Araba Mbirba Hammond

Araba Hammond has over six years of experience working in the area of non-profit management with a focus on childcare, education, and health care for poor children. She serves as the Chief Operations Officer of Village of Hope, a Ghanaian non-governmental organization with over 200 employees responsible for 1,000 children. Her work focuses on coordinating the operations of the organization, facilitating collaboration among its subsidiaries, and supervising all communications across a variety of media ensuring that the childcare and educational initiatives of the organization continue to grow. Araba Mbirba Hammond also mentors children and has personally formed a children’s choir that she directs. Araba has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Ashesi University College and a diploma in Telecommunication Engineering from Multimedia University. After completing the Washington Fellowship, Araba plans to change negative mindsets about children with learning difficulties and lead in the establishment of a child assessment and parent training center for children with learning difficulties. Araba was one of 100 Fellows competitively selected to participate in an 8-week internship in the United States following the Mandela Washington Fellowship academic institute. She interned at the U.S. Peace Corps in August-September 2014.