By Eunice Hilda A. Mensah
Accra, Jan.03, GNA – The Believers Transformation Foundation Ghana, a humanitarian non-governmental organisation has appealed to benevolent individuals, organisations, and international donors to help them to enrich their support for widows, orphans and the aged.
Apostle Dr Francis Kwame Gyasi, Founder of the NGO explained that the organisation was in dire need of land to construct a home for homeless needy widows and orphans and deprived aged groups.
The land would also be used as an assembling point for beneficiaries whenever resources were mobilised for distribution.
He said the NGO, which also supported the education of orphans from basic to the tertiary level needed financial support, food items, clothing, books and medical care for its most vulnerable beneficiaries.
Apostle Gyasi made the appeal in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, when the NGO distributed food items to orphans and widows in Kasoa during the commemoration of its 10th anniversary.
He said God assigned him in 2015 to share whatever he had with the most deprived, quoting: James 1:27 which states: “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world” as his inspiration for ten years.
“So every year, whatever we have mobilised, we use it to support orphanages and homes like the Good Shepherd and Royal Seed among others and widows from across the country.
“The willingness and passion is huge, but we are unfortunately challenged by limited resources, so anyone or organisation that comes in to support us will be blessed by the God who sent us,” he said.
Amidst the financial constraints, the Founder said his organisation could consistently support the deprived no matter how small it was in quantity because of God’s strength, adding: “The support of my wife has also been instrumental in this humanitarian works.”
Nana Yaw Anti Asamoah, Nkosohene of Kasoa CP, Essaba Krom, one of the supporters of the NGO, said there were needs in every human institution that needed the support of those capable irrespective of the volume of the support.
“So we have to look at those who are in special need, especially the orphans and widows. That is why I decided to support Believers Transformation Foundation to continue the good works they’ve been doing for 10 years now.
“Those of us who have the willingness to support the needy but have no time, let’s mobilise support for those who have devoted time to support such people and we won’t regret it,” he appealed.
Maxwell Bentum, a level 200 Computer Science student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, and beneficiary of the Foundation, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, said his family started benefitting from Reverend Gyasi eight years ago.
“He was helping my mom with our fees and everything and also every Christmas, he made sure to invite us to give us some stuff so we didn’t feel needy. And right now, I’m in the University and I really remember how he helped me throughout my stay in SHS and in JHS when my mum was challenged,” he said.
“So, I’m grateful to them for all these years of support. We pray God blesses his good works,” he said.
Prophetess Theresa Austin, Founder of the Mogya Bi Akasa Ministry, and a supporter of the Foundation, said she realised the children the Foundation supported periodically genuinely needed help.
“Even if you have a mother and a father, its not easy at all. So just imagine how life will be for these little ones with nobody. I’ve done this for seven years and I have no reason to back off,” she added.
GNA
Edited by George-Ramsey Benamba