Our Team

Bandjan Kourouma+

Clinical Mentor–Guinea

Bandjan Kourouma, born in 1984 in Conakry, is a dedicated and competent Guinean physician. He studied at the Faculty of Medicine odontostomatology at the Gamal Abdel Nasser University in Conakry, where he obtained his Attestation de fin d’études in 2012. Prior to that, he passed his baccalaureate exams with flying colors in 2005 and 2006. Bandjan also has a solid basic education, with a Brevet d’Étude du Premier Cycle obtained at Collège Soundiata Keita in Kouroussa in 2003.

In his professional career, Bandjan has acquired a wide range of experience. He worked as a Contractual Doctor on Duty (CPC) in the Komola CS through the NGO Médecin Sans Frontière (MSF) from February to November 2021. He has also worked as an Investigating Agent for health-related projects, notably on retrospective mortality and community auditing. He was even Supervisor of Community Agents in the active surveillance of Ebola and other diseases with epidemiological potential.

Since July 2023, Bandjan Kourouma has held the position of mentor at Santé Intégrée, drawing on his experience and knowledge as a healthcare professional. Today, in addition to his role as mentor, he continues to actively contribute to improving health in his community and beyond. Outside his career, Bandjan enjoys reading, cinema, and sport. A dedicated professional, he continues to provide valuable medical expertise and support important healthcare initiatives.

Barthélémy Anagba

Barthélémy Anagba+

Driver

Barthélémy is the 9th of a family of 12 children and the happy father of a daughter. As a driver at Integrate Health (IH), he is a fulfilled family man. With his energy and vitality, this native of Binah has always been fond of driving. Before joining IH, he was with NSIA Bank from 2015 to 2020, with all the authenticity and passion that characterize him. He was also the Driver of the Head of the Assemblies of God churches in the central region of Togo from 2012 to 2015. After having overcome many difficulties in his adolescence, Barthélémy practises at IH without any drumbeat where in parallel he devotes himself to animal husbandry, one of his passions.

Bellah Koumanam

Data Entry Assistant

Bellah Koumanam+

Data Entry Assistant

Bellah chose the professional way as soon as she obtained her A-level in 2019. Thus, she benefited from a training in Secretarial Office – Accounting assistant in 2020, validated by an internship at the end of the training. This training allowed her to discover the world of work. At the end of this training course, she was recruited as a marketing agent at TSW (Total Success World International). At TSW, Bellah showed motivation in carrying out the tasks entrusted to her. She joined Integrate Health (IH) in July 2021 as a Data Entry Assistant where she works on feeding the organization’s database.

Benjamine Elitcha

Benjamine Elitcha+

Accountant

Benjamine holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance Accounting from Kara University after graduating her A Level in Accountancy. Benjamine lives her daily life with joy and love and especially with the support of her life partner. Benjamine has been effectively assisting the organization’s Financial and Accounting Director since 2019 when she joined the organization as Accountant Assistant. Benjamine’s ambition is to use all her skills to help the organization achieve its objectives.

Bili Douti

Clinical Director

Bili Douti+

Clinical Director

Bili DOUTI has always been attracted to the health professions. Trained as a nurse, this soccer enthusiast holds a doctorate in Nursing Sciences obtained in Yaoundé (Cameroon) in 2018. His first professional steps occurred at the Sylvanus Olympio University Hospital (Lomé, Togo) where he worked in General Surgery from 2004 to 2007 and then in the Prematurity Department from 2007 to 2008. At the Sylvanus Olympio University Hospital, Bili discovered a rich and diversified nursing profession, particularly in terms of the technical care provided to patients, but also and above all in terms of relationships. In 2008, he was assigned to the CHR Tomdè of Kara. He occupied the position of Supervisor of the stomatology-ORL service until 2010 and then that of the trauma service. In the meantime, he became a trainer of trainers at ENAM Kara in 2009. Guided by the thirst for knowledge and discovery, Bili flew to Cameroon in 2012 for a Master’s degree in Nursing. He will be admitted for a PhD in Nursing. Throughout his years of work, Bili has developed expertise in management, nursing education, and research.

Passionate about teaching, coaching, and mentoring in the three axes of service delivery (preventive, promotional, individual clinical care including curative), Dr. DOUTI joined Integrate Health for the continuous improvement of the quality of care and services in public clinics.

Blandine Bokonam

Communications Program Officer

Blandine Bokonam+

Driver

Blandine joined the Integrate Health team as a Driver in November 2020 after a short stint at the NGO Plan International Togo from March to June 2019. Blandine obtained her CAP in 2015 then her Technician degree in Auto mechanics in 2017. Blandine has since then refined her driving experience through a refresher course from November 2017 to March 2019. She is determined to prove to the people and to the female population that a woman can be a driver in an organization such as Integrate Health.

Brigitte Assih

Training Coordinator

Brigitte Assih+

Training Coordinator

Brigitte obtained her Professional License in Health Sciences: Obstetrical Care at the National midwifes school “Ecole Nationale des Sage-femme (ENSF)” in Lomé in 2016. From 2016 to 2018, she worked as a Midwife at the “Saint Jean de Dieu” Hospital in Afagnan. Passionate about strengthening the health system, she was involved in the project of Strengthening the Health System, Reproductive Health and Sexual Rights (ProSanté) in the Kara region from 2019 to 2020 as a Quality of Service Assistant in the Binah prefecture. She supported the Binah District Management Team in the implementation of the quality approach at the district level. Brigitte joined Integrate Health team in August 2020 as Training Coordinator; she is committed to coordinating the activities of the Community Based Health System Strengthening program and to ensuring that all trainings of the program are done successfully for the success of Integrate Health activities.

Camille Arimoto

Camille Arimoto+

Communications Program Officer

Camille has a background in international relations. She worked with various international humanitarian organizations such as the International Committee of the Red Cross and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Starting with research and analysis of political contexts, she then gradually transitioned to communications. Prior to joining Integrate Health, she worked as a Communications Associate with an international NGO operating in displacement contexts and as a Graphic Designer with UNOCHA. She holds a Master’s Degree in International Affairs from the Hertie School of Governance.

Casimir Tcheou

Director of Innovation and Health Management

Casimir Tcheou+

Director of Innovation and Health Management

Charlotte Dzamado

Director of Partnerships and Institutional Relations

Charlotte Dzamado+

Director of Partnerships and Institutional Relations

Charlotte joined Integrate Health on July 1, 2021 as a Health System Strengthening Specialist to contribute to Health Systems Strengthening, especially at the community level. She is part of the Partnership team to accompany public health entities to accelerate the achievement of sustainable development goals related to health, including Universal Health Coverage.

Charlotte is a Doctor of Medicine with a Master’s degree in Public Health with an option in Epidemiology, and a certificate in national program management, formulation, and project management. Since 2007, Charlotte Yawa Dzigbodi DZAMADO, wife of AMEDIFOU, has worked in support of the Ministry of Health.

Christine Kotor

Database Manager

Christine Kotor+

Database Manager

A passion for reading, discovery, and a strong sense of duty. This is what Christine is made of! A socialite in her spare time, Christine got a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology with an option in Education obtained at the University of Lomé. She is now one of Integrate Health’s Data Managers. A beautiful evolution for her, who took her first professional steps in 2013 as a volunteer in the Association of Volunteers for the Promotion of Youth (AV-Jeunes). Indeed, Christine has evolved over the years to take on more and more varied missions and acquire new skills. From January 2014 to February 2017, Christine was in charge of Sexual and Reproductive Health Programs (SRH/RP) at AV-Jeunes. Then she moved to « Le Jourdain Vie et Santé » (JVS) as a YEWA Program leader from February 2017 to October 2019. Christine then served as a Monitoring and Evaluation Assistant in the same organization before having the opportunity to join Integrate Health. Her motto : “Learning, availability, and a job well done” !

Christophe Gbeleou

Togo Country Director and Co-Founder

Christophe Gbeleou+

Togo Country Director and Co-Founder

After witnessing numerous devastating cases of AIDS in his neighborhood, Christophe was moved to collaborate with local doctors and people living with HIV/AIDS to create the Association Espoir pour Demain (AED-Lidaw) in 2001. In 2003, Christophe worked with U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer Kevin Fiori Jr. to create Integrate Health to support AED to reinforce initiatives of community and the primary health system. From 1992 to 2004, Christophe worked for the Ministry of Health at the regional and national level supporting primary healthcare. Christophe advocates strongly for IH’s mission as it works with the existing system, supporting the system’s delivery of accessibly and quality services, particularly for vulnerable populations.

Constance Yindaya

Extension Coordinator

Constance Yindaya+

Extension Coordinator

Constance became a State certified Midwife in 2008, graduating from the National School of Midwives (ENSF) of Lomé. After graduation she worked at the Barruet Clinic from 2008 – 2011 as a midwife responsible for maternity, immunization, and family planning. Passionate about humanitarian work, she decided to become involved in volunteering through the PRVONAT National Volunteer Program (now ANVT) in 2012 as a midwife in the district of Be in Lomé. Always having the desire to save lives, she volunteered for ECOWAS 2013-2015 in Conakry, Guinea, where she was assigned to FRIA as a midwife instructor. From 2015 to 2017, Constance participated in the United Nations Volunteer Program in Conakry at UNFPA where she was assigned to NZerekore as a senior midwife for the Post Ebola Health Systems Reinforcement Project. She was responsible for coordinating the activities of national midwives recruited by UNFPA and assigned to the most vulnerable areas, providing supplies from targeted drug and equipment centers, and supervising and training midwives on site. Returning to Togo in 2018, Constance worked as a trainer for CPN and CPON providers to improve the quality of care in Togo and Chad. In addition, Constance was a maternal morbidity research assistant at Sylvanus Olympio University Hospital with Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the University of Lome. In 2019 she was hired as Integrate Health’s new Extention Coordinator, where she is committed to coordinating program activities and ensuring that supervisors and CHWs carry out IH’s Maternal and Child Health programmatic objectives.

David Mindamou

David Mindamou+

Driver

David joined the Integrate Health Drivers team in October 2019. Following his training in General Car Mechanics at UNION garage from 2000 to 2004, David gained professional experience as a personal car driver, courier driver at ESCALE restaurant, and driver of the Chinese company TBEA. These experiences make Esso-dom a routine driver. As for the other drivers of the organization, these acquired experiences give him a perfect mastery of the organization’s automotive tools. David plays a major role in transporting the organization’s staff and equipment to the action sites and during missions.

Dawn Fiori

Bookkeeper

Dawn Fiori+

Bookkeeper

Dawn Fiori has been an active member in community and social organizations for over 25 years. She was an elected member of the Medway School Committee for 9 years, where she was Vice-chair for 3 years. For years Dawn was an appointed member of the Medway Finance Committee, where she was the liaison to several town boards. After fifteen years in retail management and loss prevention, Dawn switched careers and for over ten years has been employed as an office administrator for R.P. Marzilli & Company. Dawn still lives in her hometown of Medway, Massachusetts, where she raised her 2 daughters, Shannon and Erin. She is also a very young grandmother of five. Along with her nephews, Thomas and Kevin Fiori Jr., and her sister, Susan Hafford, Dawn is one of the founding members of Integrate Health. It is her wish and dream that IH continues to grow and receive support so that every child in Togo can have a healthy mother to help them reach adulthood and that every mother, even those that are HIV-positive, can become a very young grandmother.

Désiré Dabla

Research Manager

Désiré Dabla+

Research Manager

Désiré joined the Integrate Health team as Executive Assistant to the Partnerships team in early 2017 after an internship with the US Embassy Development Office. His role consisted of administrative and financial management of the IH Office in Lomé and support to the rest of the team in terms of contact with partners. After obtaining his Master’s degree in Sociology that same year, Désiré enrolled in his thesis and decided to work on technological innovations in health. The objective of his work was to understand the conditions in which e-health applications are formed and their purposes given their recent growth in Togo. Since October 2020, Désiré decided to join the research team given his academic background in order to support the organization in generating evidence of the program’s effectiveness.

Edem Aziangbedo

Director of Operations and Co-Founder

Edem Aziangbedo+

Driver

Edem is one of the Integrate Health (IH) drivers based at Headquarters in Kara. He joined the IH team in September 2019. Trained as an auto mechanic with a long experience as a taxi driver and then as a driver at ERICSSON TOGO (SANKO S.A.R.L.), Edem has a perfect command of driving in urban, rural, and difficult to access areas. In addition to his driving skills, he has a perfect knowledge of the localities of North Togo and plays a major role of conducting IH staff to action sites during the various staff trips and missions.

Élise Warga

Élise Warga+

Director of Operations and Co-Founder

Living with HIV, Elise attests that Integrate Health and AED-Lidaw saved her life, which fuels her indefatigable motivation to continue the fight to improve healthcare in Togo. In 2004, Elise volunteered to manage IH’s procurement of the first antiretroviral medications provided outside of Togo’s capital city. Elise, who grew up with a straw roof over her head, has managed over $1.3 million in IH funding since that first round of ARVs arrived. Elise is an amazing example of the potential that can be unlocked through investment in local capacity building and looks forward to seeing IH’s expansion bring opportunities to more communities in Togo.

Emily Bensen

Chief Partnerships Officer

Emily Bensen+

Chief Partnerships Officer

Emily joined Integrate Health in 2014 as part of the Togo-based team and coordinated the launch of the Maternal and Child Health pilot. Now known as the Integrated Primary Care program, it has since been replicated in four districts in northern Togo. After transitioning to the US-based team in 2016, Emily helped triple IH’s annual budget and double their personnel while serving as Deputy Director. In late 2019, Emily took a 12-month leave to earn her MBA at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School. Upon completion, she returned to IH in October 2020 as Chief Partnership Officer, where she focuses on building coalitions to achieve health for all.

Erick Komlan

Development and Communications Manager

Erick Komlan+

Development and Communications Manager

Erick graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in English with a concentration in African Literature at the University of Lomé in 2009. He taught English in a private secondary school in Lomé for 5 years following his graduation. Erick joined BIO4EVER, which specialized in exporting biologic soya in Europe, as an input operator and secretary. Most recently, Erick worked as an English teacher at a technical school from 2015-2019. He joined Integrate Health as their Development and Communications Associate in June 2019, where he works as a liaison between the US and Togo teams to support grant reporting, communications, and donor relations.

Essolissam Pissang-Tchangai

Director of Monitoring, Evaluation, and Quality Improvement

Essolissam Pissang-Tchangai+

Accountant

Essolissam loves accounting and has a keen eye for a job well done. After graduating from high school, he decided to study accounting. His two years (2012-2014) as a cashier-seller at a textile retailer enabled him to acquire important accounting knowledge. He subsequently obtained the Advanced Technician Diploma in 2016 at the Centre de Formation Continue of the University of Lomé.

In 2017, he had the opportunity to learn the workings again at a clinic in Lomé. There, he worked as an Accountant-Cashier for six years in charge of cash management, tax and social security declarations, and the preparation and execution of monthly staff remuneration payments, among other tasks. At the same time, he continued his studies, graduating in 2021 with a degree in Accounting, Control, and Auditing from the Ecole Supérieure de Gestion, d’Informatique et des Sciences (ESGIS-TOGO). Essolissam has held the position of Accounting Assistant at Integrate Health (IH) since November 2023. In this position, his main responsibility is to contribute to the proper management of the organization’s funds for its activities.

Essossolim Adi

Cleaning Agent

Essossolim Adi+

Cleaning Agent

Essossolim graduated his A-Level in 2012 at CRETFP (a vocational trainig school). He then studied Philosophy at the University and went under training in Technical and Business Management. From June to November 2017, he was in internship as Human Ressources Manager Delegate. Since July 2018, Essossolim works at Integrate Health as Cleaning Agent.

Etonam Sowu

Etonam Sowu+

Director of Monitoring, Evaluation, and Quality Improvement

Etonam joined the IH team in 2016 after years of experience in NGO management, project management, and monitoring and evaluation across Togo. After receiving his Master’s degree in Sociology from the University of Lomé with a concentration in public health education, Etonam interned for the Togolese Federation of NGOs in administrative and project management. From 2012 to 2016, he worked as a Psychosocial Counselor, then Director of Monitoring and Evaluation for another local non-profit focused on people living with HIV, before joining IH’s M&E Team. In his role as Director, Etonam loves having the opportunity to be involved in the entire range of work that IH does by helping each team realize their goals.

Ferdinand Panla

Community Health Worker Supervisor Dankpen

Ferdinand Panla+

Community Health Worker Supervisor Dankpen

Ferdinand is a Nurse State Graduate. After an excellent training course at the National School of Medical Auxiliaries of Kara, where he graduated in August 2018, he started his professional life the same year with a professional integration internship at the Sanda-afohou health center (Bassar district). Ferdinand got to know Integrate Health (IH) during this internship through the mentoring activities of the organization he benefited from. Committed and willing to learn, he left to continue his career at Adéticopé health center in the maritime region after 8 months. In 2019, he was contacted by Manga health center (Bassar district) to be an assistant nurse. His path crossed again with Integrate Health. Through the clinical mentorship of IH, he gained more experience. Through contact with the Clinical Mentors and CHWs’ Supervisors of Integrate Health, Ferdinand fell in love with the organization and embraced its vision. This is how he joined IH a few years later to serve as CHWs’ Supervisor for the Dankpen district.

Fidèle Agohli Akakpo

Clinical Mentor Binah

Fidèle Agohli Akakpo+

Clinical Mentor Binah

Nurse State Diploma (IDE) since 2017, Fidèle has worked successively at two different levels of the health pyramid. He first made these skills and abilities available at the “Tout Est Grâce” Clinic in Kara where, for 23 months, he effectively contributed to taking care of patients from their admission, throughout their hospitalization until their recovery. He then spent 18 months at the Medical Social Center (CMS) of Helota in the health district of Keran, where he had to provide preventive, curative, and promotional care to the communities of the area, especially to children and pregnant women. Fidèle is strongly involved in the planning and implementation of community-based activities for the benefit of the population. Rigor, passion, creativity and a job well done are his motivations to efficiently accomplish the various tasks entrusted to him.

In addition to his experience as a nurse, he has a National First Aid Certificate which allows him to effectively provide a minimum of help and assistance to all people in case of need in order to maintain life. He has a driving license category B (light weight) and is also a soccer referee. He is also a member of the National Association of Nurses of TOGO (ANIIT).

Fidèle currently holds the position of Clinical and Administrative Mentor within the Community-Based Health System Strengthening (CBHSS) program of the NGO Integrate Health in the district of Binah. This position allows him to further deepen his skills while remaining open to the acquisition of new knowledge.

Flavien Parouzi

Guard

Flavien Parouzi+

Guard

Flavien was born in 1965 in Lama-Kara. Before joining Integrate Health team, he was a farmer and taught agriculture in a vocational school from 1989 to 2012. Since January 2017, Flavien has been working at Integrate Health as a Guard.

Gisèle Talabia

Community Health Worker Supervisor Dankpen

Gisèle Talabia+

Community Health Worker Supervisor Dankpen

Gisèle is a state certified Midwife. She obtained her BAC D in 2013 and her professional degree in obstetric care in 2016 at the National School of Midwives of Kara. Highly motivated to save lives, she began her internship at USP AOUDA then CHP Guerin Kouka for 6 months. In February 2017, she was assigned to the USP Koutchicho to be responsible for their maternity ward. She was assigned to the CHP Guerin Kouka in May 2018 to strengthen the maternity team of the DPS Denkpen. She was recruited as a CHW Supervisor for the Denkpen District by Integrat Health in April 2019. She carries out her duties with dedication and self-sacrifice so she can ensure that the objectives of the Maternal and Child Health Program are achieved.

Gnim Hyppolite Agouzou

Finance and Administrative Assistant

Gnim Hyppolite Agouzou+

Driver

Son of a teacher, Hyppolite grew up in a world far from road transport. After obtaining his A-level in 2012 at College Chaminade in Kara, he fell in love with driving. He then began training in a driving school in Kara, during his holidays “to have fun.” Having appreciated it very much, he became himself an instructor in the same driving school. Attracted by the business world, a construction project of the CIMTOGO factory in Kara offered him in 2014 a six-month internship. At the end of this internship, Hyppolite was retained to drive the company car of the cement plant. Once the construction of the plant wa completed in 2017, CIMTOGO-Kara reappointed him, thanks to the obtaining of his category D driving license in 2016 as a bus driver and a temporary courier. Hyppolite became very interested in Integrate Health afterwards, seduced by the energy emanating from the organization, the investment that his colleagues put at the service of the Togolese public health system for the strengthening of primary health care services. He joined Integrate Health in November 2022 as a Driver.

