Asaase’s Abedi-Anim supports brilliant but needy children to mark 40th birthday
In partnership with an international NGO, Phi Beta Sigma, the broadcaster served 100 people on the streets and donated backpacks, learning materials, and other stationery items to children
Asaase 99.5 Accra‘s Jonas Abedi-Anim last week celebrated his 40th birthday with the needy on the streets of Accra.
In partnership with international non-governmental organisation Phi Beta Sigma, the broadcaster served 100 people on the streets from the Airport Ofeebia highway through to the 37 Military Hospital junction with hot meals, water and assorted drinks on Wednesday 31 August 2022.
Speaking on Asaase News, Abedi-Anim said: “As part of my birthday and believing in the culture of service for humanity, I have decided together with my brothers to feed 100 people right now on the streets and to donate books and stationery items to kids who are in deprived schools. That is what we stand for, that is what we believe in.”
Some of the items provided to equip the children include backpacks, learning materials, and other stationery items.
“We will be teaching the children in deprived schools on how to read and write and those that express high interest and perform well, we will see how we can transition them into the formal education sector and offer them scholarship programmes,” he said.
About Jonas Abedi-Anim
The Ghanaian broadcaster has worked with various organisations and companies. After high school, he started working as a team leader for the Parent and Child Foundation (PACF), a nonprofit organisation based in Ghana. He also led a team, which worked with UNICEF in a project to sensitise the coastal belt of Ghana against child trafficking and child abuse from 2002 to 2005.
For much of his life, Abedi-Anim has worked as a sound engineer and a videographer for several television and radio stations in Ghana.
He worked as a news anchor at NET2 Television, producing and anchoring a youth and student centered syndicated television show called, CampusFile.
Jonas also worked with the PAC12 Network as a freelance broadcast engineer and at the same time working with NBC’s Local station KMTR as a production assistant.
He has diverse educational background that includes an international diploma in broadcast journalism, newspaper reporting, and media law from the Institute of Commercial Studies in the United Kingdom. At the University of Ghana, he read political science, English and linguistics.
After a period, he got transferred to University of Oregon where he read journalism as his major among other public relation and multimedia programmes.
Abedi-Anim is presently working at Asaase 99.5 Accra, where among other things he produces one of the station’s flagship shows Sunday Night which has featured former presidents, diplomats among others.
Phi Beta SigMa
Speaking to Asaase News, a member of Phi Beta Sigma Tito said, “Apart from the community service that we offer, the organisation is more into networking. Whoever is a member gets to benefit from great networks as we have so many people who have been members of Phi Beta Sigma including America’s former President Bill Clinton.”
The group has so far supported rural water supply in the form of boreholes in remote areas in Ghana.
Andrew Sepah
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