Davis Omanyo
(Eastern Africa Team Leader)
Davis is the sixth born in a family of 10 children. He was born in a rural village in western Kenya, and grew up in a village called Ganjala. His parents took him to an elementary school in the village, where he attended first through seventh grade. He then joined a missionary boarding high school. Davis’s father was a teacher, and he also worked on the family farm with Davis’s mother. They held onto Christian values that they passed on to all their children.
After high school, Davis trained as a pilot - a career he held until 1982 when he joined college to train as a public health specialist. Davis worked with the ministry of health, Government of Kenya for 5 years before joining the Anglican church of Kenya, diocese of Eldoret, where he worked as a health coordinator until 1994. It was in 1994 that he came to know about CRWRC through its partnership with the Anglican Church of Kenya, Nambale diocese.
Davis started working with CRWRC in 2000 at the home office in Grand Rapids in the area of HIV/AIDS response program, after completing his masters degree in Public Health- international health, from Boston University, USA. After 9 months working in the home office, Davis moved to work in East and southern Africa region as CRWRC-regional HIV/AIDS coordinator, a position he held until June 2004 when he was hired as a Country consultant in Uganda. In 2006, he took over a new role as team leader for East/South Africa.
Davis is married to Beth Wambui Omanyo. They have four daughters: Joan, Marion, Julian and Helen. Three of their daughters (Joan, Marion and Julian) are in boarding high schools in Kenya. Davis and Beth live in Kampala with our last born daughter, Helen, who is in grade 5 this year. Beth wife works as a physiotherapist in one of the mission hospitals in Kampala. Davis and Beth were born during the same month and year but three days apart. They celebrate their birth days together.
EMAIL: domanyo@crwrc.org |
