From Richard Owusu-Akyaw
United Kingdom (UK)-based Canaan Christian Centre (CCC), together with Orphans and Needy Smile Foundation (ONSF), has donated varieties of items to two orphanages at Kokofu and Sarpeh in the Bekwai and Ejisu Municipalities.
Over 50 inmates from the two orphanages benefitted from the donations, estimated to cost GH¢4,000. At Kokofu , 20 students from seven schools, including Kokofu Metropolitan Assembly (M/A) Primary ’B’, were given a package which contained five kilos of rice, stationery, cooking oil, body cream, bathroom sandals ,tooth brushes, and teddy bears.
Expressing appreciation for the gesture, Akosua Pinamang, Assembly Member of Kokofu, thanked the CCC and ONSF for the gesture. Mr. Christopher Badu, Headmaster of Kokofu M/A Junior High and Primary school, thanked the British and Ghanaian philanthropic organisations for coming to the aid of the needy pupils.
He appealed to stakeholders and well-meaning Ghanaians to emulate what the CCC and ONSF done, and revealed that 90% of the pupils, who are in Kindergarten to Class Six, are needy. He said the Queenmother of Kokofu took it upon herself to feed the pupils who numbered forty.
At Sarpeh, in the Ejisu Municipality, 30 inmates of Liberty Home benefitted from items such as 15 tubers of yam, three bags of rice (25 kilos), drinks, stationeries, three cartons of ideal milk, a box of tinned tomatoes, a carton of Milo and teddy bears.
The Administrator of the home, Mr. Godbless Acheampong, thanked the British-based organisation and ONSF for remembering them. He expressed worry about the government’s threat to close down some orphanages in the country, saying the recent registration hike is aimed to discourage them from continuing their humanitarian work.
Rev. John Putman from the Relational Mission International in the United Kingdom (UK), who is a Director of CCC, indicated that the organisation is in Ghana following the instrumentality of Archbishop Dr. S.R Addae, General Overseer of Shiloh United Church and the Principal of Shiloh Bible Learning Centre for pastors, who was introduced to him (Putman) by a Ghanaian pastor.
Shiloh United Church (SUC) also visited the Kumasi Cheshire Home and donated items including eleven bags of rice, tubers of yam, toilet rolls, two big gallons of cooking oil, cartons of sardine, and others worth GH¢2,000.
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