Brief history



The Ghana YMCA movement was founded in 1844 by Sir George Williams and a group of his friends.

YMCA traces its history to 1890 when a young Gold Coaster, Wilkins Micaber Abbey who had come into contact with the Association in Scotland during his study tour to Europe, brought it to the Gold Coast. On his return to the motherland young Abbey began the first YMCA in Ghana.


Since the association has spread its tentacles to many cities, towns and villages in the country engaging thousands of Ghanaians in meaningful pastimes, volunteer services and community animation.
 

 
 
 

Ghana YMCA Youth Committee Host its 7th National Youth Convention 
The National Youth Committee of the Ghana YMCA will host its 7th National Youth Convention from the 11th – 15th of August, 2010.
YMCA Ghana 

08/30/2010
 
RETAINING THE LOCAL COMMUNITY IN THE GLOBAL CITIZEN 

The first night, an energetically played full piece drum kit resounds through the middle-class Johannesburg (South Africa) complex.
AAYMCA Communications  

08/12/2010
 
Hanging with Chemphe in Hong Kong Gil Harper, Executive Secretary: Communications, Africa Alliance of YMCAs 
You all know the cool, keeping-it-real Chemphe with the smooth voice and energetic stage presence. But I have discovered the king of Urban Life has some hidden talents.
Africa Alliance of YMCAs 

08/09/2010
 
Men Changing Men 
The system of male domination is no new thing in our world today, but the danger is that we as young men do not question it as we are born and socialised into it without being exposed to a masculinity option that does not dominate or harm.
Ghana YMCA (for African Alliance) 

08/03/2010
 
YMCA leaders invest in the future of the YMCA 
(21 July 2010, Hong Kong) This morning, 100 YMCA leaders were presented with a “million dollar investment opportunity”; the chance to invest in the future of the global YMCA movement and change the lives of thousands more young people around the world.
 

07/30/2010
 
YOUTH DELEGATES MEET IN HONG KONG TO STRATEGISE FOR GLOBAL YOUTH DEVELOPMENT  
The 17th World Council of YMCAs kick-started yesterday 20 July 2010, at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre with an opening ceremony attended by Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China,
Donald Tsang, as well as almost 1200 YMCA delegates from 85 countries.
World alliance 

07/24/2010
 
Hip-life artiste Chemphe attends YMCA meeting in Hong Kong 
After being appointed by the Africa Alliance of YMCA as the Ghanaian music icon to champion an innovative youth development programme dubbed
Source: Ghana YMCA  

07/22/2010
 
Youth pay tribute to Mother Earth through music Gil Harper, for World Alliance of YMCAs 
We are youth with a dream, was the powerful song delivered with electric energy by popular Ghanaian musician, Chemphe, and 40 YMCA youth from 15 different countries at the Tribute to Gaia public concert in Hong Kong yesterday.
Gil, world alliance 

07/20/2010
 
Hi-Tech Youth Training Centre to be Established in Accra 

The vision of the African YMCAs to empower the youth for the African renaissance has been given a boost with the signing of a preliminary agreement between the Fuhrlaender Company of Germany, Ghana YMCA, CVJM and the African Alliance of YMCAs to establish a hi-tech training centre in Accra with sub-centres in Takoradi and Apedwa all in Ghana.
Ghana YMCA 

07/19/2010
 
YMCA Clinches €2.5m Training Deal 
Furlander an organisation that is based in Germany and deals in wind mill and nuclear energy on Friday signed a €2.5 million training agreement with the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) Ghana to help train its student and create jobs for the youth.
Source: Daily Guide 

07/19/2010
 

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