Board of Directors

Dr. Tajuddim Millatmal, MD, MPH Dr. Tajuddin Millatmal was born in Shullana, a village in rural Afghanistan. He graduated from medical school in Kabul in 1976 but was forced to flee Afghanistan after spending a year jailed and tortured by the communist government. He joined the Mujahadim to fight the Russian invasion, but his opposition to Islamic extremism within the freedom fighter movement compelled him to flee to Pakistan in 1980 where he worked with other Afghan refugees. He is one of the founding members of the Afghan Doctors Society, Medical Education and Training for Afghan Women in Pakistan, and the Afghans Health and Social Assistance Organization (AHSAO). He became a citizen of the United States in 1996 and has continued to work for unification, peace and democracy on behalf of the people of Afghanistan. He estabished HIPP in 2000.
Rose S. James Rose S. James was born in St. Lucia, WI and has been in the United States for thirty years. She is a Human Relations/Social Sciences Instructor at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, NE. She earned a Bachelor in Human and Social Services Administration from Bellevue University and a Master of Human Relations from the University of Oklahoma. She is currently working towards a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice and a Certificate in Diversity at Capella University. In addition to her volunteer duties with HIPP, she sits on the Board of Project Extramile in Omaha, the Community Relations Committee for the Master of Public Health program at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, volunteers for the United Way of the Midlands by serving on one of their Allocation Panels, and participates in many civic associations in and around Omaha. She is a member of the American Association of University Women and contributes regularly to causes such as the Fraternal Order of Police. She is a fervent advocate of women and children and believes strongly in the mission of HIPP to achieve peace and prosperity for all and its goal in assisting the women and young girls of Afghanistan in gaining self-sufficiency.
Dr. Syed Hamidullah, Ph.D. Dr. Syed Hamidullah is a professor of earth and environmental science and former director at the National Centre of Excellence in Geology, University of Peshawar, Pakistan. He earned a B.Sc Honors and M.Sc. in Geology from University of Peshawar (1972-77) and a Ph.D. from Glasgow University, Scotland, U.K. He is the author of more than 70 publications in his fields and editor of 12 volumes of the Geological Bulletin, University of Peshawar, a repected journal in South East Asia. Dr. Hamidullah is the recipient of several national and international awards including Scientist of the Year 1993 from the Government of Pakistan, Environmental Awards 2000 and 2001 from IUCN - The World Conservation Union, Fulbright Fellowship Award 1985-6 (Princeton University) and Fulbright Fellowship Award 2001-2 (University of Nebraska at Omaha), on the basis of his work on environmental pollution in air and water, especially related to heavy metals and asbestos, on floods and other water and mineral resource issues in Pakistan (Himalayas-Karakoram and Hindukush mountain ranges) and parts of Europe (Bohemian massif) and U.K. (Scotland and Northern Ireland).
Lynelle Curtin Lynelle Curtin is the president of Prairie Rose Publications, Inc., mother of three children, a Tae Kwon Do black belt, president of Mothers for the New Millennium Club and a Sunday School teacher. She is a native Nebraskan who for most of her adult life has sought to promote strong families and peace between nations through her church work and service with international humanitarian organizations. Her work experience, which has included church missionary work and service with a geopoltical think tank, the International Security Council, has taken her around the United States and to nations as distant and diverse as Denmark and Thailand.
John Chambers John Chambers was born in Omaha and employed in the computer field since 1967. Married to Jude, his bride of almost 27 years. Two sons, Scott and Doug. The Lord has put the Afghans on John's heart and since then he has focused his attention on bringing hope to the Afghan people.
Bill Moore Bill Moore is the publisher and editor-in-chief of EVWorld.Com, a weekly, online publication devoted to the issues of sustained mobility and electric-drive vehicles. He was born in Germany and raised in the US. He holds a BA degree in theology from Ambassador College, St. Albans, Herts, England. He helped found the annual River City Western and Wildlife Art Exhibition and the OPPD/NPPD Power Drive, a high school-based electric vehicle competition that involves nearly 50 schools across Nebraska. His publication is read worldwide and his travels have taken him from the Berlin Wall to the Wailing Wall to the Great Wall of China.