AAOBA NEWS

In this issue: *AAOBA Hosts Orientation for New Students of Accra Academy *Accra Academy Old Boys’ Association Holds Maiden Annual General Meeting * Bleoo Legacy Fundraising Initiative Launched * ‘ Bleoo 2006 donates to Pantang Hospital *   Job Vacancies & Class Notes This newsletter is a quarterly publication intended to provide Bleoobii information on the activities of the association. Year Groups and Bleoobii who wish to contribute content to this publication should send their submissions to the Editor via email to aaobanews@gmail.com AAOBA Hosts Orientation for New Students of Accra Academy The Accra Academy Old Boys’ Association (AAOBA) has organised an orientation for day students admitted to Accra Academy in October 2017. The orientation took place at the K.G. Konuah hall on Thursday the 18th of January 2018 and was chaired by Bleoobi Emmanuel Bruce-Attah, President of the Association. The new student ent...

On Easter Monday, 2 April 2018,  Bleoo 2006 with support from  Promasidor Ghana Ltd and Mega Life Sciences,  donated items worth over Ghc 15,000 to the Pantang Hospital in Accra as part of the groups'  social responsibility. The donation comprised of cowbell products from  Promasidor , drugs from  Mega Life sciences and  toiletries from  Bleoo 2006. Mr. Enoch Kwaku Gyasi,  the organizing secretary of the Bleoo 2006 group said that there is always room for groups and organizations to do more for the less fortunate and those in need. Thus the group took this step to serve as the door opener for other organizations to follow through and do same or even better. He noted that corporate organizations can also partner with support groups to make this a regular practice which will support the government as it is relied upon to do everything. According to Mr. Gyasi, groups in their own small way can help to ameliorate the plights of the down...

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 A...

The Accra Academy Old Boys’ Association (AAOBA) has organised an orientation day for students admitted to our Alma mater in October 2017. The orientation took place at the K.G. Konuah hall on Thursday the 18th of January 2018 and was chaired by Bleoobi Emmanuel Bruce-Attah, President of the Association. The new student entrants numbering 750 gathered in the assembly hall to listen to advise and motivational speeches from Bleobii spanning a cross section of year groups. The speakers drawn both locally and internationally were as follows; Bleoobi Ayaa Kojo Armah (Bleoo 70), Bleoobi Fred Quaye (Bleoo 79), Bleoobi Moses Cofie (Bleoo 83), Bleoobi Samuel Anim Addo (Bleoo 94), Bleoobi Bello Haruna (Bleoo 99) and from the diaspora, Bleoobi Prince Andoh (Bleoo 88) from the U.S.A, and Bleoobi Anthony Hoffman-Addy (Bleoo 96) from the United Kingdom, who interacted with the students via Skype. The speakers took the eager and receptive students through their experiences as former students ...

JANUARY 8, 2018 AAOBA NEWS Accra Academy Old Boys' Association Newsletter Vol. 1. Issue 1. In this issue: *Accra Academy Old Boys’ Association Elects New National Executives *Highlights of Bleoobii Homecoming 2017 * Bleoo '94 revives Inter-Hall Cross Country race * Bleoo ’77 refurbishes Accra Academy Tower Clock for over Gh₵ 120,000 This newsletter is a quarterly publication intended to provide Bleoobii information on the activities of the association. Year Groups and Bleoobii who wish to contribute content to this publication should send their submissions to the Editor via email to aaobanews@gmail.com Accra Academy Old Boys’ Association Elects New National Executives The Accra Academy Old Boys’ Association (AAOBA) elected nine National Executives to steer the affairs of the association for the next three years after an election organized at the K. G. Konuah Hall on 11th February, 2017. ...