From: Mabel Daniels-Awutu Bawjiase
The founders of the Countryside Orphanage Home at Awutu Bawjiase in the Central Region, Capt. [Rtd.] Joseph Yeboah and Mrs. Emma Boafo Yeboah have appealed to the government to as a matter of urgency help send nine disabled children in the Home to Special Homes.
According to them, the nine are suffering from physical disability in the limbs and inability to hear or speak.
They made the appeal when Obotantim Kuo-a community welfare and development Association based at Kingstown, a suburb of Ngleshie Amanfrom near Kasoa in the Central Region visited the Home and donated some assorted items to the inmates.
Briefing the Association on the state of affairs at the Home, Mrs. Boafo Yeboah hinted that already one of such children who is suffering from mental problems had been sent to the Ankafo Psychiatric Hospital in Cape Coast.
According to her, these children had developed such conditions as a result of the state of conditions in which they were dumped.
She hinted that workers at the Home find it difficult in dealing with these physically and mentally challenged children because of lack of such an expertise.
However, revealed that six of the inmates of the Home had gained admission to various polytechnics in the country, with one at the Ghana Telecom University in Accra whiles eight are in Senior Secondary Schools and the rest in Basic Schools.
With a population of over one hundred children, the Home faces a lot of challenges including invasion by thieves on regular bases, and as such Mrs. Boafo Yeboah has made a passionate appeal to individuals and organizations to come to its aid by assisting it to wall the Home.
The Association, led by its founder and president Mrs. Mercy Ofori Manu and Patron Mr. Frank Ofori Manu later donated second-hand clothes, shoes assorted soaps, 3 bags of 5 kilogram rice, 5 tins of gari, baby diapers, sugar, 8 gallons of edible oil, baby foods, 3 boxes of fruit juice, 3 packs of toilet roll, packets of de-wormer all valued at GH 15,000.00 Cedis and a cash of GH 100.00 Cedis.
In a related development, National Service Personnel of Cal Bank also donated some items to the Home.
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