Grâce Detse-Vouti

Grâce Detse-Vouti+

Finance and Administrative Assistant

Grâce was immediately attracted by the reference to EQUALITY and EQUITY symbolized by the two parallel lines of Integrate Health logo. This strongly reinforces her adhesion to the values defended by the organization. Holder of a professional degree in Administrative Assistant at the University of Lomé, she first worked as an executive assistant at ASECNA. She then successively held the positions of reception secretary, technical secretary, and administrative assistant at the auditing and accounting firm TATE & ASSOCIES for five years. Sensitive to all issues related to the health of vulnerable people, Grâce is eager to contribute to the achievement of the NGO’s objectives.

Huberta Welbeck

Pharmacist

Huberta Welbeck+

Pharmacist

A solid education, coupled with a strong will and a good dose of diplomacy, make Huberta a shooting star. She holds a Doctorate in Pharmacy and an MBA in Health Economics from the prestigious African Center for Advanced Studies in Management (CESAG) in Dakar (Senegal).

Born in Lomé, she grew up in the Togolese capital city near her parents. She soon found her vocation: a love for science that she contracted on the benches of the College Augustin Planque of Lomé. In 2012, she went to Senegal to study pharmacy. Back in Togo, in 2020, where health needs are still important, Huberta practised her profession of pharmacist with empathy, rigour, and patience. Closer to her family, her friends, and in an ideal climate, Doctor WELBECK started her job at the Hygea drugstore.

The pharmacists now have missions beyond the dispensing of medicines. Huberta’s role as a pharmacist expanded, helping to improve and coordinate local care. This shift corresponded to her vision of the performance of the profession of pharmacist, especially in Togo where many particularities are related to health. She has a great interest in social issues and did not hesitate to join Integrate Health in order to help reach the objectives of the organization.

Isidore Eketan

Logistics Officer

Isidore Eketan+

Logistics Officer

A native of Lomé, Isidore obtained his Bachelors in History from the University of Lomé in 2016. After that, he took a job at a security agency. It was in this capacity that he first joined the team at Integrate Health. In 2017 he was promoted to Logistics Officer. In this role, he oversees fleet management, partner visit preparation, procurement, and mail delivery. Isidore is happy to work at IH because of its contributions to the improvement of the health of rural populations in Togo. He can’t wait to see IH’s work expand to all corners of the country.

Jacquie Yatchame

Clinical Mentor Bassar

Jacquie Yatchame+

Clinical Mentor Bassar

After obtaining her A-Level in June 2012, Jacquie entered the National School of Midwives in Lomé (ENSF), where she received her Professional License in Nursing and Obstetrics in August 2016. Jacquie then worked as a midwife on duty at the Mother and Child Hospital of S.O.S. Kara from January to April 2017 and as a midwife at Kara University Hospital from May 2017 to August 2018. Jacquie then worked as an interim midwife at the NGO AED-Lidaw, a care center for people living with HIV/AIDS. In April 2019, Jacquie continued her career as a GFA Consultant, Assistant for the quality of services in the framework of Prosanté GIZ in Kara in the Prefecture of Doufelgou. In February 2021, Jacquie joined the program team of the NGO Integrate Health as Clinical and Administrative Mentor in Bassar.

Jean Walla

Clinical Mentor Kéran

Jean Walla+

Clinical Mentor Kéran

Married and father of three children, Jean was born on November 15, 1989 in Akakai in the prefecture of Ogou. He obtained his A level degree in science domain at the high school of Sokodé. In the same year he succeeded the entrance exam to the National School of Medical Auxiliary in Kara where he obtained his professional degree in Health Science in 2014. Since then he gained his experiences by serving in several health facilities and health training at the position of State Nurse. Since March 2020, Jean is clinical and administrative mentor of the community-based health system in the Keran district. In this position, Jean looks forward to bringing his experience and skills to help the organization achieve its goals and succeed in its noble mission.

Jeanine Binizi

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder

Jeanine Binizi+

Accountant

Jeanine holds a Master’s degree in Audit and Control and a Master’s degree in Finance and Management Control. After obtaining her Bachelor (Management), this film enthusiast enrolled in the Faculty of Economics and Management (FASEG) of the University of Lomé where she obtained her Master’s degree in Finance and Management Control in 2010. After the University, Jeanine started looking for internships. This led her in turn to TOGOCEL (mobile phone and internet supplier company) and then to BCEAO (Central Bank of West African States). Later, the nature lover was hired by CECO Group as an Internal Controller. At the same time, Jeanine sought to continue her studies. This is how she obtained her Master’s degree in 2014 in Audit and Control. Then, in 2017, she joined a microfinance agency (UMECTO) as an Accountant. After nearly five years working there full time, she decided to join Integrate Health (IH) in September 2021, where she holds the position of Accountant.

Jennifer Schechter

Jennifer Schechter+

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder

Jennifer (Jenny) Schechter has a deep passion for making sure quality healthcare reaches the people who need it most. Jenny has been working alongside community activists, public health experts, and government officials to strengthen healthcare delivery for nearly twenty years. Jenny began working as a Peace Corps volunteer in 2004 in Togo, where she was privileged to partner with a community-based association of people living with HIV/AIDS, called AED-Lidaw. Integrate Health grew out of this partnership. Since taking on the role of CEO in 2012, Jenny has helped to expand Integrate Health’s impact in the fight to end preventable deaths of women and children. Working in the West African nations of Togo since 2004, and Guinea since 2022, Integrate Health collaborates with communities and the Ministry of Health to implement and test proactive, integrated, community health delivery innovations. The innovations developed by Integrate Health and the Ministry of Health are contributing to the global movement to bring about systems-level change in the way primary healthcare is delivered. Under Jenny’s leadership, Integrate Health has encouraged the recruitment of women across all levels of the organization, resulting in over 95% of Community Health Workers and over 70% of total staff members identifying as women. Integrate Health has been recognized by the Clinton Global Initiative and supported by several social impact investors. Jenny is a recipient of the Rainer Arnhold Fellowship with the Mulago Foundation, a recipient of the Sargent Shriver Award for Distinguished Humanitarian Service, and a recipient of the Cordes Fellowship. She was recognized as one of the University of Washington School of Public Health’s top 50 Impact Changemakers and as one of the National Peace Corps Association’s 40 under 40. Jenny serves as an Advisory Board Member for the Community Health Impact Coalition. Jenny received a Bachelor of Science in International Politics from Georgetown University and Master’s degrees of Social Work and Public Health from the University of Washington. She resides in New York with her husband and Integrate Health co-founder Kevin Fiori and their two sons.

Jérôme Palou

Community Health Worker Supervisor Binah

Jérôme Palou+

Community Health Worker Supervisor Binah

Jérôme PALOU, 30 years old, is married and father of two adorable girls. He obtained his professional license in nursing at ENAM of Kara in 2014. He then completed a six-month internship from August 2014 to January 2015 at the Polyclinic of Kara in Medicine. With this proven experience acquired during his internship, he held his first position as “Chef de poste” at the AFASA NGO Nursing in Kara where he practiced for 6 years. Driven by his desire to always work where the need is felt and especially to contribute to the welfare of the underprivileged and destitute, Jérôme has also developed his skills, in parallel to his position with the NGO AFASA, at the Center for the Development of Children and Youth (CDEJ) of Kara-Sud, which is a center created by the NGO COMPASSION from September 2017 to January 2021. He was in charge of monitoring the health status of the poor children of the center. He then joined the team of the NGO Integrate Health as supervisor of the CHWs in Binah in February 2021 to contribute to the achievement of the objectives and expectations of the NGO in this district.

Jessica Haughton

Associate Director, Community Health Systems Lab

Jessica Haughton+

Associate Director, Community Health Systems Lab

Jess Haughton has more than 10 years of experience developing research proposals and implementing community-based research projects. Throughout her career she has worked with local and international community organizations to train and empower community health workers to improve the health and quality of life of their communities. Jess has training in grant writing, implementation science, qualitative research methods, and program planning and evaluation. She earned her Masters in Public Health and Masters in Latin American Studies in 2012 from San Diego State University.

Jonathan Akakpovi

Logistics Officer

Jonathan Akakpovi+

Logistics Officer

Jonathan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Logistics and Transport Management obtained in 2018. His professional career began in 2016 with GIL-Service. In this Togolese agri-food company, this film buff held the position of Logistics Manager. Altruistic, he joined the NGO International Youth Fellowship Togo (IYF) in 2017. There, he worked as a volunteer trainer, delivering Mind Education courses in private schools in Lomé, a major professional, personal, human, and cultural enrichment for the man himself. After this experience, he continued his career at Oméga Marine International in 2018. Six months after joining the company, an opportunity arose in Tsévié. He headed for the town’s Regional Hospital Center (CHR). At the regional center in Tsévié, Jonathan carried out tasks related to logistics operations. Five years later, he was recruited by Integrate Health to grow professionally and participate in the NGO’s development.

Kafarou Alassani

Senior Manager, Knowledge Management

Kafarou Alassani+

Driver

Alassani Kafarou has nearly 20 years’ experience in the road transport sector. He joined Integrate Health in 2019. He is fluent in French and English. He worked as a driver at Europcar Togo, a mobility solutions company, from 2014 to 2019. He also worked at Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) from 2009 to 2014 after a two-year stay in Dakar (Senegal) where he was a driver for the United Nations Maintenance Fund (UNCDF). His impeccable work has made him an emblematic figure in the drivers’ team.

Kelly Lue

Kelly Lue+

Senior Manager, Knowledge Management

Kelly Lue joined Integrate Health’s MEQI team in 2019. From 2013-2015, Kelly was IH’s first Program and Development Associate, supporting programs, grants, and communications work. She then held positions working with community health workers in Peru and managing health programs for immigrant communities in NYC. Most recently, Kelly worked at Partners In Health in rural Malawi leading mobile health projects and strengthening M&E systems. An NYC native, she received her Master in Public Health from New York University and studied biology, history, and Hispanic languages as an undergraduate at McGill University.

Kevin Fiori

Senior Advisor and Co-Founder

Kevin Fiori+

Senior Advisor and Co-Founder

Kevin Fiori is the Director–Social Determinants of Health for Montefiore Health System’s Office of Population and Community Health, Director–Community Health Worker Institute at Montefiore; Associate Professor in both the Department of Pediatrics and Family and Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; and Co-Founder and Senior Advisor at Integrate Health. His research aims to address health disparities in communities both in the Bronx and abroad, and he is the primary investigator on multiple ongoing implementation research studies in Togo, West Africa and the Bronx, particularly focused on community health worker integration within health systems. He is a founding member of the Community Health Impact Coalition that aims to make professionalized community health workers a norm worldwide and is a co-lead in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-supported Global Learning for Health Equity Network. Dr. Fiori completed residency training in Social Pediatrics and served as Chief Resident at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore. He completed a MD at the University of Washington, MPH at Boston University School of Public Health as part of a three-year Peace Corps Service in Togo, and MSc in Clinical Research Methods at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He holds a BS in Chemistry and a BA in Human Development from the University of California, San Diego.

Kocra Lossina Assoua

Senior Director MEQI

Kocra Lossina Assoua+

Senior Director MEQI

Dr. Kocra Lossina Assoua is an international Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Expert with 15 years of experience in the field of international development cooperation. After completion of his PhD degree in Political Science at the University of Siegen (Germany), Kocra started his career as a Research Fellow (2007-2009) and Assistant Professor of Development Policy (2009-2013) at the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (Germany). He then held positions working as Monitoring & Evaluation Officer at the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) in Burkina Faso (2016-2018) and most recently as a Senior Evaluation Manager at the Drosos Foundation in Zürich (2018-2022). Kocra worked with several international organizations as an international consultant by leading several evaluation missions in Africa. His international expertise includes designing and managing M&E systems, result-based management (RBM), adaptative management, organizational development, change management & knowledge management/experience capitalization. Kocra is passionate about collecting, visualizing, and analyzing data, documenting lessons learned/good practices, facilitating evidence-based decision-making processes & improving organizational & programmatic performance.

Koffi Parkey

Advanced Training and Development Specialist

Koffi Parkey+

Driver

Koffi joined the team of drivers of Integrate Health in August 2021 after having accumulated experiences as a driver within the institution of National Consultation of Civil Society, driver of a scientific laboratory bus on the project called MOLAB and then driver of the NGO IT Village based in Dapaong, a city in northern Togo. Koffi has a good command of traffic rules, driving and aspires to be an essential pawn in the organization to strengthen its team and thus achieve its objectives and vision.

Koffi Senyo Siakou

Koffi Senyo Siakou+

Advanced Training and Development Specialist

Senyo has previously worked at Lovely Professional University in India, Techno India University in Ghana, and Quest International University.

After a Bachelor’s degree (2007) and a Master’s degree (2008) in Human Resource Management at the University of Lome, then an IELTS certificate in Ghana in 2010, Senyo was selected for an internship that ended with a contract as a lecturer at Lovely Professional University (India) in 2011. He worked hard, disciplined, was courageous, and sometimes selfless. He was Country Director in charge of Human Resources at Techno India University in Ghana from 2014 to 2019. Since 2019, Senyo was a Training Officer at Quest International University before joining the NGO Integrate Health in December 2021.

Passionate about cultural diversity, knowledge acquisition, and transfer for integral human development, he has written articles on cultural diversity and the importance of training. This passion for culture and racial equality has been recognized by some of the Indian newspapers with whom he has done interviews available online.

Married with children, Senyo enjoys tennis and traveling. He is excited to put the experience he has gained during his professional career to work for his country through the NGO Integrate Health.

Kolawolé Ibitoye

Employee Relations Manager

Kolawolé Ibitoye+

Employee Relations Manager

Kolawolé IBITOYE received his Master’s degree in Occupational Psychology and Organization at the University of Abomey-Calavi in Benin. He has more than 10 years of professional experience in human resources management including recruitment, administrative management, management performance and skills, training management, forecasting of jobs and skills, and salary processing. During that time he worked as an HR Assistant at Cabinet Consult Services Synergie, HR Manager at L & D Shipping, HR Assistant at ORAGROUP SA, and finally as the Head of Human Resources at CAMEG TOGO. Aimé Kolawolé joined Integrate Health in September 2018 as their Human Resource Manager.

Kombaté Sipiere

Database Manager

Kombaté Sipiere+

Database Manager

Kombaté has a humanitarian fiber. Before joining Integrate Health, this thirty-year-old man had over 5 years of experience in a local organization helping people living with HIV/AIDS: the Association « Espoir pour Demain » (AED-Lidaw). With a Bachelor’s degree in Management and Planning from the University of Kara, this animal husbandry enthusiast was in charge of Monitoring, Evaluation and Quality of AED-Lidaw from January 2018 to August 2022. During this period, he was also in charge of Monitoring & Evaluation of a project, the « NF3-Global Fund Project » until his departure from the same structure. Never short of energy, Kombaté participated in data collection projects, always within AED-Lidaw. These include mapping of key populations in Togo (from November to December 2017) and data collection for the Togo Community Processing Observatory (ITPC/WA) (from July 2017 to June 2021). It is natural that this father of family chose Integrate Health for the next step in his professional career as a Data Manager. That’s good! He loves data.

Komivi Badohoun

Quantitative Research Analyst

Komivi Badohoun+

Quantitative Research Analyst

Komivi holds a Master’s degree in Mathematics, Economics, and Statistics (MMES) from the African School of Economics (ASE) in Benin and a Bachelor’s degree in Development Economics from the University of Lomé. During his training, he developed a burning passion for research because of its greater importance in addressing development issues and decision-making processes. Engaged in research since August 2016 at the Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economy (IREEP) in Benin and then in 2019 as a researcher at the Center for Research and Opinion Polling (CROP) in Togo, he joined Integrate health in June 2021 as a Quantitative Research Analyst. His motivation for joining Integrated Health is inspired by a desire to help vulnerable communities solve their health problems.

Kondi Ousman Tchalaré

Development and Communications Assistant

Kondi Ousman Tchalaré+

Development and Communications Assistant

Ousman has been a communicator and media professional for ten years. He defines himself as a “Swiss Army knife” because he touches on several areas of the communications profession.

Passionate about communication, Ousman obtained his Baccalaureate (option Letters and Philosophy) in 2005. After two years at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences (Department of Geography) of the University of Kara (UK), he found his way by pursuing in 2007 in Dakar (Senegal) studies of journalism and communication at ISEG/CESMI where he obtained a Professional License in Journalism and Communication. Back in Lomé in 2010, Kondi took his first professional steps at Fanga Organization, a local events and artistic management company. Ousman was the Communications and press relations Officer.

In 2011, he met Canadian humanitarian photojournalist Daniel HAYDUCK. The two men decided to work together on behalf of the afp.fr and irinnews.com websites (now thenewhumanitarian.org).

In 2013, while he was a journalist for the Togolese bi-weekly newspaper Golfe Info, he was retained by a program of the United States Embassy in Togo to pursue a specialization in investigative journalism.

Having worked closely in the world of NGOs, Ousman, who was working at the communication and advertising agency Mistigri Global Intelligence Partner based in Lomé as the communication division responsible, joined Integrate Health in December 2021 to contribute to the establishment of a strong communication around a noble cause, that of strengthening the Togolese health system.

Kossi Tsolegnagbo

Senior E-Health Software Engineer

Kossi Tsolegnagbo+

Senior E-Health Software Engineer

Kossi started working at IH in 2015 as an IT specialist. He received a certificate in IT from the Center of Informatics Maintenance and Multimedia in 2014, a certificate in Advanced Xcel Programming at the Emergent Technologies Center of Kara in 2014, and degree from the University of Kara in Finance and Accounting in 2015. Outside of IH, Kossi teaches courses in accounting software and runs his own training center where he teaches web design. He was motivated to join IH to further his IT abilities and explore opportunities to use technology in the field of health. At IH, he is in charge of facilitating the use of technology in programs, particularly in community-based programming. He looks forward to IH’s new use of mobile technology for community health workers!

Laurent Kediyo

Community Health Worker Supervisor Kozah

Laurent Kediyo+

Community Health Worker Supervisor Kozah

Laurent joined the Integrate Health team in September 2019 as a Supervisor of Community Health Workers. He holds a professional degree in nursing, a diploma obtained in 2008 at the Ecole Nationale des Auxiliaires Médicaux (ENAM) in Lomé. Laurent was in charge of the listening and orientation center for people living with HIV at the NGO ODIH in Lomé located in Kodjoviakopé from 2008 to 2010 and then in charge of the Afidényigba health center in the Vo Health District from 2012-2019. His selflessness and seriousness at work earned him in 2017 a Diploma of Honor for service to the Prefectural Health Directorate of Vo. Laurent has therefore joined the team of the Integrated Community-Based Health Program to bring his leadership, his experiences, his acquired skills, and his expertise to the implementation of the program’s activities in northern Togo and he has been doing it very well since his arrival, as witnessed by the Community Health Workers of Kozah that he supervises.

Leila Celestin

Finance Director

Leila Celestin+

Finance Director

Leila Celestin is an experienced controller and administrator with over 30+ years of extensive international experience working with for profit and not-for-profit organizations in France, Haiti and the United States.

Prior to joining Integrate Health, she worked for a Haiti-based development firm with a focus on communications, business development, and program support. She has helped a number of not-for-profit organizations create and maintain effective fiscal systems and policies, cost-efficient technology systems, and the human resource infrastructure that supports their program, fiscal and operating demands. At Adecco, a leading provider of temporary staffing, permanent placement.in France, as an Accounting Manager, she supervised the overall financial systems for bookkeeping, budgeting, accounting and timely reporting. She also supervised Adecco’s implementation and conversion from AS400 based accounting system to PeopleSoft.

Leila received her accounting degree in Lyon France. She has obtained a number of certificates including most recently USAID Rules and Regulations, Financial Management of USG Funding and Procurement Planning & Execution from Humentum (former Inside NGO).

Likambantién Kombate

Infrastructure Focal Point/Translator

Likambantién Kombate+

Infrastructure Focal Point/Translator

Likambantién Kombate is a PhD student in African literature at the Department of Anglophone Studies (DEA) of the University of Kara. He was a teacher of English in high schools after obtaining his Bachelor’s degree in 2014 in the Savannah region and then worked on TEEO/English for the Professional Bachelor degree at the Institute of Science, Technology and Arts (ISTA) in Kara after his Master’s degree in 2018. He joined Integrate Health team as a part-time Translator/Interpreter serving as a communication link between the Construction for Change (CfC) team of architects and engineers and all Integrate Health partners involved in the renovation of health infrastructures. He permanently joined Integrate Health in 2021 as a permanent Integrate Health Translator attached to the technical team of CfC, a technical partner of Integrate Health.

