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Ateyo Tersur

Executive Director/CEO

Ateyo Tersur, Founder and Executive Director of Elate Child Foundation, leads initiatives advancing disability inclusion, child protection, education, healthcare, humanitarian response, and community development for vulnerable Nigerians.

Ateyo Tersur

Executive Director/CEO

Ateyo Tersur is the Founder and Executive Director/CEO of Elate Child Foundation (ECF), a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of children with disabilities, vulnerable children, adolescents, women, and displaced families in Nigeria. He has extensive experience in disability inclusion, humanitarian response, HIV/AIDS programming, child protection, healthcare access, psychosocial support, education support, and community development. Under his leadership, ECF has implemented interventions supporting children with disabilities through healthcare referrals, education assistance, psychosocial support, assistive devices distribution, nutrition support, and safeguarding initiatives across vulnerable communities in Benue, Nasarawa and Taraba States. He is passionate about advancing inclusive and sustainable solutions for underserved populations, especially children affected by poverty, displacement, conflict, and health inequalities.

Torhemba Tyokyaa

Chairman, Board of Directors

Provides strategic leadership and governance oversight for Elate Child Foundation (ECF), supporting organizational sustainability, partnerships, accountability, and policy direction for humanitarian and development interventions.

Torhemba Tyokyaa

Chairman, Board of Directors

Torhemba Tyokyaa serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Elate Child Foundation (ECF), providing strategic oversight, governance leadership, and institutional guidance to strengthen the organization’s mission and sustainability. With experience in leadership, policy, community development, or public service, Torhemba supports ECF in building strategic partnerships and promoting accountability and transparency in program delivery.

Benjamin Nomor

Director of Programs

Oversees program design, implementation, monitoring, and partnership coordination across healthcare, education, child protection, disability inclusion, HIV/TB response, and humanitarian interventions

Benjamin Nomor

Director of Programs

Benjamin Normor is responsible for coordinating program planning, implementation, quality assurance, and partnership engagement for Elate Child Foundation (ECF). He supports integrated interventions in healthcare, HIV/TB response, disability inclusion, education, child protection, and humanitarian response while ensuring community-centered and evidence-based programming.

Best Hembafan

Finance and Admin Manager

Leads financial management, grant compliance, budgeting, procurement, and administrative systems to ensure transparency and effective project delivery.

Best Hembafan

Finance and Admin Manager

Best Hembafan Aernyi oversees financial systems, grants management, procurement, budgeting, compliance, and organizational administration for ECF. She ensures accountability, effective resource utilization, and compliance with donor and regulatory requirements to support sustainable organizational growth.

Rahila Habilla

Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning Lead

Coordinates data collection, monitoring, evaluation, reporting, and learning systems to support evidence-based programming and donor accountability.

Rahila Habilla

Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning Lead

Rahila Habila leads monitoring, evaluation, data management, accountability, and learning processes within ECF programs. She supports evidence generation, project reporting, data quality assurance, and impact measurement across humanitarian and development interventions.

Terver Ephraim Deakpe

Community Engagement and Safeguarding Coordinator

Leads stakeholder engagement, community mobilization, safeguarding, advocacy, and protection initiatives for children, adolescents, women, and vulnerable groups.

Terver Ephraim Deakpe

Community Engagement and Safeguarding Coordinator

Terver Ephraim Deakpe coordinates community mobilization, stakeholder engagement, advocacy, child safeguarding, and awareness activities for ECF. He works closely with community leaders, schools, caregivers, and local institutions to promote inclusion, protection, and participation of vulnerable children and families.

Ufoma Faith Eguono

Health and Psychosocial Support Coordinator

Supports implementation of healthcare, HIV/TB, nutrition, MHPSS, disability inclusion, and adolescent wellbeing programs across target communities.

Ufoma Faith Eguono

Health and Psychosocial Support Coordinator

Ufoma Faith Eguono supports the implementation of integrated healthcare, nutrition, HIV/AIDS, TB, MHPSS, disability inclusion, and adolescent wellbeing programs. She helps strengthen referral systems, psychosocial care, treatment adherence support, and community-based health interventions for vulnerable populations.

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ecf@elatechild.org

+234 810 067 3588

Makurdi, Benue State