Save the Date: Yo Ghana! Bash May 3

We are having our first big Yo Ghana! event May 3, 2:00 to 4:00 at the PSU Ballroom, a venue made possible by the generosity of the Association of African Students of PSU.

I'll provide more details in the coming weeks, but for now I'll just emphasize that we want this to be a fun event that doesn't cost you much money to enjoy.  Most of us have been to fundraisers where the ticket to get in is $50.00 or more, and the goal is then to get people inebriated so that they will write checks for larger amounts than they would have done if they were sober.  Or maybe to bid higher on silent-auction items than they really should have.

We decided that we wanted our event to be open to everyone interested in attending, so entry is $10.00 to $20.00 if you can afford it, and no charge if you can't.  There will be Ghanaian food and music and dancing, plus some speeches made and awards handed out.  There will be donation envelopes available and some fun Yo Ghana! shirts available to purchase.  But the board's main two goals for the event are these: 1) To say "thank you" to our Oregon teachers for their hard work; 2) To bring together a goodly fraction of the 1,000 Oregon students we work with, and their families, with the warm and extensive community of Ghanaians living in the Pacific Northwest.

You can reserve a place at: yoghana.org@gmail.com

We are hoping to have a big event for our Ghana teachers in the summer of 2016, by the way.