Suzan L. Yumbe
Founder, Executive Director and Board Secretary
“I started Afyaplus because I know what it's like to miss school due to something as basic as a lack of clean water or a private toilet. No girl should have to choose between her dignity and her education.”
Suzan Lucas Yumbe grew up in rural Tanzania, where the daily struggle for safe water and adequate sanitation was not a statistic, it was her reality. That lived experience started a lifelong mission to close the gaps that keep communities from thriving.
A Chevening Scholar with an MSc in Public Health for Development from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Suzan combines grassroots experience with global expertise. In 2017 she founded Afyaplus as a community-based organization; by 2020 it was a nationally registered NGO.
Her vision is a Tanzania where safe water, dignified sanitation and menstrual health are guaranteed rights, built through a model that links infrastructure, behavior change and policy advocacy.
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