MP donates to Orphanage

Mrs Rachel Adjoa Apoh, Member of Parliament (MP) for Gomoa Central, has donated food items to the inmates of the Mothercare Orphanage Home, at Jacob Village, near Agona Swedru.

The items include five bags of rice, toilet rolls, plastic buckets, bowels, trays, 20 mosquito nets, boxes of matches, plastics cups, sleeping mats and cartons of soft drinks.

She did not disclose the cost of the items.

Speaking, after presentation, Mrs Apoh asked the people in higher positions and well-to-do to donate to motherless and fatherless in the society for their up-keep.

She said the inmates through no faults of theirs have become orphans and have found themselves in the orphanage homes.

They therefore need the support of the society to live, she said.

The MP was accompanied by Mr Moses Jehu-Appiah, Gomoa East District Chief Executive and other party executives.

Mrs Apoh urged the orphans not be disturbed and discouraged with their situation, but should strive hard to succeed in life.

The MP announced the adoption of the six-week old baby girl who was abandoned in a gutter at Agona Asafo and was sent to Mother Care Orphanage Home by the Police.

Mrs Apoh said she would approach the Department of Social Welfare for the necessary procedure for the adoption of the child who has done nothing to deserve her present situation.

She called on the inmates to study hard, adding that education is the panacea to poverty reduction.

Nana Obeng-Enyan the first, Director of Mother Care Orphanage Home thanked the MP for her kind gesture and asked corporate bodies and other Ghanaians to come to the aid of the Home.

Nana Obeng-Enyan who is also Asomkwahene of Gomoa Ajumako Traditional Area attributed streets children to the broken homes.

She asked marriage couples to desist from acts that could lead to the divorce, adding that after break up it is the children that suffer.

Nana Obeng-Enyan who is also Adontenhene of Gomoa Benso asked teenage girls to concentrate on their education and avoid anything that could ruin their future.