Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority charters a brand new graduate chapter in Ghana, its fourth in Africa.
The chapter has already engaged in quite a few neighborhood service initiatives, from training to entrepreneurship.
Sorority members celebrated the chartering with cultural actions, together with a go to to Cape Coast Fort.
Sure, sure! The FIRST Black sorority has achieved one other feat, this time with the chartering of a brand new chapter in Ghana.
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On Friday, Jan. 16, 2026, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. formally chartered Alpha Delta Psi Omega throughout a personal, members-only ceremony adopted by a public luncheon in Accra. The milestone marks the 118-year-old sorority’s fourth graduate chapter on the African continent, becoming a member of present chapters in Liberia, South Africa, and Nigeria, and locations the Ghana chapter inside Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.’s Worldwide Area.
A press launch experiences that greater than two dozen girls spent two years organizing the chapter, bringing collectively professionals from a variety of fields, together with drugs, regulation, enterprise, training,n and vogue. Since forming, the group has targeted its service initiatives throughout a number of Ghanaian communities, together with Accra, Kumasi, Aburi, and Koforidua,” emphasizing training, wellness, environmental stewardship, and financial empowerment.”
“The work I’ve witnessed my sisters accomplish in Ghana is awe-inspiring,” stated Worldwide Regional Director Carrie J. Clark in a press release. “I visited with them a yr in the past and watched their interactions with neighborhood members and kids. The care and love that they show are simple.”
The newly-chartered chapter has already been arduous at work; donating greater than 800 kids’s books and college provides; mentoring 30 college students by the sorority’s Youth Management Initiative; planting 108 coconut seedlings with kids on the Aburi Botanical Backyard; mentoring eight entrepreneurs by the “Pull Up and Pitch” enterprise expertise; and selling bodily, psychological and cognitive wellness amongst getting old neighborhood members.
The Ghana chapter has additionally partnered with organizations together with Bridge-To-Africa Connection, Inc., BASICS Worldwide, Planet Waves, Daughters of the Center Passage, Golden Chapter Basis, and Kaya Childcare Middle.
Worldwide Regional Director Carrie J. Clark additionally famous that the chapter’s service work was developed in alignment with the sorority’s present worldwide theme, “Hovering to Larger Heights of Service and Sisterhood,” led by Worldwide President and CEO Danette Anthony Reed.
To rejoice Alpha Delta Psi Omega’s chartering, sorority members celebrated with a sequence of actions, together with a full of life welcome reception and visits to Black Star Sq. and Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park.
In a deeply transferring motion, sorority members sang the Worldwide hymn at Cape Coast Fort after dealing with the “Door of No Return”, the place enslaved Africans have been marched to ready ships for the Transatlantic Slave Commerce.
Congratulations to Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc!
