Meet The Team
Mr Emana Antia
A Trustee of Little Voices Children’s Foundation and a UK based digital marketing and communications professional with years of experience supporting growth, visibility, and accountability within healthcare and impact driven organisations. Based in Aberdeen, Scotland, she brings strong governance focused expertise that helps position the foundation as a credible, transparent, and donor ready organisation.
Emana holds a Master’s degree in Digital Marketing from Robert Gordon University, where he was awarded Best Overall Student, and is an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Her academic and professional background equips her with a deep understanding of evidence based communication, performance measurement, and ethical digital engagement, all of which are essential to meeting the expectations of regulators, funders, and grant awarding bodies.
Alongside his communications expertise, Emana has hands-on experience in digital and IT development initiatives that support children and young people. This includes designing and managing digital platforms, educational websites and content systems that improve access to learning resources, promote digital literacy and introduce children to essential IT skills in safe, age-appropriate ways. His work reflects a strong belief that early exposure to technology and digital skills is critical to long-term educational and economic empowerment.
In his professional career within the UK healthcare sector, Emana has led SEO driven content strategies, website governance, and multi channel communications that improved public access to services and strengthened organisational reputation. She has successfully implemented digital systems that increased engagement, improved efficiency, and ensured that messaging remained accurate, compliant, and audience focused.
As a Trustee, Emana provides strategic oversight of the Foundation’s communications, digital infrastructure, IT-enabled education initiatives and donor engagement frameworks. He is committed to ensuring that the impact of Little Voices Children’s Foundation is clearly documented, professionally presented and aligned with best practice in transparency, safeguarding and accountability. His contribution supports strong reporting, effective storytelling and sustainable funding relationships, enabling donors and grant partners to invest with confidence in programmes that improve healthcare access, digital inclusion and educational outcomes for underserved children and families.
Mrs Precious Frank
A Trustee of Little Voices Children’s Foundation and a UK based healthcare professional living in Scotland. She brings valuable frontline healthcare experience and strong governance awareness to the foundation, ensuring that its programmes remain ethical, people centred, and aligned with community health needs.
Mrs Frank holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Business Administration from the University of Calabar, Nigeria. Her academic background provides a solid foundation in public policy, organisational management, and accountability, which she complements with many years of practical experience working within healthcare services. This blend of policy insight and hands on care enables her to contribute meaningfully to strategic decision making and oversight within the charity.
Through her professional work in the UK healthcare sector, Mrs Frank has developed a deep understanding of patient safety, safeguarding, service delivery, and ethical standards. She is particularly passionate about equitable access to healthcare, preventive services, and the protection of vulnerable children and families, values that closely align with the mission of Little Voices Children’s Foundation.
As a Trustee, Mrs Frank plays a key role in strengthening governance, safeguarding, and community focused programme delivery. She is committed to ensuring that donor funds and grant resources are used responsibly and transparently, with clear outcomes and measurable impact. Her experience and integrity provide assurance to regulators, funding partners, and donors that the foundation operates with professionalism, compassion, and accountability, making it a trusted vehicle for delivering sustainable healthcare and child focused interventions.
Dr Akanimo Antia
A Nigerian born physician from Akwa Ibom State whose career reflects a deep commitment to excellence service and global health equity. His formative education at Monef Kiddies School and Air Force Comprehensive School Uyo instilled strong values of discipline leadership and compassion that continue to shape his professional and humanitarian work today.
Dr Antia earned his medical degree from David Tvildiani AIETI Medical School in Tbilisi Georgia and returned to Nigeria to complete his medical internship. During this period he witnessed firsthand the disproportionate burden of cardiovascular disease and the systemic gaps within healthcare delivery especially affecting vulnerable families and children. These experiences became a defining motivation in his pursuit of advanced medical training and long term solutions for underserved communities.
Driven by a desire to build world class expertise he pursued postgraduate training in the United States completing his residency at Lincoln Medical Center in New York where he also served as Chief Medical Resident. He is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and is committed to a lifelong career in cardiovascular medicine with a strong focus on prevention early intervention and health system strengthening.
Dr Antia’s academic and clinical interests include cardiovascular disease prevention interventional cardiology global health and sustainable healthcare systems. He has led and contributed to several high impact research publications and in 2024 was awarded the NIH R13 Early Career Investigator Award through the National Medical Association supported by the National Institutes of Health. These achievements reflect both his scientific rigor and his commitment to translating research into real world impact.
As Medical Director of Little Voices Children’s Foundation Dr Antia brings a rare combination of clinical excellence global perspective and deep personal connection to the communities the foundation serves. He is passionate about ensuring that children and families in underserved settings have access to quality healthcare early disease detection health education and life saving interventions. Through strategic medical outreach research informed programs and partnerships with donors and grant institutions he is dedicated to building sustainable health initiatives that create lasting impact and healthier futures for children across Africa and beyond.