The Bokemei Benefit! Sunday 10 September at Café de Ceuvel. The Bokemei Foundation has been helping (orphaned) children in slums and farming villages around Accra in Ghana to go to school since 2002. Come to the benefit and thereby support the foundation and their work. Go for the full programme and score your tickets below. Just curious? Then you can also make a reservation in our café HERE.
With an extensive programme including; an auction, lecture, wellness corner with hairdresser and braids, shop, massage, Ghanaian cuisine and live music by BRADU.
TICKETS
Would you like to learn more about Bokemei’s work? Then come to the lecture! After the lecture, Café de Ceuvel will serve a Ghanaian-style dinner.
ABOUT BOKEMEI
The Ghanaian name ‘Bo Ke Mei’ means ‘You and Me’ and stands for teamwork. Initiator and chairman Abbey is Ghanaian and has lived in the Netherlands for 39 years. He knows what poverty is and wants to give something back to his country. Together with a loyal group of motivated people.
In consultation with local king and population, their focus is on education, training and employment. As there were no schools nearby, they started building a school complex on their own land. Around 200 children from poor families have now been attending kindergarten and primary education for 9 years. From 2015, secondary education also started (Junior High school). In 2018, the school complex was completed and the official opening celebrated. Meanwhile, the number of school children is around 300.
PROGRAM
16:00 Lecture Bokemei (ticketed only)
16:00 – 20:00 Ongoing programme: Wellness corner with braiding and massage, shop & storytelling.
18:00 Dinner (in combination with ticket or separately in Café)
20:00 Bokemei Auction
20:30 Live music: BRADU
BRADU
A drummer and traveller, Bradu (Portugal/Netherlands) hits the drums as he is touched by the diversity of the world. His way of mixing music creates resonances between cultures, the body and the soul. Experiences are transformed through the eardrum into sounds that become the game. Bradu emphasises the harmony between senses like house, afrobeat, hip-hop, funk, jazz and techno as one organic body (music).