Charity gets help

A USA-based philanthropist last Saturday, July 13, donated an amount of GH₵1,500 to Madam Charity Kissi to help her solve some of the numerous challenges she is currently facing, including the upkeep of her children.

This kind gesture by a man, who refused to be named, followed a publication in the June 20 edition of the Daily Graphic of the story of Madam Kissi who worked in the Omanjor stone quarry in order to take care of her four children all by herself.

It was followed by a subsequent publication on July 4, indicating the sad treatment being meted out to her by her husband and his family, how her church negatively reacted after the publication and how she was eventually driven out of the quarry and losing her job as a result.

The donation

A younger brother of the philanthropist, who is resident in Tamale, made the donation on his elder brother’s behalf as he had to travel all the way to Accra to fulfil his mission.

According to him, his brother was touched by the plight of Madam Kissi and immediately expressed interest in helping her.

“My brother saw the need to help Charity when he read in the story how she had tried to fry yam to take care of the children after she was sacked from the quarry but the lack of funds made her effort fruitless,” he said.

Madam Charity, who now resides with a relative after she was thrown out of her matrimonial home by her husband, was filled with tears of joy and expressed her gratitude to the brothers for coming to her aid and prayed for the blessings of God upon the family.

The donor, however, had the opportunity to talk to Madam Kissi on phone as his brother placed a call to him after the donation.
Also present were three of Madam Kissi’s children and the reporter who wrote this story.

Earlier support

Earlier on Friday, July 12, a former Member of Parliament (MP) and his wife met some management members of the Daily Graphic, together with Madam Kissi and her children as well as the reporter, to discuss productive ways in which they could offer the needed assistance to Madam Charity Kissi.

They pledged to pay the outstanding school fees of the children as well as provide her with the needed items and startup capital to revive her yam frying business.
The former MP and his wife, who also declined to be named, assured Madam Kissi of continuous assistance to her and her children especially.

Appeal for support

The Daily Graphic would however encourage anyone who would want to offer any form of support to Madam Charity Kissi and her four children to kindly contact their office for further details.

Background

Charity Kissi is a 39-year-old single mother and native of Mafi-Avedo in the Volta Region who lives at Omanjor and worked in a stone quarry nearby.

Abandoned by her husband with four children – two boys aged 15 and eight, and two girls aged 18 and three – and no education nor training in any handicraft, cracking stones sometimes in the scorching sun was a critical enterprise for survival.

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