our team
Board Members
Michael Hill | President
Michael is the current Executive Director of Orphan Support Africa based in Malawi. He has previously worked as Director of Counseling and Community Services at Las Clinicas del Norte in northern New Mexico. He has 36 years experience in community mental health programs. Michael was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malawi, 1964-66.
Garry Prime | Chair
Garry is a self employed business executive/consultant specializing in M & A with an orientation to finance and marketing. He helped start the Malawi Children’s Village in 1995. Garry served as a Peace Corps teacher in Malawi in the mid 1960's.
Dr. Delwin Roy | Secretary
Delwin is a former Ford Foundation executive in the Middle East/Africa Group and Founding President and CEO Emeritus of The Hitachi Foundation. He is currently Senior Partner in the Loita Group of Companies, an African-based multinational finance and information technology firm.
Laurie Regelbrugge
Laurie has more than twenty years of career experience with cross sector partnerships, has held senior management positions in global non-profit organizations and philanthropic foundations, as well as helming corporate community involvement in global companies. Laurie currently teaches at the middle school level and is a frequent writer and consultant on education and community development.
Roger Nozaki
Roger serves as Associate Dean of the College and Director of the Howard R. Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University. Prior to this role, Roger served as executive director of the GE Foundation. Roger joined GE from The Hitachi Foundation, where he served as senior program officer, addressing issues of education, community development, and corporate citizenship.
William Fulton
William is a retired chartered accountant, who was a VSO volunteer in Tanzania in the late 1960's. He helped to found The Mango Tree Orphan Support Program in 2002. He is currently a lay Canon and lay member of the Chapter of Liverpool Cathedral, magistrate in the City of Liverpool and a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Merseyside UK. He is a former chairman of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool Charity and Voluntary Services
Justin CHINYANTA
N. Justin Chinyanta is the founder Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Loita Holdings. He is a Barrister at Law and a specialist and expert in the financial markets of Sub-Sahara Africa. He is the Executive Vice` President for the Southern Africa Chapter of the Africa Business Roundtable (ABR), and is on the Expert Roster of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research for the Debt, Financial Management & Negotiation Programs. He has recently been invited to join Harvard University as a Fellow of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
Staff
Michael Hill | Executive Director
Michael is the current Executive Director of Orphan Support Africa based in Malawi. He has previously worked as Director of Counseling and Community Services at Las Clinicas del Norte in northern New Mexico. He has 36 years experience in community mental health programs. Michael was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malawi, 1964-66.
Praveen Prasad | US Director
Praveen joined Orphan Support Africa in 2007. Prior to joining OSA, she was based in Africa and has worked as a humanitarian officer with the World Health Organization, the United Nations and International NGOs for the past 8 years. Her expertise is in humanitarian response and development. Her interests include microfinance, sustainable development and capacity building. She has graduate degrees in International Relations and Environmental Law.
Malawi
Programs:
Margaret Msukwa | Program Coordinator
Raymond Chimsale | Operations Manager
Rebecca Chivundula | Finance Officer
Mable Lungu | Training Coordinator Program Support
Program Support:
Dan Mzumara | Program officer
Synad Ngwira | Program officer
Clement Kalanje | Senior Finance Assistant
Rodney Mandula | Finance assistant
Feston Pangani | Logistic Officer
Washington Baloyi | Logistic officer
