About Amend

Ângela is a senior program assistant for Amend Mozambique. She has been with Amend Mozambique since 2015 and is involved in the implementation of numerous Amend projects.

She works in close liaison with government institutions, public schools, traffic police, and other stakeholders that work with Amend to implement road safety programs.

Angela coordinates and oversees all road safety programs in Maputo and Inchope.

Ayikai is the program director for Amend. She has a background in civil engineering, with a specialization in transport planning and traffic engineering. She has a passion for road safety and promoting thriving communities. She also has a keen interest in children and holds a diploma in Montessori early childhood education.

Ayikai started her career working as a traffic/highway engineer for consultancies in the United Kingdom and Ghana. She joined the Amend team in 2015 as a program manager for the School Area Road Safety Assessments and Improvements (SARSAI) program in Tanzania and went on to set up the program in Ghana.

Ayikai currently directs Amend’s infrastructure programs across the organization and travels to project countries. Some of her current assignments include pedestrian assessments on World Bank–funded roads in Tanzania and infrastructure improvements around schools in Botswana, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Senegal, Tanzania, and Zambia.

Ayikai holds professional membership with the Ghana Institution of Engineers (GhIE).

Edna is an office manager / program officer for Amend in Ghana. Over the past four years, she has gained substantial experience working on road safety projects around school areas. She began as a road safety instructor in 2016 and rose through the ranks to her current position.

Edna has a civil engineering background and also is acknowledged as an expert in road safety in Ghana. Her expertise in designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating road safety programs has helped improve the lives of over 19,000 students in Accra. She also trains road safety instructors and research assistants.

Enock is the office assistant for Amend Ghana and has been with the organization since 2018. He has a Managing Safely certificate from the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health.

He is devoted to saving the lives of vulnerable children, has joined Amend’s team of road safety instructors, and, in addition to his various contributions to Amend’s work, also serves as a research assistant for road surveys.

Enock recently started a degree program in information technology and, with the help of these skills, he is determined to further fight road crashes through technology-driven innovations.

George is a program officer for Amend, with over four years of experience working on road safety. He joined Amend’s office in Tanzania in 2015 and has been based in Dar es Salaam ever since.

George is experienced in conducting road safety research, especially for low-volume rural roads, and has done extensive work on assessments and infrastructure improvements around urban schools. He is a team member of Amend’s School Area Road Safety Assessments and Improvements (SARSAI) program and has worked on its implementation in ten African countries.

George recently worked on the Tanzania Strategic Cities Project (TSCP) — a World Bank–funded project to assess pedestrian safety around primary schools in five growing cities in Tanzania — and provided road safety recommendations. He is now working on a two-year program to improve road safety in the city of Tanga, Tanzania.

Jeffrey is Amend’s founder and executive director.

He is responsible for leading the development and delivery of all of Amend’s work.

Juliet joined Amend in February 2020 as the country manager in Ghana and a road safety engineer. She is an engineering professional with a passion for preserving the lives of road users through her work.

Juliet has fourteen years’ experience working with consulting engineering firms in Ghana as a traffic engineer on several infrastructure-development projects throughout sub-Saharan Africa at the planning, design, and implementation phases.

Juliet holds a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering and a master of business administration in project management, both from Ghana. She is member of the Ghana Institution of Engineering (GhIE) and a certified project management professional (PMP) as well as an International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) accredited supplier.

Juliet is currently leading an investigation into innovative infrastructure for nonmotorized road user safety in Africa, as part of the UK AID–funded High Volume Transport Applied Research Programme. She was instrumental in leading country-specific research to enhance understanding of safe motorcycle and three-wheeler use for rural transport in Ghana, as part of a four-country research project under the UK AID–funded Research for Community Access Partnership (ReCAP).

Moisés is the administrator for Amend Mozambique. He has been a member of the Association of Accountants and Auditors of Mozambique (OCAM) since 2016. During his spare time, he is a professor of accounting for the Faculty of Economics and Management at Universidade Pedagógica de Maputo.

Moisés has provided valuable advice and assistance to Amend Mozambique since 2015, supporting on accounting and regulatory issues as a consultant and joined Amend full-time in 2020.

Neema is a senior program officer for Amend, with over eight years of experience working on road safety and community improvement. She joined Amend’s office in Tanzania in 2012 and has been based in Dar es Salaam ever since.

Neema has strong experience and knowledge in designing and implementing road safety education and awareness activities for the most vulnerable road users, especially schoolchildren. She is engaged in varied national road safety activities and works very closely with the traffic police and other road safety stakeholders in Tanzania.

Neema is currently working with schools in Tanzania to build road safety consciousness and leadership behavior among the young and in the communities around schools. She manages several road safety education programs throughout Tanzania.

With over five years of experience from accounting firms in diverse countries, Providence joined Amend in 2017 as the head accountant. He has a proven track record consistently delivering accounting services, beyond simply batching numbers, and guiding organizations to achieve their objectives.

