Anto (W/R), June 9, GNA – Madam Janet Anderson, a caregiver at the “Father’s Home Ministries”, an orphanage in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA), has called on the government, philanthropies and the general public to assist the home with logistics and funds to help complete a housing project.
The assistance, she said, would enable them to provide roofing, louvres for the windows, kitchen wares and toilet wares for the completion of an apartment for the students at the tertiary level, as well as cushion them in paying school fees, hostel fees and housekeeping moneys which remained a challenge to the orphanage.
She said the orphanage had decided to relocate those at the tertiary level from the old site at Butumajabu (BU) to the new site at Anto, so as to use the old site for a crèche, since they spent a lot of money in providing pre-school education to children at the Home.
The orphanage was started in 2001 at Butumajabu a suburb of Takoradi with five children, but currently has 90 children, with 33 at the various universities in the country and nine undertaking their National Service.
Currently, the Home has four caregivers and a driver who drives the children to and from school.
Madam Anderson made the call in an interview with the Ghana News Agency when the Small and Medium Enterprises Association of Ghana (SMEsGA), made a donation worth hundreds of Ghana cedis to the Home, to ensure the successful fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis.
She said the donation was timely, since it would reduce the economic burden on them and called on others to emulate the gesture by the Association.
She commended the members of the Association for their support and promised to make prudent use of the items in order to help keep the children strong and healthy, as well as ensure that the children were protected from the spread of the novel coronavirus disease.
Madam Aku Shika Diaba, Western Regional President of the Association who led the team, explained that the donation formed part of the Association’s social responsibility and also to put a smile on the faces of the less privileged.
The items donated include nose masks, tissue paper, gallons of liquid soap, hand sanitizers, bags of rice and sugar, used clothes, assorted natural immune boosters, gallons of disinfectants, groceries and an undisclosed amount of money.
GNA