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Program Purpose:
The Emmanuel Fund allows CAF to continue to support Emmanuel’s efforts to change perceptions, conditions, and treatment of the physically challenged persons of Ghana. Specifically, among other uses, donations will be used to help Emmanuel find funding to build a sports center for physically challenged people in Ghana.
Program Goals:
- Allow Emmanuel to continue awarding education stipends for up to fifteen disabled children in Ghana per year.
- Provide stipends for deserving physically challenged athletes in Ghana.
- Allow Emmanuel to continue his travel throughout Ghana to manage his responsibilities as “CAF Ambassador to Ghana”. This will include managing the progress of the children who are being educated and distributing CAF stipends to physically challenged athletes in Ghana.
- Help cover Emmanuel’s travel expenses to the United States, once a year, so he can participate in the San Diego Triathlon Challenge and have his leg checked out at Loma Linda Hospital.
- Provide funding to help cover Emmanuel’s living and education expenses.
- The longer-term goal is to raise funds that will allow Emmanuel to build a sports center for physically challenged people in Ghana.
Program Description:
The Emmanuel Fund supports “CAF Ambassador to Ghana” Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah’s efforts to change perceptions, conditions, and treatment of the physically challenged persons in Ghana. It was established after CAF Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah won the prestigious Casey Martin Award, awarded annually by Nike.
The Casey Martin Award is given to disabled athletes having the “courage to fight for what is right and fair, on and off the field.” This award consisted of a $25,000 grant that the CAF decided to match. With this funding, the CAF sat down with Emmanuel to develop a strategy to ensure that the physically challenged community of Ghana received maximum benefit from these funds.
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