AAOBA NEWS

The Bleoo Legacy Fundraising Initiative (BLFI) was launched during the Association's maiden AGM held on 24th March 2018. The BLFI  is an initiative to provide an efficient and sustainable means for Bleoobii to continue to support their alma mater in the ever changing and uncertain landscape of secondary education in Ghana. What is certain is that Bleoobii will be called upon increasingly to come to the aid of the school as result of the Free Secondary School and other government programs which are not fully funded. Thus for every crisis the school has to fall on Bleoobii or stretch the use of its facilities to raise internally generated funds (IGF). Clearly, this approach is not sustainable. What is conspicuously missing in the portfolio of support from Bleoobii to the school is the lack of invested funds. We believe that the time has come for Bleoobii to raise funds specifically to be invested in order to generate a constant stream of interest revenue to be used as needed;

The Accra Academy Old Boys’ Association (AAOBA) has held its maiden Annual General Meeting at the K. G. Konuah hall in Accra. The meeting which took place on 24 March 2018 was held under the theme “What will be your Bleoo Legacy?”. In attendance were several alumni as well as members of the School Board and PTA. The meeting saw the introduction of the Bleoo Legacy Fundraising Initiative by the AAOBA Executive. This initiative seeks to raise One million Ghana Cedis from life-time contributions of members to purchase Government of Ghana bonds for Accra Academy as a means of providing a sustainable income for the School in perpetuity.  According to the President of AAOBA, Bleoobi Mr Emmanuel Bruce-Attah, who  also chaired the occasion, alumni or their proxies can pledge between Gh¢1,000 and Gh¢100,000  and above as their life-time contribution and legacy to the School. Mr Bruce-Attah in presenting his report on activities of the Association for 2017, noted that the Association had