Providence established Amend’s current accounting system and works closely with all countries’ office managers and other staff members to ensure that all of Amend’s finances are well managed and represented transparently.

Despite his accounting background, Providence is also a team member of Amend’s award-winning SARSAI program. His interest in road safety and ability to speak French enables him to work on the implementation of SARSAI in Francophone countries, such as Cote D’Ivoire and Senegal. He was also involved in the production of Un Grand Pas en Avant, the French version of Step Change, a road safety report on safe walking for African children.

Rama is a program officer for Amend, with over none years of experience working on road safety education. He started working with Amend in 2011 as a road safety instructor and later became a program officer.

Rama is well experienced in training, supervising, and managing road safety instructors; he has also led a team of project and research assistants and acted as the master of ceremonies at many of Amend’s events.

Rama has now taken the role of Tanga project coordinator, leading Amend’s work in the city of Tanga, Tanzania, for the Safe and Healthy Journeys to School for Children and Adolescents project with Fondation Botnar. He heads Amend’s first satellite office, in Tanga.

Ronny is a program officer for Amend with a background in construction project management. Formerly a quantity surveyor and safeguards manager for Mohammedi Builders Ltd, a class 1 contractor that, among major projects, built the largest bus stand in East Africa.

Ronny is a three-time host and event-planning committee member for the Malaysian International Cultural Festival, an event that celebrates the world’s diversity, with dignitaries from the United Kingdom, Swaziland, Lesotho, and Malaysia and 15,000+ others in attendance. When not working, he is an avid musician and fitness enthusiast.

Ronny joined Amend in 2019 and is currently working on the World Bank–funded RISE program, leading teams of ESIA and other design experts from roads authorities along with consultants, to develop a model for community engagement that democratizes how communities design, build, and use rural roads.

Simon is a program manager for Amend, with over seven years of experience working in road safety. He is based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where he started his road safety work in 2012.

Simon is a trained and active road safety advocate for the Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety and regularly facilitates workshops at their annual global events.

Simon is involved in overseeing overall implementation of Amend’s road safety programs, across ten countries in southern, eastern, and western Africa; his work focuses on assessing child pedestrian safety around urban schools. He is currently managing a School Area Road Safety Assessments and Improvements (SARSAI) program, through which he implements inclusive infrastructure improvements, organizes road safety education, and advocates for safe and sustainable schools in Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, and Ghana. The SARSAI program has been internationally recognized with two distinguished awards in 2018 and 2019. He also leads a traffic conflict analysis study around schools in Ghana. Simon was recently involved in delivering road safety training to local NGOs and local government authorities in Jamaica and Morocco.

Texel is the country manager for Amend Mozambique, with three years of experience working with road safety and project development and management around Maputo, Mozambique.

She works with local authorities, civil society, and other stakeholders to improve road safety conditions in Mozambique and represents Amend Mozambique during national and international meetings and conferences.

Texel is currently working toward reducing speeds around schools through Amend’s road safety Kids’ Court, raising drivers’ awareness of the risks of reckless driving around schools and increasing children’s knowledge about road safety. She addresses road safety on multiple levels from varied angles, to enhance everyone’s understanding and change the attitudes and practices of road users.

Theodora is the administration manager for Amend Tanzania. She has been with Amend in Dar es Salaam since 2010.

Theodora has great experience in administration, human resources, and accounting. She is responsible for the overall management of Amend’s office in Tanzania, including day-to-day management of accounts and finance. She works closely with the head bookkeeper to prepare financial reports for funded programs. She also provides operational support to program activities.

Theodora is responsible for statutory reporting, travel arrangements, and visa and resident permits for Amend’s noncitizen employees.

Tom is a program director for Amend, with over sixteen years of experience working in road safety and transport planning. He established Amend’s office and programs in Tanzania in 2009 and has been based in Dar es Salaam ever since.

Tom is recognized internationally as an expert on road safety in Africa. He is an advisory board member of the Child Injury Prevention Alliance, is on the selection committee for the annual global Sustainable Transport Awards, and regularly attends meetings of the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration.

Tom is currently working with the roads authorities in Tanzania on the World Bank–funded RISE program, developing a model for community engagement in rural road design. He is also currently leading a two-year program to improve road safety in the city of Tanga, in northeast Tanzania. He was recently team leader for a research study into the use of motorcycles as taxis in rural DR Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.

Yusta is the administration assistant for Amend Tanzania. She joined the organization in 2012 and is based in Dar es Salaam.

Yusta provides assistance in the overall management of Amend’s office in Tanzania, including office cleaning, maintenance, clerical work, bill payments, and other assistance as well as managing petty cash and reconciling expenses with the administration manager.

Chloe Teasdale, PhD, MPH, is an assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. The focus of her work is on evaluating the implementation of HIV care and treatment programs, with a specific interest in assessing outcomes of children, adolescents, and pregnant women living with HIV in resource-limited settings.