From Inusa Musah
Crystal Ladies’ Association, Tema, has said that it will pool resources to assist in the provision of furniture and accommodation for the underprivileged children of the New Life Orphanage at Otinnor, Nungua.
The orphanage has one of its rooms for the children gutted, and following the dire need of accommodation and furniture to facilitate learning, the President of Crystal Ladies’ Association, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), Mrs Joyce Adu-Amaning, told The Chronicle that the NGO will be visiting the Home often to know their needs as it pools financial resources to help in the provision of their major needs.
Crystal Ladies’ Association was the guest of New Life Orphanage on Valentine’s Day, where the former donated assorted food items, toiletries and clothing valued at GH¢10,000 to the home. The ladies further shared meals and candies to the children, numbering about 79. The Crystal Ladies’ Association was formed in 2013 out of friendship, and their benevolence to the Nungua orphanage was its maiden gesture.
On a visit to the home, Mrs Adu-Amaning explained that the ladies realised that the children would need support in their education also, therefore, her outfit, whose main source of funding is from monthly dues and voluntary contributions and sponsorship from members, will cost the needs so that, as soon as possible, some interventions could commence.
In addition to promoting social, economical and spiritual cordial relations among its members, the association also has the fostering of friendship and the contribution of quota to support the underprivileged, and the creation of a better future, especially, for children, as its objectives. The ladies are of diverse careers, and considering their backgrounds, Mrs Joyce Adu-Amaning said her members will do their best to help the Nungua orphanage become a better home for the children.
She encouraged the children to be good behaviour and conduct, and take their studies more seriously as well. She said her outfit will pay another official visit to the orphanage in September this year, “because we want to support a good cause”.
Acknowledging the benevolence of his guests, Reverend Cephas Mensah Afotey, Proprietor of New Life Orphanage, explained that he founded the home in August 2000, after he had returned from Holland and realised that there were legions of underprivileged children in the community. He takes receipt of some of the children from the Department of Social Welfare though, he said, his home is a private orphanage.
Reverend Afotey, who is also the Chief of Otinnor, with the stool name Nii Afotey Botwe II, said he has a school from the basic to junior high for the underprivileged children. The school is open to other needy children in the community, he added. He was glad to say that nine of the students from his school, Jasper Educational School International, are presently in the second-cycle institution, while another nine are preparing to enter the tertiary institution.
He, therefore, was full of praise to Crystal Ladies’ Association for promising to help his outfit with furniture, accommodation and educational materials. Similarly, the Lord’s Pentecostal Church International (TLPCI), Spintex, organised a Valentine feast for its congregation. The feast was themed “Love, the Greatest”, and, according to Reverend John Nipah, Head Pastor of TLPCI, the theme was crafted from 1st Corinthians 13:13, where he said Christians have been charged by God to show true love to humankind.
He wondered why some Christians would attach promiscuity to the celebration of Valentine’s Day, instead of showing love, by sharing and spending time with loved ones and the needy in the community. The church, he said, is sponsoring the education of 200 needy and poor children from among the congregation and non-congregation in a temporary structure. He acknowledged Compassion International Ghana, an NGO, for supporting the TLPCI in the educational sponsorship it is giving needy and poor children in society.
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