Welcome to the AA Ghana Web Site. Whether you are visiting Ghana or are a resident we hope you find the information contained on this web site helpful. Please note that the ads on the side of this web site are in no way affiliated with AA or Ghana AA - one of the downsides of having a "free" web site (you can hide the ads by clicking on the arrow tab at the top right of this page).
We hope to add more information to this website, in the meantime, here is a list of meetings in and around Accra, Ghana:
Mondays, 7.00pm, Black Star Group, Adabraka, Accra. 6 Watson Loop, Divine Word Missionaries Guest House, Library. For directions call Lutwin at 020-201-850 or 021-241-748.
Fridays, 6.00pm, The Serenity Group (Cantonments), , St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary School, Accra. For more information call Dan at 0243-558-412 or Augustine at 0244-431-035
Sundays, 4:00pm, Accra AA Group, Ashaly Botwe, Aben Wabe Road, at the Living Ministries Church, close to the Mosque For more information call Edward at mobile: 0277-822-465, or from overseas call: 233-21-503-297 or 233-277-822-465 or Write:
Accra AA Group PO BOX AN 8240
Accra North, Ghana
or email at ghanaaa@hotmail.com
The following is a draft for an article we hope will soon run in a local newspaer, which sheds more light on AA in Ghana:
Information for Catholic Standard on Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
Alcoholism is a growing problem in Ghana, and is resulting in great suffering and hardship. Families are being destroyed and lives are being ruined before alcoholics often end up insane or in a painful death.
Many Ghanaians believe that alcoholism is a moral issue or associated with superstition but it is treated as a disease in many parts of the world. It is considered to be a fatal disease that affects the mind, the body and the spirit. AA believes that alcoholism cannot be cured but that its over 2,000,000 members around the world have achieved sobriety and live happy lives by working The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous.
The AA Preamble states that
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. There are no dues or fees for A.A. membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions. A.A. is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy; neither endorses nor opposes any causes. Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety. FROM THE BOOK, ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
In Ghana a limited number of AA activities have been taking place since the 1980s. At present AA groups meet at least weekly in several places in Ghana, including Ashaiman-Tema and Bator. In Accra meetings are held in Asaly-Botwe (Madina), in Adabraka at the SVD Guesthouse and at the Safe Haven Rehabilitation Centre.
The above groups have formed an "AA Intergroup" with "but one primary purpose -- to carry the message to the alcoholic who still suffers". Preparations are being made to conduct AA "Public Information" meetings and to possible form groups in Cape Coast and other parts of Accra. The AA Intergroup would also like to spread the AA message to other parts of Ghana. To help in this effort, an AA Convention is expected to he held on a weekend later this year.
For further information, contact Lutwin D. at 020-201-8540 or 021-241-748.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater then ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our lives ovetr to the care of God, as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, ourselves and another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entrely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make ammends to them all.
9. Made direct ammends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to mad when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out
12, Having had a spiritual awakining as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and practice these priciples in all our affairs.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.