Building Project Committee

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• Mr. Eddie Ofodile (Engineer) – Leader

• Dr. Cordelia Uddoh

• Dr. Paul Ezeukwu

• Prince Ike Muogbo

• Mr. Ifeanyi Enigwe

• Mr. Patrick Amaefuna (Architect)

• Mr. Nnamdi Ojukwu (Architect)

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ASA-Greater Philadelphia Building Project Committee

Nigerian-American Cultural Center Project

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Anambra State Association – Greater Philadelphia Region is a non-profit cultural organization registered in the State of Pennsylvania in the year 2004, under the State’s 501 ©3 charter. The Association has a vision to promote and foster cultural exchanges and sociological interactions amongst the diverse immigrant communities in the Greater Philadelphia region, and particularly amongst Nigerian indigenes. It is dedicated to perpetuating the Anambra State (Nigeria) identity, its language, its people, its history and its cultural heritage. The Association endeavors to shape a Nigerian-American community that is based on the assimilation of immigrant Nigerians, particularly Anambrarians into the American community.

The philosophy espoused by the Association is vividly reflected in its mission statement. The Association totally incorporates and embraces the strong promotion of educational, cultural and social interactions amongst its Nigerian immigrants and their local communities. These activities form the framework for stable social network support system that also encourages and promotes economic development among African indigenes and other immigrant population within our communities. To fully embrace and execute these noble tasks, the Association must have an operational base. These noble tasks require a Support Center and probable Transition Housing for new immigrants, meeting and class rooms and an auditorium/banquet hall for large cultural congregation. Currently the Association does not have a permanent facility from which it operates. Meetings, lectures and banquets are conducted in rented facilities, under inconvenient conditions. As a consequence the Association has a definite, urgent and desperate need for a Cultural Center of its own.

We firmly believe that a Cultural Center would facilitate and foster both social interactions and the smooth transition and assimilation into the fabrics of the American community of both current and future immigrants from Nigeria. Additionally, the African continent may be distant from the shores of the United States, but the culture of its people could be made intimately available to our local communities and neighborhoods in the Greater Philadelphia area, through the activities executed in this Cultural Center. The center will avail the immediate communities and the Greater Philadelphia region with collection of local African literatures, historic materials, folk lore documentaries, media materials and artifacts from the various regions of Nigeria/Africa. The Cultural Center becomes the nexus for pursuing these goals, and its acquisition is considered paramount to the success of the Association’s Vision and Mission.

The Association is currently soliciting for financial support, both large and small packets of grants, pledges and donations, from individuals, businesses, corporations and Foundations to realize this project. With humility we appeal to your good sense and good judgment of gift giving for good causes, to support these commendable undertakings by the Association. Your donations are fully tax deductible, and the process is easy to execute utilizing the Associations online PayPal access, and will be duly acknowledged.

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Eddie Ugochukwu Ofodile, Chairman

ASA-Greater Phila Cultural Center Project.

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Dr. Cordelia Uddoh