African ChangeMakers Initiative – Ghana Chapter

African ChangeMakers Initiative.
Ghana Chapter.

Ghana Chapter Home: https://africanchangemakers.org/ghana

President Email: ghana@africanchangemakers.org

African ChangeMakers – Ghana Chapter

Current Events & Activities.
ACi-Ghana Alumni Chapter Survey.

Distinguished members, greetings!

I trust you are doing well with your families.
We thank God for keeping us all safe in this pandemic times.
We continue to pray and observe all safety measures; looking forward to have our normal lives back by a world free of coronavirus soon.

In our bit to enlighten and encourage ourselves about the pandemic, there will be a webinar on the theme Covid-19, Stay Safe.
Kindly lock the time down in your diaries and download zoom ahead of time to be part of this 50mins event.

The zoom link shall be shared with us on the 9th of April.

#Covid19TogetherWeCanWin
#AfricanChangeMakers
#ACiGhanaChapter

Ghana Chapter HomePage
https://africanchangemakers.org/ghana www.africanchangemakers.org

Warm regards
Selina Aboyinga
President
ACi Ghana 🇬🇭Chapter.
Email:ghana@africanchangemakers.org

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ChangeMakers, your breadth of experience counts in putting together an all-inclusive range of activities for the year. Your EXCOs saw the need to create a survey form to enable us all share our views. Kindly spare some few minutes and fill this survey form below👇 which shall be integrated in the program outline for the year.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSctfdba4MgUfF8W3lTmR-_JHlA6IlL7AqkgC1V030qzjIyjIg/viewform

Let us all kindly endavour to participate in this survey as it is opened from now till the close of day, Saturday ( 21st March 2020)/

Thank you in advance for making this a success.

Warm regards
Selina Aboyinga
President  -ACi Ghana Chapter.

 

Executives for 2020- 2021.

Selina Aboyinga President	King Richard Vice-President	Claudia Tiwaah Osei Secretary
Denis Nsoh Adongo Financial Secretary/Treasurer	Ernestina Ayinsum Welfare Manager	Seth Sarfo Anning Event Manager
Helina Andoh Project Manager	Samuel Adjei Kwarteng Public Relation Officer	Ibrahim Osman Adongo Fundraising Manager

Country Profile

Official Name:

Republic of Ghana

Short form: Ghana

Former: Gold Coast

ISO Country Code: gh

Time Zone:

Local Time = UTC (+-0; no UTC/GMT offset)

Actual Time: Wed-Feb-26  22:50

Country Calling Code: +233

Capital City: Accra

Other Cities: Kumasi (1 million est.), Tema (500,000 est.), Sekondi-Takoradi (370,000 est.).

Government:

Type: Multiparty Democracy.

Independence: 6 March 1957.

Constitution: Entered into force 7 January 1993.

Geography:

Location: Western Africa, bordering the Gulf of Guinea, between Cote d’Ivoire and Togo.

Area: 238,391 km² (92,100 sq. mi.).

Terrain: Plains and scrubland, rainforest, savanna.

Climate: Tropical; warm and comparatively dry along southeast coast; hot and humid in southwest; hot and dry in north.

People:

Nationality: Ghanaian(s).

Population: 28.3 million (2016)

Ethnic Groups: Akan, Ewe, Ga, Moshi-Dagomba.

Religions: Christian 69%, Muslim 15%, traditional and indigenous beliefs 9%.

Languages: English (official), Akan (which includes Asante Twi, Akwapim Twi, Akyem, and Fanti) 49%, Mole-Dagbani 16%, Ewe 13%, Ga-Adangbe 8%, Guan 4%, others 10%.

Literacy: 70%

Natural Resources: Gold, timber, diamonds, bauxite, manganese, fish.

Agriculture products: Cocoa, rice, coffee, cassava (tapioca), peanuts, corn, shea nuts, bananas; timber

Industries: Mining, lumbering, light manufacturing, aluminum smelting, food processing, cement, small commercial ship building.

Exports – commodities: oil, gold, cocoa, timber, tuna, bauxite, aluminum, manganese ore, diamonds, horticultural products

Exports – partners: India 25.2%, Switzerland 12.2%, China 10.6%, France 5.7% (2015)

Imports – Commodities: capital equipment, refined petroleum, foodstuffs

Imports – Partners: China 32.6%, Nigeria 14%, Netherlands 5.5%, USA 5.4% (2015)

Currency: Cedi (GHC)

Sources: https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/ghana.htm