YMCA Profile
Number of Local Associations: 80
Number of total members and participants: 10,005
Men: 6,502
Women: 1,058
Under  30: 2,445

History

The Ghana YMCA traces its history to 1890 when a young Gold Coaster, Wilkins Micaber Abbey who had come into contact with the Association in Scotland during his study tour to Europe, brought it to the Gold Coast. On his return to the motherland young Abbey began the first YMCA in Accra.