serves as Certa Law Chambers' Corporate Social Responsibility initiative.

Ms. Florida is a certified mediator by the International Institute of Mediation and Conflict Resolution and a prolific arbitrator with Kigali International Arbitration Centre where she represented international and domestic clients, including the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Ms. Florida holds a Master of Laws (Magna cum Laude) in International Human Rights Law from the University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA) and a Bachelor of Laws Degree (LLB Hons) from Makerere University (Kampala, Uganda).

She has also received various trainings from prestigious institutions notably, the University of Pretoria, South Africa, Erasmus University, The Hague, Netherlands, and Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London.

Florida has been a KICS parent for the last seven years.

Stephanie Luttrull

Board Member

Stephanie Luttrull

Board Member

Stephanie Luttrull and her family moved to Rwanda and became part of KICS in 2019 after previously spending three years in West Africa.

She and her husband Josiah serve with the Theological Education Team of the International Mission Board working in East Africa. Stephanie graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) with a bachelor’s degree in Animal and Poultry Science and a minor in Biology, as well as a master’s degree in Elementary Education.

Upon completion, she received her state licensure in Virginia in grades Pre-K through 6. Stephanie has taught in five different public school systems in two states and also has experience tutoring and teaching ESL. She also completed a master’s degree in Intercultural Studies from Southeastern College in Wake Forest, North Carolina.

She and Josiah have three sons who currently attend KICS and one daughter born soon after arriving in Rwanda who is eager to join them in the coming years.

Simon Kibe

Board Secretary

Simon Kibe

Board Secretary

Simon Kibe and his family moved to Rwanda from Kenya and for the past six years have been a part of KICS. Both his children receive their education at KICS and he cites the fact that KICS provides the values, academic rigor, family atmosphere that he appreciates.

Simon Kibe began his tenure on the KICS School Board in August 2019.

Kibe is an experienced trailblazer and business professional by virtue of having gotten into newly created positions, three times.

Since 2013, Kibe has been an Independent Consultant based in Kigali and specializes in Recruitment and Selection, Human Resource Audit, Organization Restructuring, Strategic Alignment, and Cascading, Start-up development, and Staff Training or Team Building.

Kibe has observed great growth at KICS not only in its structure but also in the way it is living out its Mission and Vision. As a family, they believe that KICS will be more than a catalyst for God in Rwanda and the world.

Dr. Benjamin P. Thomas

Ex-officio

Dr. Benjamin P. Thomas

Ex-officio

Benjamin P. Thomas is the husband of Susie Thomas. Together, they have followed God’s global call. This call has included making their home in three countries on three continents in the last fourteen years: America, India, and Rwanda.

Included in their global call, Ben and Susie have had the joy of parenting Simon, Talya, Charlie, and Annie. These four kids were made on three continents.

The opportunity to raise a global family in a global world with a loving wife that asks deep questions about culture and identity has given Ben an appreciation for why differences are important.

They have the joy of leading the Kigali International Community School (KICS) in Kigali, Rwanda.

KICS is home to over 33 nationalities, and they are cherishing this opportunity to serve globally while preparing servant leaders to impact the world for Christ. (As the director, Ben serves as a non-voting member of the KICS board).

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