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The Mayor's Commission on African and Caribbean Immigrant Affairs
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15th &  Market street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
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Mayor's Commission on African and Caribbean Immigrant Affairs
Upcoming Events and Notices...
Next Commission Meeting (2nd Wednesday of each month)
 
Date:   February 8, 2012 
Place:   City Hall
Time:     6:00 - 8:00pm

Commission & Community Organizations Upcoming Acitivities

(ADM) African Diaspora Marketplace Business Plan Competition

 

Eighty (80) individuals and businesses have signed to compete for $100,000 in cash and technical assistance to individuals living in the United States who have an interest in expanding their business or starting up a new business in Africa.  The Commission has developed a partnership with the Philadelphia Department of Commerce, Temple Small Business Development Center, and the Wharton Small Business Development Center to provide technical assistance to individuals or business plan.  
 

2012 Business Roundtable

(ACBC) African Caribbean Business Council

ACBC will hold a Business Roundtable on January 20, 2012 in collaboration with the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce.  President of ACBC, Dr. Azuka Anyiam will host ambassadors from Botswana, Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Trinidad and Tobago in Philadelphia and Trenton. Shown above (Ambassadors from PENN's Imagine Africa event).

Healthcare Consortium

The Commission will be organizing a Healthcare Consortium to include Lincoln University, Cheyney University, University of Pennsylvania, Drexel University and the Laborer’s District Council of Greater Philadelphia.  The team will be working in the Greater Philadelphia Region and in Liberia and Nigeria.

Chairman, Hon. Stanley Straughter, Members of African Caribbean Business Council (ACBC) and country ambassadors from Africa and the Caribbean at recent Imagine Africa at PENN Museum of Archeology.  This was a collaborative effort of Councilwoman Jannie L. Blackwell District, PENN Museum  and the Mayor's Commission on African and Caribbean Immigrant Affairs.

Dr. Lydia Foucan is the director of the Department of Public Health at the University Hospital in Guadeloupe.  Dr. Foucan is doing research on Cardiac Metabolic Risk and its impact on Africans and peoples of the African Diaspora

 
ACBC Business Roundtable

Date: January 20, 2012 by 10 AM
Venue: Conference Room of Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce,
200 S. Broad Street, Suite 700, Philadelphia PA 19102 

MAYOR'S RECEPTION BY TRENTON COMMISSION 
Venue: Trenton Marriott Hotel
Time: 2 PM

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Raphia Noumbissi is the Founding Director of SHAHICA Foundation. She works to serve orphans affected by the HIV virus.in her native country of Cameroon. On February 10, 2012, she wil host a Medical Lecture with Dr. Helene Kwakwa.on  important health issues related to the Philadelphia community.