Rita GBODUI has more than twenty years of exciting experience, each more diverse than the last. She started her professional career in 1996 as a reporter at the National Togolese Television (TVT) and has always been involved in the humanitarian and social topics. A woman of challenges, Rita did not hesitate to take an opportunity to work in Benin in 1998. Thus, she left the cocoon of TVT for the Africa Office of Radio Nederland (BARN), a Dutch structure of support to radios, installed in Cotonou. In Benin, the native of Kloto graduated in Journalism and Audiovisual Communication and took other opportunities. She became a correspondent in Togo and Benin for Radio Canada International and later joined the editorial staff of CANAL 3 Benin, a local private television channel. She returned to Togo in 2006 after eight years of working in the field and became involved in humanitarian projects. The idea of joining the Concertation Nationale de la Société Civile du Togo (CNSC-Togo) was an obvious choice for this former student of the Centre d’Etudes des Sciences et Techniques de l’Information (CESTI) in Dakar (Senegal). She became Administrative and Financial Assistant in charge of communication and partnership (2006) and then Executive Director. With a reputation for openness and a positive attitude, this mother of three was recruited in 2009 to INADES Formation Togo, an NGO providing support and training, as Communication and Resource Mobilization Officer. Last born of a sibling group of 20 children, Rita, who was destined to be a magistrate, became over the years a specialist in advocacy, campaigns and influence work at the local, national, and regional levels. Her last position before joining Integrate Health was at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Country Office where she spent almost ten years (2012-2021). She is currently the Advocacy and Communication Specialist at Integrate Health.
Rita Gbodui
