Hilde Lemey, Initiator and project manager
Volunteer from Flemish Brabant. Is already working more than 3 years in the secondary schools of the Afghan refugees in Pakistan. Has initiated and implemented several “Teachers without Borders” projects among which schools for the animistic Kalasha in the Hindukush. She has field experience in Ukraine, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan and Albania.
Fernand Dhondt, Initiator and EurAsia watcher
Volunteer from the Antwerp Kempen (Flanders); has 40 years of experience with the former Eastern bloc (EurAsia), fluent in Russian, good notions of the Tajik language (Persian) and several other Slavonic languages. Managed projects in Siberia for the indigeneous peoples and in the Ukraine. Ensures good communication with the local population and authorities.
Mirzoyev Saifiddin, Yaghnobi academic and professor at the the Rudaki institute of Language and Literature, attached to the Tajikistan Academy of Sciences in Dushanbe.
IInitiator and driving force behind the association "Renaissance of the Yaghnobis". Will be responsible for editing textbooks in the Sogdian language for the Yaghnobi schools, for the construction of the boarding school and the organization of a library
Dirk Nieubourg, Project Support
Will support the project by contacting companies, associations and anyone who could sympathize and stimulate them to set up fund raising activities.