Our Board
Victoria Awo Twumasi
(Executive Director / Mother/ SCD Caregiver/ Non-Profit, Business, MPH, Leadership)
Victoria Awo Twumasi is an accomplished non-profit leader, as well as a business executive, with years of experience working in both the United States as well as in her home country of Ghana. As a non-profit leader, Ms. Twumasi has been a health education trainer and steadfast advocate and spokesperson for people living with serious conditions and disabilities. She is the mother of two children, the younger of whom is a Sickle Cell Warrior and Advocate. She helped to establish the Sickle Association of at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital-Ridge Branch, the second largest hospital in the nation’s capital there, she has served as the President of the organization that advocates for 250 patients and their families. She is passionate about empowering and mentoring young up-and-coming leaders and raising awareness about the needs of people living in Ghana with Sickle Cell Disease.
She is also a member of the Good Fellow Foundation in Ghana, a group that seeks to economically empower people with physical disabilities in Ghana. She is the volunteer Coordinator for the Ghana Chapter of the Ghana Advocacy Group (GAG) in Ghana, a nonprofit group of Ghanaians in the Diaspora who embark on socio-economic causes in Ghana. She is also a leading member of the Clean Ghana Army, an advocacy group that seeks to address the health and sanitation issues through awareness, education and organized cleanup efforts in Ghana. While living in the U.S., Ms. Twumasi worked in Community Healthcare as the Worcester Massachusetts County Area Director for Program Development for Alternatives Unlimited, Inc. for 14 years. Alternatives Unlimited, a non-profit community health and human services provider for the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, provides person-centered rehabilitative and community health support services to over 2,500 people living with various disabilities in Central and Western Massachusetts. Ms. Twumasi was recognized for her excellence in leadership by the Worcester Business Journal's 40 under Forty in 2011. She was also inducted into the Greater Worcester Community Foundation as a Corporator in 2011 where she served on the Grants and Scholarships Review and Outreach Committees for six years. Ms. Twumasi was acknowledged by the Worcester City Mayor O’Brien for her leadership efforts within the Worcester communi- ty in 2012. She has received various leadership awards over the years in her work with Non-Profit Management in Health and Human Services. She also served as a volunteer Executive Leader and Financial Secretary for the First Assembly of God Church Samaritans in Worcester Massachusetts, a mission she extended to Ghana. In addition to her non-profit expertise, Ms. Twumasi is an entrepreneur. After 18 years in the U.S., she relocated to Ghana to run her family business as the CEO Palmer Group Real Estate in Ghana, West Africa, a company that specializes in lands, houses and buildings for homes, commercial and investment properties, farming, as well as sites for recreational facilities. She also owns a food outlet that offers catering services as well as opportunities for the training and employment for street vendors. Ms. Twumasi holds Bachelor’s Degrees in both Sociology and Business Administration and a Masters in Non-Profit Management and Leadership with a concentration in Community Health from Worcester State University in Massachusetts.