Losseni Kone

Director of Finance & Administration

Losseni Kone+

Director of Finance & Administration

Losseni KONE is an experienced Finance and Administration Director with over fifteen years’ experience in international administration. Over the course of his career, this soccer fan and music lover has acquired in-depth knowledge of accounting, finance, organization, and management.

Born in Korhogo (Ivory Coast), Losseni, a financial engineer, is a product of the Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny (INP-HB) in Yamoussoukro. Before joining Integrate Health, he was Director of Finance at Handicap International Democratic Republic of Congo, where, from 2021 to 2023, he helped improve this international NGO’s administrative management and accounting monitoring procedures. As a globetrotter, he previously worked for the NGOs Marie Stopes International in Mali and Senegal (2017-2021), and Education Development Center (2016-2017) in Mali. He has also worked for Ecobank Mali (2015-2016) and the Swiss Agency For Development and Cooperation, also in Mali.

Losseni Koné joined Integrate Health as Finance and Administration Director in November 2023. His goal is to work with motivated teams to achieve the organization’s objectives, while maintaining a culture of collaboration and respect.

Louis Soklou

Biomedical Technician

Louis Soklou+

Biomedical Technician

Passionate about technology, Louis is one of Integrate Health’s staff who works to help the organization achieve its goals. Born in Atakpamé in the Plateaux region, he chose, after his baccalaureate (first part), to study computer and network maintenance in Lomé, until 2016. His diploma in pocket, his stay in the Togolese capital will continue, from February 2016 to February 2018, for an intensive and certified training in Biomedical Engineering at EBM-TOGO. This apprenticeship seemed fundamental for him to access the medical sector.

In June 2018, Louis was recruited by Protes SARL (a company specialized in technical assistance ; sales and maintenance of biomedical equipment) as a Biomedical Technician for Clinique Biasa in Lomé. He joined the SIM Consulting team one year later as a technical team supervisor.

Louis is now a Biomedical Technician for Integrate Health. He is in charge of the maintenance, installation, and commissioning of medical devices for the health service on I.H intervention sites.

Lune De Vie Ananie

Technical Manager

Lune De Vie Ananie+

Technical Manager

Lune De Vie ANANIE, born in 1987 in Kamsar in the Boké region of the Republic of Guinea, is a leading figure in the healthcare field. Her academic and professional background testifies to her commitment to improving the health of communities and her ability to lead healthcare initiatives at a strategic level.

Lune De Vie ANANIE graduated as a Doctor of State in Medicine from the Gamal Abdel Nasser University in Conakry in 2014. However, her commitment to healthcare led her to join the international NGO Santé Intégrée en Guinée as Technical Manager on February 20, 2023.

As Technical Manager with this organization, Lune De Vie ANANIE played a crucial role in the development of work plans, monitoring-evaluation, and reporting of health-related activities. Her expertise and strategic vision helped guide the implementation of health interventions in line with Guinea’s needs.

A highlight of her career was her role as Malaria Project Focal Point in the Pita Health District for Catholic Relief Service (CRS) between June 2020 and December 2020. She demonstrated her ability to coordinate and supervise essential activities in the field of malaria prevention and management, and also from January 1, 2021 to the end of February 2023: Pita District Technical Assistant for the prevention and management of the three (3) diseases (Malaria, HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis) subsidized by FM.

Lune De Vie ANANIE is an ardent advocate of lifelong learning, as evidenced by the many advanced training courses and seminars she has attended. Her extensive language skills, including French, Soussou, Maninka and Poular, enable her to communicate effectively with diverse communities.

In short, Lune De Vie ANANIE is recognized for her significant contribution to healthcare in Guinea. Her dedication to improving public health and her ability to lead strategic initiatives position her as a respected expert in her field. Her dynamic career and unwavering commitment reflect her positive impact on the health sector, both in Guinea and beyond its borders.

Mamadi Cissé

Recruitment and Onboarding Specialist

Mamadi Cissé+

Driver

Mamadi Cissé, a 42-year-old man from Guinea, joined the Integrate Health mission in July 2023 as a driver. In this vital role, he combines his driving expertise with remarkable team spirit and excellent conduct in a professional environment. Married with two children, he resides in the Coleyah imprimerie district.

With extensive experience in driving vehicles, both light and heavy, Mamadi excels in routine mechanical maintenance and writing vehicle logs. Before joining Santé Intégrée, he accumulated several years’ experience as a driver for various well-known organizations.

Between November 2019 and November 2022, he was a driver for FONG-Jhpiego/USAID, actively contributing to the High Quality Health Services for Development (HSD) project in the Faranah regional coordination. Previously, from January 2019 to November 2019, he held the same position but in the Kindia regional coordination, again for ONG-Jhpiego/USAID. Earlier, he was a driver for the Kankan regional coordination of NGO-Jhpiego/USAID’s HSD project from October 2016 to December 2018.

Prior to his involvement with Jhpiego and its humanitarian missions, Mamadi gained solid experience as a driver/courier for various organizations. From 2010 to 2015, he worked for the company KABA et Frère, then at MENERGA-PLUS, focused on logistics and miscellaneous services, from 2004 to 2009. Previously, from 1999 to 2003, he led the Director of SENKOUNA TRANSIT across the capital Conakry and the country.

Mamadi has sought to improve his professional skills by attending several training courses. Linguistically proficient in Malinké, Sousou, Poular, and French, Mamadi also has a wide range of interests. In addition to his professional commitment, he has a passion for teamwork and a deep interest in the life of rural communities. In his spare time, he enjoys music and sport.

His aim is to provide Santé Intégrée with his organizational skills, dynamism, creativity, analytical mind, availability, and leadership ability, thus actively contributing to the achievement of the organization’s objectives.

Mandjou Konaté

Digital Health Officer

Mandjou Konaté+

Digital Health Officer

Mandjou Konaté is a professional with a rich experience of over 7 years in database design, data analysis, and monitoring-evaluation of projects and programs within renowned institutions such as GIZ Guinea, Jhpiego-Guinée, Plan International Guinée, ChildFund Guinée and Fédération Denkadi de Dabola (FDD).

Since June 11, 2018, Mandjou Konaté has held the position of GIZ Expert in Monitoring Evaluation, based in Kindia, of the Reproductive and Family Health Program. His scope of action covers the regions of Kindia, Faranah, Mamou and Labé, with technical support for the PASA2 project. He excels in developing performance frameworks, analyzing data, and rigorously monitoring indicators through the DHIS2 system, thus demonstrating his expertise.

Prior to joining Santé Intégrée in June 2023, Mandjou served as Regional Advisor for Monitoring, Evaluation, and Research at JHPIEGO Guinea, where he played a vital role in projects focusing on Quality of Health Services and Mother and Child Survival.

He also contributed to Plan International Guinea as Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Officer, overseeing data collection and analysis, and facilitating the implementation of activities in the GUECKEDOU Program Unit.

Mandjou Konaté has a wide range of computer and monitoring-evaluation skills, with particular expertise in the design and analysis of databases in various software applications. His commitment to improving project performance, his proactivity and teamwork make him an essential asset in the field of monitoring-evaluation of development projects and programs in Guinea.

Mariama Bili

Mariama Bili+

Recruitment and Onboarding Specialist

Mariama holds a bachelor’s degree in Organization and Human Resources Management, obtained at FASEG (Economic and Management Sciences Faculty) at the Unisersity of Lomé. Mariama has more than 3 years of professional experience in human resources, particularly in recruitment and training management of staff. She started her career with an internship at EDI service, worked at “Central Informatique” and then held the position of HR Assistant at MRH Consult, which is a Human Resources Management firm. Dynamic, rigorous and able to work in a multicultural environment, Mariama joined the Integrate health team in November 2020 as Human Resources Assistant.

Marie-José Ekoue

Analyst and Data Manager

Marie-José Ekoue+

Analyst and Data Manager

José is a software architecture technician. She obtained her Brevet de Technicien Supérieur in Computer Management concentrating in Application Development in 2014 and her Professional Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Networks and Telecommunication option Software Architecture in 2015. Very motivated by the work, she began a professional integration internship as an Application Developer at the Management of IT Management of Personnel of the State (DGIPE). She was then recruited by MAPCOM TECHNOLOGIES as a Technical Sales Associate in January 2017. In October 2017 for the Local Governance Improvement Project for the Exercise of the Municipal Project Management (PAGLEMOC) to the Union of Communes of Togo (UCT) as Database Manager. In March 2019, she was recruited by Integrate Health to the position of Manager and Data Analyst. She carries out her duties with dedication, self-sacrifice and ensures that the objectives of the structure are achieved.

Maryama Diaw

Development Program Officer

Maryama Diaw+

Development Program Officer

Maryama is a NYC native with a background in public health and development. Maryama enjoys learning about ways to leverage digital health tools to improve health programs in Francophone West Africa. Her research interests also include adolescent health and well-being and maternal and child health in Francophone West Africa. Maryama has previously worked with the Population Council supporting a multi-country adolescent health program in the Sahel region as well as with Amref Health Africa’s development team. She received her Master of Public Health from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College (Geography modified Arabic major).

Maurice Djako

Maurice Djako+

Driver

Nerba’s professional vocation began in high school. Fascinated by the automotive world, he decided to train in this field in his second year of science school. With his driving license (category B) in his pocket, he took a training course which enabled him to obtain, in 2008, a Certificate of professional competence (CAP) in car mechanics. He’s a fast learner. That same year, he began his professional career as a Driver with “Display Environnement Santé” (D.E.S), a company specializing in sanitary and phytosanitary treatments. He spent three years there. In 2012, he became an instructor at a driving school in Lomé. He was in turn recruited by Orabank Togo in 2014, Total Togo in 2018 to transport its staff, and now IH. In 2023, when Integrate Health was looking for a Driver, this shared commitment to working for an organization motivates Nerba to apply. The thirty-year-old was selected and took up his new post in August 2023, determined to connect with the values of the NGO.

Modestine Pitekelabou

MEQI Assistant

Modestine Pitekelabou+

MEQI Assistant

After several years working for the Global Fund, Modestine joined IH in 2018 as Data Coordinator. Modestine worked at IH’s partner organization, AED, from 2015-2017 as a Global Fund monitoring and evaluation employee working with HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, collecting reports from field agents, processing data for the Global Fund, and liaising with community-based agents. Modestine received her degree in sociology from the University of Kara in 2017. IH’s dedication to providing the best quality care for every patient and the staff collaboration attracted her to join the IH team.

Mohamed Djamou Traoré

District Pharmacist

Mohamed Djamou Traoré+

District Pharmacist

Mohamed Diamou Traore was born on January 19, 1992 in Dabola, Guinea. He is a single Guinean citizen.

His academic career has been marked by an unwavering commitment to the field of health. He is currently in the process of obtaining a Post-Graduate Diploma in Supply Chain and Public Procurement at Empower School of Public Health in Switzerland in 2023. He has also obtained a university diploma in reproductive health from the Institut de Formation et de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Sciences de la Santé et de l’Éducation in Burkina Faso in 2021. Mohamed Diamou Traore has been pursuing his MBA in Management and Marketing of Health Products and Services at the International School of Public Health, Université Mohamed VI des Sciences de la Santé, Casablanca, Morocco since 2020.

His professional experience is rich and varied. Since July 2023, he has held the position of District Pharmacist at Santé Intégrée Guinée, where he is responsible for several crucial tasks linked to the management of pharmaceutical and health products. Previously, he was District Technical Assistant at the Direction Préfectorale de Santé in Kouroussa, working on the monitoring-evaluation of indicators for various health programs.

Mohamed Diamou Traore also has an impressive array of certifications and training attestations in various fields, from malaria to vaccine visibility, logistics, and research ethics.

Endowed with advanced computer skills and a good command of French and English, he is recognized for his team spirit, creativity, adaptability, and dynamism in all the projects he undertakes. His career path testifies to his determination to make a significant contribution to the field of healthcare and to improve people’s lives through his skills, knowledge and ongoing commitment.

Mohamed Karka

Chauffeur

Mohamed Karka+

Chauffeur

Mohamed est le chauffeur de confiance de SI depuis la mi-2017. En attendant d’obtenir son diplôme universitaire en Lettres Modernes de l’Université de Kara, Mohamed apporte un soutien aux opérations de SI sur le terrain et dans le bureau principal. Mohamed conduit les différentes équipes et le personnel sur le terrain en voiture ou à moto, et fournit également un soutien au bureau quand il est à Kara.

Mohamed Yattara

Mohamed Yattara +

Clinical Mentor–Guinea

Mohamed Yattara is a committed healthcare professional from Guinea who has dedicated his life to promoting health and serving his community. Born in 1985, he developed an early passion for the medical field and pursued solid training to realize his dream of becoming a doctor.

In 2018, he obtained his precious Diplôme d’Etat de Docteur en Médecine, marking the start of his professional career. His academic background also includes studies at the Faculty of Health Sciences and Techniques of the Gamal Abdel Nasser University of Conakry (UGANC), where he obtained a degree in Medical Sciences from 2006 to 2012.

Over the years, Mohamed has enriched his expertise and acquired essential skills in the medical field. From 2015 to 2016, he was actively involved in the fight against the Ebola epidemic in Guinea, demonstrating his dedication to public health and community safety. He has also participated in training courses on good clinical practice and COVID-19 case management, underlining his commitment to staying up to date with the latest medical advances.

In July 2023, Mohamed Yattara joined Santé Intégrée as a mentor. This role offers him a valuable opportunity to share his knowledge and experience with other healthcare professionals, contributing to the improvement of practices and the evolution of the healthcare sector in Guinea. His medical expertise and community involvement make him a valuable mentor for future healthcare professionals.

In addition to his medical skills, Mohamed is fluent in several languages, including French, Sousou, and Malinké, enabling him to communicate effectively with a wide range of patients. He is also proficient in a variety of digital tools, enhancing his effectiveness in an ever-changing digital world.

Mohamed Yattara represents the face of the new generation of healthcare professionals in Guinea, showcasing a commitment to the health and well-being of the population through his mentoring role and passionate medical practice.

Moussa Camara

Moussa Camara+

Driver

Moussa Camara is a professional driver, resident in Guinea, with extensive experience in the field of driving. Passionate about his profession, he has accumulated more than 6 years of know-how in transport, mainly in the service of high ranking personalities of the Guinean State as well as prestigious organizations such as WHO, RTL, and JHPIEGO, in addition to national NGOs.

His career path reveals his commitment and versatility. He has worked as a local driver on a number of important missions. From February to May 2019, he was involved in the enumeration and distribution of mosquito nets in the health districts of Boké and Fria. Between October and December 2018, he was a key link in the supervision of malaria prevention and community management activities in the Labé region. His contribution extended to the period from December 2017 to January 2018, when he piloted the consultation team for the CAP study of diseases with epidemic potential in several health districts.

The year 2017 was marked by his participation in the Stop-RTI project as a delivery driver in the Kindia region. He also supported the Télémélé DPS as a local driver at JHPIEGO for infection prevention and control in January 2017. In 2016, he played a crucial role as a local driver for Stop Palu, contributing to mass distribution in the health districts of Boffa and Dubréka. His humanitarian commitment extended to assisting the DPS of Kérouané in the fight against Poliomyelitis as a local driver for WHO in August 2016. From February to October 2015, he was a local driver for the Ebola Virus Disease Partner Platform in the health districts of Dubréka and Boffa. In 2014, he provided support as a driver for Madame Nabé Bintou CONDE in the distribution of LLINs on behalf of the Stop Palu project.

Moussa has also invested in his professional development. Between 2018 and 2019, he underwent professional training at the Agence du Service Civique d’Action pour le Développement (ASCAD). He also graduated in accounting from the Ecole Nationale de Secrétariat d’Administration et de Commerce (ENSAC) between 2015 and 2017.

On the language side, Moussa is fluent in French, as well as the national languages Sousou, Malinké, and Konianké. Outside of work, he devotes time to sport, reading, and exploring the Internet, showing a keen interest in balancing professional commitment and leisure.

October 2022 marked a new turning point in his career, when he joined Santé Intégrée as a driver, contributing to their noble mission. His experience and professionalism make him a key player in his field, ensuring safe and smooth travel for organizations dedicated to improving people’s health and well-being.

Moussa Diawara

Director of Human Resources

Moussa Diawara+

Clinical Mentor–Guinea

Moussa Diawara is a Guinean state nurse, born on December 31, 1985. He has dedicated his career to improving people’s health through unwavering commitment and solid expertise in the field of public health.

He began his educational career at the Institut de Perfectionnement du Personnel de Santé de DONKA, where he obtained his state nursing diploma. His passion for community health led him to study at the Ecole Nationale des Soins de Santé Communautaire in LABE, consolidating his skills in this crucial field.

Demonstrating dedication and competence, Moussa has held various positions within the Guinean healthcare system. From March 2017, he took on the role of deputy in charge of Planning, Training and Research at the Kissidougou DPS. In this role, he was a key pillar for operational planning, monitoring the implementation, and evaluation of health programs and projects.

His commitment to public health was not limited to planning and management. As Assistant to the Coordinator of the Centre d’Opération d’Urgence de Santé Publique (COU-SP) since February 2019, Moussa has played a crucial role in epidemic preparedness and response. He has developed preparedness plans and monitored the availability of emergency stocks, contributing to health security.

In July 2019, he became Human Resources Focal Point, where he took charge of administrative management and personnel monitoring. His professionalism and dedication have had a significant impact on human resources management within the organization.

From July 2023, Moussa Diawara extended his influence by becoming a mentor at Santé Intégrée. His role as a mentor enables him to share his expertise and experience with other healthcare professionals, contributing to the improvement of practices and the evolution of the healthcare sector in Guinea.

Outside work, Moussa is passionate about reading, cinema, and sport. These personal interests reflect his commitment to a healthy, active lifestyle, alongside his career focused on promoting health and well-being in his community.

N’Koya Camara

Cleaning Agent

N’Koya Camara+

Cleaning Agent

N’Koya Camara, a dedicated and passionate professional, has left her mark on the hotel industry. Born on August 28, 1990 in Conakry, Guinea, she chose the hotel business as a means of fulfilling her commitment to excellence and service. As a Guinean woman proud of her culture and heritage, she is fluent in French, Sousou, Malinké, and Poulhar.

N’Koya began her educational journey with unwavering determination, earning her Brevet d’étude de Technicien Supérieur (BTS) in tourism business management in 2013, followed by a Brevet d’étude du premier cycle (BEP) in cuisine-pâtisserie in 2012. She also demonstrated her academic skills by obtaining her Diploma in Social Studies in 2009. Her academic background reflects her desire to master different aspects of her professional field.

Her professional career has been marked by her involvement in a variety of businesses and organizations, demonstrating her versatility and adaptability. She was a freelance restorer for several NGOs, including Terre des Hommes, AGIL, CGPD and FEDIPHU, in N’Zérékoré in 2015-2016. She has also been part of catering teams for special events, such as the investiture of President Alpha Condé in 2010. Her involvement in a variety of roles, from cook to accounting assistant to event manager, testifies to her willingness to go the extra mile.

In October 2022, N’Koya Camara took the next step in her career by joining Santé Intégrée as a surface technician. Her role within the organization has added an extra dimension to her passion for excellence and service. As a surface technician, she has become a key figure in ensuring the cleanliness and hygiene of Santé Intégrée’s facilities. Her dedication to maintaining a clean and functional environment contributes directly to the well-being and smooth running of the organization.

N’Koya Camara is a dedicated professional with strong hygiene and maintenance skills. Her experience in various areas of the hospitality industry, combined with her current role at Santé Intégrée, demonstrates her ability to adapt and excel in diverse environments. Outside of work, N’Koya continues to be actively involved in her community, supporting causes close to her heart.

Nicole Tafebe

Nicole Tafebe+

Director of Human Resources

Nicole TAFEBE is a Human Resources professional with more than 20 years of experience acquired in Ivory Coast. She graduated from the Institute of Arts and Crafts of the city of Brussels (Belgium) in 1991, and has benefited from several trainings in management and development of Human Resources. She started her career at Access Telecom in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, where, for 7 years, she learned the basics of the Human Resources function, before joining the subsidiaries of the oil group Addax and Oryx in Ivory Coast, first as Human Resources Manager, then as Director. She then continued her career at Manutention Africaine Ivory Coast, a branch of the JAD CATERPILLAR dealer network in West Africa.

Nicole TAFEBE is a HR Director in contact with the field and at the heart of her teams. She likes to be close to her employees because “knowing your teams allows a certain agility.” For her, a manager must listen to her employees and adapt her speech in line with the group’s strategic project. Her role as HRD pushes her to promote her teams and to help them in the progression of their skills.

