History of EnuguUSA & EnuguUSA Medical Mission

In summer of 1998, a handful of Enugu persons resident in the different regions of USA, gathered in College Park, Maryland to discuss ways and means of forming an enduring Umbrella Association of Enugu people in the contiguous United States of America. At the time, none of the pioneers of this movement envisioned that within a mere span of nine years, the eventual Enugu Association, USA, Inc., and its subsidiary – EnuguUSA Medical Mission, Inc., would quickly so blossom into a stable, reputable and influential Ibo, Diaspora, Apex State Association and a Health and Wellness delivery organ, respectively.

Indeed, the EnuguUSA, Inc. as many Nigerian Diaspora Associations, experienced in its early years, the usual mistakes and malformations of a well-intentioned group of professionals whose major common denominators were common language, ancestry and the strong urge to give back to the (Waawa) Community from where they originated. Suffice it to say that many of the champions of the pioneering efforts of the EnuguUSA Inc.’s foundation ideals were mostly motivated by the growing ultraistic concerns for lack of benign and development-oriented politics as well as the self-serving urge to provide enabling political, economic and social environments for Enugu people and their friends in the Diaspora to possibly give or attract ameniti\es and services to their People and Communities, back home.

The membership composition of EnuguUSA Inc. since its official ratification in Newark, New Jersey in 2000, has grown from 13 to 24 paying affiliate members in 2011. This growth marks more than 100 percent increase in chapter affiliate membership to the Association in less than 10 years. Correspondingly, the quality of leadership in the Association has also strengthened exponentially as a result of the cumulative professional experiences as well as the successive efforts and achievements of the committed men and women that have served and are still serving the Association today in various capacities. Most prominent National Officers of EnuguUSA and EnuguUSA Medical Mission past and present include, but not limited to the following: Founding National President, Chris Chukwu; founding Chairman of ESBOD, MOE Ene (Ph.D), Engineer Obi Taiwan; President Alloy Attah, VP. Deborah Agu, President John Egbo, President Afam Charles Agwu, VP. Lolo Oby Ike, Medical Director Sam Ngwu (MD), Medical Director Kanayo Ubesie (MD), Medical Director Chinwe Okonkwo (MD), Medical Director Martins Ugwu-Dike (MD); Executive Director Ethelbert Odoh, Coordinator Sunday Gozie Ogbodo (PhD), Chairman Bernard Ugwu, VP. Mrs. Oby Clara Ebulu, President Jude A. Akubuilo (PhD), Engineer Richard Chime, Chief Easy Ojonta, Chief Emma Obi, Engineer Steve Nnamani, Hon. Solomon Maduko, Attroney Dominc Ezeudu, Hon. Jones Okeke.

EnuguUSA Inc. received a tremendous boost with the introduction in 2003 of the pace-setting Health and Wellness subsidiary of the Association - the EnuguUSA Medical Mission Inc. The EnuguUSA Medical Mission since its inception has attracted from reputable American-based non-profit Associations, Diasporan Enugu State individuals and faith-based Organizations in the United States, over $1.35 million in cash, medicines and supplies. The EnuguUSA Medical has hugely become a sort-after household name in the grassroots Communities of Enugu State today. By this December, the Mission would have served over 300, 000 patients in over 60 Communities of Enugu State. The countless man-hours expended in volunteer service time by Physicians sympathizing health professionals as well as the dedicated team of chief organizers of the Mission for the past five years, if quantified, runs into millions of US dollars in value.
Governor Chime administration and Enugu state ministry of health has also stepped up its involvement with the annual EnuguUSA Medical Mission program, with needed increased logistics support. The Governor is also ostensibly leaving up to the expectations of many, by throwing his Executive weight and support behind the Convention with expenditures of apparent political and financial capital to ensure the success of this Nuevo experiment of Enugu Diasporan Mass Return, with the potential to rain in foreign currencies to the State economy.

EnuguUSA/EnuguUSA Medical mission thanked the Governor and our Hon. Jude Akubuilo for making the promise of donating a temporary structure to EnuguUSA/EnuguUSA medical mission, to house its administrative liaison office and double as the handling facility for the annual EnuguUSA Medical Mission Program, in lieu of a permanent office complex a reality. We are also grateful for the Eight plots of land allocated to EnuguUSA. Association. Together we achieve more.

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