Miss Judy Mueni oversees the financial stewardship and programme support functions of Dream Alive and Care Organization. She is responsible for budgeting, financial reporting, donor accountability, and ensuring that resources reach the communities and schools that need them most.

She brings extensive experience in nonprofit financial management, grant compliance, and internal controls, and has been instrumental in strengthening DACO's transparency and operational efficiency.

Miss Mueni is a certified accountant and holds a degree in commerce, with ongoing professional development in development finance.

Mr. Simon Onyango supports the design, coordination, and delivery of DACO's education and community resilience programmes. He works closely with schools, teachers, and county education officials to ensure that interventions reach the learners who need them most.

His work focuses particularly on school feeding initiatives, back-to-school campaigns, and community mobilisation in Kenya's ASAL regions and informal settlements.

Mr. Onyango holds a degree in community development and has years of field experience working with marginalized populations.

Mr. Lewis Gichunji Njeri leads DACO's communication and advocacy coordination, shaping how the organisation tells the story of learning inequity in Kenya and building public support for change.

He manages DACO's media relations, digital channels, and campaign communications, and coordinates advocacy messaging across the organisation's education, health, and child protection programmes. His work ensures that the voices of children and communities reach donors, policymakers, and the public with clarity and integrity.

Mr. Njeri holds a degree in communication and has experience in nonprofit communications, media engagement, and advocacy campaigns.

Miss Lynn Jesire oversees DACO's legal affairs, regulatory compliance, and child protection functions. She ensures that the organisation's policies, partnerships, and programme delivery meet statutory and safeguarding requirements, and leads the implementation of DACO's child protection policy across all field locations.

As Program Coordinator for Child Protection, she coordinates safeguarding training for staff and partners, manages case referral pathways for children at risk, and works with schools, county authorities, and community structures to prevent and respond to abuse, neglect, and exploitation.

Miss Jesire is a qualified legal practitioner and holds a degree in law, with professional experience in nonprofit governance, compliance, and child safeguarding.

Miss Sheryl Zennah coordinates DACO's health and mentorship programmes, leading school-based initiatives on menstrual health and hygiene, adolescent health, and psychosocial support for learners in ASAL counties and informal settlements.

She designs mentorship structures that connect vulnerable girls and boys with role models and safe spaces, and works with schools and community health workers to ensure that health barriers do not push children out of learning. Her work complements DACO's child protection and education programmes, particularly around keeping girls in school through the transition to secondary education.

Miss Zennah holds qualifications in public health and has experience in school health programming.

Mr. Obed Yila leads DACO's business development and marketing functions, building sustainable partnerships with donors, corporate sponsors, and development partners to fund the organisation's education programmes.

He has been central to expanding child sponsorship and scholarship initiatives, including partnerships that keep vulnerable girls in school through the transition to secondary education.

Mr. Yila holds qualifications in marketing and business administration and brings experience from the corporate and development sectors.

Mr. Patrick Kang'ethe leads DACO's monitoring, evaluation, and learning work, ensuring that the organisation measures the actual impact of its programmes on children's learning outcomes, not just their enrolment.

He designs data collection tools, trains field staff, and produces evidence that informs programme adaptation. His work supports the organisation's commitment to using "smaller, quicker, cheaper" assessments to track learning and inequality at the bottom of the pyramid.

Mr. Kang'ethe holds a degree in statistics and has experience in development evaluation.

Mr. Steven Omondi manages DACO's supply chain, ensuring that learning materials, sanitary towels, school feeding supplies, and WASH infrastructure reach schools in the most remote and underserved parts of Kenya.

His work is critical in bridging the "last mile" gap between donor resources and the children who need them, and he has developed distribution strategies that account for Kenya's difficult terrain and seasonal access challenges.

Mr. Omondi holds qualifications in procurement and logistics.

Mr. Patrick Kuria coordinates DACO's education and community resilience programmes, working directly with schools, county governments, and community organisations to keep vulnerable children in school.

He leads initiatives on "Last-mile Education Support, Education Recovery Programming and Teaching at the Right Level," bridging classes for out-of-school children, mother-tongue instruction, and mental health and psychosocial support in schools. His team also runs back-to-school campaigns following drought, floods, and other disruptions.

His work further includes school needs assessments, learner tracing and re-enrolment, distribution of learning materials, menstrual health and hygiene support for girls, caregiver engagement, teacher support, child protection awareness, and community dialogues on education access and resilience.

Mr. Kuria brings years of field experience in ASAL counties and urban informal settlements to his role.

Mr. Solomon Kyeva leads DACO's advocacy and campaigns work, translating programme evidence into public action and policy engagement. He designs and coordinates campaigns that amplify the voices of children and communities at the bottom of the pyramid, and builds coalitions with civil society partners, county governments, and media to advance learning equity in Kenya.

His work focuses on holding duty bearers accountable for the delivery of quality education, and on campaigns addressing period shame, FGM, child marriage, and other barriers that keep vulnerable children — particularly girls — out of school.

Mr. Kyeva brings experience in community mobilisation and public campaigning, and holds qualifications in development studies.