Noélie Baba

Administrative Assistant

Noélie Baba+

Administrative Assistant

An experienced Administrative Assistant, Noélie is a key actor in the smooth running of Innovation and Health Management team of the Organization, combining a sense of welcome, versatility and efficiency. Graduated with a Superior Technician Certificate in Management Assistant from CIFOP (Lomé, Togo) in 2012, Noélie’s career path has spanned a variety of sectors, from the corporate world to CAMEG (Togolese central purchasing office for essential and generic drugs). After more than seven years working for various companies and institutions in the country, this music lover decided to join Integrate Health, which she finds ambitious and stimulating, wishing to put her dynamism to good use. In this role, she is responsible for the day-to-day administrative tasks and secretarial duties of the Innovation and Health Management team.

Olivier Bamassi

Director of Integrated Primary Care Program

Olivier Bamassi+

Driver

After an experience as a driver in the company NET Afrique, specialized in electricity, Olivier joined the team of drivers of Integrate Health in December 2020 within which he ensures the transportation of the organization’s staff during the trips, during the convoying of the working material, or during the supply of the different intervention sites. Just like the other drivers of the team, Olivier plays an important role in achieving the organization’s objectives.

Olivier Fabre

Business Analyst

Olivier Fabre+

Business Analyst

Olivier joined Integrate Health in January 2022 as Business Analyst. Olivier has over 8 years’ experience working for non-profit organisations in finance and operations departments, and 5 years’ experience in managing positions for INGO’s country offices. He worked in Niger, Central African Republic, Afghanistan, and Haïti. He has a master’s degree in Business Administration from ICN Business School in Nancy, France.

Ousmane Telly Sow

MEQI Assistant

Ousmane Telly Sow+

MEQI Assistant

Dr. Ousmane Telly Sow is a physician with a passion for public health, and is a dedicated professional in the field of medicine. Holder of a State Diploma in Medicine, he chose to pursue his career in the field of public health, a path that enabled him to put into practice his interest in medical information management, analysis, and monitoring-evaluation, as well as in collaborating with various partners and health structures at all levels of the health pyramid.

Dr. Telly Sow obtained his Doctorate in Medicine in March 2021 from the Kofi Annan University of Guinea. His thesis was recognized with the grade “Très Honorable,” testifying to his commitment and excellence in his studies.

His professional career took him to the Bureau de Stratégie et de Développement (BSD) at the Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene in the Republic of Guinea. He worked in the National Health Information System and Research Division (SNIS), in the Statistics and Health Information Section. He was also a National Supervisor for the Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene, overseeing data-quality-oriented health training courses in different regions of the country.

The year 2022 was marked by Dr. Telly Sow’s active participation in the LLIN (Long-Lasting Insecticide-Treated Mosquito Net) campaign aimed at reducing malaria-related morbidity and mortality in the country. He has played a central role in data collection and analysis, as well as in monitoring and evaluation to assess the impact of the LLIN campaign on target populations in the health districts of Koundara, Forécariah and the commune of Matoto in Conakry.

In May 2023, Dr. Telly joined the NGO Santé Intégrée as a specialist in Monitoring, Evaluation and Quality Improvement (SEAQ). His expertise in monitoring-evaluation, medical information management and collaboration with partners make him a valuable asset to the organization.

Dr. Ousmane Telly Sow has a wide range of skills, notably in the use of tools such as Pack Office, DHIS 2, E Sigl, KoboToolbox and R for data analysis. He is fluent in French and proficient in English. As an individual, he describes himself as sociable, meticulous, responsible, and rigorous in his work. His interests outside work include health, soccer and volunteering.

Dr. Telly Sow’s professional background and passion for public health testify to his commitment to improving people’s health. His skills and dedication make him a promising professional in the field of public health in Guinea and beyond.

P. Émile Bobozi

P. Émile Bobozi+

Director of Integrated Primary Care Program

Emile has been with IH since 2014, when he started as head nurse of the AED clinic, then became Community Health Worker Supervisor, then Clinical Mentor, and is now mentor coordinator. Emile received his license in nursing and obstetrics from the National Medical Auxiliaries School in Kara in 2012, then went on to volunteer at the Kara University Hospital in reanimation, before working for the medical facility of the Central Bank of West African States and then the Medico-Social Clinic of Atchembade. As Mentor Coordinator, Emile is instrumental in the expansion of IH’s programs into new districts, as well as supporting the clinical mentor working in our four pilot sites. He’s motivated by the eagerness of IH to support the health system rather than replace it. His favorite part of IH, however, is getting to run ultrasounds for pregnant women!

Patrice Kao

Database Manager

Patrice Kao+

Database Manager

Patrice holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the Catholic University of West Africa (UCAO) in Togo. After working at the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) as a Research Assistant in the Studies and Statistics Department, Patrice joined the Center of Research and Opinion Polls (CROP) in Togo as a Researcher and Database Manager, where he later served as Assistant to the Director. Patrice also works at the Catholic University of West Africa (UCAO) in Togo in charge of practical work. He joined Integrate Health in August 2022 as a Data Manager and Analyst.

Patrick Nahm-Tchougli

Safety and Security Manager

Patrick Nahm-Tchougli+

Safety and Security Manager

Specializing in security, Patrick is a graduate of the United European Detective High School in Brussels (Belgium). He was notably posted at the Togolese office of the West African Gas Pipeline Company Limited (WAPCo), an international company that transports natural gas, before joining Integrate Health (IH) as Safety and Security Manager. With nearly 20 years of professional experience in the field of safety and security, Patrick has demonstrated his skills in large industrial groups including WAPCo where he spent 12 years as General Supervisor of Security. This rigorous and sociable man is responsible for the prevention of malicious acts that could harm the smooth running of the organization. His actions are aimed at ensuring and guaranteeing the protection of IH facilities and staff.

Patrick Tamatekou

Logistic Specialist

Patrick Tamatekou+

Logistic Specialist

Before joining Integrate Health, Patrick worked for “PILE-S Transport” in Lomé. Before that, he was Supply Logistician at “Handicap International Togo.” However, the 40-year-old hasn’t always been a logistician. In 2002, the Lomé native was trained in Business Management at the University Institute of Technology and Management (IUT de Gestion) of the University of Lomé, after obtaining his Baccalaureate. Patrick graduated from this vocational college in 2004 with a Technical university Degree (DUT). After several years working as a buyer for the “Population Service Internationale Togo” (PSI), the “Fonds d’entraide aux orphelins, aux démunis et aux handicapés” (FEODHA), the firm “Lumière Divine SARL”, and the company “SOROUBAT”, this nature enthusiast felt the urge to learn something new. So, in 2010, he enrolled in a Transport and Logistics training program to obtain a professional degree, and set himself a new challenge. In February 2023, Integrate Health called on him to act as interim logistician. He held this role for 4 months. His involvement and knowledge then enabled him to be recruited for the position. Patrick says he finds Integrate Health an inspiring professional environment.

Philomène Nyamedi

Cleaner

Philomène Nyamedi+

Cleaner

If geography, human contact, travel, and altruism were to be combined in a person, Philomène would be the archetype. Philomène represents several years of exercise to watch over the cleanliness of the offices which confirmed her appetence for the rules and measures of hygiene at work. For 3 years now, she has been working to integrate hygiene into the daily behavior of Integrate Health employees by keeping the organization’s premises clean.

Pierre Potcho

Data Entry Coordinator

Pierre Potcho+

Data Entry Coordinator

Pierre is a versatile man. Thirty years old, he has always loved numbers and challenges. After graduating from the University of Kara with a Bachelor’s degree in accounting in 2017, he did not hesitate to follow a practical training in monitoring and evaluation at AED-Lidaw. He then moved on to become a household interviewer for Integrate Health (IH) between 2018 and 2020. At the end of 2019, he offered services as an Accounting Assistant to the NGO. From these different experiences, Pierre acquired a good knowledge of IH and its maternal and child health program, now Integrated Primary Care Program (IPCP). His efforts and involvement in various activities of the organization allowed him to be recruited in 2020 as a Data Entry Operator. Performing his work with pride and without complex, he became Data Entry Coordinator at the end of 2022.

Richard Gnassigbe

Community Health Worker Supervisor–Bassar

Richard Gnassigbe+

Community Health Worker Supervisor–Bassar

Richard is a state-qualified nurse with a professional nursing license obtained in 2014 from the National School of Medical Auxiliaries in Kara. With his license in hand, Richard headed for Kétao (Binah district) for an advanced training course at the local health center. At Kétao health center, there was not only a succession of minor treatments, but also a succession of emergencies. In time, Richard was entrusted with overseeing the health center’s medical services. He spent three years there. Looking to broaden the scope of his missions, in 2017 he answered the call from the Guilgal Child and Youth Development Center (CDEJ) in Pagouda (Binah). There, Richard was in charge of preventive health activities and monitoring the center’s children. He also administered first aid, an extraordinary human adventure for this passionate researcher. The humanitarian bug having got hold of him, he will commit himself to Integrate Health as Supervisor of Bassar CHWs with his expertise and coaching skills.

Rita Gbodui

Advocacy and Communication Specialist

Rita Gbodui+

Advocacy and Communication Specialist

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.

Saha Yelebo New

Global Advocacy Associate

Saha Yelebo New+

Global Advocacy Associate

Saha was born and raised in Togo, West Africa. In 2013, Saha joined the Integrate Health team in Togo where she worked as the community outreach coordinator and later was part of the team that launched the Maternal and Child Health pilot program. Eager to explore her love for women’s empowerment, Saha left IH in 2015 to join Pathways Togo, a girl’s education NGO where she led the middle and high school program. While assisting young scholars and advocating for their rights to education, Saha saw first-hand the challenges girls face due to social perceptions of women’s role in society. This experience motivated her to go to graduate school, to strengthen her human rights advocacy skills. She moved to the United States in 2017, expecting to achieve that goal. Saha is happy and grateful for the opportunity to re-join the Integrate Health team on the US side, where she is hoping to contribute to the amazing work that IH is doing in her home country. On her first day of work in April 2020, she said, “it feels like home”!

Samson Tchalim

Community Health Worker Supervisor Kéran

Samson Tchalim+

Community Health Worker Supervisor Kéran

Married with one daughter, Samson was born in Kara in the prefecture of Kozah. He obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing and Obstetrics in 2015 at the National School of Medical Auxiliary in Kara. Since 2015, Samson has contributed to the improvement of the health system in TOGO by participating in Mass Treatment Campaigns in the fight against Neglected Tropical Diseases as well as vaccination campaigns. He has also participated in the implementation of advanced strategies in rural areas so that the least served populations can have access to quality health care. Since March 2020, Samson joined Integrate Health team as CHWs Supervisor in the Prefecture of KERAN. With this position he participated in the extension of the Community Based Health System Strengthening Program of Integrate Health and its implementation in KERAN.

Sébastien Palawia

Clinical Coordinator

Sébastien Palawia+

Clinical Coordinator

Sébastien is a State Certified Nurse with a Bachelor’s Degree in Health Sciences with a major in Nursing and Obstetrical Sciences. After a six-month training course at the regional Hospital Center in Kara-Tomdè, he was recruited in February 2018 by the National Agency for Volunteerism for a two-year volunteer mission at the NGO Jourdain-Vie et Santé where he was first a head nurse at the Medico-Social Center “Ma vie” at Lilikopé. In addition to this position, he was Zone Supervisor on the multisectoral Food Security and Resilience Building Program (ProSecAl). Since December 2020, he has held the position of Monitoring and Evaluation Officer on the same program covering two regions of activities, namely Maritime and Plateaux, a position in which he had to plan and coordinate the program activities within the NGO. In order to gain more experience and contribute more actively to community development activities, he joined Integrate Health in August 2021 as a Quality Manager.

Senkoun Mara

Senkoun Mara+

Clinical Mentor–Guinea

Senkoun Mara is a passionate and dedicated healthcare professional whose career path illustrates his commitment to community health and disease prevention. Born on November 19, 1979 in the Guinean town of Kouroussa, he has dedicated his career to improving the quality of life in local communities.

From his early days at Conakry’s Gamal Abdel Nasser University, where he studied medicine, Senkoun Mara showed a particular interest in the health and well-being of individuals. This passion has guided him through a rich and varied career, during which he has acquired extensive expertise in various fields of health and development.

With professional experience spanning more than two decades, Senkoun Mara has held a variety of key positions within renowned organizations. His extensive experience includes roles as clinical mentor, reproductive health manager, and supervisor in areas such as malaria prevention, distribution of long-lasting impregnated mosquito nets, infection prevention, and epidemic disease awareness.

In July 2023, Senkoun Mara joined Santé Intégrée as a clinical mentor in Kouroussa. In this role, he brings his expertise to the team and helps build the skills of local health professionals, while actively working on malaria prevention initiatives, mosquito net distribution, and raising awareness of public health issues.

His career path demonstrates a constant passion for community development and public health. From supervising field activities to collecting and analyzing demographic and health data and raising awareness of epidemic diseases, he has played a vital role in promoting health in his region and beyond.

His leadership and people management skills are evident in his role as clinical mentor, where he guides and supports other team members.

In short, Senkoun Mara is an exceptionally dedicated healthcare professional who has devoted his career to promoting community health and disease prevention. His expertise, passion, and ongoing commitment ensure that he will continue to play a vital role in improving the health and well-being of the populations he serves.

Sia Eugénie Tolno

Sia Eugénie Tolno+

Clinical Mentor–Guinea

Sia Eugénie TOLNO is a dynamic and committed state nurse whose career path reflects a deep dedication to the well-being and improvement of community health. Born in the town of Kissidougou, Republic of Guinea, she has always felt a strong connection to her community and a deep desire to contribute positively to its development.

From an early age, Sia Eugénie developed an interest in health and development issues. Her academic career testifies to her commitment to acquiring solid knowledge in these fields. She obtained her diploma in community health care from the Kankan School of Community Health Care, which marked the start of her career as a nurse. However, her passion for community development led her to continue her studies and enroll at the Institut Supérieur de Formation à Distance (ISFAD), where she is currently studying for a degree in Community Development.

Over the years, Sia Eugénie has acquired extensive experience in the field of community health and development. She has worked as a field agent for various organizations, including the Catholic Organization for Human Promotion (OCPH CARITAS Guinée) and Catholic Relief Services (CRS). Her responsibilities included supervising community health workers, organizing malaria prevention campaigns, collecting and managing data, and coordinating awareness-raising activities.

In addition to her work in the field, Sia Eugénie also pursued ongoing training to enhance her skills. She has obtained certifications in sustainable development, data collection, and project management. Her in-depth knowledge of project management and community mobilization makes her a versatile professional capable of leading large-scale development initiatives.

Her commitment is not limited to her professional career. She has demonstrated a constant willingness to share her skills and knowledge with others. In July 2023, she joined the Santé Intégrée organization as a mentor. With this new responsibility, she can now guide and support other team members, helping to build capacity and create a continuous learning environment.

Outside work, Sia Eugénie finds time for her interests, which include reading, research, sport and travel. Her ability to ride a motorcycle on difficult trails reflects her determination to overcome obstacles and go beyond her comfort zone to achieve her goals.

Her professional credentials testify to her professionalism and competence. She has worked in collaboration with experts in the field of health and development, contributing to the achievement of important goals for her community and beyond.

In short, Sia Eugénie TOLNO embodies the spirit of community development and commitment to the well-being of her society. Her background, marked by a combination of health, development and leadership skills, makes her an exceptional and inspiring individual. Her determination to create a positive impact will surely continue to propel her to new successes and achievements in the future.

Solange Possoli

Administrative Assistant

Solange Possoli+

Administrative Assistant

Solange is holder of a master’s degree in English with a major in African literature and a BTS in secretarial work. She was first an English language teacher for three (03) years before returning to the secretariat. Solange has more than seven (7) years of professional experience in the role of administrative assistant in various structures among which the Turkish Consulate in Togo and the CECO Group company. She joined the Integrate Health Team in August 2020 as Assistant to the Country Director.

Stella Kossivi

Clinical Mentor Kozah

Stella Kossivi+

Clinical Mentor Kozah

Stella joined the IH maternal and child health team in 2017 as a clinical mentor, bringing many years of experience working with patients and clinical staff in Northern Togo. Stella received her Physician’s Assistant license in 2013 from the University of Lomé. From 2014 to 2018, she worked in the field in Sokodé as a National Volunteer for the Togolese Association for Family Well-Being (ATBEF) before managing a government clinic. With IH, Stella is dedicated to capacity-building activities in clinics and communities to provide better care to children and pregnant and postpartum women. She looks forward to helping more community members as the program expands.

Stephane Bilim

Community Coordinator

Stephane Bilim+

Community Coordinator

Stephane is a State-certified nurse and obtained his license in nursing and obstetrics at the ENAM of Kara in 2014. Highly motivated by the work, he started a professional integration internship at CMS Adabawere after receiving his license. After nine months of training, he applied for the recruitment of AED nurses in April 2015. Passionate about a dynamism and the quality he brings to his work, he was promoted to Head Nurse of the AED clinic in October 2015. In this position, he was responsible for coordinating the activities of the infirmary in collaboration with two other nurses in addition to mentoring trainees. In May 2018, Stephane was selected as the Clinical Mentor for the Bassar Health District. As a program mentor, he oversees the implementation of the IH’s activities at the clinical level and ensures the quality of the services offered to the program’s targets in Bassar. He does this work with love and selflessness and ensures that the objectives of the program are achieved.

Stephanie Anderson

Executive Assistant

Stephanie Anderson+

Executive Assistant

Stephanie joined Integrate Health part time in 2017 as Executive Assistant and transitioned to full time in 2019. Prior to joining the IH team, Stephanie held positions at an association management company as an executive director, associate director, and conference planner for several nonprofits. She is a professional fiction and nonfiction editor and a published author. Stephanie majored in English and minored in History at Campbell University.

Sylvain Adivignon

Finance Controller

Sylvain Adivignon+

Finance Controller

Sylvain has been with IH and AED since 2011, when he was placed with IH via a Togolese volunteer organization, and has remained ever since due to the invaluable work experience he is gaining while supporting IH’s mission. Sylvain credits IH with incredible staff mentorship and leadership, particularly with the support of US-based executives. He believes IH’s provision of free care for pediatrics is an essential component for improving health across Togo, and he looks forward to continuing to aid IH in expanding its services to more communities.

Tamba Jude Tagbino

E-Health Software Engineer

Tamba Jude Tagbino+

Accountant

Tamba Jude Tagbino is a seasoned professional in the field of accounting management and public procurement, with over 10 years’ experience in the administrative, financial, and accounting management of development projects and international humanitarian organizations.

Born on June 24, 1989, Tamba embodies a high level of expertise in fund management and efficient procurement processes, in particular as Accounting Manager and Procurement Specialist at Plan International. Since February 2021, he has been with the TB-HIV Global Fund Project, where he has played a crucial role in the preparation of sub-recipients’ quarterly funding requests, budget monitoring, transaction entry and project accounting.

Tamba’s career path also reveals his commitment to Plan International, as Administrative and Financial Assistant for the EQuIP project, where he ensured the smooth running of activities linked to public procurement and administrative and financial management.

Prior to this, Tamba held the position of Administrative and Financial Manager at the NGO AFASCO, where he played a key role in drawing up and monitoring budgets, overseeing the accounting system, and planning purchases for various projects.

Tamba Jude Tagbino enriched his academic background by obtaining a Master’s degree in Administrative, Financial and Accounting Management from the Institut de Sciences Campus Burkina Faso in 2021. He is currently pursuing his quest for knowledge by working towards a Master 1 in Audit-Control de Gestion at E’SUP SHERBROOKE ACADEMY GUINEE. In 2023, he also acquired specialist certification in public procurement from CIEFO International.

Since July 2023, Tamba Jude Tagbino has joined the Santé Intégrée team as Accountant, bringing his vast expertise and dedication to the organization’s accounting management.

Théo Djimissa

Théo Djimissa+

E-Health Software Engineer

Théo is an Application Developer/System and Database Administrator. He graduated with a professional degree in Organizational Computing in 2017. Passionate about computer science, motivated, and being one of the best of his promotion, he was trained as an instructor helping the teaching team of his school to give classes, and do tutorials and practical work. Théo was hired by a software company in Lome as a Software Development Specialist after doing a pre-hire internship in October 2018. In June 2021, he joined Integrate Health team as a Data Manager where he performs his duties with professionalism, rigor, and enthusiasm.

