BCA Great Lakes Chapter

from BCA-USA Mirror 2022

by Spears Media Press

BCA Northern Texas Report

By Na Tema Pefok – Zama

President, Great Lakes Chapter

Membership Snapshot

As of April 23, 2022 the Great Lake membership is as follows: • Seniors - 7 • Adults - 39 • Youths – 10 • Kids – 8

Nkap Ntod

As of April 23, 2022, the Great Lake Nkap Ntod membership is as follows: • Seniors – 7 • Adults - 34 • Youths – 8 • Kids – 8 • Deceased – 2

Events/Activities:

New chapter uniform: The chapter uniform was launched at the October 2021 meeting in Chicago. The success of this committee was evident when 90% of members at the October meeting showed up in their chapter uniform.

Thanks to Ma Marion and Ni Dr. Sema Fofung for heading this Committee and doing an excellent job.

Chapter Bylaws: The by-law committee was re-instated to review the current by-law and make some amendments. Part of the amendment was to separate the chapter interest activities such as member support from 501c3 activities. Ni Dr. Chris

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Botanga Fonkenmun heads this committee.

Community outreach: Despite all the challenges of the pandemic, last year the Greatlakes chapter was able to participate in two community outreach events.

During Thanksgiving the Greatlakes chapter partnered with Westminster Church of Detroit to provide some financial support and showed up to help purchase, prepare, package, and deliver meals that served over 1,400 individuals who are homebound or homeless.

Secondly, in December the Great Lakes Chapter again partnered with Westminster church of Detroit to prepare and serve warm meals to the homeless.

State of the chapter:

Overall the chapter is doing well despite the challenges of the pandemic. During the pandemic we held virtual chapter meetings via Zoom. We also had the opportunity to invite the national president to our meeting and members were able to ask questions and have them answered. We continue to support each other in good and sad times. One chapter member lost his dad.

The chapter responded in accordance with the newly instituted bylaws.

The chapter also lost two members this year: • Mama Lucy Zama • Mama Enid Thomas

Congratulations to our Graduates: • Ni Winner Gansen Dobgima – Granger

Middle school Naperville Illinois • Ni Marvellous-Love Foncham Dobgima –

Longwood Elementary School Naperville

Illinois • Ma Sona RoseAnne Fokum – University of Illinois Chicago. M.S. in Public Health (Minors in Chemistry and Biological Science. • Ma Nina Koyilla – University of Arizona. B.S.

Molecular Biology • Ma Matilda Koyilla – Chamberlain University.

Family Nurse Practitioner

Chapter challenges:

This chapter is scattered across five different states, (Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Michigan and Ohio) which makes it challenging to physically get together often. To mitigate this challenge, we are having more virtual meetings and less face-to-face meetings.