By: Michael Kofi Kenetey
As part of climaxing this year’s Farmers Day, the Eastern Regional Coordinating Council, RCC in collaboration with the Eastern Regional Agriculture Directorate has donated foodstuffs and an amount of four thousand cedis to the Akwadum Christian Village Orphanage Home in the New Juaben North Municipal Assembly of the Eastern Region.
The foodstuffs include bunches of plantain, tubers of yam, basket of tomatoes and garden eggs, coconuts, bag of rice and cooking oil, crate of eggs, among others.
In an interview with GBC Sunrise FM, the Eastern Regional Agriculture Director, Henry Crentsil noted that for the past five years it has become their routine activity that after the celebration of the Farmers Day, they gather the foodstuffs received during the celebration and donates it to an orphanage home.
Mr. Crentsil stated that, because of that reason they decided to visit the Akwadum Christian Village Orphanage Home to donate the foodstuffs they received during this year’s Farmer Day celebration to the Akwadum Christian Village.
The Caregiver and Assistant Mother of the Akwadum Christian Village Orphanage Home, Janet Amankwah expressed her gratitude to the Eastern Regional Coordinating Council and the Eastern Regional Agriculture Directorate for the gesture.
Madam Amankwah appealed to well to do Ghanaians home and abroad, Philanthropists and organizations to emulate the gesture.
The Eastern Regional Crops Officer and Officer in charge of Women in Agriculture Development, WIAD in the Eastern Region, Hajia Habiba Yusufu advised the children to pray without ceasing as prayer answers everything and it is prayer that will draw benevolent organizations to always come to their aid.
The Akwadum Christian Village Orphanage Home is located on the Koforidua-Suhum road in the New Juaben North Municipality of the Eastern region of Ghana.
The home was established by the late Rev. Elizabeth Osei, a retired nurse with the aim of taking care of the orphans and the destitute in remote areas in the region. Currently, the home has about thirty-eight children under their care.
There is also a school to cater for the educational needs of the children. Funding of the home is mainly by fund raised by the late Rev. Elizabeth Osei with occasional donations in cash and kind from churches, institutions and organizations in the region.
The orphanage requests for sponsorship on behalf of the home to help meet the increasing high cost of running the home.
The orphanage counts on everyone’s assistance in their mutual bid to support the worthy course whilst helping the destitute in society.