Tina Bella Dourma

Data Entry Assistant

Tina Bella Dourma+

Data Entry Assistant

Tina’s primary and secondary schooling took place in her hometown of Kanté. After high school, she followed a professional training at CIB-INTA Kara. In 2018, she completed a training course in the said professional center. She returned in 2019 for a new internship at Integrate Health (IH) this time, and in Monitoring and Evaluation. At the end of her internship at IH, Tina continued her learning of the professional world with a new internship at the “Mutuelle Femme Epargne et Crédit.” In 2021, the “Union des Mutuelles d’Epargne et du Crédit du Togo” contacted her for yet another internship. She was finally recruited at the end of the year by Integrate Health as a Data entry operator. In this capacity, she led actions aimed at transmitting the NGO’s data promptly to the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Quality Improvement team.

Tobore Egborge

Development Director

Tobore Egborge+

Development Director

Tobore Egborge is an international development professional with over 15 years’ experience in the non-profit sector and with expertise in strategic planning, fundraising and business development. Tobore started her career in international development as a US Peace Corps volunteer in Zambia and has worked with organizations such as Catholic Relief Services, ICAP at Columbia University and the International Rescue Committee. Tobore’s international experience includes work focused on community health, education, and emergency response programs in countries including Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, South Sudan, and Zambia. She has a master’s degree in International Public Health from Tulane University in New Orleans; and an Advanced Certificate in International Education: Cross-cultural communication and training, from New York University in New York.

Valérie Pali

Community Health Worker Supervisor Bassar

Valérie Pali+

Community Health Worker Supervisor Bassar

Valérie was born in Broukou in the prefecture of Doufelgou. She did her secondary studies at Kara II high school where she obtained her A Level in 2009. She then enrolled in the midwifery school where she obtained her state midwifery diploma in July 2012. Valérie has 7 years of professional experience as a midwife at the clinic “TOUT EST GRACE KARA” where she attended trainings on the good reception of patients, PMTCT (Prevention of Mother and Child Transmission). At the same time she was working at AED KARA as a substitute midwife. Valérie joined Integrate Health team in March 2020 in the position of supervisor of CHWs in Kéran and intends to put all her experience, rigor at work and her midwifery expertise to the benefit of the CHWs she supervises and the women of the communities in which she is deployed to ensure their better well-being and thus contribute to achieving the objectives of the IH.

Venance Katin

HIV Program Officer

Venance Katin+

HIV Program Officer

Venance began his career as a senior health technician at the University Hospital Center of Kara. He was deeply moved by the disastrous health conditions of people living with HIV. He draws inspiration from the dedication of Peace Corps volunteers (notably Kevin Fiori and Jennifer Schechter) within the NGO “Association Espoir pour Demain” (AED-Lidaw) towards this vulnerable group for the improvement of their living conditions to work alongside them as a volunteer, thus contributing to the medical care of PLWHA in associative settings since 2004. He was identified by the national program for the fight against HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and hepatitis (PNLS-HV-IST) as a field actor to be strengthened by bringing him to have the inter university medical and paramedical diploma sub regional medical and paramedical sub regional of Francophone Africa to the care of people infected with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa in Ouagadougou (BURKINA FASO) in June 2009. After several national and international experiences with Expertise France and Integrate Health on the issue of HIV, he is now working at Integrate Health as a consultant in the global management of HIV infection.

Viviane Lantame

Community Health Worker Supervisor Kéran

Viviane Lantame+

Community Health Worker Supervisor Kéran

Viviane was predestined to become a doctor when she was younger. Due to lack of means, she decided to become a nurse. She was admitted, after obtaining her baccalaureate (second part) at the Modern High School of Sokodé, to the Normal School of Medical Assistants (ENAM) of Kara, in 2010. She graduated as a State Nurse in 2013. In August of the same year, Viviane joined the pediatric department of the Regional Hospital Center (CHR) of Kara-Tomdè for an advanced training course. She was positively noticed, in September 2014, by a catechist who appreciated her work and her sense of dedication. The latter recommended Adja to the administration of the Saint Jean de Dieu Hospital in Tanguiéta, Benin, where she worked as a State Registered Nurse in neonatology for almost two years, an experience she loved.

In July 2016, Viviane was recruited as a nurse at the Medical and Social Center (CMS) of Farendè (Binah). Jovial and hard-working by nature, she was promoted three years later to become head nurse of the Farendè health center where she worked for five years. Since December 2021, Viviane has been working for Integrate Health as a CHW Supervisor in Kéran. Her experiences will be a great asset to the IPCP program team to advance the cause of accessibility to primary care for all in Togo and more specifically in the Kéran district.

Yayé Aïssatou Bobo Diallo

Finance and Administrative Assistant

Yayé Aïssatou Bobo Diallo+

Finance and Administrative Assistant

Yayé Aïssatou Bobo Diallo, a seasoned professional with solid experience in communications, secretarial, administrative, and office techniques, is renowned for her dynamism and commitment. With her excellent communication skills and ability to adapt, she has made a number of significant contributions along the way.

Since May 2023, Yayé Aïssatou Bobo has held the key position of Administrative and Financial Assistant at Santé Intégrée Guinée. In this role, she contributes her expertise to the efficient management of the organization’s administrative and financial operations, demonstrating her versatility and reliability.

Before joining Santé Intégrée, she played a major role as Assistant Manager at SOS Children’s Villages Guinea, where she exceeded expectations as administrative and financial assistant as well as logistics manager. Her versatility was highlighted by her role as communications focal point.

Her previous experience as Executive Assistant at AGENCE YOKAM and Cashier at PHARMACIE SAPHIR consolidated her skills in administrative and accounting management.

As Communications Manager at ICIMMO Sarl, she brilliantly managed communications and prospecting for the company’s international customer portfolio, underlining her passion for communication.

Yayé Aïssatou Bobo has also devoted her time and energy to humanitarian causes, as evidenced by her position as Awareness Officer at PROPEB/GIZ, where she contributed to the STI/HIV/AIDS awareness campaign in schools.

Her studies at the Institut Supérieur de l’Information et de la Communication (ISIC) led to a Master’s degree (BAC + 4) in Communication. She has also followed various training courses and internships, such as her work placement in the sales department at FLEXI COM, which have enriched her professional skills.

Apart from her professional commitments, Yayé Aïssatou Bobo finds solace in reading and enjoys gastronomy.

Yvette Mangbassim

Community Health Worker Supervisor Binah

Yvette Mangbassim+

Community Health Worker Supervisor Binah

Yvette grew up in Kozah prefecture, Togo. Yvette began studying to become a midwife in 2011 at the National School of Midwives in Kara. Yvette graduated three years later with a professional degree in health sciences in obstetrical care.

A woman of convictions, Yvette began her professional career at Yadè-Bohou’s health center (District of Kozah). In May 2015, she went to the Guérin-Kouka health district (northern Togo) where she worked at the Kidjaboun Peripheral Care Unit (PCU) as Reproductive Health Manager and at Guérin-Kouka’s District Hospital. Two years later, the call for national volunteering came. Yvette was in charge of Agoè-nyivé health center in Lomé.

Eager for new experiences, this volleyball enthusiast left the Togolese capital for a practical internship at the Regional Hospital Center of Kara-Tomdè in March 2020. With this knowledge, this mother of two children headed to the Binah district in January 2020 where she worked at the Center for the Development of Children and Youth (CDEJ) in the Madjatom locality. Yvette took care of the vulnerable groups and provided them with nutritional assistance. Yvette joined Integrate Health in December 2021 with the ambition to put her skills at the organization’s service to achieve its objectives.

Zarifou Ouro-Longa

Clinical Mentor Dankpen

Zarifou Ouro-Longa+

Clinical Mentor Dankpen

Holder of a professional Bachelor degree in Health Science, option Nursing and Obstetrics obtained in 2016 at ENAM Kara -Togo, Zarifou worked as a state nurse at the Medical-Social Center of Atchangbadè from September 2016 to April 2017 and then as a state nurse at CHP Kouka from May to October 2017 before being appointed head nurse of the health center in Koutière. Zarifou joined Integrate Health in September 2019 as a Clinical Mentor in Dankpen District, where he worked as a head nurse. This position, held before joining the organization’s Community-Based Health Program team, makes him a routine part of the program and mentoring system implemented by the organization. This allows him to easily fulfill his ambition to collaborate with the Dankpen team (Community Health Workers and service providers) to raise the level of indicators for health facilities that are suffering and to achieve the objectives set by the employer. Zarifou works to ensure the continuity of free care in the four health centers for which he is the clinical mentor with quality in order to allow the integration and extension of the program to the remaining district’s health facilities.

Kozah District

Abiré Aime Sewou

Abiré Aime Sewou+

Sarakawa Team Community Health Worker

Abiré has lived in Sarakawa since the age of 16 and joined IH’s Community Health Worker team to help her community that was suffering. She admires the way IH has truly partnered with the community, and she loves working with both pregnant women and children to ensure their health and prosperity. Since beginning her work, Abiré has seen fewer deaths in her community, and the affordability and quality of services now available give her tremendous hope. Abiré takes pride in working with IH to continue to create change and better health in Sarakawa and looks forward to prosperity in her community.

Afi Kpaba

Afi Kpaba+

Sarakawa Team Community Health Worker

Afi has lived her whole life in Sarakawa and became a Community Health Worker with IH at the age of 21. When the Community Health Worker program started in Sarakawa, Afi jumped at the opportunity to bring joy and wellbeing to her community by helping women and children thrive. She has seen big changes in her community since IH’s programs began, including a significant drop in the number of fatalities and illnesses left untreated. Afi looks forward to IH’s program expanding and reaching more communities across Togo, bringing improved health and family happiness throughout her country by providing continuous medication availability, respectful and quality care, and community-based initiatives.

Assibi Nadege Botcho Amezo

Assibi Nadege Botcho Amezo+

Djamdé Team Community Health Worker

Nadege was born and raised in Djamdé, where she was a farmer prior to becoming a Community Health Worker with IH. Driven by the desire to help her community, she was particularly drawn to IH’s partnership because she knew her community would thrive through the partnership. She is proud of the significant differences she has seen in her community, including the majority of women who now receive pre- and post-natal consultations at regularly scheduled intervals and who promptly seek care for their children when they’re ill. Nadege is empowered by the knowledge she can impart to her community and to her own family members. She looks forward to the many ways the IH partnership with Djamdé continues to strengthen her community, particularly the focus on affordable and accessible family planning.

Assnapyalo Florence Akawa

Assnapyalo Florence Akawa+

Sarakawa Team Community Health Worker

Florence has lived in Sarakawa her whole life and became a IH Community Health Worker at the age of 19. She was originally motivated to help children and pregnant women to create change in her community by improving the health of those around her. She enjoys active case-finding, where she gets to seek out sick children and pregnant women in her community and provide them with care and support when they need it most. She has seen significant changes in her community and takes pride in her part in creating happier families and decreasing maternal and child mortality in Sarakawa. Florence looks forward to continuing her work with IH and seeing the ongoing success of the program.

Azoumare Luc Gnezim

Azoumare Luc Gnezim+

Djamdé Team Community Health Worker

Luc has spent his whole life in Djamdé and joined the IH Community Health Worker team in 2015. Before becoming a Community Health Worker, Luc didn’t know much about health, but he now credits the health of a person as being essential to the hope and development of a community, particularly children’s health. He is proud of being a Community Health Worker, in particular his ability to care for the children in his community, including his own. Since joining IH’s Community Health Worker team, he has noticed changes in behavior in his community, in particular an increased sense of cohesiveness, as people are united by their health and happiness. Luc is determined to continue to ensure children remain happy and healthy in his community and to promote IH’s programs in the community.

Babalana Justine Bakeda

Babalana Justine Bakeda+

Adabawéré Team Community Health Worker

Justine has lived her whole life in Adabawéré and joined the IH Community Health Worker team at the age of 20. She was first motivated to join IH’s mission when she saw how her community was suffering but couldn’t help itself because of the cost of healthcare and knew the IH program would make a difference. Since becoming a Community Health Worker in 2015, Justine has noticed everything change in her community. Healthcare is affordable and accessed, women truly understand how to care for themselves and their families, and the community is much stronger. Justine is the main Community Health Worker in charge of hospitalization follow-ups and spends a lot of time with families at hospitals. She is proud of the work she does and looks forward to IH’s future in the community.

Babanam Honorine Toyou

Babanam Honorine Toyou+

Djamdé Team Community Health Worker

Babanam has lived her whole life in Djamdé and joined the team of IH Community Health Worker in 2015 at the age of 21. When Babanam saw the ways in which members of her community were suffering, particularly the children, she decided to dedicate herself to improving the lives of those around her as a Community Health Worker. Having now worked for several years as a Community Health Worker, Babanam is proud of the way her community has thrived since the beginning of the program, as well as the impact working as a Community Health Worker has had on her own life and livelihood. Babanam gets immense joy from seeing better health in her community as IH’s partnership with the community progresses, and she looks forward to many more years of success.

Biniwe Madeleine Teou

Biniwe Madeleine Teou+

Adabawéré Team Community Health Worker

Biniwe has lived in Adabawéré her whole life and is incredibly happy to be an IH Community Health Worker. Prior to working for IH, she worked as a health center polio Community Health Worker and was eager to return to work as a Community Health Worker when IH started the program in Adabawéré. Biniwe is glad to be able to help her community get healthier and has noticed the changes in her family and in her community: parents don’t hesitate before seeking help for their children, and hygiene has improved significantly in families. Caring for very young children and pregnant women gives her hope for the future of her community. She looks forward to implementing more best practices in her community with IH and seeing health continue to improve.

Damawai-Douwè Kassan

Damawai-Douwè Kassan+

Djamdé Team Community Health Worker

Kassan has lived her whole life in the Kozah district and joined the IH Community Health Worker team in 2015. She was inspired to become a Community Health Worker as her children got older and she had the time to care for other people’s children. She is happy to be working as an IH Community Health Worker and gets to take the children in her community under her care, working with parents and the community to keep children healthy and smiling, preventing the sicknesses and deaths that existed before the program started in Djamdé. Kassan has noticed a decrease in poverty in her community as families are healthier. She looks forward to her new skills in counseling and providing family planning to help families in Djamdé become healthier and stronger.

Kémèwa Tagba

Kémèwa Tagba+

Djamdé Team Community Health Worker

Kemewa has lived her whole life in Djamdé and has many years of experience working as a Community Health Worker with a variety of organizations. She greatly enjoys working in her community, and did so first as a PSI Community Health Worker, leading community education sessions on HIV, before joining the IH Community Health Worker team in 2015 to continue to strengthen the health of her community. She is proud to be saving and improving lives, particularly through the empowerment of women to take better care of their health and the health of their children. Personally, working as a IH Community Health Worker has given her a lot of new opportunities and successes in her life, including being better able to care for herself and her children. Kemewa looks forward to continuing to work as a Community Health Worker with IH and expanding the program to allow her community to thrive.

Kéméwalo Agama

Kéméwalo Agama+

Sarakawa Team Community Health Worker

Kéméwalo has lived in Sarakawa for more than 15 years and became a IH Community Health Worker in 2015. She was originally motivated to become a Community Health Worker as a means through which to serve her community and help herself care for her family. Kéméwalo takes great pride in the changes she has seen in her community, and particularly enjoys active case finding and being able to connect women and children with reliable, quality healthcare and community support. She looks forward to continuing working towards a healthier and happier community as a IH Community Health Worker.

Koudjoukalo Rolande Sansan

Koudjoukalo Rolande Sansan+

Sarakawa Team Community Health Worker

Koudjoukalo has spent her whole life in the Sarakawa area and joined IH’s Community Health Worker team at the age of 20. She wanted to serve her community, and IH’s mission gave her hope for improving the health of her community. She is motivated every day to actively seek out pregnant women and sick children by knowing that she is helping her community and herself by extension. Koudjoukalo finds particular joy from bringing young children back to health. She looks forward to continuing to work with IH and bring health to her community.

Lamabélé Reine Tchewafei

Lamabélé Reine Tchewafei+

Kpindi Team Community Health Worker

Reine is a Community Health Worker who has lived in Kpindi for over 16 years. She was first motivated to become a Community Health Worker with IH by her desire to help children thrive in her community. Reine has remarked that since her start as a Community Health Worker in 2015, the rate of illnesses among children and community members has drastically declined. She wants to continue to educate people about pediatric health and to save the lives of as many children as possible around the world. She takes pride in the skills and abilities that the IH-Kpindi partnership has given her, and she continues to work hard to put those skills to good use in her community.

Lioudou Kossiwa Kola

Lioudou Kossiwa Kola+

Djamdé Team Community Health Worker

Lioudou is originally from the Kara region but has strong ties to her new home in Djamdé. She chose to pursue being a Community Health Worker to help the women and children in her community. She credits IH’s partnership with the community with equipping her to better care for herself, for others, and for teaching her many new skills. She is motivated every day to work closely with her patients, particularly pregnant women, to ensure happy, healthy pregnancies. Lioudou is proud of the many changes she’s seen in her community, in particular the healthier pregnancies she has had the pleasure to accompany as a Community Health Worker. She looks forward to increasing her knowledge of pregnancy management through IH and helping her patients thrive.

Mabadina Romaine Tangboa

Mabadina Romaine Tangboa+

Adabawéré Team Community Health Worker

Romaine has spent her whole life in Adabawéré and has spent many years working in her community. She first volunteered as a community medication distributor for ten years for polio and neglected tropical diseases and conducted community education sessions on meningitis. She initially worked for IH as a replacement Community Health Worker before joining full-time. Romaine has learned a lot about herself and her community through working as a Community Health Worker and enjoys empowering others to take charge of their health. She has seen many changes in the health status of children and pregnant women, particularly in the way children are no longer treated at home. Instead, their parents seek out professional care from a Community Health Worker or clinic-based staff. She maintains a positive attitude and keeps pushing herself to be courageous in the face of challenges and keep improving the health of her community.

Manawezoue Justine Samala

Manawezoue Justine Samala+

Kpindi Team Community Health Worker

Mananwezoue grew up in Kpindi and was devastated by the child mortality rate occurring in Kpindi. She took the initiative of becoming a Community Health Worker in 2016 to combat this persistent issue. Since the start of the program, Manawezoue has seen a tremendous positive impact from IH’s work within her life and her community. Child mortality rates have noticeably dropped and have remarkably changed the lives of families in the community. She also is able to better support her family. Manawezoue takes pride in her role as Community Health Worker and the work she is able to do with IH.

Mariyama Bataka

Mariyama Bataka+

Sarakawa Team Community Health Worker

When Mariyama was given the opportunity to become a Community Health Worker, she didn’t hesitate to join IH’s mission to improve the health status of her community. She has seen many changes in Sarakawa since IH partnered with the community, including a greater knowledge base among mothers, who now receive regular pre- and post-natal visits and promptly seek out care for their sick children, significantly reducing preventable deaths in her community. Positive changes in her community, families, and children give her pride and inspire her to persevere in her role as community health worker. Mariyama looks forward to helping IH expand its mission and give hope and health to more communities across Togo.

Mazalo Florence Malakpa

Mazalo Florence Malakpa+

Kpindi Team Community Health Worker

Florence grew up in Kpindi and always dreamt of working in the health field. When the opportunity arrived in 2015, she immediately jumped at the chance to be a Community Health Worker in Kpindi. She is motivated in her job as a Community Health Worker because she wants to save children’s lives and the lives of people in her community. She has seen a change in her community members’ reaction to their health. Now mothers are quick to take their children to the clinic, women rarely give birth at home, and community members in general just seem healthier. These results are what motivate her to serve her community and be proud to work for IH.

N’danida Justine N’Danatche

N’danida Justine N’Danatche+

Kpindi Team Community Health Worker

At age, 23 Justine decided to become a Community Health Worker to spread awareness about various health topics in her community and share the gift of good health. In becoming a Community Health Worker, Justine is extremely proud to better serve the children and the families within her community. She feels equipped with resources that allow her to make a substantial impact in her community. Justine is proud that her work has led the majority of women within her community to attend prenatal consultations and to give birth at a clinic with a trained health professional. She hopes to continue to share the knowledge and resources with which IH equipped her with more community members.

Tchilalo Rebecca Tchotchokou

Tchilalo Rebecca Tchotchokou+

Kpindi Team Community Health Worker

Rebecca has lived in Kpindi since 2011 and joined IH’s team as a Community Health Worker in 2015. Leaving behind her job as a seamstress, Rebecca became a Community Health Worker due to her love and passion for educating community members on maternal and child health topics. Rebecca takes pride in her work, as she can now better care for herself and her family, as well as for the community that has been her home since 2011. She is inspired to work hard daily to decrease deaths in her community, as well as encourage a decrease in home births. The program has allowed families to save money and invest it elsewhere, providing a boost for her community, and Rebecca looks forward to many more years of an IH-Kpindi partnership.

