JCI Ghana Wins Top Award

The Africa and Middle East Conference of the Junior Chamber International (JCI) has ended in the Gold City of Johannesburg, South Africa with the Gala and Awards Night. JCI Ghana was among Member countries that participated in the five-day Conference with members participating in the Active Citizen Leadership Academy, JCI Official trainings, workshops, forums, collaboration with partners, expert meetings and seminars as well as networking sessions and city tour of Johannesburg. The Conference attracted over five hundred delegates from thirty-four countries in Africa and Middle East Area of the Junior Chamber International.

As the organization that seeks to unite all sectors of society to create sustainable impact, JCI recognizes the relevance of rewarding and motivating projects and people of excellence and impact in society. This is exemplified in the Awards Nights that marks the end of JCI Conferences each year. JCI Ghana raked in two prizes during the Awards and Gala Night. A Member of JCI Ghana took away the most prestigious award for the night, the Most Outstanding Member in Africa and Middle East, won by Muhammed Alhassan Yakubu of JCI Tamale Premier.

Also, JCI Accra Royale, a Local Organization of JCI Ghana won the Best Local Economic Empowerment Programme with its ‘Nothing But Nets’ Project which seeks to end malaria infections in communities in the La Dadekotopon Municipality.

Speaking to the media after the event, the National President of JCI Ghana expressed his delight about the height chalked by JCI Ghana and reiterates his commitment to ensure that Local Organizations in JCI Ghana implementing sustainable projects that will lead to sustainable impact. He urged Ghanaian delegates at the Conference to impart the knowledge and skills acquired during various sessions in the conference to good use by coaching their members to implement projects in line with the JCI Active Citizens Framework, which is a tool that guides JCI members in planning sustainable and impactful projects.

JCI members all over the globe come together annually at the Africa and Middle East Conference to share experiences and find new ways to take action in their local communities and make globalization a positive force.

JCI Ghana is a Member of the Junior Chamber International (JCI), a worldwide community of young but rising active citizens (18-40 years) made up of Corporate Executives, Entrepreneurs/Business owners and persons in places of influence. The Mission of JCI is ‘To provide development opportunities that empower young people to create positive change.’

JCI has Local Organizations in over One Hundred and seventeen countries and territories with 200,000+ young active citizens, while JCI Ghana has six chapters in Accra, Kumasi, Tamale and Tarkwa with about two hundred.

JCI takes pride in the myriad of capacity enhancement opportunities it has developed over the years both locally and internationally. The impact and importance of this training is demonstrated by the large number of Junior Chamber members who have held high positions in their respective countries and international bodies.

Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Dr. Mohammed Ibn Chambas, the Head of UN Mission in West Africa, Presidents Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton of the United States, Former United States’ Vice President Al Gore, Former Ivorian President Henri Konan Bedie, Former President John Atta Mills of Ghana, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom of Ghana, current and former Japanese Prime Ministers Taro Aso, Yoshiro Mori, Yasuhiro Nakasone and Shinzo Abe, Governor General of Australia William Hayden, President Joseph Estrada of Philippines, and Former President Jacque Chirac of France.