EPIK Social-Good Festival,

About the event

The EPIK Social-Good Festival is a two-day community festival held annually during Father’s Day weekend in Adum Banso, a farming community near Takoradi in Ghana’s Western Region.

The festival is named in honour of Elizabeth Pinsan and Isaiah Kakraba (EPIK) and is designed as a community-led celebration that combines cultural activities, social engagement, wellness initiatives, and locally rooted experiences.

The festival brings together community members, visitors, civil society actors, creatives, and local enterprises to participate in shared activities that strengthen social connection and community participation. It aims to broaden the meaning of Father’s Day beyond a single commemorative moment by using the occasion as a platform for dialogue, inclusion, and collective engagement.

A core component of the festival is a dedicated inclusive community gathering for persons living with disabilities and special needs. This gathering provides facilitated participation, food and refreshments, cultural activities, and opportunities for social interaction and recognition. It is designed to encourage visibility, inclusion, and meaningful participation in community life, while also drawing attention to accessibility and participation challenges in public events and shared spaces.

Across the two days, the programme includes inter-community football matches, keep-fit activities, and community health walks that promote wellness and active lifestyles. Cultural expression is a central feature of the festival, with music, dance, traditional storytelling, arts and crafts exhibitions, and performances by local artists and cultural groups taking place throughout the event.

The festival also hosts workshops, public discussions, exhibitions, and educational sessions that provide space for community exchange on social, environmental, and development-related topics. A special awards segment recognises academic achievement and positive community contribution, particularly among young people. In addition, participants are offered guided visits to nearby sites, including local farms—some operated by persons with disabilities—and the Benso Oil Palm Plantation. These visits provide insight into local livelihoods, agricultural practices, and production systems within the host community.

Through its combination of cultural, educational, recreational, and social activities, the EPIK Social-Good Festival creates opportunities for collaboration, partnership, and engagement with a locally grounded initiative that places community participation, inclusion, and shared experience at its centre.

The event welcomes interest from individuals and organisations seeking to participate, support, or explore partnership opportunities connected to community-based initiatives in Ghana.

Why should you sponsor?

Any kind of generous sponsorship, funding assistance, donation and/or gift will create a unique opportunity for you to contribute to, and engage in something good, meaningful, useful, laudable, desirable, worthwhile, prudent, impactful and of mutual benefits. Including and not limited to those highlighted below:

• Expand, deepen and bolster destination Ghana’s tourist attractions, activities, experiences and services.
• Culture, history, heritage, music, arts, entertainment and gastronomy promotion, stimulation, preservation and education.
• Sustainable rural, local and community social and economic empowerment, rejuvenation, revitalization and development.
• Brand, corporate, products and/or services visibility, positioning, publicity and exposure at the event, online, other diverse community and customer touch points.
• Complement, awaken and propel one of international and domestic tourism development and promotion’s sleeping giant, Father's Appreciation Day celebration. To attain its fullest potentials for destination Ghana to benefit and derive the essential social and economic benefits thereof.
• Social, civic, public, intercultural, interpersonal, networking, communication, relationships building, inclusion, accessibility, diversity management, philanthropic, charitable, humanitarian, social impact and purpose-driven experience, activity, courtesy, service, initiative and program.
• Sustainable international and domestic tourism, and especially, local and rural tourism, travel, tours, hospitality, recreation and leisure. Livelihoods nourishment, rejuvenation, enrichment and revitalization. Healthy, wellness, sportive, active living and lifestyles. Entrepreneurial development, promotion and stimulation, income and employment generation.
• Provide the much needed and rightly so, but often easily neglect solidarity, goodwill, benevolence, generosity, love, kindness and compassion, physical and emotional relief, wellbeing, care and attention. To support, motivate, entertain, rejuvenate, empower and impact Persons Living with Disability and Special Needs (PLWD/SN), one of the most vulnerable, underserved, deprived and marginalized groups in Ghana.
• And for which once again, the primary beneficiaries, Persons Living with Disability and Special Needs (PLWD/SN), the people and community of Adum Banso and its surrounding towns. Participants, attendees, planning, organizing, management and actualization team. And as well as other relevant internal and external stakeholders will forever be grateful and thankful.

Emmanuel Kakraba

I am an extremely people-centered, reliable, proactive, hardworking, trustworthy, team player and results-driven Tourism Professional. Customer, Public, Social and Human Service Practitioner, Former Immigration Officer of the Ghana Immigration Service and the sole founder of this Tourism Social Enterprise.

I am a graduate of one of the most prestigious tourism education and training institutions in Europe, the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Salzburg, Austria. Where I graduated with a degree in Business, Innovation and Management Tourism.

Upon my return home to Ghana from Austria, I registered and established my Social Enterprise, Kra Travel (registered as Kra Integrated Solutions Ltd) prior to relocating to the United States of America.

As part of my professional responsibility, values-creation, social-impact and purpose-driven intrinsic motivation, passions, desire, zeal, enthusiasm, determination, commitments and poise. To strive to apply, utilize and transform the extensive and excellent hands-on knowledge, skills, experience, education, training and exposure I have acquired.

Into something most thoughtful, relevant, purposeful, remarkable, meaningful, positive, useful, valuable, laudable and desirable. Memorable, worthwhile, acceptable, reliable, commendable, prudent, justifiable and of mutual benefits.

That creates the leverage for him to become more relevant to people, communities, society, humanity and generations yet unborn.

Aside of currently serving as the Founder/Chief Executive Officer of Kra Travel, I am employed as a Public Service Aide. At the Montgomery County Government, Maryland, United States of America. Further, I am also a part-time Program Support Staff (Homeless Services) at Interfaith Works (Montgomery County Government Health and Human Service Contractor), Montgomery County Government, Maryland, United States of America.

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