CACG TO HOST AFRICAN HEBREW SPIRITUAL LEADER IN GHANAON A TWO WEEK WORKING VISIT.
Ben Ammi Ben Israel, the Anointed Spiritual Leader of the African Hebrew Israelite Community of Dimona, Israelhas arrived in Ghana. He will be in Ghanafrom 7th – 23rdMarch 2010.
PURPOSE OF VISIT
Ben Ammi will hold meetings with traditional, political, religious and youth leaders on the benefits of applied spirituality from our daily lives to national policy.
He will also attend the burial ceremony of Ghana's fallen son, the late Major Courage Emmanuel Kobla Quashigah (Rtd.) who was the Chair and Vice Patron of the Country Awards Council before his demise. Ben Ammi will further view a number of the community's developments projects in the country including a natural foods factory in Tema and the Assase Pa Holistic Health Care Resort in Cape Coast.
MEETING THE YOUTH OF GHANAAND DIMONA ALUMNI'S
The Country Awards Council will host theBen Ammi – The Spiritual Leader of the African Hebrew Israelites - for a “Town Hall” type gathering to give a cross section of the Ghanaian youth ( From SHS Institutions), general public and dimona alumni's an opportunity to ask questions on a wide range of topics. The town hall meeting will be held at the Kama Conference Centre in Labone on Saturday, 13th March, 2010 at 2pm prompt.
BEN AMMI TO BE HONOURED
Also at the gathering of the Town Hall Meeting will be a short ceremony to decorate and present to Ben Ammi a “Lifetime Achievement Award” by the Country Awards Council – Ghana. The conferment of the Award is in recognition of his exceptional and extraordinary achievements for the past four decades in successfully trying to create a new form of humanity.
PROFILE
Born in Chicago but has resided in Israelfor the past 40 years. He is the author of eight books, and is the foremost African Scholar of the Hebrew language. Ben Ammi has bridged the gap between spirituality and development like no other leader before, in the process creating new and progressive options for successfully building communities and projects based on enduring righteous, African cultural principles.
Ben Ammi is notably the most unique and visionary leader ever to come forth from the African Diaspora. His commitment to and belief in the development of society and African people through the marriage of spiritual principals and common sense has yielded a series of unprecedented accomplishments.
He has inspired the repatriation of thousands of Africans from the Diaspora back to the continent, and today presides over a community in Israel which represents the largest successful resettlement of Africans from the North American continent in history. Other extensions of the Hebrew community have been established across West Africa, Europe, South America and the Caribbean.
In Israel the community is comprised of 3,000 members residing in Dimona, a development town in the Negev Desert. Active in Ghanafor many years through its various institutions, the community has specialized in human and community development projects. Their NGO, the African Hebrew Development Agency (AHDA), joined Ghana's Ministry of Health in the design and implementation of the popular Regenerative Health and Nutrition Program from Dec. 2006 until October 2009 under the able leadership of one of ghana's fallen illustrious sons, Major Courage Emmanuel Kobla Quashigah (Rtd.) Through these efforts Ghana is the first nation-state to make disease prevention its national policy also under the leadership of Major Courage Emmanuel Kobla Quashigah (Rtd.).
Ben Ammi has made three previous trips to Ghana in 1995, 2000 & 2003. After the visit in 1995, he commissioned technicians in the Hebrew community to drill 7 water wells in the Volta Region, after he heard then President Jerry Rawlings lament that the water in the toilets of Accra was more suitable than water Ghanaians were drinking in rural areas. They drilled 8 instead. This was followed by the visit of a delegation of medical and dental professionals who provided free services to more than 1000 Ghanaians in the rural areas.
All the projects promote what is termed the “Dimona Model” but more accurately reflect in most cases a modern application of many ancient African cultural traditions – in harmony with the laws of nature.
With these achievements, it is no wonder that in the year 2000, BBC's “Focus on Africa” magazine named Ben Ammi, “One of the Most Influential Africans of the Last Millennium.”
The communities in Israelhave been praised by the Israeli media as “An Island of Sanity” – a telling accolade particularly in light of today's escalating regional turmoil. And the settlement in Dimonawas called the “Miracle in the Desert” by the United States Congressional Human Rights Caucus. “A Phenomena in a land of Phenomena” by the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
The Hebrews have forged a community that has effectively implemented the solutions against AIDS, crime, homelessness, substance abuse and the spiraling effects of poor diet and nutrition that are plaguing most countries today.
Signed
Randolph Osei Boabeng
Public Affairs Officer
The Country Awards Council