1 GPA 10th Anniversary Nominations Launched 10 Years Celebrating Icons of Innovation 2 16 December 2011 at the Banquet Hall Time 7:30 - 3 GPA Libraries for Communities Project 2010 4 5 6 GPA GHANA LAUNCH Support for Children’s Libraries in disadvantaged inner city Communities in Ghana GPA 10th Anniversary Nominations Launched 10 Years Celebrating Icons of Innovation Accra, Ghana, September 5, 2011. The call is out now for Nominations for the various GPA Awards Categories. to be recognised at the 10th Anniversary Gala Dinner and GPA Awards event on 18th December 2011, in Accra. Closing date for the nominations is 31st October 2011. On the occasion of their 10th Anniversary, the GPAs assertion to have emerged as an unparalleled annual calendar event for Ghanaians and African professionals in the United Kingdom is even truer. It has been regarded not only as a prestigious and “cutting-edge” event cutting across the divide, but also a platform highly sort after by Ghana’s UK professionals and entrepreneurs. The GPA through its programmes is engineering a paradigm shift for Leadership, Creativity, Innovation, Dedication and Excellence in Ghana and Africa at large. GPA Libraries for Communities Project 2010 In 2008, the GPA launched its drive for expanding into new markets including Africa. In 2006, The GPA Foundation, the charitable arm which aims to provide support for disadvantaged Ghanaians, charities, NGO's both in the UK and Ghana was launched. Over the years, The GPA Foundation in the UK supported a number of NGO's and Charitable initiatives including the Lighthouse Charity, Breast Cancer Charity, The DWIB Leukaemia Foundation, Osu Children's home, Cape Coast eye clinic, Battered Wives Charity and the Africa Cancer Organisation. The GPA's in Ghana will be no different. We have started a crusade to persuade and encourage Social Responsibility in our executives and Small and medium enterprises (SME's). To herald and push this drive, the GPA Awards identified the lack of reading among our school children as a crises waiting to happen. We also identified the lack of reading and ICT facilities in our inner cities a for school children in Ghana. Having identified the problem, we decided to provide the solution to the problem. Support for Children’s Libraries in disadvantaged inner city Communities in Ghana In our drive to promote and encourage Professionals and Executives to engage in social responsibility initiatives, the GPA’s have entrenched in all award categories and criteria an emphasis on Social Responsibility. Hence the GPA Foundation would Launch the First ever “GPA Children’s Libraries for communities Project” which aims to provide in three phases Children’s Libraries in deprived Communities in inner cities in Ghana. We believe that the libraries would offer disadvantaged children the opportunity to gain and expand their knowledge as well as learn new skills including ICT training. Companies which sponsor the ‘Libraries Project’ will be included as Platinum sponsor of the main event and receive the same benefits as per level sponsored. The GPA is offering companies the opportunity to cement their Corporate Social Responsibility and leave a legacy for generations to come. In Partnership with Local Companies, Multinationals and Microsoft Afri, deprived school children in Ghana will have the opportunity to gain reading and ICT skills through the GPA Libraries for Communities Project. A number of Traditional chiefs in Ghana have also lent their support to this laudable project. For more information, please contact info@gpaawards.net Tel: +233 (0) 20 527 6661