Dedication

In Memoriam, Dr. Joseph Hungwa

The Dr. Joseph Hungwa Memorial Peace Education Program is named after the late Dr. Joseph Hungwa, an accomplished and respected Nigerian educator who, over many years, played a crucial role in expanding Teachers Without Borders programs in Nigeria. Dr. Hungwa was a Teachers Without Borders Coordinator in Benue State, and a Millennium Development Ambassador. 

Upon joining Teachers Without Borders in Nigeria, Dr. Hungwa quickly mobilized hundreds of teachers, and soon after emerged as our Coordinator in Benue State. He also served on our Certificate of Teaching Mastery Advisory Council in Nigeria. Until his unexpected death in March 2010, Dr. Hungwa was the most successful TWB State Coordinator in Nigeria.

Dr. Hungwa believed in education and worked hard to eliminate all barriers to education in his community and among his colleagues and kinsmen. He was a teacher of teachers. According to Raphael Ogar Oko, TWB’s Africa Regional Coordinator and Dr. Hungwa’s friend and colleague, he believed that “if we must eventually Rest in Peace, we must be born in peace, grow peacefully, become an Ambassador for Peace and, at the point of death, ‘Die in Peace’.” The Community Teaching and Learning Center that Dr. Hungwa pioneered in Vandeikya has been named the Dr. Joseph Hungwa Memorial Community Teaching and Learning Center, and it will focus on offering programs that Dr. Hungwa yearned to see in his community.

In naming this program after our accomplished colleague, member, and mentor, Teachers Without Borders hopes to carry on the spirit of Dr. Hungwa through the work of training teachers in peace education.