Mbarouk Mussa Omar is the Executive Director of Community Forests Pemba - CFP. Mbarouk is the founder of Community Forests Pemba (CFP) and the driving force behind its growing accomplishments. He has gained international recognition for leadership over innovative forest restoration, climate change restoration, and poverty reduction missions empowering over 50 thousand people across his island of Pemba, Zanzibar to date. Mbarouk is above all else a people mobilizer and when he's not in meetings he's on the ground organizing communities and working side by side with field officers to make change happen.