Daffiama, UWR. April 16, GNA – Widows at Diffiama area have appealed for support either in kind or cash to improve their living conditions.
The widows said they were going through many challenges in caring for their children after the demise of their husbands.
The women made the appeal at Daffiama when a philanthropist, Mr Thaddeus Sory, a renowned legal practitioner donated some food items to them as means of supporting them to celebrate the Easter.
The items included 100 bags of rice, 50 bags of sugar and 50 cartons of cooking oil.
“The widows lack food and do not have many clothes to wear for outings during the day and to cover their bodies in the night.
Reverend Sister Nornaah, who is the founder of the Saint Monica Widows Association made the appeal during the presentation of food items to the association at Daffiama by a philanthropist, Lawyer Thaddeus Sory, Managing Partner at Sory at Law in Accra.
She said several of the widows were always at Saint Monica’s Church at Daffiama to complain of the lack of grains to prepare food for their children and were happy that Lawyer Sory came to support them as usual of him during this period of Easter.
According to Reverend Sister Nornaah, the widows, together with their children were a neglected group of people in the communities by their late husbands’ family members to cater for themselves.
She appealed to the government to support the widows; some of whom had more than six children and were unable to find sufficient food to feed them.
She also appealed for food aid from public spirited individuals, civil society organisations, the international community and donor countries to support the widows to cater for themselves and their children.
Reverend Sister Nornaah also urged people from the region, especially the Daffiama/Bussie/Issa District to emulate Lawyer Sory and come to the aid of the widows.
“These widows are with their children – the poor orphans and their poor mothers are all crying for help, if the world can hear them and come to their aid” she stated.
Father James Nasaalbeteryeb, Chaplain for the Saint Monica’s Widows Association, noted that the widows were really a needy group of people, worst hit when it comes to food and clothes.
He said it was because of this unpleasant difficulty situation facing widows in the district that necessitated the formation of the association.
Father Nasaalbeteryeb said many of the widows were aged and weak, and could not do farming activities, and the few that were able and ready to go into farming, had their farmlands taken away from them by family members of their late husbands.
“This year is really a problem, as we all know last year, the rains destroyed food crops and threw a big problem to the widows. Several of them have no food to eat and are struggling to feed their children”, he said.
Mr Sory said “It is time for us to support the widows and show love and humanity to them as our own,” he said.
Some of the widows who spoke to the GNA complained about lack of money to take care of the education of their children.
“We are always provided with poor farmlands, which could only produce groundnuts and bambara beans instead of the grains that are our staple food.
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