Okyeame Kwame Adjudged 2018 Celebrity Philantropist
Image: OK receiving his awardCelebrated Hiplife musician,Kwame Nsiah Appau, popularly known as Okyeame Kwame, has been adjudged Celebrity Philanthropist of the Year 2018.
The award, by the National Philanthropy Forum is in recognition of the rapper’s campaign against Hepatitis B in Ghana.
Okyeame Kwame started his campaign against Hepatitis B in Ghana in 2008 in partnership with MDS-Lancet Laboratories.
Since then, each each year, the Okyeame Kwame Foundation screens and vaccinates at least 1,000 Ghanaians against the deadly viral infection.
Beneficiaries of OK’s generosity have come from communities across the country. They include; Nkawkaw, Tamale, Kumasi, Sunyani, Accra, Swedru, Ho, Koforidua and Takoradi.
Presenting the award, president of the Ghana Philanthropy Forum, Dr. Ben Ocra, said people like Okyeame Kwame needed to be celebrated.
“By this award scheme, we do not seek to pay back people like Okyeame Kwame, but to appreciate their efforts and encourage them.” He said on Thursday at the 3rd National Philanthropy Forum and Awards.
The event came off at the Accra International Conference Centre last Thursday. This however, was the 3rd National Philanthropy Forum and Awards.
High-profile dignitaries such as Hon. Otiko Afisa Djaba, the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Welfare were there to grace the event.
Other award recipients included Dr. Samuel Amo Tobbin (of Tobinco Group of Companies), Kwame Sefa Kayi (Peace FM).
Also, His Royal Majesty Drolor Bosso Adamtey I (Chancellor, University Of Professional Studies, Accra), Professor Asafua and Theodosia Jackson (Jackson and Deen Foundation, Kumasi),
Mr. Francis Bichnord Komla Ansong (Executive Director, Voice-Ghana), Rev. Monsignor Alex Bobby Benson (Matthew 25 House),
Mr Siapha Kamara (SEND-West-Africa), Naa Golbilla David Kansuk (Paramount Chief, Nakpanduri), Mr. Dela Ashiabor (Deputy Director, Department of Social Welfare), and IMANI-Ghana.
Okyeame Kwame Reveals 2018 plans by the OK Foundation:
Okyeame Kwame in a brief remark after picking the award expressed his gratitude to the organizers. He thanked them for appreciating the work people and institutions “like me have been doing to help the country.”
OK took the opportunity to announce that the OK Foundation will commemorate ten years of the Hepatitis B campaign with a mammoth walk.
The walk, dubbed STOP STIGMA is slated for July 28, from Ayi-Mensah to Kitase (on the Akuapem Mountains).
He also said a total of 2030 people would participate in the walk, to symbolize the World Health Organizations (WHO) global goal to end Hepatitis B by the year 2030.
To end it all, Okyeame added that the OK Foundation will start a free nationwide university activation in August. This according to him is to screen and vaccinate 3,000 students of the Unity Hall of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).
