Our team

Experience from the clinic, the school, and the community.

ChildWell Plus Foundation is led by people who already do this work: a public health nurse, a registered nurse, a nutrition officer, a health promotion officer, and a specialist in epidemiology, with a finance and audit professional overseeing the Foundation's money. Between them they have worked in the Ghana Health Service, the Catholic health services, and the region's schools.

Mr. David Yinbil Sa-AleongChairperson
Ms. Mavis AyambaVice Chairperson
Mr. Richard GbandanSecretary
Mr. Maxwell Sapak TiiFinancial Secretary
Ms. Angela Agambila AyinnehTeam member

Governance

Board of Trustees

The Board provides strategic leadership, approves policies and budgets, oversees finances and programmes, and ensures the Foundation complies with the law. Trustees serve three-year terms and may be reappointed once.

How the Foundation is governed

Chairperson

Mr. David Yinbil Sa-Aleong

Public health practitioner, epidemiology

David is a public health practitioner specialising in epidemiology, with expertise in community health programming and the design of community-responsive health interventions. His experience spans public health programme implementation, community engagement, health service strengthening, and translating evidence into practical action in underserved settings.

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He provides strategic and technical leadership for ChildWell Plus Foundation, with a particular focus on strengthening community child health systems and developing evidence-informed approaches that connect communities, schools, and primary healthcare services.

David is committed to advancing practical, sustainable solutions that strengthen local health systems and enable children and families in underserved communities to access timely, coordinated and continuous care.

Vice Chairperson

Ms. Mavis Ayamba

Registered public health nurse

Mavis is a registered public health nurse with experience in child health, community health programming, and health systems strengthening. She has worked across the Ghana Health Service, Catholic health services, and non-governmental organisations, supporting the implementation of health programmes in community and facility settings.

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Her experience includes programme coordination, child health programming, community engagement, and translating evidence and programme priorities into practical public health action. She brings particular expertise in connecting frontline health services with the communities they serve.

Mavis supports the planning, coordination and implementation of the Foundation's programmes, with a focus on ensuring that interventions are responsive to community needs and effectively delivered through existing health and community structures.

Secretary

Mr. Richard Gbandan

Registered nurse, Catholic Health Trust

Richard is a registered nurse with the Catholic Health Trust, Ghana, with experience providing clinical nursing care across hospital departments and working collaboratively with multidisciplinary healthcare teams.

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Alongside his clinical responsibilities, Richard brings practical experience in organisational administration, digital and information technology support, and field-level programme activities. As Secretary, he supports the Foundation's coordination and communication.

Richard contributes frontline clinical and operational perspectives to the Foundation's work, helping ensure that community-level activities remain connected to the realities of healthcare delivery and the needs of children and families.

Financial Secretary

Mr. Maxwell Sapak Tii

Finance, risk and internal controls

Maxwell is an accounting and finance professional with experience in internal and external audit, risk management, financial management and controls, compliance, governance, and organisational accountability.

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He currently serves as a Risk and Internal Audit Officer in Ghana's downstream petroleum sector, where he supports the assessment of operational risks, internal controls, regulatory compliance, and the effective stewardship of organisational resources.

As Financial Secretary, Maxwell provides financial oversight and governance support to the Foundation, contributing expertise in financial controls, risk management, accountability and responsible resource management. His experience strengthens the Foundation's capacity to manage programme resources prudently and maintain robust governance as its work expands.

In the field

Programme team

The officers who carry the Foundation's work into health facilities, basic schools, and communities in Talensi and Bongo.

Team member

Ms. Angela Agambila Ayinneh

Nutrition officer, Catholic Health Trust

Angela is a nutrition officer with the Catholic Health Trust, Ghana, with experience in child nutrition programming, community-based health interventions, and community engagement. She supports the planning, supervision and implementation of nutrition activities across health facilities and their catchment communities within the Navrongo-Bolgatanga Diocese.

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Her work focuses particularly on children and vulnerable populations, with experience in community-based approaches to child health and nutrition and in engaging communities to strengthen uptake and implementation of health and nutrition interventions.

Angela brings technical expertise in nutrition alongside practical experience working with communities and frontline health services, strengthening the Foundation's capacity to address the nutritional dimensions of child health.

Volunteer

Work alongside the team.

There are no open volunteer roles yet. Leave your details and the Foundation will contact you when a programme needs your skills. All volunteers follow the Child Safeguarding Policy.

Accountability

How the Board is held to account.

Terms of office, the Executive Director's role, the annual audit, and the policies every trustee, staff member, and volunteer is bound by.

Governance and policies