Bernard Gbayee Goah hails from Liberia, West Africa. While in Liberia, he worked as a school registrar for the Len Miller Senior High School and also served as a member of the UNICEF Water and Sanitation section. He fled from Liberia into neighboring Cote d’lvoire as a result of the Liberian civil war. Due to war and political instability in Cote d’lvoire Bernard fled to Ghana West Africa where he lived as a refugee at the Buduburam refugee camp, which held over 42,000 refugees.

Bernard served as school teacher and project director for the Liberian Refugee skills training center where he taught Physics and basic electrical.  As a refugee himself, Bernard served as Head of the Water and Sanitation Department of the Children Better Way organization for three years. While working with Children Better Way, Bernard worked with both local and international volunteers from diverse backgrounds and from all over the globe including the USA, Canada, UK, Spain, France, Germany, Australia and Holland.  He served as founding member and first chairman of the Buduburam Sanitation Network with coalition members such as the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, as well as Local NGOs and CBOs in and around the refugee camp.

Bernard now lives in the United States and is a graduate of Portland State University. He holds a BA in Computer Information Systems and is currently working on a masters degree in International Studies. Bernard Goah is the CEO and co-founder of Envision Change Network Inc.

In 2005, Heather went to Ghana and volunteered at the Liberian refugee camp, Buduburam.  Working on various projects during her time there allowed her to work with many different organizations and dynamic people.  She saw the need to find support for the many community based organizations that were making survival on the camp possible for the 42,000 refugees that lived on the camp.

Heather is co-founder of Envision Change Network.  She holds a masters degree in Conflict Resolution from Portland State University. Heather has a keen interest in social justice issues and has been proactive in this area for many years in a variety of voluntary roles.

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Board Chairman

Mr. R. Scott McDonald

Scott McDonald is a founding Board member and first chairman of the Board for Envision Change Network.  Scott lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and is a retired senior manager with the Federal Government of Canada.  Scott spent over 25 of his 36 year career living with and working among native aboriginal peoples of Canada’s arctic, monitoring the quantity and health of Canada’s water resources.

Since his retirement, in 2004, Scott has focused much of his time and energy in helping those less fortunate.  Scott has made two trips to Ghana, West Africa, as an international volunteer. In 2005 Scott accompanied his daughter to Ghana to work and live with the small Liberian Refugee organization, Children Better Way. In 2007 Scott felt a need to return to Ghana, spending his time working with the Ghanaian people of a poor farming community.  The focus of his volunteer work centered around building water wells and reservoirs, passing on knowledge in the area of environmental and sanitation stewardship, and sharing techniques for local people to develop project proposals and track and report on donor funding.  Scott is an active member of a refugee resettlement committee in his home town and the president of the Canadian Board for the USA/Canada ecumenical ministry that supports Christian ministry in Canada’s remote arctic aboriginal communities.

Mr. McDonald feels Envision Change Network provides everyone a mechanism to make a difference by empowering the vision of helping others through a network of committed international volunteers partnering with local organizations to address the needs of Africa and beyond.