Presentation by Eban Foundation to the UCB Leaders Forum Pretoria(August 23-27)

Presentation outline Introduction Eban’s First print Current work Future work

Introduction(Contd) Eban Foundation-registered as a non-profit organization on November 28 th ‘Eban’=fence in the Akan language. Symbolic meaning - fort that gives protection. Vision is to be a leading distributor of Christian literature in Ghana. Current outlook -evangelize through printing and distribution of devotionals and through radio broadcast.

Introduction o Founded by a group of staff members of HFC Bank Ghana Limited. o Born out of need to have a permanent devotional available to the group during Morning devotion. Group contacted UCB International in 2010 Redirected to African Office subsequently. Presently, given the license to print The Word For Today(TWFT) in Ghana.

Eban’s First Print Printed 2,700 copies of the May –July edition of the TWFD. The cost of printing was sponsored by the members of the Foundation. Copies distributed to 26 branches of HFC Bank country wide Members of some Churches including Accra Ridge Church and several others.

Morning Devotion

Sharing the Grace

Current Projects Currently Eban is working to print the August – October edition of TWFT. The expected copies to be printed is 4,000. Radio version of TWFT is starting on July 1 st,2012 on Spring FM.

Future work Eban hopes to set up a radio station God willing in It will faithfully raise funds from various groups, churches and individuals to print more copies for the rest of Ghana. We hope we can raise additional funds through the audio version of the TWFT.

Future work(Contd) Target market will be the Youth Print the Youth Version of The Word for Today in 2013

Challenges Expanding sources of funds Permanent staff for the Foundation

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