By Benjamin Asomah
Berekum, (Bono), July 21, GNA – Elder Simon Ampaabeng Kyeremeh, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Berekum East in the Bono Region, has launched a charity foundation to provide alternative livelihood and empowerment support to drug addicts in the Berekum Municipality.
According to him the “HESAK” foundation seeks to facilitate the rehabilitation and successful re-integration of the drug addicts by catering for their medication and providing them with employable skills training.
In an interview with the media on the side-lines of the launch held in Berekum, Elder said the foundation would also intensify public education on the dangers of substance abuse and illicit drug peddling in the municipality.
He said it would collaborate with health professionals, relevant state institutions as well as stakeholders to help stem the growing trend of drug abuse and peddling among the youth in the area.
Elder Kyeremeh said the foundation alone could not succeed in ending drug abuse and addiction and called for support from the corporate world, religious bodies and development partners to achieve desirable outcomes.
Mr David Owusu Ansah, the Berekum East Municipal Director of Education, lauded the establishment of the foundation and pledged the directorate support in its activities.
He said: “The vision of the HESAK foundation is laudable and we expect everybody to support that in helping to restore life to the wayward, and drug addicts and rehabilitate them in society”.
GNA
Edited by Dennis Peprah/Christian Akorlie