Accra, June 5, GNA – ActionAid Ghana has donated relief items to 700 less privileged children in the Ga South, in the Greater Accra Region to ameliorate the difficulties of parents as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.
It is part of the organization’s second phase, of distribution of relief items to more than 15,000 households and 15 rural government hospitals across the country.
The items include a reusable nose mask, hand gloves, disinfectant, soap, hand sanitizer, rice, cooking oil, sanitary pad, cocoa powder, and sugar and veronica bucket.
Madam She-Vera Anzagira, the Greater Accra, and Volta Regional Programme Manager at ActionAid Ghana who distributed the items said similar items were been shared to children in 31 districts in regions including Upper East, Upper West, Ahafo and Oti.
She said the third phase of ActionAid Ghana’s COVID-19 Response would consist of another relief package for an additional hard-hit 10,000 households and a national advocacy campaign.
It would focus on the need for the provision of Gender Responsive Public Services as well as enhanced social protection interventions for people living in poverty especially women and girls.
She advised parents to protect children from the deadly COVID-19 disease by ensuring that they stayed at home.
She urged the parents to encourage their children to observe the COVID-19 precautionary measures to help control its spread.
Madam Anzagira and her team demonstrated to the children and parents how to wash their hands with soap under clean running water and the use of alcohol-based hand sanitizers.
Miss Esther Sika, a mother of a beneficiary thanked ActionAid Ghana and its donors for the gesture explaining that it would alleviate her suffering.
“Our businesses were grounded to halt as a result of the restrictions. We are now getting back to start business so this will help us reduce our suffering,” she said.
GNA