Dr. Adama Bailo Balde, Associate

Address:  Noreen and Ryan Home
Dominghia, Guinea

Phone:  224.64.33.9770

Email:  abalde@lyceumresearch.com

Dr. Adama Balde was born in Kissidougou, Guinea in 1973. She completed graduate studies in Cuba at the Universite de la Havane (Institut de Pharmacie at Alimentation) before returning to Guinea. Adama had experienced the effects of polio that left her with a passionate desire to help similarly affected children and people to overcome disability and lead a normal life. In 2010 she became acquainted with the work of Le Groupe Lyceum and joined the organization in health care. To prepare herself fully, she “locumed” at the Anglican Diocese Clinic in Conakry for a few months before being appointed the Director of the Health Center in Dominghia. She opened the clinic in Dominghia in May 2011 and was soon joined by Dr. Yoou Nianga (Jonas) Goumou, MD.
Adama is the proud mother of a boy named Almany Seny Kaba.

Mr. Boniface Dukuzemungu, BBA, Associate

Address:  106 Parkside Drive
Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 2T3

Phone:  (506)206-1213

Email:  dukubo@yahoo.com

Mr. Dukuzemungu is a resident of Fredericton, New Brunswick where he has been attending the University of New Brunswick, earning his Bachelor of Business Administration in the spring of 2011. He also completed an internship focused on the annual United Way campaign with Business New Brunswick to gain insights into trade and business development.

Boniface immigrated to Canada from Rwanda in 2006 with his wife and five children. Before moving to Canada, he worked in both Rwanda and Kenya in banking and community development programs. He views the work of LGL in West Africa as an ideal vehicle to introduce novel community markets as self-help projects for rural poor villages, and a means to enhance the work at Dominghia by empowering local people.

Mr. Andrew F. Jones, B.Ed, CET, M.Ed, Associate

Address: Grand Manan Community School
                1144 Route 776
                Grand Manan, New Brunswick. E5G 4E8
Phone: (506) 662-7044 or 662-3195
Email: jonesanf@gmail.com

Mr. Andrew Jones has been an educator in New Brunswick, Canada since 1991. His focus is educational technology, and he has been a provincial technology mentor, a department head (SPR) and a vice principal over his career. Besides his work in education, he also has a passion for community service, world service, and alternative medicine. He is an active member of the Rotary Club of Grand Manan Island, participating in many community and world service projects.

For the last six years, Andrew has supported the work of Le Groupe Lyceum in Guinea and been a local champion on Grand Manan Island.

Mr. Pengyu (Frank) Li, Associate

Address: 15 Birch Grove Terrace
                Saint John, New Brunswick. E2K 2J2
Phone: (506) 639-2608
Email: lpy6085@gmail.com

Mr. Frank Li was born in 1981 in Harbin, China, situated in the north part of China with a population of about five million. He attended school in Harbin, completing secondary studies in 2000. In 2001, he moved to Canada to study English and business at the University of New Brunswick, Saint John campus, and graduated with a bachelor of business administration degree in 2006.

Frank is a born entrepreneur, and comes from a family in China of business leaders in pharmaceuticals, building products and the extractive industry. He is a firm believer in CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility), and over the last year has become an ardent supporter of the work of Le Groupe Lyceum in Guinea. In order to observe and learn firsthand, he plans to visit Guinea in July 2011.
He speaks English, Mandarin Chinese, and German with a current personal project to learn French. In his spare time, he enjoys participating in social events and volunteer activities to better help his community.

Miss Lanna-Gerline Millien, Nutritional Science Specialist and Associate

Address: Canada and Germany
Phone: (416) 799-5648
Email: lgmillien@lyceumresearch.com

After being a primary care provider in pediatrics and maternal health, Miss Lanna-Gerline Millien has occupied various roles in the corporate environment. She currently works at developing various market segments, but mostly French speaking market segments in the health care business world, and is excited to team up with Dr. Kenneth Keirstead and the Lyceum Group and join individuals who are making positive differences in peoples’ lives.

Lanna-Gerline chose to study nutritional health sciences with a particular extra focus on anti-oxidants (glutathione) and international nutrition interventions. She successfully completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Montreal (Faculty of Medicine) and is currently continuing graduate studies.

Her career and projects have allowed her to lead initiatives in North America, Europe and Latin America, earning her a comfort level for both domestic and international environments. She is a catalyst, public speaker, and health advocate with a particular interest in preventative approaches to health care. She is fluent in French, English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, and she has a moderate to advanced knowledge of German.

Lanna-Gerline wants to contribute to the work of LGL in West Africa.

Miss Nicole Macnab, Associate

Address: Moncton, New Brunswick
Email: nicolemacnab@gmail.com

Miss Nicole Macnab currently works for an investment company in Moncton, New Brunswick. Throughout her career, she has been successful at improving the performance of businesses, and helped companies grow throughout times of expansion by creating a focus on improving human resource recruitment and productivity.

Nicole’s first professional post was to work as a human resource manager for an insurance company. After four years, she decided to volunteer in Guinea for a period of three months where she was able to take part in LGL’s vitamin and mineral distribution and also work in the pharmacy at Dominghia with Dr. Adama Balde. Nicole fell in love with the country and its people during her stay, and learned that she was helping with just a few of the many steps necessary to accomplish the much larger goals of LGL. President of LGL, Fatoumata Dabo, was a critical influence. She contributed to Nicole’s changed life calling and aspirations. The three months spent in Guinea proved to be one of the most powerful experiences in Nicole’s life, and she continues to jump at the opportunity to share her brother Ryan’s wish (see Noreen and Ryan’s Home).

Nicole continues to progress her passion for LGL’s work, her passion for a job well done, while anxiously waiting to return to Guinea.

Address: Department of Sociology and Criminology
Saint Mary's University
McNally South 4th Floor
923 Robie Street
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3C3
Canada
Phone: (902) 402-5978 or (902) 477-5112
Email:  Natalieboltz@hotmail.com
              Natalie.longaphy@unb.ca

Natalie is a sociology Doctorate student at University of New Brunswick and part-time lecturer at Saint Mary’s University.  Her research and teaching interests include human rights, violence against women and children, and development.  A few years ago, Natalie had the opportunity to travel to Guinea with the Lyceum Group and present at the Contribution of African Botanica to Humanity Conference on development and marginalization.  Since then, Natalie has been passionate about issues pertaining to women and children in Africa.  Her current research looks at the trokosi practice (girls “given” to animist priests and shrines) in Ghana.  Natalie resides in Halifax with her husband and daughter.