WRITTEN BY: ANSAH JOHN https://wa.me/message/UALIQG2AUV73B1
On the 30th of August, 2024, in Newark, New Jersey, the executives of The Council of Bono-Ahafo Associations of North America (COBAANA) organized a fundraiser to gather money to start-fund their voluntary mission to build a clinic in Sunyani, Ghana.
COBAANA (The Council of Bono-Ahafo Associations of North America) was formed by Osagyefo Osiadiaye Agyemang Badu II 15 years ago. COBAANA is made of the Bono-Ahafo people living in North America. As the union’s coined name is self-explanatory. COBAANA was formed purposely as a union that will voluntarily task itself with the welfare concerns of the Bono-Ahafo people at home and abroad. The union’s end private homebound mission is committed to aiding the Bono-Ahafo people back home in Ghana with amenities and a variety of other developmental projects that would otherwise be the government’s responsibility.
Also, COBAANA seeks to unify all Bono-Ahafo people in North America for the purpose greater good.
Currently, The 15-year old COBAANA has 14 chapters across America and Canada. The chapters are in: Atlanta, Calgary, Cincinnati, Chicago, Columbus, Connecticut, Dallas, Denver, Newark, New York, Trenton, Toronto, Washington
and Worcester.
Speaking to the Newark audience about the specifics of the clinic type that COBAANA is on a mission to build, Oseadeyo Agyeman Badu II (the king of Dormaa) explained that they are very much concerned with the plight of Bono-Ahafo inhabitants suffering from kidney-related complications and the serious lack of adequate count of dialysis machines and other health facilities at the hospitalities in Sunyani, so the clinic that they want to build is a dialysis center that will the furnished with dialysis machines and medical supplies used to treat kidney diseases. That said, the intended clinic project is specifically a kidney treatment clinic.
About COBAANA’s project history, the group has built a school and done other developmental projects within Bono-Ahafo communities.
COBAANA’ s voluntary move to build the clinic is to minimize the death toll of kidney patients in the Bono-Ahafo areas by making available medications, hemodialyis pumps, perfusion machines and devices for ex vivo preservation of renal grafts under normathemic conditions. Perioidic health campaigns will also be held to educate the Bono-Ahafo people back home in Ghana, as enshrined in the COBAANA health project plan.
The COBAANA fundraiser was a 3-day event themed as “The Health of Our Peopel Is Our Concern”. The event was attended by several Bono-Ahafo Associations from other States, Canada, France, Ghana and those in North America.
The side Friday activities of the fundraiser included a ferry ride to the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and a bulk reality show injection dubbed COBAANA Got Talent which comprised a variety of entertainment competitions.
On Saturday, 31st August, was the main event — the fundraiser which was staged to collect donations towards the start of the clinic project in Sunyani. On Sunday was the climax treat which was held with a picnic and a feast in Newark, New Jersey.
The official key dignitaries on the event poster that were publicised to be gracing the event were Osagyefo Oseadeyo Dr Agyemang Badu the II (Dormaa Hene), Nana Kwame Baffoe (Nkoranzaman Hene), Nana Bofobene V (Dweneman Hene), Nana Kwasi Bosomprah (Omanhene of Goaso traditional area) and Doctor Nick Danso Adjei (CEO at Ghana Link Network Service.
Osagyefo Oseadeyo Dr Agyemang Badu the II (Dormaa Hene) and Nana Odeneho Afram Brempong III (Somaman Hene) sat a pre-fundraiser interview with Naana Donkor Arthur, using the interview as a publicity medium to send COBAANA’s project motives across to the general public. The interview also doubled as an announcement of COBAANA’s existence to the many that hadn’t heard then heard of the organization.
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