Thursday, November 21, 2024, 30 cars were already on the line at the Inprem Holistic Community Resource Center, 5757 Karl Road, Columbus, Ohio at 1.30pm waiting for the 2pm start time for the center’s pantry to open and serve them. Every third Thursday of the month, Apostle Alex-Eric Abrokwa-Clottey, who was born in the ghetto of Darkuman, Accra, Ghana, West Africa leads other volunteers, as the Chief Server and Chief Executive Officer of the nonprofit resource center to distribute food items to the numerous people that come to the pantry for free food supplies. Over one million people have been served in the last 10 years. Often in military outfit, Alex-Eric Abrokwa-Clottey who came to the United Staes on the US Diversity Visa Program in October 2002 said, “I put on the military uniform as a symbol of fighting hunger.” He spoke on what inspired him to serving the people in need with Deba Uwadiae, publisher of the New Americans magazine.

Alex-eric Abrokwa-Clottey
Alex-eric Abrokwa-Clottey was born in the ghetto of Darkuman Accra. I studied in Ghana till college level. I accepted the call to serve God through the service of mankind after high school. My mandate to the acceptance of the call of God is to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ, feed the poor, give hope to the hopeless, and recovery of destiny through prayer and the study of the word of God in the year 1998 before moving to the USA through the US-Visa lottery program in October of 2002. I served in three churches before I founded “In His Presence Ministries International” in 2009. I studied Nursing and practiced in various fields for eight years, before starting the Inprem Holistic Community Resources Center in 2014.

Motivation
In His Presence Ministries International was serving the community since 2010 once a year as part of the vision received in 1998, while in Ghana. In the year 2014 the church moved into a bigger space. I accepted to obey the call to feed the poor, give hope to the hopeless, by establishing Inprem HCRC. I am being obedient to a greater call.

Services
Inprem HCRC is a holistic community resource center, serving the community with some of the basic needs to be able to integrate. We have served as the food pantry, clothing, after-school, free clinic, household items, access to technology, and employment. We serve everyone from any of the zip codes. We have served over 1,400,000 people in the last 10 years from 44 counties, 356 zip code, with 33,500,000 pounds of food.

Inprem
Every day is amazing at Inprem HCRC food pantry with cars parked all around the shopping mall. Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Inprem has not received any funding from any major grant, whether from the city, state, or federal. We have been doing this with our dependable volunteers. No one has been on payroll.

Appreciation
We have done what we can. We thank all our partners, donors and Volunteers. We appreciate all our sponsors. Last, but not least, is our great communities in Central Ohio and its surrounding suburbs. Inprem HCRC needs help now than ever. People can donate at our website www.inprem.org, or mail to 5757 Karl Road, Columbus, Ohio 43229. Also, for further information, people can call 614-516-1812. They can also volunteer to help serve the community. A need Is not a respecter of person. Anyone can be in need at any time.

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