About Ehume Foundation

Several years of individual efforts have shown that the tasks are too large and the resources too meager when working individually. Consequently, we have combined our resources and ideas to charter the Ehume Foundation, USA, as a vehicle for bringing our people in Ehume into the 21st Century with hope for a better life. Working together in the Ehume Foundation, USA:

	We hope to grow this foundation to a status that could make it a beneficiary of used school and medical facilities and supplies.
	We hope to use this organization to reach out to volunteers whose hearts are large enough to allow them to consider Ehume Foundation whenever they have extras to share.
	We want to be able to persuade challenge-seeking vacationers to volunteer teaching periods as part of their vacations or retired professionals to travel to this desolate village for periods of time during the year as part of their retirement activities.
	We want to have access to the big heart of churches and high school/college students that are seeking a different kind of experience in direct giving. A type of giving that takes you directly to the person who is receiving and benefiting from your benevolence.

Ehume Foundation is a seed we have planted for our children who are being nurtured in the American way of giving. We want them to use this avenue as the medium of connecting their roots to Ehume and of networking with each other. The children will eventually take over the process as volunteer, leaders, and motivators. Our goal is to grow and nurture the process for them to take over within the next six to ten years.

The First Annual Meeting of the Ehume Foundation, USA, was held in Houston, Texas in the year 2000. The founding members all donated to the education fund, and every cent went to repair schools in Ehume. The Foundation also established the Golden Light Award to recognize individuals who have made a sustained effort in the education of the children of Ehume.

During the period leading up to the Second Annual Meeting, the Foundation selected Mrs. Alma W. Cockrell to be the first to receive the Golden Light Award.

The Second Annual Meeting was held in Greensboro, North Carolina, in June 2001. More funds were collected from founding members to help educate Ehume children. A highlight of this meeting was the ceremony and celebration of the presentation of the first Golden Light Award. This web site shows many pictures from the event and the plaque awarded to Mrs. Cockrell.

Ehume Foundation, USA, hopes to become a mainstream resource that helps folks in Ehume and its neighbors. The Foundation needs:

Money for tuition and supplies (about US$60/year per child.

Skilled volunteers

School teachers, nurses, medical doctors, and builders, especially people with experience in essential restorations to masonry.

Portable education and medical supplies and equipment.

Mechanisms to become resourceful and mainstream in building this medium as an example of how to make charity useful and temporary.