“PAAL was not only a workplace: it was a home from which I made friends, shared a lot, grew immensely both in skill and at a personal level. Because I had a boss who allowed me to be creative, I was able to find innovative ways to deliver on my tasks. I enjoyed my time there. At the end of the project I felt confident enough to take my lessons back into engaging with communities.” she adds.

In 2012, Florence Anam joined the National Empowerment Network of People Living with HIV (NEPHAK) as the Advocacy and Communications Manager where I managed the advocacy and communication portfolio as well as community health engagement activities as the liaison between People Living with HIV communities and Ministry Of Health. She later joined the International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW) Global office based in Nairobi, Kenya from 2015 to 2018 were she worked as the Senior Manager Advocacy and Communication. After ICW Global Florence was the HIV/TB Advocacy coordinator for Africa region at Doctors without Borders (MSF) and is based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Currently Florence is the Co-Executive Director at GNP Plus.

Paul Maina

Paul joined Pharmacy Access Africa in June 2004 as the Chief Accountant. He was part of the innogural team of management of PAAL.

He held the position for 4 years heading the Finance team as well as overseeing human Resource matters. He left PAAL in May 2008.

Paul is a holder of BCom in Accounting and a Certified Public Accountant of Kenya and a member of ICPAK.

To me, PAAL was more than just workplace. It was family. The time spent there remains some of the most memorable in my career. The challenge of setting up systems in a new organization and the satisfaction that came with serving the community by ensuring accessibility to ARVs as part of APHIA partners ..was truly satisfying". He says.

Paul is currently working with KTDA as a senior manager heading the Factory Accounts department.

Jack Indusa Adaji

Jack Indusa Adaji joined in PAAL on July 2012 as a Commodity Security and Logistics Officer based in Nairobi.

He worked in the PAAL reproductive health project TUPANGE, a consortium funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and led by JHPIEGO, an international NGO affiliated with Johns Hopkins University with a consortium of partners including National Council of Population and Development (NCPD) under the Ministry of Planning and Devolution, Marie Stopes International (MSI) and PAAL whose responsibility was contraceptive commodity security.

“I was tasked to work with the private sector partner clinics and hospitals to capacity build them on Commodity Security and the logistics of the day to day handling of commodity, storage, distribution, correct ordering of commodities.”

“It was while working at PAAL that I gained more interest in working with the NGOs and the humanitarian world because of the imp[act the I saw we were impacting the community around us.”