Regional Directors

Regional Director in Kenya

Amos Otieno Ahenda is an experienced educator and trainer who has worked with different education- based organizations. A Bachelor of Science graduate of the University of Nairobi, Amos has also taken various courses in education and human capital development. He has great experience in rehabilitation of street children and designing alternative education to disadvantaged youth. He has held various administrative positions in educational institutions, the latest being Deputy Principal and Head of Human Resources Department of Nakuru College of Health Sciences and Management. He left this institution to help found Baobab Branch Educational Programmes, a registered NGO dealing with education and capacity-building programmes for holistic development of various cadres of young people. He currently also works as the Director of Baobab Branch Educational Programmes.

Regional Director in Zambia 

Kenneth Kasweshi lives in the Northwestern Province of Zambia, where he uses his skills in banking, finances, and human development on microfinance projects. He graduated from Cambridge  University  in 1978, and then went through compulsory military training back in Lusaka where he was raised. In his careers, he has focused primarily on banking, social and pastoral work. This culmination of skills and passion is now being used at Prison Fellowship Zambia, a non-profit providing holistic services to prisoners and their families within the country. Kenneth works as a Regional Director for the Ndola Region of Zambia for SpanAfrica and is passionate about development work and international collaboration. He and his wife Catherine have four almost grown-up children, and live in the center of Ndola.

Regional Director in Ghana
Yaw Adu-Gyamfi lives in Kumasi, Ghana where he works as the Development Coordinator for the Suame Magazine  Industrial Development Organization (SMIDO). In this position Yaw works to ensure the provision of market access to artisans in order to relieve poverty, provide training and advocacy, and to bring attention to challenges the communities face. Yaw enjoys creative problem solving, technical assessments, and strategic planning as applied to for-profit and not-for-profit and volunteer opportunities. Yaw lends SpanAfrica his industrious, energetic team spirit and extensive knowledge on Ghana and other West African Countries.