MEMBERS of the Ghana Institute of Freight Forwarders (GIFF) Ladies Club have donated food items and toiletries costing GH¢1,500 to inmates of Christ Faith Foster Home located in Frafraha, as part of their 10th anniversary celebrations.
Ms Regina Badu, the President of the group, said the donation of the items, which included two cartons of frozen fish, 10 bags of rice, five cartons of Key Soap, six gallons of vegetable cooking oil, cartons of milk, bags of sachet water and canned tomatoes, was part of their social responsibility programme aimed at reaching out to institutions that are striving to improve the lives of the less privileged.
Ms Badu stated that running a home in our part of the world could be a tiresome mission, hence, the need for individuals and corporate bodies to support institutions and persons that were striving to transform the life of future leaders who are underprivileged.
‘For us as a body made up of women, who understand nurturing and mentoring, we deem it necessary to provide sustainable means by reaching out to the disadvantaged’, she noted.
Ms Badu stated that the club’s decision to reach out to the orphanage was informed by the fact that it was set in the rural area.
She, therefore, commended managers of the home for the relentless efforts they were making to ensure that the orphans become responsible citizens.
The club has also promised to support the home twice a year for the next five years to care for and educate the orphans.
Sometime ago, the club donated a number of bedsheets, pillows and their cases to the maternity ward of the Tema General Hospital.
The Assistant Supervisor of the home, Madam Henrietta Asare-Agyemang, who received the items on behalf of the home, expressed profound appreciation to the group for the gesture.
She indicated that the home, established in 1972 by a German missionary and his Ghanaian counterparts, depended on the benevolence of individuals, groups and corporate societies to cater for the orphans whose ages range between 5-23 years.
The home, apart from providing care and support for orphans, has contributed massively towards educating young people who missed formal education as a result of extreme poverty, as well as orphans.
Madam Agyemang, who was so touched by the benevolence of the group, prayed for God’s blessings for the donors, noting that although many people had pledged their willingness to support the home, few people and organisations have lived up to the task.
She appealed for logistic support from the Ghana Education Service and other institutions to improve teaching and learning at the home.
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