Africa-based Team
Aris Macos, Field Operations Manager (Bujumbura, Burundi)
Justin Kongolo Saliboko, DRC Staff (Kalemie, DRC)
Alain Mutiki Masilya, DRC Staff (Kalemie, DRC)
Augustine Kubikonse, DRC Staff (Moba, DRC)
Vincent Katanga Mulila, DRC Staff (Moba, DRC)
Aris Macos
Field Operations Manager
Of Greek descent, Aris has spent most of his life living around Lake Tanganyika. An autodidact who has built his professional career working on or around the lake, Aris is a results-focused management professional with 30 years of progressive leadership experience. From 1988 to 2010, Aris managed his own company in Burundi and the DRC based around industrial fishing, trade, and building and maintenance of fishing and cargo boats. During that time, Aris also volunteered for three years with G3T/NGO during Burundi’s civil war. In 2010, Aris decided to shift his professional career towards the humanitarian/development sector and began work as a procurement/ logistics and operational coordination manager with DanChurchAid in the area of Humanitarian Mine Action.
Aris has extensive knowledge of the Lake Tanganyika Basin and its populations, both on the DRC and Burundi sides of the lake. Combined with his specialization in the field of operational coordination, logistics, administration and HR coordination, and as well as his knowledge of navigation and mechanics, Aris is perfectly suited for the role of Field Operations Manager of the LTFHC/WAVE.
Aris is fluent in English, French, Swahili and Greek. Aris is learning Kirundi.
Justin Kongolo Saliboko
DRC Staff
Justin has lived most of his life in Kalemie, Tanganyika Province. He did his primary and secondary studies in Kalemie and has a degree in Economics from the University Institute of Congo. Justin is married and has five children. He is fluent in French, English, Swahili and some other dialects spoken throughout the province.
Justin started his career as a school teacher and went on to become Headmaster, before starting to work for humanitarian organizations. After working with DanChurchAid from 2006 to 20012, he joined International Rescue Committee as a HR Officer.
Justin has worked as a Community Liaison Agent (CLA) for the Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic since 2016. He is currently the focal point of LTFHC’s office in Kalemie.
Alain Mutiki Masilya
DRC Staff
Alain is originally from Uvira, South Kivu. Having finished his primary and secondary studies, Alain earned an agricultural engineering diploma from the Evangelical University in Africa (UEA) in Bukavu in 2014. He is fluent in French, Swahili and has a good understanding of English.
Alain worked as a Field Supervisor for ECC-MERU (Eglise du Christ au Congo/Ministère et des Urgences), before becoming a part of the LTFHC team in 2016.
Alain serves as a Community Liaison Agent at the office in Kalemie.
Augustine Kubikonse
DRC Staff
Born in the Katanga Province of Congo, Augustine Kamizonga Kubikonse, a Congolese citizen, spent most of his life in a refugee settlement. When the war broke out in 1998, Augustine fled to Zambia where he stayed in a refugee camp called Kala, before returning to Congo in September 2009. An electrician by profession, Augustine completed computer training and was offered a job within the camp; he started training his fellow refugees, Zambians who were living near the camp, and the sub office UNHCR staffs.
Educated at Evelyn Hone College in the capital city of Lusaka, Augustine studied and got his certificate in English as a Foreign Language (EFL). Upon graduation, he worked as an English teacher for the refugee community under an organization called HODI, a partner of the UNHCR Zambia.
Augustine currently works with various American humanitarian organizations in both Zambia and DRC. He works as a community liaison for the LTFHC, has worked as an interpreter for the American organization FORGE for nearly five years, works for The REEL Project as a part-time media and information clerk, and for the Center for Victims of Tortures (CVT) as a part-time interpreter.
Augustine is married and the father of three children and currently resides in Moba Territory in Katanga Province. He is fluent in English, French, Swahili, Tabwa, Bemba and some other dialects and likes watching soccer, playing music from all over the world and making friends.
Vincent Katanga Mulila
DRC Staff
Vincent was born in Moba, Tanganyika Province. He and his parents lived through the war in eastern DRC in 1998, were forced to become refugees in Zambia, before finally returning to DR Congo in 2004. Vincent graduated with a degree in Hospital Nursing from High Institute of Medical Techniques in Moba. He is fluent in French, Swahili, and has a good understanding of English, Tabwa and other local dialects.
Vincent has worked in the humanitarian field since 2007 where the joined a project led by UNHCR that focused on repatriation of refugees coming back to DR Congo from Zambia. He has received training in project management; administration & financial management; and the use of the radio as a tool for building peace in conflict areas.
Vincent joined LTFHC as a Community Liaison Agent in 2016.
