What REACH is up to this holiday season
The following is a list of amazing opportunities to network and meet individuals and entities interested in contributing to development projects in Ghana. If you happen to be in Accra this holiday season, be sure to catch these. Also a great opportunity to meet some faces at REACH!
BarCamp Ghana Barcamp brings together about 600 attendees, building a network of Ghanaian change makers, doers, and entrepreneurs. Through this event, we seek to highlight the importance of appropriate partnerships and corporate engagements in ensuring the success of projects, spurring wealth creation and economic growth. We will feature mentors who will shed light on how attendees can use successful partnerships and mentor support to scale up projects and businesses.Saturday December 17, 2011 Kofi Annan ICT Centre, Accra. 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM |
The Playbook The Playbook is a sporting event aimed to unite and connect. The common love for football in Ghana serves a major recreational and unifying purpose. Playbook takes its inspiration from this phenomenon as a means to create an enabling environment to form networks between Ghanaians based in Ghana and those all over the world, as well as with foreign nationals who have interests in Ghana. The event will feature a five-a-side soccer tournament, a fashion market and stands to display the work of young local and foreign-based Ghanaians. The soccer tournament will pit Ghanaians living in different parts of the world against each other. In the spirit of social responsibility, a percentage of proceeds from the 2011Playbook, which is expected to attract a few hundred spectators and participants, will go to REACH.Monday 26th December 2011 Marcel Desailly Sports Complex [Lizzy Sports Complex] |
Screenathon 2011 Press Release
REACH Ghana launches free clinic, Screenathon 2011, in Glefe
Non-profit organization brings together volunteers in and outside Ghana in a drive to provide free health-care services in Glefe, a slum community.
Washington, DC
December 7, 2011
For the second year running, volunteers and friends of REACH will hold a free clinic and health-care screening and education day in Glefe, a slum community that reports high incidences of disease incidence annually. Dubbed “Screenathon”, the program provides screening for diabetes, hypertension, obesity and breast cancer, while providing free consultation and treatment for individuals who appear at the clinic on Screenathon Day. In addition, participants are educated and counseled on resources available to them thought the National Health Insurance Scheme such as family planning, and essential preventive health measures are taught.
