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Dilapidated School Building




Director: Tim Tometi Gbedema   ktometigbe67@hotmail.com      
530-848-5285



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New Building Project Started June 2010: Laying the Foundation


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The purpose of this non-profit organization is to improve the educational environment for children in underdeveloped nations, including but not limited to, such rural villages as Otwetiri (Ghana) and Tsiviepe (Togo).

The immediate goals of Otwetiri Project are to raise funds to build a desperately needed primary school house in Otwetiri, Ghana and to establish and support literacy programs in the village. The project also aims to provide educational incentives through sports and to foster an extended family relationship between Davis and these rural West African communities.

    Old School Building Prior to the Project Funded by the Otwetiri Project

old school


The Davis community has been both verbally and physically active in the support of the Otwetiri project. Interest and support has been generated through public speaking engagements and through articles in the Davis Enterprise written about Tometi Gbedema’s effort to improve the educational environment in his boyhood village of Otwetiri.

Tometi’s link to the large soccer community in the Davis area has further broadened interest in the project. Friends from the soccer community and other Davis community members were instrumental in the creation of the non-profit organization, which is needed to guide the project’s purpose. Tometi’s U12 Girls soccer team held school supply fundraisers and birthday parties, at which small donations to the Otwetiri project were given instead of presents. Emerson Junior high students conducted a book drive to collect hundreds of books for the children in Otwetiri. These books were shipped to Ghana with funds provided by the Davis Rotary Club.

Tometi has organized a soccer tournament called the Davis California Challenge Cup, which is played among village schools in and around the village of Otwetiri, Ghana. This tournament helps to establish the relationship between the City of Davis, California, and these rural villages. The tournament also promotes teamwork and life lessons and brings joy to the children and spectators. Tometi has already delivered donated soccer team jerseys and equipment to Otwetiri, but currently has a stock of soccer equipment that needs to be shipped to Otwetiri when funding is available.

The Otwetiri Project is qualified as a charitable organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions to the Otwetiri Project are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.





 

Upcoming Events

Davis California Challenge Cup (D3C) Tournament
May-June, 2010
Ghana, West Africa

 October 16, 2010
A Taste of Ghana,
a Celebration of Ghanaian Food, Music, & Dance at the
Davis Senior Center
at A & 7th  Street
Time TBD

Recent events:

June 14, 2009:
Bingo fundraiser.

May 27, 2009:
Presentation by Tim Gbedema on his recent trip to Ghana..

October 16, 2010:

A Taste of Ghana,
a Celebration of Ghanaian Food, Music, & Dance at the
Davis Art Center

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