The Executive Director of the Share Love Network, Ivy Odey Aryeetey says if Ghana is to reduce the rate of infection of the COVID-19, there must be strict adherence to all the health and safety protocols that have been put in place by the Ministry of Health.
These include ensuring adequate social distancing in public space, washing of hands regularly with soap under running water or use of alcohol based sanitisers along with the wearing of appropriate face masks.
Miss Aryeetey said when this is done, Ghana’s recoveries and discharges would continue to increase while the new cases would be drastically reduced.
She was speaking to GBC when she along with her team of volunteers donated items worth hundreds of cedis to residents in Buli in the Wa West District of the Upper West Region. The items included used clothing, mosquito nets, shoes, food products and some sanitary materials.
Miss Aryeetey said the exercise was necessitated because of the hardship that had become evident in several communities in rural Ghana because of the COVID-19. She also indicated that Buli was selected as result of the huge number of vulnerable people including the aged residents in the community.
Share Love Network is a small non-profit organisation which focuses on providing basic household materials to selected communities and persons. The organisation is funded through the benevolence of other individuals.
Ivy Odey Aryeetey, Executive Director, said “it is critical that “in tough times like these, well-meaning persons and organisation provide basic food materials and clothing to vulnerable persons because the income generation activities of some of these people have been cut off. They therefore have no one to look out for them, that is where organisations like ours come in.”
She added, “we continue to accept donations from individuals and organisations for onward distribution to other communities we have selected that need help.”
Story filed by Mark Smith.
