Our Team
Ezekiel S. Wallace
Ezekiel is the founder of Help One Help All (HOHA) and the worldwide Executive Director/President. He has been helping children in many communities in Sierra Leone with his personal resources. He founded Help One Help All in 2015. He has supplied teaching materials such as slates, chalks, books, pens, and pencils to few primary schools in Sierra Leone. With his leadership, HOHA is moving faster to expand and deepen the development process of building schools and many other development programs in Sierra Leone.
Louise Goodenow
“Louise Dear-Goodenow is the widow of J. Marsh Dear and the administrator of a memorial fund in his memory. Mrs. Dear-Goodenow is a journalist, researcher, technical writer, philanthropist, and venture capitalist. She resides on her private riverfront wildlife reserve on the banks of the Snake River in Idaho. “It is a thrill to be able to fund and assist in this program which we deeply hope will become a sustainable project to build many schools in Sierra Leone. In the beginning, there will be one and with that success, we envision more as the work refines and progresses. This project is the first and always lifelong dream of my friend Ezekiel Wallace. The work and successes that will follow are entirely by Africans and for Africans. My friends and I are happy to be a small part. May God bless the work!”~~Louise Dear-Goodenow
Louise Dear-Goodenow has been a board member since 2019. Her involvement with this organization dramatically changed its trajectory and the speed of the developmental process. Her compassion and antipathy against poverty and child suffering have led her to support numerous causes around the world, and Help One Help All is very lucky to have her in this endeavor.
Matta Sesay
Matta is a board member and a contributor both financially and morally to the course of this organization since its inception. She had worked and volunteered with Refugees at Refugee Connection Head Office in Spokane for two years, where she helped distribute foods, clothing, and other items to newly arrived refugees into the community. Also, helped them to assimilate into the community and learn the new culture they have come to. Her compassion for people has always pushed her to use the wherewithal to supporting any course that alleviate human suffering.
Santigie Fornah
Santigie has been a board member since 2017. In 2005, he worked for a micro credit Organization in Sierra Leone, where he excelled as one of the most brilliant and financially disciplined lender. He held different positions at the organization before he left in late 2009 for the US. His concern for the poor and the voiceless still moves him to do more with both his finances and moral support.
Hazel Shermer
Hazel is a board member who joined this organization in 2019. For 20 years, she has served on three other nonprofit boards and served 31 years in the US military. She said, “serving on HOHA board is a great honor for me, being a part of lives being better through not only education but through a community having opportunity to work together and having all the tools to make it possible”. Her compassion for Africa began when she was a small child. “My Aunt Hazel Leigh Parcel spent 20 years as a missionary teaching and nursing in Congo – Africa. As a small child I listened to her speak of Africa many things – war, the struggles, the beauty, the conditions…. the people. My Aunt’s compassion and love for the people was so beautiful, and that same love is in my heart, which is from her”.
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