NGO donate 200 lenses to Kanfehiyili residents

Kanfehiyili (NR), March 18, GNA- Global Mission for the Needy, a Tamale based non-governmental organisation (NGO), has donated 200 visual lenses, valued at about 80 million cedis to individuals with sight problems at Kanfehiyili, a farming community in the Tolon/Kumbungu District in the Northern Region. The NGO also donated 57 lenses valued at 22.8 million cedis to selected health centres in the region for distribution to people with sight defects. Ms. Veronica Zenabu Salifu, Executive Director of the NGO, presented the lenses to the beneficiaries at Kanfehiyili at the weekend. She said the NGO was committed to ensuring the welfare of needy people hence the efforts at restoring the sight of people with eye problems. Ms Salifu said the NGO was mainly advocating issues regarding human rights, gender, safe sex and HIV/AIDS in the region. She said the NGO had adopted holistic approach to eliminate deprivation, marginalisation and hunger by providing the people with micro-credit facilities to improve their living conditions. Ms Salifu appealed to the people to apply dialogue in settling differences instead of resorting to violence and conflicts, which were hampering development in the region. Mr. Wahab Suhiyini Wumbei, District Chief Executive for Tolon/Kumbungu, said the district was collaborating with other NGOs to embark on a programme to withdraw all children of school going age and 'Kayayee' from the streets and equip them with the necessary skills to enable them to earn decent living. He advised the people to register with the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to enable them to get access to health care delivery. Alhaji Imoro Yakubu, Member of Parliament for the Kumbungu Constituency, appealed to parents to be more committed to children's education. He also advised parents to prevent their children from migrating to the urban centers for non-extent jobs and warned that they stood the risk of contracting the HIV/AIDS disease. Alhaji Yakubu also appealed to the people of Dagbon to embrace peace to enhance the region's development.