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BGI CEO Irwin Barkan (with microphone) Mr Richard Borsah (Founder of GEM with Hope Foundation)
GEM’s primary goal is to use the game of basketball to increase academic interest in the youth, at the same time increasing the annual school retention rate at all educational levels, while creating various career paths. Again it is to foster a commitment to young people that will promote a sense of hope for the future, with the capability to participate in a global economy, contribute in intent and skills towards community development.
The NGO already has as part of its body, the DC Dynamics team, Galaxy Basketball Academy and Tema Youth Basketball team.
Mr Irwin Barkan, CEO of BG International, expressed his happiness and excitement about being associated with an activity that will help develop basketball in the country as well as unearth talents in young people. He encouraged the players in the various teams to take the game of basketball seriously and pledged BGI’s support in seeing that the dreams of the foundation are realized.
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BGI donates towards street-lighting project in Gbawe 
BG International (BGI), a US-based real estate development firm with an office in Ghana, has donated $10,000 towards a street-lighting project for the Gbawe community, a suburb of Accra.The donation was made at a durbar held to climax the celebration of the Homowo festival in Gbawe recently.
Mr. Irwin Barkan, Chief Executive Officer of BGI, said the donation was to restart the street-lighting project which began some years ago but was never completed. He promised to provide additional funding for the project “until all the 130 light poles are shining bright at night on the 14 streets and roadways identified in the community.”
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Akanmajay celebrates Homowo
The descendants of the Akanmajay Stool, one of the principal stools of the Ga Mashie traditional area, celebrated their annual Homowo festival on the 15th of September, 2014.
During the grand durbar, their development partners, BGI, and its CEO, Irwin Barkan, were honoured for their role in the development of their community as a whole.
Mr. Barkan donated $5000 towards the scholarship fund which is being ran by the Akanmajay Stool. This fund is to educate about 100 students from the basic to the secondary level.
BGI to help re-build Mallam market
Mr Irwin Barkan, CEO of BG International (BGI) has donated an undisclosed amount of money to the Mallam market traders and pledged BGI’s support in the re-construction of the Mallam market.
Mr Barkan made this pledge on the occasion of a memorial ceremony to commemorate the 2nd anniversary of the day known to the market women as ‘red day’.
Two years ago, on the 15th October, 2012, fire gutted the Mallam market and destroyed foodstuffs and properties worth tens of thousands of cedis. BG International, which is preparing the groundwork for a multi-purpose shopping mall at the Mallam junction pledged its support in the light of the fact that the Mallam market traders are stakeholders in the mall project.
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BGI, LLC, Irwin Barkan was interviewed on Mallam Junction Project.
BGI On Mallam Junction Mall project
The construction of a multipurpose mall facility will commence at Mallam Junction in May this year, United States
(U.S.)-based development firm, BG International (BGI) has announced.
The over US$60 million complex, to be located adjacent to the George W. Bush Motorway and the Accra-Takoradi Expressway interchange, will be anchored by Shoprite, the largest grocer in Africa.
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BGI, LLC Commissions Safe Water Station
“BG International, an American-based development firm, in collaboration with Safe Water Network, has commissioned a Safe Water Station at Yawkwei in the Ashanti region.
The safe water station is expected to serve over 12,000 people in four villages in the Ashanti region.
The station pumps raw water from existing boreholes and treats it through chlorination to meet World Health Organization’s (WHO) standards.”
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BGI featured in Shopping Centers Today magazine
“Africa’s surging economies, burgeoning middle class and rapidly growing cities promise to keep retail developers busy for years….I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else in the world right now doing business,” said Barkan, who also has plans to
develop centers in Nigeria. Ghana has a population of about 25 million, yet only one enclosed mall. It is one of Africa’s most politically stable nations, Barkan says….”
Retailers and developers lured by African attraction
“According the World Bank’s Africa Pulse report in April, economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to reach more than 5 per cent on average between 2013 and 2015, making Africa among the fastest growing regions in the world.” GulfNews.com features BGI LL’s CEO Irwin Barkan in this article about retail and retailor trends in Africa’s blooming economies…
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Mall developers feel the pull of Africa’s consumer boom
REUTERS, “When Wal-Mart Stores (WMT.N), the world’s top retailer, bought control of major South African discount chain Massmart Holdings (MSMJ.J) in 2011, American shopping mall developer Irwin Barkan had an epiphany….”
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Analysis: Nairobi attack may trigger tighter security at malls worldwide
BGI LLC CEO Irwin Barkan, was recently quoted about the future of mall security around the globe following the tragic incidence in Niarobi.
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