Tchilalo Ruth Tchiou

Tchilalo Ruth Tchiou+

Kpindi Team Community Health Worker

Ruth has lived her whole life in Kpindi and left her job as a seamstress to become a Community Health Worker and help the community that has always supported her. Prior to the Kpindi Community Health Worker program, Ruth noticed women rarely came to prenatal consultations, and families did not have the financial resources to pay for maternal and pediatric health services. Now Ruth is proud that women start prenatal consultations within their first trimester and that families take the initiative to take their ill children to the Kpindi clinic. Ruth is happy that everyone is positively affected by her and the other Community Health Workers’ work within their community, and she looks forward to many more years of a successful partnership between Kpindi and IH.

Toba Skon

Toba Skon+

Sarakawa Team Community Health Worker

Toba has lived in Sarakawa his whole life and chose to become a IH Community Health Worker in 2015 to aid in ensuring all children and pregnant women receive free, quality healthcare in Sarakawa. Toba has seen big changes in his community, as IH provides essential help to communities most in need, particularly in the survival rates of mothers and children. Toba hopes to one day see the impacts of maternal and child health programming and health systems-strengthening across Togo.

Véronique Latta

Véronique Latta+

Adabawéré Team Community Health Worker

Veronique has lived in Adabawéré since 2011 and joined the IH Community Health Worker team in 2015. She chose to become a Community Health Worker to help women help themselves and their children, to share knowledge, and to empower those in her community. She’s seen many changes and is proud of the way her community has such a strong bond with IH, particularly the way women are at ease because they know they are cared for and respected in the healthcare they are receiving. Within her own home, she is empowered to care for her children and herself, bringing pride to her family for the services she provides with her skillset. Veronique looks forward to more improvements in her community as women grow and learn and are able to take better care of their families.

Yamtoko Yvonne Atale

Yamtoko Yvonne Atale+

Adabawéré Team Community Health Worker

Originally from the village of Lesio, Yvonne has lived in Adabawéré since 1994 and has served as a Community Health Worker for the Adabawéré health center for many years. Primarily a farmer, she was motivated by the struggles she had to go through every day to join the IH Community Health Worker team. She is proud of how much she has learned from IH and how she can help women protect themselves and their families. Yvonne credits IH with saving the lives of children in her community by helping them pay for and access lifesaving healthcare. Successes of her work as a Community Health Worker can also be seen in the adoption and understanding of family planning within her community. Driven by her life goal of helping struggling families, Yvonne looks forward to many more years of serving her community as a Community Health Worker.

Yine Felicité Kahindate

Yine Felicité Kahindate+

Sarakawa Team Community Health Worker

Felicité has lived her whole life in Sarakawa and chose to become a community health worker to address the suffering in her community. Each day, she sees her community getting healthier and witnesses increased dialogues about health in Sarakawa. Felicité’s hope comes from the daily proof she witnesses of the ways families have come to accept IH’s programming and actively seek out proactive treatment for themselves and their children, leading to healthier and stronger families. Felicité is proud to serve with IH, as the partnership between Sarakawa and IH has yielded tremendous and unexpected results.

Zinabou Mamam

Zinabou Mamam+

Adabawéré Team Community Health Worker

Zinabou has lived in the Adabawéré area for most of her life. She became a Community Health Worker to help her community and enjoys her responsibilities and impact on the community. Zinabou is proud of the way her community has changed and how it no longer suffers from high rates of maternal or infant mortality. She is motivated to work by the effectiveness and quality of the health system since the IH partnership began, and she knows her work positively affects her community. She looks forward to seeing the partnership continue to help her community thrive.

Bassar District

Adjokouma Alakourou

Adjokouma Alakourou+

Kabou Sara Team Community Health Worker

Adjokouma was looking to find meaningful work, and when Integrate Health came to Kabou-Sara looking for Community Health Worker candidates, she was urged to apply. She believes in the utmost importance of proper child care and addressing illnesses quickly, especially among children under five. This work allows Adjokouma to give educated counseling to pregnant women and steer them towards free services at their local clinic.

Afi Ankosso

Manga Community Heath Worker

Afi Ankosso+

Manga Team Community Health Worker

Driven by an urge to give back to her community, Afi joined IH as a Community Health Worker in Manga in 2018. Her work makes her heart feel whole, and she is inspired every day to treat illnesses among children in her district. As a mother of two, she values the importance of giving women the opportunity to take control of their reproductive health through family planning options that best match their needs.

Aoussi Bimba

Aoussi Bimba+

Manga Community Heath Worker

Aoussi ran her own workshop as a seamstress but eagerly joined IH as a Community Health Worker in Manga when they partnered with her local clinic in 2018. She values her role in bringing treatment options directly to households so that children can receive preventative care that often reduces their need to travel to the clinic. She has seen a reduction in illnesses within her district since she began working with IH. Although the work is hard, Aoussi finds it extremely fulfilling.

Assossimna Tchambakou

Assossimna Tchambakou+

Koundoum Team Community Health Worker

Assossimna became a Community Health Worker to support her family and community and uses her shared experiences as a mother to better educate women in her community about prenatal and infant care. Since joining IH in 2018, she has seen immediate progress since the program launched in Koundoum, where villagers often lived far from the local clinic and lacked finances to find transportation and pay for services. Now the rate of mortality has dropped, and women value the need to seek professional medical attention and give birth at the maternity clinic.

Assossinime Aparatchou

Assossinime Aparatchou+

Kabou Sara Team Community Health Worker

Assossinime values the opportunity to educate households in her community about primary care and identifying danger signs among children and pregnant women so that they can seek appropriate medical assistance. She had experienced similar situations where she could not afford to seek care for her sick children and it made her feel helpless. As a Community Health Worker for Integrate Health, she is inspired to consult families in her community every day so that they give their children timely and optimal care at no cost.

Assoura Tonougbabou

Koundoum Community Health Worker

Assoura Tonougbabou+

Manga Team Community Health Worker

Assoura grew up in Manga and worked as a volunteer educator before joining the IH team as a Community Health Worker in 2018. The work is important for her because she is able to educate households on illness prevention so that they can avoid acquiring preventable diseases on their own terms. Seeing women take initiative by seeking prenatal care and insisting on facility-based deliveries is a big step to achieving gender equity within her community, and she is grateful to take part in that progress.

Aworossi Makamassou

Aworossi Makamassou+

Koundoum Community Health Worker

Aworossi has seen her rural community suffer from poor access to quality healthcare services for years, and when Integrate Health began recruiting for community health workers in Koundoum, she jumped at the opportunity. Using her new training, she is able to play a role in reducing preventative illnesses by teaching families about the importance of family planning, prenatal care, and facility-based deliveries.

Ayaa Yguine

Ayaa Yguine+

Koundoum Team Community Health Worker

Working as farmer before being recruited as a Community Health Worker in 2018, Ayaa frequently saw the women in her community unable to seek prenatal care due to lack of finances and education about their own reproductive health. Thanks to her training with Integrate Health, she is able to consult families in their households about key ways to take preventative measures in their personal health and how to recognize danger signs that require further medical attention. Ayaa is inspired by her work and hopes to play a part in increasing the health standards of her rural community.

Azoumi Soule

Azoumi Soule+

Sanda Afohou Team Community Health Worker

With good health, you are able to make educated choices and have the freedom to do what you want versus what you have to do. This is why Azoumi is passionate about her work and has seen impressive progress within her community in just 6 months of Integrate Health beginning its partnership there. As a young mother, she is particularly motivated to serve her community, where she is able to make an impact in the health of both children and entire families by giving them informed consultations and health information.

Bozolim Kamda

Bozolim Kamda+

Sanda Afohou Team Community Health Worker

Bozolim grew up in Sanda Afohou and recently gave birth to her fourth child before becoming a Community Health Worker with IH in 2018. As a mother, she was sad to see many of her neighbors unable to make trips to their local health clinic because they couldn’t afford transportation and medical costs. Since she has started working with IH, she has seen an impressive change, and mothers now can afford and understand the importance of prenatal care for both their and their baby’s health. The community trusts her, and she trusts that her work is making a significant impact towards developing the place she calls home.

Clari Tcha

Clari Tcha+

Manga Team Community Health Worker

Before joining IH in 2018 as a Community Health Worker, Clari had experienced many obstacles. Having to drop out of school when her father passed away due to lack of financing, she worked in the market selling goods. When she left for the three-week training before officially taking on her role as a Community Health Worker, Clari gained a confidence in herself that she never knew existed. Her family has benefited from her new role, and she is now able to give women more autonomy to make family planning decisions on their own terms. She is impressed by the progress she sees within her community and looks forward to continuing her work for herself, her family, and her community.

Djariétou Aboubakar

Manga Community Health Worker

Djariétou Aboubakar+

Koundoum Team Community Health Worker

Djariétou joined Integrate Health in 2018 so that she can help improve the lives of other women in her community. Prior to becoming a Community Health Worker, she spent two years of adventure in Coutonou before marrying and raising her two-year-old child back in Koundoum. She has seen a lot of progress already and is able to convince women to see the value in prenatal care thanks to her platform as a Community Health Worker. She believes that women’s health is the key to improving the local economy and looks forward to continuing to learn in this profession. Djariétou hopes to eventually work in the health center so she can continue making an impact on the health of her community.

Ebélabiwè Bignale

Ebélabiwè Bignale+

Manga Community Health Worker

Ebélabiwè was born in Manga, but spent much of her childhood in Bago (Tchamba district). Nicknamed “Akouvi,” she is one of 12 siblings. Akouvi dropped out of secondary school after the death of her father. She met her future husband in Bago, and in 2015, the couple decided to return to Manga to make a life for themselves. Akouvi and her husband made their living from farming. Struggling to make ends meet, she started selling the local drink and making braids. In 2019, the Chef Canton of Manga was looking for women who meet certain requirements to become Community Health Workers (CHWs) for the Integrated Primary Care Program. Akouvi applied and was selected. On completion of her training, she completed a month’s internship at the Manga health center and with the local CHW supervisor. She was a replacement CHW from 2019 to July 2021, when she was appointed. Akouvi confides that being a CHW has lifted her out of poverty. She’s doing something with her life, and her husband encourages and motivates her on a daily basis.

Essodom Patawolo

Essodom Patawolo+

Sanda Afohou Team Community Health Worker

Essodom has been raising her four children in Sanda Afohou for the past 18 years and joined the IH team in 2018. She worked as a Community Health Worker for the Red Cross previously and brought her prior expertise to her new role as a Community Health Worker with IH. She is passionate about saving the lives of her fellow community members and making sure women and children have proper access to essential health services at their disposal. She is grateful for the financial autonomy the job gives her, which allows Essodom to inspire health behavior changes in her community every day.

Florence Djabi Kondi

Florence Djabi Kondi+

Kabou Sara Team Community Health Worker

Florence became a Community Health Worker to make a difference in her community after completing her university studies in Philosophy. It was all too apparent that women and children were particularly vulnerable to premature mortality as a result of preventable diseases going untreated. When Integrate Health came to Kabou-Sara, Florence not only gained a reputable vocation, but she also became an agent of progress within her community for the betterment of women and children.

Garé Gaou

Garé Gaou+

Bangeli Team Community Health Worker

Garé has seen a great change in her community since beginning her work as a Community Health Worker in Bangeli. She was inspired to work for Integrate Health because she witnessed too much maternal and child mortality and wanted to help in their efforts to save lives. She is proud to support family planning initiatives in her community because it gives people the right to choose what is best for their families.

Hodalo Kadaga

Hodalo Kadaga+

Kabou Sara Team Community Health Worker

After being forced to drop out of school because her parents could no longer afford to send her, Hodalo moved back to her village and got married. Now a mother of three, she decided to apply for a Community Health Worker position to support her family and community. She is proud to see the lives of young children being saved thanks to their services, in addition to an increased rate of women receiving prenatal consultations to help them have safe and healthy pregnancies. As a mother, she feels particularly aligned with the work and has seen incredible progress since Integrate Health partnered with her community.

Koffi Babosse

Koffi Babosse+

Manga Team Community Health Worker

Before joining the IH team as a Community Health Worker in Manga, Koffi worked as a farmer after leaving school. She chose to become a Community Health Worker because she wanted to help her community by caring for vulnerable children and women. The villages she works in are far from their local clinic, so having the capacity to bring services directly to households is incredibly effective. She is a mother, and her work not only helps her family financially, but allows her to use her experiences to help other women make educated decisions about family planning, prenatal plans, and their family’s health.

Kossia Makouya

Kossia Makouya+

Bangeli Team Community Health Worker

Kossia was eager to join Integrate Health because of high rates of maternal and child mortality from preventable illnesses that she witnessed in her community. With her training as a Community Health Worker, she can now help educate women who often experienced complications during their pregnancies and didn’t pursue prenatal consultations due to lack of funds. She strongly believes in the importance of family planning and strives to educate young girls so that they too can work towards the advancement of their communities without being pulled back by unwanted pregnancies.

Laré Koutom

Laré Koutom+

Koundoum Team Community Health Worker

Growing up in Koundoum, Laré joined the Integrate Health team in 2018. Forced to drop out of school before graduating, she uses her new role as a Community Health Worker to help others achieve their career objectives by providing them with free healthcare services so that they can lead healthy and successful futures. Not only does the work benefit her community, but it also gives her self-confidence and strength to support her family and treat the illnesses that too often afflict her neighbors.

M’Loswa Kataka

M’Loswa Kataka+

Bangeli Team Community Health Worker

M’Loswa feels strongly that her work is making an impact on the lives of families in Bangeli. During every household visit, she is able to teach her neighbors important health information that will allow them to seek appropriate treatment for themselves and their children, as well as taking measures to prevent the spread of diseases that are prevalent in their community. This job gave her a purpose and she feels that she is able to protect those she loves as a Community Health Worker with Integrate Health.

Makpaoughaï Tignié Nagnou

Makpaoughaï Tignié Nagnou+

Manga Team Community Health Worker

Tignié has lived in Manga for most of her life and became a Community Health Worker in 2018. She works hard to help her community eliminate child mortality due to preventable diseases, and she consults pregnant women about the benefits of prenatal and postnatal healthcare. Having recently given birth, Tignié feels particularly strong about urging women to make the best decision for both themselves and their babies by giving birth at clinics with medical staff to ensure safe deliveries like her own. Her new family is now able to live comfortably thanks to her Community Health Worker position, and she is looking forward to seeing continued progress within her community.

Mami Otone

Mami Otone+

Bangeli Team Community Health Worker

Finding gainful employement living in a rural community in Togo is difficult, but as a woman, the stakes are much higher. As a Community Health Worker, Mami is able to use her training in her community to achieve better health and promote progress through advocacy and community-based preventative healthcare practices. By encouraging families to adopt family planning methods, she believes that everyone in the community will benefit by giving them control of their health.

N’Limbiba N’Guimbe

Manga Community Health Worker

N’Limbiba N’Guimbe+

Bangeli Team Community Health Worker

Since being trained as a Community Health Worker by Integrate Health, N’Limbiba has already seen a decrease in the number of illnesses afflicting the rural community. She was motivated by the possibility of helping children under five receive a fair chance at living strong and healthy lives, and she knows that her work will make a lifelong impact on the residents of Bangeli. Women are now making the choice to give birth in the clinic and taking control of their rights to healthcare.

N’Sangnan Makibe

N’Sangnan Makibe+

Manga Community Health Worker

Better known as “Rose,” she was born and raised in Nawaré (Dankpen district). She completed her primary education at the local public school. In 2008, she moved to Guérin-Kouka (Dankpen district) for secondary school. She obtained her secondary school cycle certificate in 2015. But tragedy was to stop her momentum. While in second grade, she was violently hit by a motorcycle on a country road. She spent two years in hospital. After several months of rehabilitation, she was able to walk again. But she never went back to school, having lost her motivation. She stayed with her father and helped him with the work in the fields. With the prospect of a better future in mind, she went on an adventure to Burkina Faso in 2017. She didn’t like it there and returned home the same year. But she settled in Manga (Bassar district). In 2018, the Integrated Health Primary Care Program arrived in the village. The NGO was looking for women to work as Community Health Workers (CHWs). Rose applied and passed the test. Selected, she took part in the training course in Kara. This was followed by an advanced training course at the Manga health center.

Nikabou Kissao

Nikabou Kissao+

Kabou Sara Team Community Health Worker

Before becoming a Community Health Worker with Integrate Health, Nikabou worked as a UNICEF Community Health Worker to educate his community on hygienic sanitation practices. Integrate Health offered a fantastic opportunity to expand his scope and knowledge of healthcare. Before, his neighbors were unable to seek medical assistance from their local clinics and hospital due to lack of finances. Now he has seen a complete reduction of child mortality, a higher frequency of women seeking prenatal care, and increased awareness of acquiring medicine from licensed professionals. He is proud to teach mothers how to recognize danger signs in their and their children’s health, and sees these achievements as part of a larger development effort within Kabou Sara.

Ouwounboraguéme Nadje

Ouwounboraguéme Nadje+

Bangeli Team Community Health Worker

Working as a Community Health Worker to improve the lives of her fellow community members gives Ouwounboraguéme courage. Having the ability to treat sick children and help mothers through their pregnancies has not only impacted the community, but her own life as well.

Oyanga Kpatika

Oyanga Kpatika+

Bangeli Team Community Health Worker

Oyanga is passionate about supporting Bangeli. He worked as a community advocate for essential family planning education before joining Integrate Health. He recognized that his village urgently needed support and as a Community Health Worker, he is able to commit himself fully to improving the health of his neighbors. Oyanga has continuously worked towards the betterment of his community and continues to serve as President of the Villagois Community of Development so that he can make a lasting impact.

Salimatou Nambou

Salimatou Nambou+

Bangeli Team Community Health Worker

Working with Integrate Health has given Salimatu the capacity to support pregnant women and children in Bangeli, where health disparities greatly impact her local community. She is now able to consult mothers on how to protect their children from preventable diseases so that they can all focus on developing a healthier environment.

Sarakawahalo Awiliwa

Sarakawahalo Awiliwa+

Manga Team Community Health Worker

Sarakawahalo has worked with IH as a Community Health Worker since 2018, when she joined to address infant and maternal mortality within her community. She is insistent that all women should have access to family planning in order to space out pregnancies on their own schedule and so that their families can provide all of the necessary care to their children by being on top of their finances. The sooner she is able to consult women, the sooner they will seek prenatal care, which helps promote safe and healthy pregnancies. She is proud to see improved health literacy within the households with which she works and hopes that this increases as she continues to make an impact as a Community Health Worker in Manga!

Sirina Asso

Sirina Asso+

Sanda Afohou Team Community Health Worker

With experience working as a UNICEF Community Health Worker, Sirina looked forward to expanding her scope of care to pregnant women and all children under the age of five. She was inspired by the work because of her passion to support her community, and she has seen dramatic reductions in child mortality. She is proud of both her work and her own good health, which she attributes to the training she has received by Integrate Health.

Thantal Tagarbe

Thantal Tagarbe+

Bangeli Team Community Health Worker

Tagarbe grew up in Bangeli and is dedicated to saving the lives of young children in her community. As a Community Health Worker, she has seen a significant improvement in health attitudes among her neighbors. Pregnant women rely on her for important health information, and their consultations inspire them to seek prenatal consultations, give birth in health centers, and focus on their and their children’s health.

Ńtikime Gmanwe

Ńtikime Gmanwe+

Bangeli Team Community Health Worker

Ńtikime became a Community Health Worker because she wants to deliver quality healthcare to her village. Before Integrate Health came to Bangeli, she was a student with aspirations to gain employment that would benefit her community. Ńtikime is thrilled that she is able to work towards developing her community through their partnership with Integrate Health.

Yabawayé Dana

Yabawayé Dana+

Bangeli Team Community Health Worker

Yabawayé worked as a homemaker before joining Integrate Health, and now feels she can make a significant impact on the health of her community. She is dedicated towards teaching pregnant women the importance of prenatal consultations and the benefits of family planning, which she sees as vital to developing sustainabl progress in Bangeli.

Dankpen District

Adjima Atchamboa

Adjima Atchamboa+

Koutiere Team Community Health Worker

Adjima was a cotton farmer in his village before his recruitment and training as a Community Health Worker. Adjima is very proud of his work as Community Health Worker because he is able to help women and children access lifesaving care. Adjima is looking forward to offering free healthcare to the women and children in his community who need it.

