OUR PEOPLE, OUR CULTURE
We hav learnts to - NYEMONI - (meaning "Covet your own" ) We take huge pride in preserving our values as er explore every opportunity to showcase the our world and its rich culture on the world stage.
While taking pride in our ancestral heritage, we are careful enough to instill in our sons and daughters, the enrichingand enduring values of brotherliness, social responsibility - especially to the Abonnema people and a relentless quest for excellence in our every endeavors.
This is the crux of the "enduring spirit" in every Abonnema Son and Daughter
The Bylaws
We, the members of the ABONNEMA FOUNDATION living in
the United States of America, and elsewhere, have satisfied the requirements of membership,
all as defined hereinafter (and hereinafter referred to as Registered Members), in the
Abonnema Foundation hereinafter referred to as AF or FOUNDATION), a not-forprofit
organization legally organized in the State of Texas on the 15th Day of the month of
April in the year 2004, adopt the bylaws for the governance of the organization:
PREAMBLE
WHEREAS REGISTERED MEMBERS is desirous to organize and operate, as and at all times,
exclusively for charitable, educational, cultural, social, economical, scientific and technological
purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or the
corresponding Section of any future Federal Tax Code;
WHEREAS REGISTERED MEMBERS in recognition of widespread poverty and lack of financial capital for the implementation of community charitable projects is desirous to provide opportunities to pool resources to promote the legitimate charitable, social, cultural,
educational, scientific and technological and economic interests and advancement of the
Abonnema Community;
WHEREAS REGISTERED MEMBERS in recognition of the lack of infrastructure and enabling environment for the Abonnema Community development is desirous of providing the enabling environment for the development, supervision, and implementation of social and economic programs and infrastructure for the general benefit of the Abonnema Community and other communities;
WHEREAS REGISTERED MEMBERS is desirous of creating environments to address, provide relief, and seek redress on all issues of importance on behalf of the general Abonnema Community, both in the United States and elsewhere;
WHEREAS REGISTERED MEMBERS is desirous of providing a vehicle for organizing and
supervising, alone or jointly, with other organizations or groups of individuals activities for
public opinion evaluation and for the purpose of creating political, economic, general health
and welfare awareness, and thereby foster the growth of goodwill amongst communities;
WHEREAS REGISTERED MEMBERS desires to liaise or collaborate with international, national,or local groups, organizations, or associations to foster and promote unity of purpose, social, cultural, scientific and technological, educational and economic interests and advancement for our mutual benefits; and
WHEREFORE the REGISTERED MEMBERS makes and ordains these Bylaws for the governance of the Abonnema Foundation of which we are the primary benefactors.
