• Theme: VEGETARIANISM - Benefits and challenges.
• Venue: Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, High Street, Accra, Ghana
• Keynote Address: Dr Yankey Minister of Heath,Ghana
• Meals: Completely VEGAN [natural fruit juices, vegetables and wholemeal products etc]

Thursday 29th,October, 2009 : ARRIVAL OF DELEGATES

Friday 30th OCTOBER, 2009 

• Carnival Walk around streets in Accra.
• Courtesy calls and  presentation of  position papers to the Minister of Health,Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Women and Childrens Affairs and Minister of Enviroment,Science and Technology]
• Seminar-The benefits of plant based diets.
• Vegetarian meals

Saturday 31st OCTOBER,2009

• Opening ceremony
• Food  Fair,Talks,
• Cooking Demonstration and Cooking Competition
• Awards  Ceremony
• Delicious African  and Continental Vegetarian Meals, musical and cultural
• Entertainment, yoga demonstration etc

Sunday 1st NOVEMBER, 2009

• World Vegan Day Celebrations
• concert,entertainment,Talks,
• Vegan meals
• Charity Feeding-   Public meals and presentation of foods to charity homes in Accra.

Monday 2nd NOVEMBER, 2009 : sight seeing and departure

List of presenters.

• Emmanuel Eyoh - IVU Africa Regional Coordinator, Nigeria
• Dr Aneteneh Roba - President International Fund for Africa and Presenter Vegan world radio- Ethiopia/USA
• Bishop Paul Ugochukwu - President BCS International Vegetarian Fellowship, Nigeria
• Kavichandra Swami - GBC for Africa  & Japan  Hare Krishna Movement USA
• Dr Grace Lopez-Charles National Co-ordinator of Brahma Kumaris NGO, Ghana
• Moriel McClerklin - Executive Director Better World, USA
• Salvador Ngono - President Vegetarian Society of Cameroon
• Jacob Bright - President Vegetarian Society of Liberia
• Nathan Adu - President Vegetarian Association of Ghana
• Dada Pramananda - Director Ananda Marga Yoga Society Ghana-Philippines
• Mr Justice V.C.R.A.C. Crabbe - Former, Chief Justice of Ghana
• Dr.Ofei Agyeman - Homeopath\Naturopath, Ghana
• Nicolas  Le  Roux - France/Cote D'Ivoire
• Varaha Adeyomo - Coordinator Vegetarian Network, Togo
• Mr Korblah Korbla Wisdom - Congress Co-ordinator, Ghana

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Registration will be FREE
Meals will be FREE
Accomodation will be FREE (in the hostel)

RSVP - CONTACT:
Korblah Korbla-Wisdom, christianveggiesghana@yahoo.com
00 233 288267267 [mobile] Coordinator, Accra, Ghana

or Emmanuel Eyoh, IVU Africa Regional Coordinator - nigveganimal@yahoo.com

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some notes from Emmanuel Eyoh, IVU Africa Regional Coordinator, based in Nigeria:

I have just returned from Accra, Ghana in connection with the Africa Vegetarian Congress [West Africa region] in that country Oct 30-Nov 1, 2009.

I held meetings with Korblah-Wisdom, Nathan Adu and others in Ghana on the congress. The Vegetarian Society of Ghana is strong on the ground and because of their activities; there is a vegetarian desk in the Ministry of Health. Nathan Adu the founder of the Vegetarian Society of Ghana is technically the leader of the vegetarian movement in Ghana. He runs a successful vegetarian restaurant where I had my lunch. The restaurant can meet up any international standard. There is a vegetarian library, shop, bar and other facilities. The leaders of the vegetarian movement in Ghana have agreed to work together to host a successful congress in Oct.

They recently held a yoga and vegetarian conference which attracted thousands of participants. They plan to make the vegetarian congress much more successful than the yoga seminar. Watch out for the congress programme and others details soon on the congress website. Please kindly note the following:
Feeding is going to be free. Free accommodations for participants coming from outside Ghana. It will be
general purpose accommodations at hostels of some organisations. People that require private accommodation in a hotel will have to pay. The organizers will send in the cost for such accommodation.
There will be cooking demonstration on how to cook varieties of African Vegetarian dishes from different countries. Awards ceremony-We plan to recognize deserving individuals and organizations that have contributed towards the growth and development of the vegetarian movement in Africa.

There will be Homeless Feeding or Food for Life as part of the vegetarian movement and IVU Africa social responsibility to the people of Ghana. Free vegetarian food will served to needy persons and some orphanages in Accra. And finally there will a Carnival Walk in Accra to mark World Vegan Day.

The congress will take place in Accra main town  and in a good location. I saw some of the halls and they are good for such events. They need funds to book the hall soon. The organising commitee for the congress intend to invite the president of the country to declare the congress open.

We invite everyone to come to Accra ,Ghana for the Africa Vegetarian Congress 2009.

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• Vegetarian Association fo Ghana - photos of the new library room
• Details of the : 1st West African Veg Congress - December 2007
• For the latest info and regular updates join the ivu-africa email group.
  

Below: some of the delegates at the 2007 Congress in Nigeria