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Message from the president:

My fellow executives and I hope we can continue to count on your active participation in all activities of our association. Please, let us remember that the GCABC is our collective venture and that we sink or sail together. What the association becomes will be a reflection of our collective hard work and dedication so I urge all of us to encourage every Ghanaian to come on board so we can all join hands in moving the association forward.

Even more importantly, we must move beyond "the partying and merry-making syndrome" and begin to build a solid foundation of economic sustainability that will allow us to provide support services for our members, especially our youth and our seniors. This is not to say we must not party. Partying we must, but we must ensure that our merry-making is also built around fundraising or some tangible projects, whenever possible.

My fellow executives and I have outlined a number of new initiatives aimed at making the GCABC more dynamic and forward-looking. Prominent among them is a youth scholarship fund. The best investment, I submit, is in education. We must therefore do all we can to invest in our children’s education. We will soon be calling on you our members and friends of Ghana to contribute generously to the fund.

Our next task is to apply for federal tax status so we can issue receipts for donations. A federal tax number will boost our fund-raising efforts in no small measure, as our donors will be encouraged to contribute more knowing they will receive tax receipts from us. To this end, a constitution review committee has been set up to review and update our constitution in order to meet the requirements.

Our cardinal aim is to make our association increasingly relevant to all Ghanaian-Canadians and all people of Ghanaian extraction in BC. But our efforts will come to naught if we can’t count on the support of you, our members. I take this opportunity therefore to appeal to all members to pay their dues and participate actively and fully in our fund-raising activities. Together, we can do it! Together, the sky is the limit.

Thank you kindly,

Dr. Charles Quist-Adade,
President, GCABC