OUR very own Beverly Chan was recently recognised by the Guyana Metropolitan Relief Organisation during International Women’s History Month 2025 for her role in leadership, family-life education, and social work.
She was surprised but at the same time was honoured to be recognised, since it is evident that people are taking time to follow what she has been doing over the years and are grateful to GuyMetro for their input.
Chan spent 20 years in the noble teaching profession, five years of which was as an educator in the hinterland communities before she stepped away to focus on family-life education, leadership and social work.

She is a mediator at the Georgetown High Court Mediation Centre and has been the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the Davis Memorial Seventh-Day Adventist Hospital in D’urban Backlands for the past 12 years.
The mother of two and a grandmother of three recently told the Guyana Chronicle that within one month, she was the recipient of two different awards and she feels both elated and humbled by the gestures.
Chan on Saturday received the Trailblazing Woman in Project Management Award from Green State Oil and Gas Services Inc. in the HER Project Guyana and the Distinguished Service Award for Family Life Education from the Caribbean Union of the Seventh Day Adventists.

She is a Guyanese who grew up in Georgetown and has lived there all her life.  She is from a renowned and prominent family that was known to the Seventh-Day Adventist Church for being musicians, pastors, teachers, and businessmen and women.
Over the years, Chan has impacted her community in many significant ways.  She can be considered multi-talented since she has developed skills as a teacher, business leader, counsellor, and family-life educator.
The multi-talented woman’s greatest achievement in life is that of teaching and mentoring her children in the power of prayer, the role of faith in one’s life, and the benefits of living with an attitude of gratitude.

Chan has coordinated the establishment of the Diabetes Clinic and the development of the memorandum of understanding between GuyMetro and Davis Memorial Hospital.
She has synchronised and invited government and community organisations to participate in the work of Davis Memorial Hospital and does so with pomp and splendour.
Further, Chan has played a strategic role in keeping the hospital functioning and relevant, engaging missionary doctors from across the world to serve at the hospital.
Her involvement with GuyMetro dates back to 2014. She received and assigned the appropriate use of the hospital beds and a water- filtration unit, along with other items and financial donations Guy Metro had provided over the years.
Chan believes in GuyMetro’s vision and has pledged continued support to the organisation.

She sees herself supporting GuyMetro by sharing with others on social media the importance of the work that GuyMetro is doing at Davis Memorial Hospital.  She is using social media and the Seventh-Day Adventist community to spread the word.
Chan is a trained first-class teacher (Teachers’ Training College), a professional Social Worker and Development Practitioner (UG/ Dalhousie University, Canada, a CIDA Scholarship Programme). Certified Family Life Educator (Andrews University, USA), Leadership Healthcare System Certificate (LLU, USA), Emotional Intelligent Leadership Training (Molina Institute of Applied Neuroscience University/LLU), Trained High Court Mediator (ADR/USAID) and Appreciative Enquire Approach to Learning (USAID).

This multi-award recipient which includes a Woman of Distinction Award for her outstanding work in the area of leadership and social- intervention skills spent 18 years working in the area of sexual and reproductive health and gender equality at the Guyana Responsible Parenthood Association (Western Hemisphere region) where for four years she represented that organisation at the United Nations at the Conference on the Status of Women and served as a Committee Member of the UN Global Spotlight Initiative on Domestic Violence.
Chan is a mother, wife, grandmother and home-maker. She loves to read and travel and continues to represent Guyana in many roles in both the region and internationally.