THE EXECUTIVE HOMECOMING PROJECT

AMARABA is a positive response to the occupational and social embarrassments that confront Ghanaians who, after spending sometime outside their home country find it extremely difficult to integrate into the local system.

AMARABA creates a platform that will enable the integration of homecomers with their home country. It supports, in full the adage that; ‘be it so humble there is no place like home', hence the need to make Ghana a habitat worth living for Ghanaian in the diasporas.  

Research and analytic observation continue to prove that once such people return home, they find it difficult to lay their hands on jobs hence their inability to sustain themselves. The sequence of this situation has, more often that nought, been that victims have to go back to these western countries; where it believed that at least a manual job could earn a good living.

AMARABA, which means welcome in the Ghanaian Dagarti dialect, seeks to provide a meaning and productive solution to cushion returnees whenever they find it difficult to find a job or to integrate while back home. The project is of the conviction that, however long or otherwise a native stays out of the motherland, there is always a heroes welcome in wait for him.        

AMARABA projects a system that will not only welcome homecomers but also provide a system that will give homecomers a reason to stay and enjoy staying.

PURPOSE

The reason for AMARABA's existence is to

• admit all professional homecomers into a system similar or equal to what they enjoyed oversees
• curb the burden of futile job search for home comers
• assist homecomers to develop careers within their individual expertise here in Ghana
• make brain drain a secondary option for homecomers
• encourage homecomers to use their acquired expertise to help develop their motherland

TARGETS

The AMARABA project is targeted at

• Ghanaians living abroad who want to come home and settle for good
• Ghanaian students abroad who wish to return and start working after school
• Foreigners interested in executing exchange and attach programmes
• Ghanaian entrepreneurs abroad who want to start businesses back home.

PARTNERS

The AMARABA project will liaise with as many stakeholders and human resource developers who would be ready to accept and team with homecomers by giving them professions and opportunities within their individual and abilities expertise all homecomers.

This process will encompass the banks, insurance companies, hospitality providers, medical professions, construction companies, the shipping industries, telecommunication industry, manufacturing companies and all other professional practices.

Media presence would also be accorded to voluntary and non-profit attachments and exchange programmes geared towards adding value to or improving living conditions of deprived communities.

PROCESS

Any Ghanaian living abroad who wishes to return, work and integrate can log on to the APF website on www.africanparadigmfoundation.org and register on line at the AMARABA link provided on the APF home page. The web administrator will reply you indicating the relevant and necessary steps to take

Back home, the AMARABA team will introduce subscribers to all prominent opportunities available to make their stay worthwhile.

The team will from time to time organise career development, entertainment, recreational, exchange and resource workshop and forums for the benefit of AMARABA subscribers.