Chairman Sir, NNAUSA Board of Advisors, Distinguished friends of NNAUSA, ladies and gentlemen, it is with great pleasure I welcome you to this significant milestone in our history. It is five years since we started our journey of promoting health and making a difference in our community. Although, still a very young organization, NNAUSA has reached out to so many organizations in the communities; many Associations, churches and organizations have benefited from our health outreach and health seminar programs (please visit our website for our community activities). We have also received 5 community service awards from the following organizations in the community for promoting health and making a difference in the community – The Nigerian- American Community Association (U.S.A), Eko Club International, New York, Regina Askia Promotion, African Events, and Organization for the advancement of Nigeria (sponsor of the Nigerian Independence Day Parade).
For five years, NNAUSA members have graciously promoted health in the community reaching both the young and the old. None of our accomplishments would have been possible without the unwavering dedication, courage, commitment, selflessness and as always, passion of our members. Community service has become “who we are.” Because of it, we as nurses now stand taller – individually, collectively and professionally for the cause we believe in.
We are here today to celebrate our achievements and to express our appreciations to our supporters and mentors for their support and believing in our endless services to humanity. To expand our programs, we are sponsoring a free preventive screening health center for the uninsured/underinsured African Immigrant in New York City. The African immigrants are a hard to reach population, and they face enormous barriers to health care due to unfamiliarity with the concept of regular health care, uninsured status, health beliefs, attitudes, behaviors, and lack of knowledge in accessing public health systems and for out of fears. Having a free preventive screening health center would help fill this gap in a creative way and add more preventive screening tests to our existing programs.
To raise funds for this initiative, NNAUSA would like your support tonight by donating generously and adopting part of the initiative – the center, equipments, office supplies e.t.c. With your support, NNAUSA can say with pride that we are on the continuous journey of health promotion in the community and saving lives through preventive screening.
As we enter our 6th year in our health promotion efforts, we move forward with new strength and renewed passion; and continue to be a leader in taking health information to our people where ever they are. I invite you to experience our pride tonight.
Thank You
Great Nurses! Great! Excellent Nurses! Excellent!
Grace Ogiehor-Enoma, RN, MSN, MPH, CNA, BC,
President, NNAUSA-4/2007
