INNER WHEEL assists REMAR FOUNDATION, DAILY GRAPHIC, SAT 9th JAN, 2009 (PAGE 18)

THE Inner Wheel Club of Tema, a charitable organisation made up of the wives of Rotarians in the Tema metropolis has donated quantity of assorted items valued at GHC200 to inmates of the Remar Foundation located in Tema.
The items made up of used clothing, foodstuffs, fruits, disinfectants and groceries according to the President of the club is to bring joy to the faces of inmates throughout the yuletide.
Making the donation, Mrs Googie Nuno, President of the club indicated the donation forms part of the group’s social responsibility programme aimed towards giving back to the less privileged society.
Continuing, she noted, strides being made by managers of the center to reform destitute children who idles on various streets across the country was what informed her outfit’s decision to adopt the center in 2001.
Mrs Nuno regretted poverty and broken homes has seen orphan children and brilliant but less fortunate children loitering about thus engaging in negative social vices such as the abused of drugs, prostitution as well as criminal activities.
She commended the managers of the center for reaching out to the children and helping them make meanings out of their lives and appealed to corporate institutions and well meaning individuals extend a helping hand to them as these children according to her are the heartbeat of society who ought to be provided and cared for as they were being prepared to take over the responsibility of leadership in future.
She paid glowing tribute to members of the Inner Wheel Club, whose contribution she described as being tremendous towards the transformation of inmates into responsible citizens. The group also organised a new year dinner for the inmates at the cost of GH¢300.
The Public Relations Manager of the foundation, Mr Joshua Mamphey, who received the items on behalf of the center, expressed profound appreciation to the group for the gesture.
He expressed profound appreciation to the group for the consistency they have showed over the years towards the activities of the center which serves as a correctional facility for children rescued from the streets across various metropolises in the country.
He indicated the foundation which was incorporated as a charitable organisation in the country some 10years ago as a rehabilitation center for socially rejected people has over the years transformed more than none hundred thousand of persons considered as social miscreants into useful individuals.
He however regretted, although the foundation has been in the country over a decade, it has no permanent structure that houses inmates and appeal to corporate bodies and well meaning Ghanaians to extend a helping hand towards helping the foundation acquire a permanent facility.
Remar foundation is a Christian charitable organisation founded in 1982 in Spain by Miguel Biez, a philanthropist and a businessman to provide humanitarian assistance to the most needy, abandoned children as well as people orphaned by HIV and AIDs.
The foundation since its establishment apart from providing support for the above mentioned group of affected persons has over the year’s educated young people who miss out on education owing to poverty.
The foundation which currently has centers in over fifty three different countries worldwide has also been providing assistance to many prisoners across their country of operation.