Junior Achievement Joins AmCham Ghana

Junior Achievement (JA) Ghana, a member of JA Worldwide, one of the world’s largest global, nonprofit organizations dedicated to empowering young people to own their economic success by enhancing the relevance of education, joins AmCham Ghana.

JA’s unique and experiential programs focus on the areas of work readiness, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy. Their programs employ a range of hands-on activities to give young people the opportunity to apply their knowledge and skills practically.

JA gives students the knowledge and skills to start and manage their businesses and to apply entrepreneurial thinking to solve everyday problems. They work to expand young peoples’ abilities to manage their finances smartly and effectively, through proven programs.

Junior Achievement was founded in the United States in 1919 to help prepare immigrant youth to enter the workforce in the country, without being disadvantaged in terms of preparedness. In 1955, JA expanded beyond the United States, and today, its programs are delivered to young people across the world.

Since its establishment in Ghana in 2008, JA Ghana has served over 20,000 Ghanaian youth in over 80 schools/institutions, across the country, with financial, in-kind, and volunteer support from stakeholders such as Nokia, Coca-Cola, Newmont Goldcorp Ghana, Goldfields Ghana Ltd, Fidelity Bank, GE, Prudential Life Insurance Ghana, Delta Airlines, Aiducation International and Swiss Re. Learn more…

 

Contact

NTHC No. 1 Aviation Lane, Baatsona – Spintex, Accra-Ghana

Email: info@jaghana.org
Telephone: +233 30 272 8249

Fair Trade Outsourcing Joins AmCham Ghana

The American Chamber of Commerce, Ghana, is pleased to announce Fair Trade Outsourcing as our new #GoldMember. Fair Trade Outsourcing is a fast-growing BPO company and fair trade outsourcing center that provides impact sourcing work for companies worldwide.

Fair Trade has its main office is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a global network of delivery centers in the Philippines, Mexico, and Ghana.

The quality and results they produce are not from the number of “seats” that they have but from its smart, skilled workers – the “Humans of Fair Trade Outsourcing.”

The company guarantees a safe work environment, transparency, and accountability. They have pioneered programs that make a positive social and economic impact on their agents, their families, and communities. As an advocate of the Fair Trade Principles, Fair Trade Outsourcing has implemented a Learning and Development Program that seeks to build agents’ capacities (not just train them) and reward them for working hard to improve their capabilities.

Their goal is to provide as many people as possible with impact sourcing work that pays up to 3 times the poverty line to move them into the middle-class as soon as possible and convert them from mere wage earners to capital owners. Learn more…

 

Contact

Fair Trade Outsourcing Inc.
2F Sethi Plaza and Realty
Kwame Nkrumah Ave
Adabraka, Accra
GHANA 23321

AmCham Member Focus: Piedmont Lithium – Sustainability Through Responsible Lithium Hydroxide Manufacturing

Piedmont Lithium, a Platinum AmCham Ghana, is on target to become the only integrated producer of lithium hydroxide from spodumene ore in the United States. With assets located in the mineral-rich, world-renowned Carolina Tin Spodumene belt in North Carolina.

In July this year, Piedmont entered into a conditional binding agreement with IronRidge Resources to fully fund and fast track the Ewoyaa Lithium Project, part of IronRidge’s Ghanaian Cape Coast Lithium Portfolio (CCLP), to production.

Piedmont President and CEO Keith Phillips, hinted in a recent statement that spodumene production at Ewoyaa in partnership with Atlantic Lithium could begin as early as 2024. This is expected to feed the lithium hydroxide plant – LHP-2.

