Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® (AKA), continues to grow internationally with the chartering of another new graduate chapter this year. This time on the tropical, sun- kissed island of New Providence in The Bahamas. On Friday, May 29, 2026, 28 sorority members became charter members of Alpha Epsilon Theta Omega Chapter, during a private, members-only ceremony in Nassau. The ceremony was followed by a fun and fabulous public luncheon which was attended by family, friends, dignitaries and sorority members. The chapter becomes the sorority’s fourth chapter in The Bahamas. It joins existing graduate chapters in Nassau and Freeport, and an undergraduate chapter in Nassau.
For the last two years, the women worked together to focus their efforts on delivering service
throughout areas of eastern New Providence. The island also is home to Nassau and serves as the
major governmental and population hub of the archipelago. Outside of the sorority, the members
are accomplished in multiple professional fields including finance, government, medicine,
business, media and more.
Alpha Kappa Alpha is a historic 118-year old service-centered organization that is the first sorority
founded by African American college women at Howard University in 1908. Today the sorority
has more than 390,000 members around the world in 15 countries and territories.
Prior to becoming a chapter, the sorority members concentrated their service on school children,
women, families, community organizations, and senior citizens around eastern New Providence.
They worked with a number of community partners including the Cleveland Eneas Primary
School, the Disaster Risk Management Authority, the Cancer Society of The Bahamas, the Fox
Hill Community Centre and the Geriatric Hospital Comfort Care.
“I am so proud of the hard work and accomplishments of my sisters in New Providence,” said
Carrie J. Clark, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, International Regional Director. “They have done a
fantastic job of creating partnerships and offering service initiatives that have had a measurable
impact on several New Providence communities,” she added. Examples of their work include:
donating an estimated $4,000 worth of groceries for food boxes for around 200 community members experiencing food insecurity distributing 330 Childhood Hunger Initiative Power Packs (AKA CHIPPTM), which also are
filled with food for primary school students donating books to classroom libraries hosting a forum with experts to increase community awareness of human trafficking
prevention and child protection
All of the chapter’s service programs are aligned with the “Soaring to Greater Heights of Service
and Sisterhood” program initiatives of Alpha Kappa Alpha President & CEO Danette Anthony
Reed.
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