NGO Fetes Countryside Orphanage

The Global Orphanage Ministry a non-governmental organization (NGO) based in Accra last weekend joined members of the Countryside Orphanage Home in Bawjiaese in the Central Region to celebrate and welcome the New Year.
The group led by the Chairman, Nana Appiagyei Danka-Wosu (1), Omanhene’s linguist in the Dwaben traditional area provided the children with drinks, food as well as good music to mark the beginning of the New Year.
The NGO which was registered barely a year ago according to Nana Appiagyei, has already began donating some items to needy people in the country through the aid of sponsorship with the Countryside Orphanage Home being the first orphanage home to be visited.
He mentioned that the group’s main aim of visiting the home was to share some time with children who have been neglect and as a results have been left out of on important occasions such as the New Year’s celebration.
As side these, he said they are willing to support the children in their spiritual life, social, moral as well as their educational life to enable them become responsible members in the society.
On her part, the president of the NGO, Mrs. Dabanka Bekoe explained that the group initiative has been motivated according to the desire of God and therefore advised them to put their trust only in God.
Notwithstanding, she said the group would also adopt some of the children to cater for their educational needs.
In addressing the gathering at the celebration, Mr. Ernest Osei-Owusu the administrator said that the orphanage home first began with about twelve needy children with whom Madam Emma Boafo Yeboah, the founder first lived with as a caretaker in the house of an American couple in Winneba.
He narrated that these children later became her sole responsibility after the couple had gone on retirement and she had to abandon her school.
But during the 1983 drought, he added, the founder had to migrate to their current location in order to survive from the severe hunger.
By 1996, Osei-Owusu continued, they had managed to complete part of the building to secure them permit by the Social Welfare Department in recognition as voluntary organization rendering service to the needy.
Presently, he said, the Orphanage home with 18 rooms and 12 mothers has about 110 children to its credit of which the ages of children there ranges from less than a year old babies to 20 years and above.
According to the administrator, though the home has been in existence for a very long time, they hardly receive donations or recognitions from NGO’s and other charitable organizations.
In view of this, he stated, the management team resulted in farming activities such as rearing of pigs, goats, poultry, cattle, and tilapia together with crops such as maize, cassava, yam, plantain among others on their 28 hectares of land to feed the children when they are financially limited.
In addition to this, the administrator disclosed that a school has been provided for them which begins from kindergarten up to the Junior High School form three and support the students to further their education after completion.
Currently, the administration revealed, the Home has about 7 students pending admission to the country’s universities.
He has however called on all charitable organization to come to their aid in order to provide a better future for the needy children in the area of finance, accommodation for staff members, educational materials, as well as farming equipment.