NGO assists disabled girl at Denkyira Wawase

“Together We Can Make It”, a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), based at Gomoa Mpota has presented a wheel chair, clutches and learning materials to a seven year-old girl who has not been enrolled in school due to her immobility.

She was also given a school bag and uniforms, while her mother Madam Christiana Akotey received a sewing machine to enable her to work to raise income to take care of the girl.

Ekua Atta, fell ill during infancy and became paralysed after receiving an injection but her mother said she could not raise money as a single parent to procure wheel chair and clutches to enable the girl attend school.

Mr Lawart Afful, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the NGO who made the presentation at Denkyira Wawase in the Twifo Hemang Lower Denkyira District of the Central Region, said his outfit decided to assist the girl to enable her to attend school after it got wind of her plight.

He said it was sad that innocent disabled children were denied access to education due to their states and pointed out that every child had the right to education as enshrined in the 1992 Constitution.

The NGO has assisted some disabled people as well as the vulnerable in society, including the donation of 100 pieces of cloths to some needy children and adults at Gomoa Kwahu in the Gomoa West District as part of its social services to humanity.

A total of 200 assorted text books, exercise books and teaching materials have also been donated to children at Gomoa Akwamu as part of efforts to improve education delivery in the area.

Mr Afful said the organization had also sponsored a two and half year- old boy at the ‘Together We can Make It orphanage’ at Gomoa Mpota to undergo a hernia operation successfully at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital.

He appealed to the government to reduce the cost of import duties for goods and services for NGOs, to encourage some Ghanaians abroad who were eager to assist hospitals, needy people, and orphans to do so.

Government should also treat orphanages with exception so that orphans and the needy would be well catered for.

He commended Mrs. Cynthia Morrison, Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection for her generosity and compassion towards the five-year-old boy in Abura Dunkwa whose right hand was amputated due to maltreatment he suffered from his step mother.

The CEO appealed to the Gender Minister to visit his orphanage and offer some assistance to them and asked government to set up some monitoring and evaluation team to check the activities of NGOs.