ENSTOOLMENT OF NANA KWAME ATTA YEBOAH
ASANTEMAN COUNCIL OF NORTH AMERICA PARTNERS WITH DONOR ORGANIZATIONS TO PROVIDE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES TO ASANTEMAN View Pictures From The Occassion The Asanteman Council of North America, USA/Canada (ACONA) has As part of the arrangement, the Asanteman Association of Colorado in Denver, through donations by Project Cure, sponsored a 20 foot container of medical equipment and supplies to the Okomfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi in 2007. In 2008, another shipment of equipment of supplies donated by Project Cure was sponsored by Doc to Dock Foundation, and on April 26, 2008, at a colorful ceremony at Tepa in the Ashanti region, a 40 foot container of equipment and supplies was delivered to the District Medical Center. (See AHMC Project Pictures). Both donations and sponsorships were valued at more than US$600,000. Arrangements are almost complete for another 40 foot container of medical supplies and equipment to be shipped to the South Suntreso Medical Center in Kumasi; both donations and shipping costs are paid for by Doc to Dock Foundation. A ceremony to receive the equipment and supplies will be held in Kumasi on August 1, 2008. While working with other medical facilities to receive donations from these organizations and other philanthropists, ACONA has also embarked on building specialized health and medical centers (see AHMC Project) across Asanteman, which will also be equipped with donations from its partner organization and philanthropists. About Asanteman Council of North America, USA/Canada (ACONA) The Asanteman Council of North America, ACONA is an umbrella organization for all Asanteman Associations and affiliate groups in North America, whose mission, among others is to:
Paramount among the projects the Council is actively engaged in, are the Youth Education and Scholarship Fund, and the ACONA Heath and Medical Centers (AHMC) project. About Project C.U.R.E Project C.U.R.E’s mission is to identify, solicit, collect, sort an Project C.U.R.E. makes donations only after assessing the need of an individual clinic or hospital. A trained Project C.U.R.E. representative conducts and extensive ‘on-site’ appraisal of the capacity of the facility, the character of the recipient and ability to work through customs. This process ensures that the medical personnel receives the supplies appropriate to their needs. Project C.U.R.E. is supported by more than 10,000 volunteers across the United States, all members of the C.U.R.E. CORPS. Volunteers contribute more than 35,000 hours annually to assist Project C.U.R.E. in its operations. ...ONE DAY, ONE HOSPITAL, ONE PATIENT AT A TIME….PROJECT C.U.R.E. IS DELIVERING HEALTH AND HOPE TO THE WORLD. About Doc to Dock Foundation . Doc to Dock Foundation was founded as a commitment to former President Clinton’s Global Initiative (CGI), that has a mission to improve the lives of people around the world who live in the most destitute conditions. Doc to Dock collects and ships medical supplies from the American medical community to our counterparts in developing African nations. It is estimated that in the United States 7,000 tons of medical supplies are discarded every day due to over-production, procedural excess and regulatory requirements. These discarded supplies are eithe Doc to Dock has created an infrastructure to recycle many of these vital resources and ship them to hospitals, medical clinics and medical missions in developing countries in Africa. Doc to Dock favors applications from countries with emerging democracies and from those with an evolving infrastructure to maximize the effectiveness of delivered supplies. It does not consider applications from nations engaged in active conflict Doc to Dock has the greatest opportunity to bring much needed relief to many people who are otherwise suffering. …DOC TO DOCK, CONVERTING SURPLUS INTO SURVIVAL For more information, contact the Secretariat at 214-718-8393, email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it The Asanteman Council of N.A P.O. Box 831883 Richardson , TX USA 75083
ASANTE DAY As my friend who told me about the event noted, were it not for the neatly manicured grass in Del Mar Park this past Saturday, you wouldn’t have been able to tell yo “The association was developed to showcase our culture to the people of North America and for our children who are born here to stay in touch with it,” explains President of the Asanteman Association of Colorado and treasurer for the North American entity, Kwabena Agyarkwa-Boansi. “It’s also a way to once a year bring all the Asante together to organize.” This year’s theme was, Picking Our Projects: From Vision to Reality, and member associations from New York, Toronto, Washington DC, Dallas, Houston and Chicago traveled About 100 Ghanaians gathered beneath portable tarps to escape the heat, clad in vibrant, tribal robes and garments. But much of the afternoon centered around waiting; sitting, chatting, gathering, but waiting. Until finally the man they were expecting arrived: Nana Adusei Atwenewa Ampen, an ambassador sent on behalf of the Asante King of Ghana specifically for this occasion. Ampen arrived in a black SUV and was quickly dressed in a bright sea of colors and numerous golden bracelets, before joining a line of other chiefs and queens on a short but slow procession to the stage. A man twirled a pink umbrella above Ampen’s head, shading him from the sun for the entire trek. Curious gawkers marveled at the ceremony, drawn in by the pulsing rhythm of traditional drummers that echoed across the park. “It was a big weekend for us,” says Agyarkwa-Boansi, noting that the gathering actually lasted all weekend. “We are a very young organization so for us to be able to host something like this was a great honor.”
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entered into partnerships with two leading North American philanthropic organizations, namely, Project C.U.R.E and Doc to Dock Foundation to provide medical equipment and supplies to health and medical establishments in Asanteman, Ghana. 
d deliver medical supplies and services according to the imperative needs of the world. The organization is currently the world’s largest distributor of donated medical supplies and equipment to developing nations, having worked in more than 120 countries worldwide. 
r sent to landfills or incinerated. The incineration of medical supplies has been identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as the third largest source of dioxin emissions, a significant environmental carcinogen. 
u weren’t in Ghana. Because, while everyone else in the city was busy greeting September with college football, the Asanteman Association of Colorado was celebrating both its fifth anniversary and its first-time hosting Asante Day, a gathering of all the Ghanaian Asante people in North America, or the Asanteman America Council of North America, as they are formally known.
with their various chiefs and queens to Aurora, to solidify their current mission of building clinics and hospitals across the Asante Kingdom in Ghana, (Ashanti, as it is know