Adjoa Animba

Adjoa Animba+

Naware Team Community Health Worker

Before joining the community-based health team at Integrate Health, Animba was a housewife. She was very interested in Integrate Health’s Mother and Child Health program and was excited to be selected as a Community Health Worker after completing her training. Animba takes pride in not only her work but also how she can now better take care of her family.

Afi Ouyanga

Koutiere Community Health Worker

Afi Ouyanga+

Koutiere Team Community Health Worker

Before joining Integrate Health, Afi was a housewife, but wanted to better provide for her family. She was very interested in Integrate Health’s Community Health Worker program and found a way to contribute to not only her community, but her family too. She looks forward to seeing how the partnership between Integrate Health and her community strengthens over time.

Banyéla Djassoba

Banyéla Djassoba+

Koutiere Community Health Worker

Before her training to become Community Health Worker, Banyéla was a housewife. Banyéla joined the Integrate Health team because of her will to help her community to access quality health care, and looks forward to seeing how she can change her community.

Batouwale Ikoundjo

Batouwale Ikoundjo+

Naware Team Community Health Worker

As a housewife, Batouwale was looking for an opportunity to work in her community. When she discovered how Integrate Health Community Health Workers provide care to women and children, she knew she had to apply. Batouwale has been working in her community as a Community Health Worker since July 2019.

Binghoba Makate

Binghoba Makate+

Koutiere Team Community Health Worker

After Binghoba left college, he started farming cotton. When Integrate Health launched the Integrated Primary Care program in Dankpen, Binghoba knew he had to apply. He completed his training in June 2019. Binghoba is honored to work in his community.

Celine Limazie

Celine Limazie+

Naware Team Community Health Worker

Before becoming a Community Health Worker, Celine was a nominated woman leader in her community. Celine chose to become an Integrate Health Community Health Worker to help vulnerable populations in her area, help reduce the mortality rate, and help women adopt family planning methods. She is dedicated to her work and strives to achieve her goals.

Chantale Tadi

Chantale Tadi+

Kpetab Team Community Health Worker

Chantale grew up in Namab. After earning her secondary school degree, she was unsure of what was next. When she heard about the Community Health Worker program, Chantale knew she should apply. She was happy to be selected for the Integrate Health training, and was even more excited to serve her community when she began working officially as a Community Health Worker in July 2019.

Clémence Takpayare

Clémence Takpayare+

Kpetab Team Community Health Worker

After Clémence graduated with a secondary school degree, she participated in a vocational training in nursing care which earned her a certificate in 2015. In 2016, she earned another certificate for theoretical and practical training in Home Assistance and in Information-Education-Communication technology. She returned to the Dankpen area to be around her family and get married. Clémence was thrilled to have the opportunity to provide care to the people in her community as an Integrate Health Community Health Worker.

Elise Yandjire

Elise Yandjire+

Solidarite Team Community Health Worker

Elise was a housewife before training to become a Community Health Worker. Since her training, Elise has been working to help her community by providing high quality healthcare in their homes. She is proud to be able to live comfortably and provide for her family.

Esther Wegma

Esther Wegma+

Solidarite Team Community Health Worker

Esther decided to apply to Integrate Health to provide healthcare to women and children in her community. Before her training and selection to become Community Health Worker, Esther was a housewife. Esther is excited to help her community.

Fayiza Djagre

Fayiza Djagre+

Kpetab Team Community Health Worker

Before becoming a Community Health Worker, Fayiza grew up in Gueri-Kouka. Although she attended college, she left to become a housewife and train as a seamstress. In 2014, Fayiza learned about Integrate Health’s Community Health Worker program and completed the training. Although she did not become a Community Health Worker in 2014, she finalized her training in 2019 and officially was selected to represent the Dankpen community. Fayiza works in her village and helps save lives.

Félicia Gmabane

Félicia Gmabane+

Solidarite Team Community Health Worker

No longer able to afford school, Félicia became a seamstress. She always had an interest in health and when she heard the call for Integrate Health Community Health Workers, she knew she had to apply. After her training, Félicia helps to provide care to women and children of her community and is very proud of the work she does.

Florice Mitchore

Florice Mitchore+

Naware Team Community Health Worker

Florice left secondary school to sell goods. Since becoming an Integrate Health Community Health Worker, she works hard every day to help women and children in her community. Florice is proud to be an Integrate Health Community Health Worker, and loves that she can spread increased knowledge of health to her community.

Komi Djinakou

Komi Djinakou+

Koutiere Team Community Health Worker

Before his training to be a Community Health Worker at Integrate Health, Komi was a cotton farmer. He chose to become a Community Health Worker, to help his community have access to quality healthcare. Since July 2019, Komi provided healthcare to the people in his community, and is happy to help his community grow.

Lydia Dalik

Lydia Dalik+

Kpetab Team Community Health Worker

Before becoming a Community Health Worker, Lydia grew up in Tchagbib, and lived there most of her life. She became a Community Health Worker for Integrate Health in July 2019 and has been working actively in her community as part of Integrate Health’s community-based health program.

Maborghan Nghangba

Maborghan Nghangba+

Koutiere Team Community Health Worker

Maborghan was a housewife before she applied to become a Community Health Worker. As a Community Health Worker, she really wants to improve the living conditions of people in her community, and is happy that she is also able to provide better living conditions for her family.

Malbé Naoutche

Malbé Naoutche+

Kpetab Team Community Health Worker

After finishing primary school, Malbé became a housewife. When Integrate Health selected her for Community Health Worker training, she was excited to make a difference in her community. Now as a Community Health Worker, Malbé works hard in her village because, as she says, her work helps save lives around her.

Manon Koyani

Manon Koyani+

Koutiere Team Community Health Worker

Before her training as Community Health Worker, Manon was already working at the health center of her community. Her training at Integrate Health then helped her to continue her work. She is proud to work to provide primary health care to women and children of her community.

Mariam Lamboni

Mariam Lamboni+

Koutiere Team Community Health Worker

Mariam was a housewife before her training to work as a Community Health Worker for Integrate Health. Since July 2019, she is proud that she provides health care for women and children and is passionate about saving the lives of children in her community.

N’Nimbonbouya Alfa

N’Nimbonbouya Alfa+

Naware Team Community Health Worker

Before N’Nimbonbouya was a Community Health Worker, she was a farmer in Dankpen. One of the goals she wants to achieve is to help women and children in her community access care. She strives every day in her community to achieve that goal. N’Nimbonbouya is excited to see how her community changes in the years to come.

N’litchoubi Oulom

N’litchoubi Oulom+

Solidarite Team Community Health Worker

Before her training to become Community Health Worker, N’litchoubi was a seamstress. She joined the Integrate Health team because of her desire to help her community access quality healthcare. She looks forward to seeing how she can change her community.

Noufoh Oubaghaba

Noufoh Oubaghaba+

Naware Team Community Health Worker

Noufoh had to leave college to provide for her family. Before becoming an Integrate Health Community Health Worker, she was a dressmaker apprentice. Since becoming a Community Health Worker, Noufoh loves how people call on her in her community to provide care.

Pélagie Ougnimouine

Pélagie Ougnimouine+

Kpetab Team Community Health Worker

Pélagie grew up in Naware. After having to leave secondary school for family reasons, she was excited to be selected to become an Integrate Health Community Health Worker. She really appreciates her work because it helps save lives in her community, which is a source of pride for her.

Prisca Sakara

Prisca Sakara+

Naware Team Community Health Worker

Prisca sold goods before she was selected to be trained as an Integrate Health Community Health Worker. She wanted to join the program to help achieve access to healthcare. Since July 2019, Prisca goes door to door in her community to look for new cases of sick children, counseling the women, and helping her community receive the care they deserve.

Rachel N’dolighin

Rachel N’dolighin+

Solidarite Team Community Health Worker

Rachel originally was trained in warehousing and transit, and worked selling goods at the market. Rachel agreed to join the Integrate Health Community Health Worker team to help people in her community access healthcare. She is passionate about supporting women in her community, and since July 2019 Rachel has been striving to reach this objective in her community.

Rose Ouguin

Rose Ouguin+

Naware Team Community Health Worker

Before her training as a Community Health Worker for Integrate Health, Rose sold goods. She wanted to become a Community Health Worker because she saw the benefit of the Integrate Health Maternal and Child Health program for her community. She is proud to be one of the Community Health Workers in Dankpen.

Rosine Bligma

Rosine Bligma+

Solidarite Team Community Health Worker

Before her training as a Community Health Worker, Rosine was a housewife. Her strong will to help people of her community made her apply to become a Community Health Worker. Since July 2019, Rosine happily works to provide healthcare in her community.

Sylvie Beka

Sylvie Beka+

Naware Team Community Health Worker

Sylvie sold goods at her local market before she heard about the Community Health Worker Program. Since July 2019, Sylvie has been serving her community as an Integrate Health Community Health Worker, and understands that her work impacts the lives of people in her community.

Victorine Tamandja

Victorine Tamandja+

Naware Team Community Health Worker

Victorine had to leave college to become a housewife. In July 2019, she started working in her community as a Community Health Worker. She loves helping her community and feels well equipped to provide care to women and children. She hopes to share this knowledge with other community members and see how her community changes over time.

Yakawara N’djossaï

Yakawara N’djossaï+

Koutiere Team Community Health Worker

Before joining Integrate Health, Yakawara was a housewife. Since July 2019, Yakawara has been a Community Health Worker providing care to women and children in her village. She is particularly excited to educate women on the importance of prenatal consultations, and hopes she can save lives through her education.

Yindjre N’Wintcha

Yindjre N’Wintcha+

Naware Team Community Health Worker

Yindjre was a housewife before training to become a Community Health Worker. Since her training, Yindjre has been working to help her community members by providing high-quality healthcare in their homes. Yindjre is proud to be able to live comfortably and provide for her family.

Kéran District

Afi Kombate

Agent de Santé Communautaire de Pagouda

Afi Kombate+

Kokou Temberma Team Community Health Worker

Afi is 22 years old and mother of three children. She was a hairdresser and wanted to work in the IH program team as a CHW. Her goal is to make her community evolve through the care she provides to them.

Afoua Kpetre

Afoua Kpetre+

Agent de Santé Communautaire de Pagouda

Afoua est vraiment passionnée par son nouveau travail d’ASC. Elle se bat chaque jour pour offrir des soins de santé aux enfants de 0-5anset fait également le suivi des femmes enceintes de sa communauté. Afoua a quitté son statut de ménagère et commerçante pour se consacrer totalement à son nouveau travail d’ASC au sein de sa communauté, ce qui lui vaut un grand respect lors de ses visites à domicile.

Agnilmré Nandji

Agnilmré Nandji+

Kokou Temberma Team Community Health Worker

Agnilmré is 21 years old and the mother of one child. She was a shopkeeper before applying to be a CHW at Integrate Health. According to her, the health of a child and of a pregnant woman is paramount, which is why she works to ensure that they have access to healthcare at all times.

Albertine Natta

Albertine Natta+

Natiponi Team Community Health Worker

Albertine applied for the CHW position with the NGO. She has been trained to provide quality health care to the people in her community. Every day Albertine makes her home visits, taking pride in the great service she provides and the tremendous help she gives to help reduce preventable deaths in her community.

Albertine Simboti

Albertine Simboti+

Warengo Team Community Health Worker

Albertine, 20 years old, was a housewife before joining the CHW team at IH. She is very dedicated as a CHW. She works tirelessly to reduce infant mortality and home births.

Alouaname Laktelo

Alouaname Laktelo+

Pagouda Team Community Health Worker

Alouaname was a master seamstress who preferred to become a CHW because for her, above all else, health is paramount. She was more touched by the service package offered by the Integrate Healthcare program and wanted to be part of this great adventure. She proudly works within her community as a CHW.

Amina Samou

Pangouda Community Health Worker

Amina Samou+

Nadoba Team Community Health Worker

Amina, 23 years old and mother of two children, is a brave woman who works selflessly as a CHW to fight against infant mortality and home births in her community. She enjoys spending her free time with her husband.

Anawilwata Tchamon

Anawilwata Tchamon+

Pangouda Community Health Worker

Born in 1995 in Atakpamé in the Plateaux region, Anawilwata grew up between Atakpamé and Pangouda (Kéran district), where she is originally from. But in 2007, her family returned to settle permanently in Pangouda. In 2013, she dropped out of college. Anawilwata moved back to Atakpamé to live with her uncle, a farmer. A year later, she returned to Pangouda to get married. In October 2020, an Integrate Health team arrived in the village, looking for women with CEPD certificates to fill the position of Community Health Worker (CHW). Anawilwata applied and was selected. She left for a training course in Kara, where she had no trouble learning her new duties.

Anika Konali

Pangounda Community Health Worker

Anika Konali+

Pangounda Community Health Worker

Anika was born in Pangouda 33 years ago. He grew up and spent his childhood there. He attended the local public primary school. After obtaining his primary school certificate degree, he left for the town of Kanté for secondary school in 2009. Lacking financial means, he dropped out in the fourth grade. In 2012, he returned to the village and began farming for a living. He then headed back to Kanté to learn carpentry. Again, lacking the means, he gave up and returned to the village. He took up masonry before returning to work in the fields when, in 2021, he joined the NGO Integrate Health. Initially, he supported the Coordination of the Program team in community mobilization in Pangouda. In June 2021, he returned to the Coordination team as a replacement CHW. When a regular CHW goes on leave, he fills in. But before that, Integrate Health took care of training him in Kara. Anika had heard of the CHW profession. He wanted to do this job, and the fact that Integrate Health selected him was a boon for him. He was granted tenure in September 2023.

Anondé Akpala

Anondé Akpala+

Pagouda Team Community Health Worker

Anondé is a young mother of 22 years. She was treasurer of the SMC at USP Pangouda. She decided to become a CHW to better help her community. Being an integral part of the organization as a CHW, Anondé is very happy today to be able to help the population to have access to free healthcare.

Antoume Atampa

Antoume Atampa+

Pagouda Team Community Health Worker

Driven by a daily desire to take care of her child and the children of others, Antoume wanted to be part of the Integrate Health team when she learned about the objective of the Integrated Primary Care Program. A former secretary of the COGES in her community, Antoume proudly wears the Integrate Health CHW vest and takes pleasure in helping her community to have better health conditions.

Assemre Tchakou

Assemre Tchakou+

Pagouda Team Community Health Worker

Assemre is a very caring mother for her two children. She was a housewife before she became a CHW to help her population treat diseases in children and follow up on pregnant women.

Babélou Natta

Babélou Natta+

Nadoba Team Community Health Worker

As a mother caring for her three children and concerned about their well-being, Babélou applied to be trained as a CHW in order to care for the children and women of her community and thus help reduce the high mortality rate of these vulnerable people. In her spare time, Babélou devotes all her energy to taking care of her children.

Bernadette N’Pkamou

Bernadette N’Pkamou+

Pagouda Team Community Health Worker

Bernadette, 24 years old, was a housewife before joining IH and the program team to help achieve the program’s goals. Bernadette was shocked by the recurring illnesses suffered by children in her village, which often led to their deaths. She is working with Integrate Health to follow these children at home and counsel pregnant women and women of childbearing age.

Bounatokou Babounte

Bounatokou Babounte+

Warengo Team Community Health Worker

Bounatokou has always wanted to help her community by contributing alongside the health staff to reduce the high mortality rate of children under five years of age, pregnant women, and women in childbirth. This led her to join the Integrate Health team as a CHW. She enjoys spending her free time reading.

Célestine Assapo

Célestine Assapo+

Pagouda Team Community Health Worker

Celestine is a CHW working in Pangouda Centre and Koussir-telo. Before being selected and trained to become a CHW, she was an apprentice seamstress. When she heard about the Integrated Primary Healthcare program, she was interested in the fact that she could help her community by providing them with healthcare.

Céline Gnilousse

Céline Gnilousse+

Pagouda Team Community Health Worker

Celine is a fighting woman who cultivates the spirit of helping others in her community. She was a housewife. She was very enthusiastic and motivated when she learned that Integrate Health was recruiting women to care for sick children aged 0 to 5 and pregnant women in her community, and she did not hesitate to apply. With her new knowledge, Céline wants to help reduce the infant and maternal mortality rates that were very high in the community.

Céline N’Tcha

Céline N’Tcha+

Natiponi Team Community Health Worker

Despite her young age of 18, Celine is the mother of two children. She applied as a CHW when she learned that the NGO was recruiting women from the communities to provide healthcare to children and to monitor pregnant women. Céline takes real pleasure in putting her skills to work for the people in her community. She is very proud of this.

Hodalo Kere

Hodalo Kere+

Nadoba Team Community Health Worker

As a volunteer kindergarten teacher, Hodalo has always been committed to helping the very young, which is what motivated her to become a CHW to fight against child mortality and home births in her community. In order to help her community benefit from the program run by the Integrate Health for the wellbeing of children. Hodalo does a dynamic and unrelenting job, participating in family field work when she is not on duty.

Honé Kataka

Honé Kataka+

Warengo Team Community Health Worker

Honé decided without hesitation to apply to become a CHW when she learned that IH was recruiting women to care for sick children, pregnant women, and other vulnerable people in her community. Since her training, Hone has been proudly doing CHW work in her community and helping to provide quality healthcare to people.

Julienne Tchamou

Julienne Tchamou+

Nadoba Team Community Health Worker

Jullienne decided without hesitation to apply to become a CHW when she learned that IH was recruiting women to care for sick children, pregnant women, and other vulnerable people in her community. Since her training, Jullienne has been proudly doing CHW work in her community and helping to provide quality healthcare to her community.

Koueti Clémence Kombetio

Koueti Clémence Kombetio+

Kokou Temberma Team Community Health Worker

Clémence is 18 years old and the mother of three children. Clémence decided to apply to work for Integrate Health as a CHW because she wants more than anything else to ensure that children under the age of five receive necessary healthcare in case of illness and also to ensure that pregnant women follow up on their pregnancies to avoid home births or childbirth-related complications that could cost them their lives.

Koutinime Alika

Koutinime Alika+

Pagouda Team Community Health Worker

Driven by the desire to contribute to the wellbeing of the people in her community, Koutinime joined the IH team to be trained as a CHW. She puts her current knowledge to the benefit of children under five years old, pregnant women, and women who have just given birth in her community. Koutinime wants to help reduce the high mortality rate among these people she proudly cares for.

Kouwembo Léocadie Gazaro

Kouwembo Léocadie Gazaro+

Kokou Temberma Team Community Health Worker

Léocadie is the mother of three children and was a reseller before joining the RS-SBC program team of Integrate Health as a CHW. Her ambition is not only to save children under five years old from certain serious diseases that lead to their death, but also to help women avoid the deadly risks associated with home births. She likes to chat with her family when she has free time.

Linou N’Tcha

Pangouda Community Health Worker

Linou N’Tcha+

Warengo Team Community Health Worker

Linou applied for the CHW position with the NGO. She has been trained to provide quality healthcare to the people in her community. Every day she makes her home visits, taking pride in the great service she provides and the tremendous help she gives to help reduce preventable deaths in her community.

Mankourassi Tchatnangbo

Mankourassi Tchatnangbo+

Pangouda Community Health Worker

Like many rural inhabitants, Mankourassi comes from a poor farming family. Between a child’s school education and training in farming practices, many parents in Pangouda (Kéran district) don’t hesitate to prioritize their offspring’s mastery of their trade. In 2017, she dropped out of school to work in the fields for her father. That same year, she married and gave birth. In August 2020, an Integrate Health meeting was held in her locality to select women to become Community Health Workers (CHWs). There Mankourassi first learned about the CHW profession. Motivated by the relief that CHWs could bring to their communities, she applied. She was selected and now works as a CHW, to the great benefit of her community.

Mékawa Alibder

Pangouda Community Health Worker

Mékawa Alibder+

Kokou Temberma Team Community Health Worker

Mekawa was a soybean vendor who, despite her activity, felt the need to help her community access quality healthcare. Mekawa’s ambition became a reality when she was selected and trained to provide healthcare to the children and pregnant women of her community. Mekawa proudly wears her CHW title in her community and now spends her days providing healthcare to her community.

Métalwa Nambiema

Métalwa Nambiema+

Pangouda Community Health Worker

Fourth of ten children, Métalwa hails from Houkuo, one of the villages that make up the canton of Pangouda (Kéran district). Like many in her community, she comes from a farming family. After primary school, she dropped out in the secondary school cycle, due to an early pregnancy. She joined her husband in Pangouda, where they worked in the fields. Then, one day in October 2020, she learned about Integrate Health’s activities at a village meeting. The NGO had just set up the integrated primary care program in the Kéran district. She applied for the position of Community Health Worker (CHW). Selected, she left for the town of Kara, in the Kozah region, for training. After training, she completed a 1-month internship at the Pangouda health center under the supervision of the health center manager.

