Dr. Olivia Tchanque is a licensed pharmacist, healthcare entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Angel Care Pharmacy and Angel Care Foundation.

She is not someone who waited for permission. She arrived in the United States speaking no English, spent her first year learning the language at the LADO Center for International Students in Maryland, raised three children while earning her pharmacy degree, and built everything from nothing.

None of it came quickly. She earned her associate degree at Montgomery College, then won a place in Jefferson University’s pharmacy program in Philadelphia. Around the same time, motherhood arrived.

Three children, full-time study, and a dream she refused to put down.

The weight of it forced a choice. She stepped away from school for two years.

Then she came back, transferred to a program in West Virginia, and finished her Doctor of Pharmacy in 2018.

A year later, she became a licensed pharmacist in Philadelphia.

In 2020, she took a leap.

She opened Angel Care Pharmacy as an independent, woman-owned business.

Today it is a fully licensed neighbourhood health hub offering specialty pharmacy, long-term care, durable medical equipment, and mail-order services.

As a 340B pharmacy partner, she helps low-income patients afford life-saving medications. She oversees every part of it, from inventory to compliance to patient care.

But her ambition extends beyond the pharmacy counter, and its emotional roots stretch back to 2009, when she gave birth to her first child in the United States with almost nothing.

After delivery, a nurse brought her daughter to her wrapped in a blanket.

In that moment she felt completely held, completely cared for. It was a simple gesture. She never forgot it.

Years later, she returned to Cameroon, and what she witnessed there broke her heart and gave her clarity in equal measure. That memory, and that journey home, became the seed of something larger.

So she founded Angel Care Foundation, a maternal and child health organisation working across Africa.

Its work spans community health, education, clean water, and emergency support, anchored by a long-term vision that includes hospitals and healthcare infrastructure across the continent.

The soon to be launching Angel Blanket carries that 2009 moment forward.

It puts the same sense of being held, the same signal that a mother and her newborn matter and that someone is taking care of them, into the hands of women who might otherwise deliver with nothing.

The blanket is the gesture.

The foundation is the vehicle.

Dr. Tchanque is African, born in Cameroon, and building from a place of deep personal experience. She does not come to this work as an outsider. She comes as a sister, a mother, a pharmacist, and a builder. Her belief is straightforward.

Africa is not a continent poor in resources.

What she is building is the proof.