Fascinating People - Richard Chibuna Anyanwu
Posted: Care Solutions - Monthly Newsletter
June 2009, Vol 1 No. 4Thursday, 3 July 2008

Choice Home Health Care is proud to have the dynamic Richard Anyanwu, RN, as a part of our highly skilled team of professional nurses. He is a wonderful example of how one caring, compassionate person can accomplish extraordinary things! Richard travels frequently to Nigeria to deliver medicines and provide care for the Ibo Tribe. He is the founder of MAHAFA a 501-(c)3 Nonprofit Organization for the people of Africa.

Chief Deacon Richard Chibuna Anyanwu was born in Umueze-Chokoneze, in Imo State, Nigeria. After moving to the United States, he attended and graduated from Calvin Coolidge High School in Washington D.C. He later relocated to the Monterey Peninsula where he attended and graduated from Monterey Peninsula College. After college, he joined the United States Army where he graduated from the Army Academy of Health Sciences, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Chief Deacon Richard Anyanwu works as a Registered Nurse at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula's (CHOMP) Westland House in Monterey, California.

He is an ordained Baptist Deacon by Pastor Raymond Martin of the Holy Assembly Missionary Baptist Church in Marina, California. Chief Deacon Anyanwu is also a crowned Tribal Chief of Umueze in Imo State, Nigeria by his Royal Highness Eze Dr. Jonathan Anyanwu and the Umueze people. He is married to Lolo Gertrude Adanma Anyanwu and they have five children: Ikemba, Odiri, Chika, Ozioma, and Ogechi. Lolo Gertrude Adanma Anyanwu is a trained Registered Nurse in Nigeria and works as a nurse in Monterey, California. She is also a deaconess at Holy Assembly Missionary Baptist Church, Marina, California.

About Mahafa

MAHAFA IS a grassroots organization established to provide much needed medical care to the indigents of the Ibo tribe in Nigeria who cannot afford to help themselves. The organization actively addresses and works on issues of health care; dealing with diseases such as hypertension, malaria, typhoid, insomnia, arthritic and chronic debilitating pain while providing education on prevention of many tropical diseases. MAHAFA Organization (formerly known as AfricareMeds) was founded by Chief Deacon Richard Chibuna Anyanwu and his wife Lolo Gertrude Adanma Anyanwu in 2002.

Richard Anyanwu at work in Nigeria

"MAHAFA exists to promote better life for the Ibo tribe in Nigeria. The organization actively addresses and works on issues of health care and disease prevention. The Ibo people of Nigeria have suffered tremendously from Nigerian civil war to governments that cares less about their own people. The unfortunate thing is that the money and goods raised by the bigger nonprofit organizations in the western world does not reach the poor masses it was intended for. In contrast, all money and goods raised by MAHAFA formerly known as MAHAFA (Formerly known as AfricareMeds) reaches their intended beneficiaries. For this organization to be successful, it will need the assistance of all the good people of America and beyond to help provide this vital service to those less fortunate".

Richard Chibuna Anyanwu

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