The company recently reported the results of a Preliminary Economic Assessment (“PEA” or “Study”) for a proposed merchant lithium hydroxide plant (“LHP-2”) to expand Piedmont’s planned U.S. manufacturing capacity to 60,000 t/y of lithium hydroxide. The LHP-2 PEA results demonstrate the potential for Piedmont Lithium to expand its lithium hydroxide manufacturing business using spodumene concentrate from market sources, including under existing offtake agreements with Sayona Quebec and Atlantic Lithium. Get the full report here

Piedmont has developed a more stable and sustainable Lithium production solution designed to provide a significantly smaller footprint. They have a responsibility to be good stewards of the land, our planet, our environment, and our community. Working in the most sustainable way possible is their number one priority because they understand what they produce is directly related to positively impacting the sustainability of our planet by helping to reduce global carbon emissions for future generations.

Piedmont Lithium supplies metals and minerals used to build “green energy” innovations and conventional consumer and industrial products. From producing Lithium-ion battery metals to minerals used in everyday consumer products, using sustainable technologies throughout their operations.

Piedmont Lithium continues to develop its Corporate Social Responsibility position including identifying key values that reflect its continual commitment to supporting global efforts. Their part in the process includes pinpointing hazards, analyzing risks, and implementing standards for mining operations and supply chain activities as well developing internal safety standards and guidelines to mitigate the risks and hazards associated with its entire value chain. Learn more 

ALLSTAR Insurance Brokers Committed To Providing World Class Services To Its Clients

AmCham Ghana Executive Secretary, Simon Madjie, engaged with the management of ALLSTAR Insurance Brokers on their operations in the country. ALLSTAR Insurance Brokers provides bespoke insurance brokerage services to individuals, corporations, affinity groups, and MSMEs.

The company has access to all insurers in Ghana and several international partners, allowing risk to be reviewed and built from the ground up.

Allstar Brokers can tailor benefits to protect your company and employees, including burglary insurance, cash-in-transit, goods-in-transit, public liability, bankers indemnity, advance mobilization, customs bond, assets all risks, combined fire package, fleet motor vehicle, group life, group medical, international group medical, group personal accident, and critical illness insurance, key man insurance, shareholders protection insurance, medical expenses, evacuation & repatriation, welfare insurance schemes, and many variations thereof.

Delta Air Lines And AmCham Ghana Set For More Future Collaborations

AmCham Ghana and Delta Air Lines are set for more collaborations in the future to host events on issues of mutual interest. This was disclosed when the chamber’s Executive Secretary, Simon Madjie, paid a visit to the offices of Delta and engaged with the Sales Manager for Ghana, Liberia, and Cote d’Ivoire, Eloina Baddoo.

Delta Air Lines is one of the longest-standing members of AmCham Ghana and has collaborated on many events in the past. Every year, nearly 200 million travelers trust Delta to get them where they’re going.

Delta is the first and longest-serving American carrier connecting Ghanaians and Americans for business, leisure, and medical travel in safety and comfort since 2006.

AmCham Ghana Meeting With Government Account And Local Content Head At Baker Hughes

AmCham Ghana Executive Secretary, Simon Madjie, met with William Yeboah, Government Account and Local Content Head at Baker Hughes, to discuss the company’s operations and possible areas of collaboration with the chamber.

The AmCham Ghana Gold Member, Baker Hughes is a U.S company with operations in more than 120 countries and works in partnership with our customers, wherever they are, to deliver better outcomes.

Baker Hughes is committed to an inclusive and collaborative culture, helping its 54,000 employees develop their careers and thrive at work every day.

CITAM Joins AmCham Ghana

CITAM Ltd was established in 2007 as a training, consulting, and recruiting firm to provide world-class service to individuals and organizations.

Over the years, however, it has gained a reputation as a major firm providing technology and management solutions with a focus on human resource management.

They have provided services to Government, Public and Private institutions. Our expertise spans Strategic Planning, Organizational Restructuring, Performance Management Systems, Rewards Management System, Management Information System, and Business Services.

CITAM has an office in Virginia serving the Washington, DC metro area. In addition to providing training, consulting, and recruiting services, this office is dedicated to assisting American companies and investors who wish to do business in Ghana and Africa. Learn more

On behalf of the AmCham Ghana Board of Directors, the chamber welcomes CITAM to our community of progressive business.

