Fellowship supports Schooven Village cured lepers

The Men’s Fellowship of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church has presented a large consignment of assorted food, drinkables and secondhand clothing to cured lepers at the Schooven Village in Ho.

The food items comprised five bags each of beans, rice, gari, 15 crates of soft drinks, five cartons of key soap, five cartons of fish, five cartons of chicken and sugar. 

Making the presentation, the national President of the Men’s Fellowship, Mr Charles Gunu, said the fellowship had identified special groups who deserved more love and compassion during the Christmas season, and that the inmates of the cured lepers home were one of the groups.

He promised that the gesture would be extended to them every year and asked them to remain steadfast in the Lord and not to lose hope in life.

The Director of the Cured Lepers Foundation, Mrs Joycelyn Akorfa Ochlich-Dotse, was grateful to the fellowship for the gesture.

According to her, the Schooven Village had the largest concentration of cured lepers than any other leprosarium in the country, and, thus, needed more attention.

She said there were 60 inmates and their 74 dependants, some of whom needed help to acquire basic tools to enable them to carry on with their trade.