2006 Team Profile

Our guests come from Togo and Kenya through the Program for Christian-Muslim Relations in Africa. Follow participants on their visits to presbyteries across the United States.

Kenya

The Rev. Angéle Wilson-Dogbe

Women & Education Program Coordinator for the Program for Christian-Muslim Relations in Africa (PROCMURA)

The Rev. Wilson-Dogbe is an ordained minister of the Methodist Church of Togo. She holds a Diploma in Christian Theology from the Theological Institute of Porto-Novo Republic of Benin and a master's degree in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. She worked as parish pastor in her church before joining the PROCMURA Central Office in Nairobi in 2003.

As Women's Program Coordinator, Angele works with both Christian and Muslim women across the continent and coordinates the activities of the various women's programs at country level in PROCMURA's constituency.

As Education Program Coordinator, she works hand in hand with the Literature and Communications Officers in disseminating information related to Christian-Muslim relations across the continent and worldwide.

She is married to the Rev. Emmanuel Dogbe, a Methodist minister of Togo. They have a 2 year-old son (Prince-Emmanuel Junior Dogbe).

Miss Shaney Swaleh Salim

Ms. Salim is a committed and practicing Muslim who works as a counsellor at a drug rehabilitation center called the Omar Project in Malindi, Kenya. Addicts pass through a drop-in center where they are assessed and then transferred to the rehabilitation center.

Shaney assesses the clients for rehabilitation intake. She advises those who come on life-style issues, including safer injection methods; counsels them on sexually transmitted infections (STIs), HIV/AIDS and methods of prevention; and refers them to the Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) Center, and for family therapy.

Miss Salim's involvement in PROCMURA began in 2001, when she attended a Christian-Muslim youth workshop organized by the Interfaith Youth Peace Initiative (IYPI) in Mombasa, Kenya. Since then she has taken part in a number of PROCMURA workshops and seminars, most recently the PROCMURA HIV/AIDS consultation in 2004, and the PROCMURA/CEOSS (Coptic Evangelical Organisation for Social Services) exchange program in 2005. She now has strong ties with the work of PROCMURA and serves as an associate and contact person among the Muslim women in the Kenya coastal town of Mombassa.