MEET OUR TEAM

THE TRUSTEES

We are governed by our Trustees and supported by the Team Members of our Foundation. All of our Trustees and Team Members are volunteers and bring with them invaluable skills, experience and insight which helps to support and direct our work.

SOHAIL JUNA

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Sohail brings more than 20 years of experience in working within global technology businesses including Oracle, Microsoft and Salesforce. Working with enterprises across both the public and private sectors, Sohail has first-hand experience in understanding and solutioning complex business challenges. Having an interest in electronics and computer technology from an early age, he often spent time experimenting with new technology, often modifying items to change the way in which they worked “for the fun of it”.
As he progressed through his education and professional career, he became more focused on leveraging innovation in order to address a real world problem. His upbringing helped him to understand the value of community, education and being able to positively contribute what one is capable of contributing. Sohail founded the Juna Foundation to combine his passions for technology, education and community in order to help improve the opportunities available to people living in deprived communities.
Read More
Read LESS

REHANA JUNA

EDUCATION DIRECTOR
Regardless of a partial formal education throughout her schooling, Rehana sought the opportunities to overcome this. Studying as a mature student, whilst raising a young family, she went on to gain an honours in teaching and a Masters in Primary Education. Rehana has had a successful career spanning more than 30 years, in the education sector in the UK, which included working as a headteacher, Inclusion Manager and Family Worker.
Predominantly her experience has been working with the communities from diverse cultural backgrounds, families in challenging circumstances and pupils with special educational needs and disabilities. She brings a wealth of experience to the Foundation and is passionate about ensuring equal access for all. She continues to strive to remove barriers to learning and participation in schools for children and their families to promote their mental health and wellbeing and life opportunities.
Read More
Read LESS

KHAN JUNA

COMMUNITY DIRECTOR
Khan brings a wide ranging experience in community cohesion through his voluntary and public service appointments over the past 40 years in the UK. These have included Chair of Reading Council for Race and Equality, Chair of Ethnic Minority Chambers of Commerce and Asian Business Consortium, Independent Member of Thames Valley Probation Service and Chair of Thames Valley Police Authority from 2008-2013.
He is a strong believer in communities, including businesses, working together to promote positive change towards shared goals for the benefit of everyone. He works hard to ensure people from all walks in life feel valued, for who they are, and that they do matter. Khan was raised in rural Pakistan and has first-hand knowledge and experience of the rural cultural societies and challenges that young people, particularly girls and women face. He works closely with community leaders to bring about collective change within their communities.
Read More
Read LESS

the team

SHEHZAD LADHA

Educational Institution Co-ordinator
Shehzad brings years of experience from working at the UK Examination board, AQA, where he was responsible for helping students to communicate with educational institutions for the purposes of enrolment. Shehzad has first hand experience of the disparities that can grow between the technologies and processes that students and educational institutions use to communicate.
Shehzad has first hand experience of the disparities that can grow between the technologies and processes that students and educational institutions use to communicate.
Read More
Read LESS

SOUHILA BENHAMMOU

Teacher
Working as teacher in local schools within rural Algeria, Souhila saw first-hand how generations of students, whilst being comfortable with the mobile and social technologies they used day-to-day, would often struggle to embrace e-learning platforms and technology-enabled innovation designed to improve their learning experiences.
Predominantly her experience has been working with the communities from diverse cultural backgrounds, families in challenging circumstances and pupils with special educational needs and disabilities. She brings a wealth of experience to the Foundation and is passionate about ensuring equal access for all. She continues to strive to remove barriers to learning and participation in schools for children and their families to promote their mental health and wellbeing and life opportunities.
Read More
Read LESS

HOW WE CAN HELP

We are right at the beginning of our journey,

With our small team and local volunteers we are currently working to deliver our first Learning Facility
equipped with clean drinking water, clean and reliable energy, internet access, information
technology and trained teaching staff.

The Foundation Team will be working on-the-ground with local leaders and local families to ensure everyone
in the community has the choice to benefit from the project delivered by the Foundation.

We rely on community leaders to help us change cultural norms that result in groups of people being denied
access to education.

Stay up to date.

We occasionally send marketing emails. Please read our privacy policy for more information.

© 2024 Juna Foundation CIC. All Rights Reserved. Reg. Company in England & Wales (15890523)

Home

Our Story

Meet Our Team

Our Projects

Contact

Why cookies?

We use cookies to analyse website traffic, and to optimise and improve our website. We never use cookies to identify you. You can really help us out by hitting our “Accept” button.

You can find more information on our cookies page.

Accept
Decline