Baker Hughes Joins AmCham Ghana

Baker Hughes, an American international industrial service company and one of the world’s largest oil field services companies joins AmCham Ghana as a Gold Member.

The company is the leading energy technology company. They design, manufacture and service transformative technologies to help take energy forward.

For more than a century, their inventions have revolutionized energy. They harness the power of engineering, data, and science to redefine what’s possible.

With operations in more than 120 countries, Baker Hughes works in partnership with our customers, wherever they are, to deliver better outcomes. They are proud that their people and the company’s businesses are part of the fabric of the communities in which they work. Learn more

Abbott Laboratories Joins AmCham Ghana As Platinum Member

AmCham Ghana is pleased to announce Abbott Laboratories as our new Platinum Member.

Abbott understands that the first step to living your best life is good health. Everything they make is designed to help you do just that. That’s Abbott’s commitment to building life-changing technologies that keep your heart healthy, nourish your body at every stage of life, help you feel and move better, and bring you information, medicines, and breakthroughs to manage your health.

They create breakthrough products – in diagnostics, medical devices, nutrition and branded generic pharmaceuticals – that help you, your family, and your community lead healthier lives, full of unlimited possibilities. Today, 109,000 Abbott employees are working to make a lasting impact on health in the more than 160 countries they serve.

For more than 130 years, they have put science and innovation to work – to create more possibilities for more people through the power of health. Abbott adapts and responds quickly to changes in the world around us to deliver better solutions to help people live their best lives.

Abbott focuses on innovative technologies that can improve the way clinicians treat people with vascular diseases, irregular heartbeats, and diseases of the heart’s valves and other structures.

They believe people with diabetes should have the freedom to enjoy vigorous, active lives. Their systems help people with diabetes manage their health more effectively and comfortably with easy-to-use products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions.

The key to successful treatment and full recovery is often fast, accurate diagnosis. Abbott’s life-changing tests and diagnostic tools provide insights that enable smarter, faster decisions and transform the way the world is managing health.

Google Joins AmCham Ghana

The American Chamber of Commerce, Ghana, is pleased to announce Google as our new Platinum Member.

Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products, including online advertising technologies, a search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.

Google is Alphabet’s largest subsidiary and is a holding company for Alphabet’s Internet properties and interests.

A robot pours popcorn from a cooking pot into a bowl on March 8, 2017 at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI) of the university of Bremen, northwestern Germany.
Scientists of the institute work among others on “AI-based control methods for robotic agents, performing human-scale everyday manipulation-task”, and investigate “computing systems that assist humans at home, at work and during leisure activities”. / AFP PHOTO / dpa / Ingo Wagner / Germany OUT (Photo credit should read INGO WAGNER/AFP/Getty Images)

They offer services designed for work and productivity (Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides), email (Gmail), scheduling and time management (Google Calendar), cloud storage (Google Drive), instant messaging, and video chat (Google Duo, Google Chat, and Google Meet), language translation (Google Translate), mapping and navigation (Google Maps, Waze, Google Earth, and Street View), podcast hosting (Google Podcasts), video sharing (YouTube), blog publishing (Blogger), note-taking (Google Keep and Jamboard), and photo organizing and editing (Google Photos).

Google has moved increasingly into hardware; from 2010 to 2015, it partnered with major electronics manufacturers to produce its Google Nexus devices. It released multiple hardware products in 2016, including the Google Pixel line of smartphones, Google Home smart speaker, Google Wifi mesh wireless router. Google has also experimented with becoming an Internet carrier (Google Fiber and Google Fi).

Google in 2019 opened its first Africa Artificial Intelligence lab in Ghana to provide developers with the necessary research needed to build products that can solve problems that Africa faces today.

The center also focuses on enhancing Google Translate’s ability to capture African languages more precisely, with Cisse saying a continent with more than 2000 dialects deserves to be better served.