About

Mission

To educate and empower young people to make choices that promote their health and wellbeing.

Vision

People

Ikunna

Ikunna Onwuanibe

Ikunna works as a General Practitioner in the UK, with over twenty years of experience. She holds additional qualifications in occupational and sexual health. Ikunna has a special interest in women’s health and the prevention and treatment of long-term conditions. She believes that empowering young people to take control of their health needs and wellbeing would improve the average quality of life globally.

Ikunna holds a Masters’ degrees in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has volunteered abroad as a GP in Nigeria and Kenya. She is also a member a member of the UK Emergency Medical Team, which responds to humanitarian emergencies overseas.

Ikunna intends to use her role at Be a Sister Foundation to encourage people to contribute more to society, so we can bring hope where there is despair.

Karen

Karen Njuguna

Karen is a registered midwife in the United Kingdom, with over nine years of experience working in a busy maternity unit that provides antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care to a diverse population of women in London. She also has experience working in the high dependency unit on delivery suite providing enhanced maternity care to unwell women.

Karen also plays the role of mentoring students and newly qualified midwives in her place of work.

Karen has a passion for women’s health and uses the word “empower”. She wants to empower women to give birth in the way that they want and beyond that, to make the choices that keep them healthy and strong. She is also interested in sexual and reproductive health especially in young people – she believes sexual and reproductive health in young people remains a challenge, and provision of accurate and specific information as well as accessible services are important and empower young people to make informed choices.

Karen holds a Masters ‘degrees in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and wrote her thesis on understanding maternal mortality trends in Kenya. She believes that women should not die from preventable causes during pregnancy and childbirth and is passionate about advancing the cause to reduce maternal mortality rate in developing countries.

Karen has volunteered abroad as a midwife in Kenya, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. She has also volunteered in medical and community outreach programs in Kenya and Zambia.

Karen believes in inspiring people to be the best that they can be. She also believes that the key to better health is to educate and empower people to make informed choices.