A President Had a Vision.
We Built It in Ghana.

Months before anyone boarded a plane, our CEO Phil Agbeko sat down with students at the Borough of Manhattan Community College to talk about a proposed trip to Ghana. The idea had started even earlier, when President Anthony E. Munroe shared his vision for what Ghana could mean for BMCC students, and specifically for the young men of the Urban Male Leadership Academy.

A vision is the easy part. Turning it into a program that actually runs, with vetted accommodation, ground transport, cultural programming, academic content, and a risk management plan behind every hour of it, is the work. That is what Hilltop was brought in to do.

Last month, that vision became a finished program. Successfully concluded, on the ground, in Ghana.

“Some found family. Some found a name. Some met a version of themselves for the first time.”

The group spent ten days in Ghana. They walked through Assin Manso and Cape Coast. They crossed the canopy at Kakum. They sat with local hosts, ate in local homes, and traced a history that most of them had only ever read about.

Then we handed them the microphone. We could describe what happened on this journey. Their words do it better. Sound on.