Milatoia N’Poh

Milatoia N’Poh+

Natiponi Team Community Health Worker

Forced to drop out of school, Milatoa was a housewife before applying to become a CHW. She was selected from among the many applicants and trained to work as a CHW in her community to help reduce the high mortality rate of children under five years of age, pregnant women, and women who give birth without proper care.

Moutiété Kpakou

Moutiété Kpakou+

Nadoba Team Community Health Worker

A stay-at-home mother with four children, Moutiété is a fighting woman who bravely offers her CHW services in her community to reduce the mortality rate of children 0-5 years old and home deliveries. She wants to use her free time to do family housework and care for her dear children.

N’beyeta N’Boma

N’beyeta N’Boma+

Natiponi Team Community Health Worker

N’béyéta, 31 years old, wanted to become a CHW in her community to help reduce the infant mortality rate and monitor pregnant women. She often reads in her spare time.

N’louma N’Dah

N’louma N’Dah+

Warengo Team Community Health Worker

A mother of six children, N’Louma applied as a CHW when she learned that the NGO was recruiting women from the communities to provide healthcare for children and to monitor pregnant women. She takes great pleasure and pride in putting her skills to work for the people in her community. She likes to spend her free time doing sports activities.

N’Koua Céline N’Tcha

N’Koua Céline N’Tcha+

Nadoba Team Community Health Worker

Céline is 39 years old with a CEPD level of education. Before joining the Integrate Health team as a CHW, she was a housewife. Céline wants to put her current knowledge at the service of her community to help save children under five years old and pregnant women.

N’koua Grâce Kome

N’koua Grâce Kome+

Nadoba Team Community Health Worker

Brave housewife and mother N’koua wants to help her community and serve as a CHW to reduce child and maternal mortality. She wants to make her comunity benefit from the actions of the IH healthcare program. When she is not on duty, she helps her husband in the field.

N’tché N’Koue

N’tché N’Koue+

Warengo Team Community Health Worker

N’tché is a 260year-old housewife and mother of two children. She decided to dedicate her dynamism to her community as a CHW, in order to help reduce the mortality rate of children under five years old and the rate of home births. She likes to spend her free time reading and playing sports.

Nambre Gnarkpa

Nambre Gnarkpa+

Pagouda Team Community Health Worker

Nambre left her status as a housewife to work in her community as a CHW. She now wants to devote her time to take care of children under five years old, to follow pregnant women, and women of childbearing age in her community. She wants to fight so that some serious diseases in children decrease and to avoid home births for pregnant women.

Nathalie Kouagou

Nathalie Kouagou+

Kokou Temberma Team Community Health Worker

Nathalie is a young mother of two children and is 21 years old. She was a student before becoming a CHW in order to save the lives of children in her community. In her spare time, she enjoys reading her work documents.

Tchèkè Timarakou

Tchèkè Timarakou+

Kokou Temberma Team Community Health Worker

Tchèkè’s strong desire to help her community reduce the high mortality rate of children under 5 years of age, pregnant women and women in childbirth led her to join the Integrated Health team as a CHW. She is 22 years old and has two children. She enjoys spending her free time reading.

Tempé N’Tcha

Tempé N’Tcha+

Nadoba Team Community Health Worker

Tempé is a 22-year-old housewife. With her college diploma, Tempé is one of those dedicated women who have been trained by SI to help her community reduce child mortality and home births. She is an avid reader.

Tempé Tchanti

Tempé Tchanti+

Warengo Team Community Health Worker

Before joining the Integrate Health team as a CHW, Tempé was a housewife with two children. Tempe wants to put her current knowledge at the service of her community to help save children under the age of five and pregnant women.

Tihamba Tibeti

Tihamba Tibeti+

Warengo Team Community Health Worker

Tihamba became a CHW to help her community benefit from the service package that Integrate Health offers to children in order to reduce the mortality rate of children under five years old and also the rate of home births. She spends her time reading when she is not on duty.

Valérie Ossoï

Valérie Ossoï+

Warengo Team Community Health Worker

Driven by a desire to contribute to the wellbeing of the people in her community, Valerie joined the IH team to be trained as a CHW. She puts her current knowledge to work for the benefit of children under the age of five, pregnant women, and women who have just given birth in her community. Valérie wants to help reduce the high mortality rate of the people she proudly cares for.

Victoire Santy Tinontiyome

Victoire Santy Tinontiyome+

Warengo Team Community Health Worker

A brave housewife with a dependent child, Tinontiyome is 24 years old. She became a CHW to help her community benefit from the package of services that Integrate Health offers to children and pregnant women to reduce mortality rates. She enjoys spending her free time reading.

Viviane Yadona

Viviane Yadona+

Natiponi Team Community Health Worker

Driven by the desire to contribute to the wellbeing of the people in her community, Viviane joined the SI team to be trained as a CHW. She puts her current knowledge to work for the benefit of children under five years old, pregnant women, and women who have just given birth in her community. Viviane wants to help reduce the high mortality rate of these people she proudly cares for.

Yémona Biyori

Yémona Biyori+

Nadoba Team Community Health Worker

Yémona, 23 years old, is concerned about the wellbeing of her people and wants to dedicate all her efforts to the health of the people in her community. She was a seamstress before becoming a life-saving CHW in her community. She is also looking for experience in the health field. Yemona enjoys sports and domestic work.

Binah District

Abra Hessa Touakawa

Abra Hessa Touakawa+

Solla Community Health Worker

Hessa is 22 years old and the mother of two children. Hessa heard about the community-based health system strengthening program of the NGO Integrate Health and felt a strong desire to be one of the women who will be trained to provide healthcare to the children in her community. For Hessa, it is inconceivable that a child would lose his or her life because the parents cannot afford to take the child to the hospital for quality care. Since July 2021, Hessa has been enthusiastically and proudly doing the noble work of bringing healthcare closer to the people in her community.

Agawé Céline Oupoule

Agawé Céline Oupoule+

Solla Community Health Worker

Agawé had no particular activity before applying to be a CHW at Integrate Health. Her most ardent wish is to be able to save the lives of children under the age of five and pregnant women in her community through her training. Over time, Agawé wants to become a real health worker so that she can fulfill a long-held dream.

Ama Amala

Ama Amala+

Pessare Community Health Worker

Ama was a housewife in her community of Pessare where she lives with her husband whom she helps with his farming activities. She decided to apply to be trained as a CHW in order to work within her community to help reduce the high rate of preventable deaths of children under five and pregnant women. Ama’s ambition with this new CHW status is to change her, her family’s, and her community’s living conditions.

Amélie Kanakpassi

Boufalé Community Health Worker

Amélie Kanakpassi+

Kouyoria Community Health Worker

After her studies in high school, Amélie turned to business. She was supporting her family with this activity. She decided to apply to be trained as a CHW in order to change her living condition and also to allow her to offer quality healthcare to people of her community and thus help decrease the very high death rate.

Anita Lakte

Anita Lakte+

Boufalé Community Health Worker

Her love for the work of health workers was one of the reasons Anita applied to become a CHW at Integrate Health. Having already worked with the nurse stationed in Boufalé at the child development center for the international humanitarian NGO COMPASSION, Anita seized the opportunity to become a CHW first to be trained as a health worker since she loved this field, but also because she wants to become a state nurse. After her initial training and deployment to Boufalé, Anita spends her days making a difference in the lives of five year olds, pregnant women, and postpartum women in her community.

Assimbatom Hoketessi

Boufalé Community Health Worker

Assimbatom Hoketessi+

Assere Community Health Worker

Despite being a trader, Assimbatom has always wanted to work in the health field. The lack of means to continue her studies in this field has left Assimbatom’s desire unfulfilled. So when she learned that there was an NGO that came to recruit and train women to provide healthcare in her community, it was an opportunity she could not miss. She hopes to gain the skills and abilities to one day become the healthcare provider she has always wanted to be.

Azia N’Dambodjolo

Azia N’Dambodjolo+

Boufalé Community Health Worker

Azia was a caregiver in Benin, a country bordering Togo, before moving back to her community in 2018. She seized this opportunity to apply as a CHW at Integrate Health to continue to be close to the patients she enjoys caring for. Since July 2021, Azia, like her other colleagues, has been traveling around her community to provide care to children and women to ensure their better well-being. Azia wants to become a matron in her community in the future. She aspires to acquire more knowledge in the field of health to better practice the work she loves so much.

Badawè Heherogou

Badawè Heherogou+

Assere Community Health Worker

Having dropped out of secondary school, Badawè was a model housewife, quite well known by the other women in her community. When she heard about the health system strengthening program initiated by the NGO Integrate Health, she did not hesitate to apply. Following her training, Badawè is currently a CHW. She spends her days making home visits to her patients, diagnosing and treating children under the age of five, and following up on pregnant and postpartum women in her community. Badawè hopes to help her community live a healthy life and contribute to reduce the very high death rate in the past.

Bossè Yagate

Bossè Yagate+

Kouyoria Community Health Worker

Bossè stopped her studies in her last year of high school because she had to get married. Her only activity was to work in the fields with her husband. When she heard about the HSS-BC Integrate Health program, she applied because she felt she could be part of this great adventure. Since July 2021, Bossè has been providing free healthcare to children under five and pregnant women in her community for her pleasure and pride in knowing that she is helping to reduce the mortality rate among this age group of the population.

Denise Singlam

Denise Singlam+

Kouyoria Community Health Worker

Denise dropped out of high school and started working in a computer center where she did data entry and photocopying. She decided to apply to be trained as a CHW so that she could provide good quality healthcare to children in her community. As a mother of two, Denise is always saddened to see children suffering and not being able to access healthcare. Her desire as a CHW for her community is to enable everyone to be healthy and to become a valued health worker herself.

Djilalo Badjona

Djilalo Badjona+

Pessare Community Health Worker

From her status as a former local beverage and soybean vendor, Djilalo now wears the hat of an Integrate Health CHW in her community. Djilalo says she was touched by the NGO’s health system strengthening program and fascinated by the successes of this program in other districts. She felt the call to apply to be trained as a CHW. She wants to put her current knowledge in the field of health at the disposal of her community in order to provide people around her with a better well-being and health. This is Djilalo’s contribution to the development of her community that she loves so much.

Dogoya Kola

Dogoya Kola+

Sirka Community Health Worker

Dogoya is a perfect housewife who occupied her days with farm activities and housework. Dogoya attended the very first meeting organized by IH in her village to talk about the program that Integrate Health is implementing. Following this meeting, Dogoya applied to become a CHW so that she could accompany and help pregnant women and also give care to children in her community. In the future, Dogoya hopes to become a midwife to help people of her community even more.

Essohounadatom Ali

Essohounadatom Ali+

Pessare Community Health Worker

Essohounadatom was a well-known trader in her community. She was in demand for her unique soy cheese that people loved to enjoy, coupled with the local drink she sold, which only she knew the composition of, making it special and her customers satisfied every time. Despite this recognition from the people of her community and the high demand, Essohounadatom decided to embark on a different path and contribute to the reduction of the infant and child mortality, rate which was very high in her community. She applied to be trained as a CHW and is now enjoying her new job and taking pride in her accomplishments.

Essossinam Kalao

Essossinam Kalao+

N’djeï Community Health Worker

In addition to being a housewife, Essossinam was a peer educator and treasurer of her community’s health management committee. In her spare time, Essossinam led talks with her female peers in the homes and enjoyed playing sports. She has applied to become a CHW to continue her work in her community and plans to become a nurse at the community health center in the future.

Essossinam Lekessim

Essossinam Lekessim+

Assere Community Health Worker

From being a simple housewife, Essossinam has become a respected CHW in her community. Thanks to her training, she spends her days caring for the children under the age of five around her and monitoring pregnant and postpartum women. From a desire to change her life condition with a job that would be paid, Essossinam has become a model woman in her community whom other women want to be like. She does her work every day with seriousness and self-sacrifice and hopes to allow her community to fully enjoy their health by putting an end to avoidable deaths.

Essossolim Leleka

Essossolim Leleka+

Sirka Community Health Worker

Essossolim is a housewife in her community of Sirka where she lives with her husband and helps him with his farming activities. She decided to apply to be trained as a CHW to work in her community to help reduce the high rate of preventable deaths of children under five and pregnant women. Essossolim’s ambition with this new CHW status is to change her, her family’s, and her community’s living conditions.

Hodalo Atou

Hodalo Atou+

Solla Community Health Worker

Hodalo was a soybean trader and had other activities on the farm before applying to Integrate Health. Despite the lack of means to realize her dream of being a midwife, Hodalo plans to become a recognized health worker and contribute to the well-being of her community through this job.

Kimérialo Ebossa

Kimérialo Ebossa+

Sirka Community Health Worker

Kimérialo had to stop her studies after obtaining her bachelor’s degree to start a business. Very quickly, faced with the health problems her community was experiencing, she felt the need to help for their better well-being. She soon applied for the position of CHW with the IH organization in order to be trained to provide quality healthcare to the people of her community. After her initial training, Kimérialo proudly wears her IH CHW vest to provide healthcare to children under five years of age, to monitor pregnant women, women in labor, and vulnerable people in her community for their well-being.

Kossiwa Louka

Kossiwa Louka+

Assere Community Health Worker

Kossiwa’s greatest wish is to help her community avoid the recurrence of infant deaths at birth or the death of children due to lack of care or money to take them to the hospital. Kossiwa left her former life as a housewife to become a CHW to prevent these kinds of deaths in her community. She spends most of her time as a CHW carrying out the noble mission that the NGO has set through her in the community of Assere.

Koudjoukalo Koubanou

Koudjoukalo Koubanou+

Pessare Community Health Worker

After her studies in college, Koudjoukalo turned to sewing. She used to support her family with this activity. She decided to apply to be trained as a CHW in order to change her living condition and also to allow her to offer quality health care to the people of her community and thus help decrease the very high mortality rate of children under five, pregnant women and women in childbirth. Koudjoukalo hopes to make a big change in her community by providing quality health care for their well-being.

Kouméalo Sama

Boufalé Community Health Worker

Kouméalo Sama+

N’djeï Community Health Worker

Kouméalo decided to apply to be trained as a CHW so that she could provide good quality healthcare to the children in her community. As a mother of two children, Kouméalo is always saddened to see children suffering and unable to access healthcare. Her desire as a CHW for her community is to enable everyone to be healthy and to become a valued health worker herself.

Kpétalea Lomdo

Kpétalea Lomdo+

Boufalé Community Health Worker

Kpétalea’s wish in joining Integrate Health is to change the daily life of her community by contributing to the decrease of the very high mortality rate of children under five and women. She wishes to gain as much experience as possible through training to achieve her goal. A former cook at a child development center, Kpétalea joined Integrate Health team as a CHW.

Lami Pafaliki

Lami Pafaliki+

Solla Community Health Worker

Lami has many strings to her bow. She was a teacher and then a trader before applying to become an Integrate Health worker. This desire was driven by the search for a better life condition but also by the fact that she was inspired by the work of a Community Health Worker, which will allow her to save lives in her community.

Magnim-Modjonna Kassang

Magnim-Modjonna Kassang+

Solla Community Health Worker

After graduating from college, Magnim decided to become a seamstress. She began her apprenticeship before applying to become a CHW at Integrate Health. She was impressed with the NGO’s program as presented at meetings in her village. She then made the decision to apply to the organization to do her part in achieving the organization’s goals.

Marie Ati

Marie Ati+

Solla Community Health Worker

Marie has always wanted to practice as a caregiver. She took the opportunity to apply to the organization to be trained as a CHW and to provide care to children under five in her community. She hopes to gain the skills and abilities necessary to one day become the caregiver she has always wanted to be.

Mayani Holou

Mayani Holou+

Sirka Community Health Worker

After graduating from high school, Mayani decided to take a cooking course with the idea of opening her own restaurant in her community. She then applied to the organization to become a CHW, which will allow her to change her living conditions and also the living conditions of the people in her community by giving them free healthcare to ensure their well-being. Mayani’s wish is to contribute to the reduction of deaths of children under five and pregnant women in her village.

Méhéza Pidakili

Méhéza Pidakili+

N’djeï Community Health Worker

Faced with the high mortality rates of children and pregnant women in her community, Méhéza applied to be trained as a CHW to help reduce these deaths by providing healthcare to children and monitoring pregnant women in her village to ensure their well-being.

Méyébanèsso Panakinao

Méyébanèsso Panakinao+

Sirka Community Health Worker

Like many of her peers, Méyébanèsso is a housewife who applied to become a CHW at Integrate Health after learning about the organization’s ambitious program in her community. She did not hesitate to apply to be trained as a CHW. Since July 2021, Méyébanèsso has been going from house to house in her community to care for sick children, monitor pregnant women during childbirth, and enable everyone to be healthy.

Nanaa Demou

Nanaa Demou+

Kouyoria Community Health Worker

Nanaa was a local beverage vendor before she was trained to become a CHW in Kouyoria in the Binah district. Nanaa decided to apply to be trained as a CHW at that time because of her interest in the welfare of her children and the people around her. For the future, Nanaa’s wish is to gain more knowledge in the field of health to save more lives in her community.

Ousra Adjovi Tchancla

Ousra Adjovi Tchancla+

Sirka Community Health Worker

Having seen many of her fellow women give birth at home instead of going to the hospital and having seen children in her community lose their lives to easily preventable diseases prompted Oussra to apply to become an Integrate Health CHW in order to put an end to this. Oussra plans, through her current CHW status, to help women in her community with health issues and thus fight against child deaths and home deliveries, which were very common in her community.

Philomène Elonde

Philomène Elonde+

Kouyoria Community Health Worker

Prior to joining Integrate health as a Community Health Worker, Philomène was a general food trader. At the same time, she was also a volunteer teacher with the NGO COMPASSION in a neighboring village. This passion she has for her children made her apply when IH came recruiting CHWs in her community. She cares about the welfare of the children in her community. Her former occupation with the NGO COMPASSION makes Philomène the right person to carry out this noble mission that the organization embodies.

Pihènawé Kougbessa

Pihènawé Kougbessa+

Pessare Community Health Worker

After having stopped her studies in high school, Pihènawé turned to sewing. She was able to support her family with this activity as well as with her rural activities. She decided to apply to be trained as a CHW in order to change her living condition and also to allow her to offer quality healthcare to the people of her community and thus help decrease the very high death rate among children under five, pregnant women, and post-partum women.

Pirénam Kpiki

Pirénam Kpiki+

N’djeï Community Health Worker

Pirénam has always been attracted to the noble profession of midwifery. When she learned that Integrate Health was recruiting women in her community to be trained as Community Health Workers to provide healthcare to children and women, she did not hesitate to seize the opportunity. Through this CHW work, Pirénam hopes to gain the necessary skills and competencies that will allow her to later train to finally live her dream of becoming a midwife.

Piténéwé Akeou

Piténéwé Akeou+

Solla Community Health Worker

Piténéwé joined Integrate health because of the ambitious program she heard about to help reduce the death rate of children under five and pregnant women in her community. Before she was trained to become a CHW, Piténéwé was a seamstress and spent her free time doing the job she loved. Piténéwé’s wish is to contribute to the organization’s objectives to enable it to achieve its results.

Poutanamnaprou N’Kpendi

Poutanamnaprou N’Kpendi+

Assere Community Health Worker

Poutanamnaprou joined Integrate Health with the desire to stop the sharp rise in under-five mortality rates in her community. After training as a CHW, Poutanamnaprou spares no effort to educate people in her community about preventing preventable deaths and diseases such as malaria. She aspires to make a big change in her community by improving the health of those around her.

Sinam Solitoke

Sinam Solitoke+

Pessare Community Health Worker

Sinam decided to join Integrate Health because of the ambitious program she heard about to help reduce the death rate of children under five and pregnant women in her community. Before being trained to become a CHW, Sinam was a housewife and spent her free time doing field work and taking care of her children. Sinam’s wish is to contribute to the goals of the organization to enable it to achieve its results.

Tchalimbélo Batchaki

Tchalimbélo Batchaki+

Pessare Community Health Worker

Driven by her desire to help her community reduce the rising mortality rate among children and pregnant women, Tchalimbélo decided to apply when she learned that Integrate Health was recruiting women to be CHWs. So after her training as a CHW, she travels around her community on home visits to care for sick children, monitor pregnant women and follow up on women who have given birth in the community. Tchalimbélo confides in us how proud she is to help the well-being of her community.

Yendoupabe Kampouribe