KBK Foundation fetes 'Kayayei'

KBK Foundation, a humanitarian foundation, last Friday treated over 1,000 kayayes to chocolate, meals and drinks amid funfair to mark the Valentine’s Day.

As part of the street party in Accra, some of the kayayes were given cash donation ranging from GH¢100 to GH¢500.

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Foundation, Mr Kwasi Yeboah Owiredu Wadie, said the rationale behind the gesture was to offer everyone love, hence the decision to show love to the ‘rejected’.

He said such deprived members of the society must always be supported so they would not feel dejected, but strive to realise their potential.

He made an appeal to corporate entities, philanthropic individuals, and churches to offer a hand of help to the young ladies to meet their needs and also ameliorate the problems they go through.

Appeal

One of the beneficiaries, Ms Patience Tampuri, appealed to the public to support her to enrol in a Nursing Training College to realise her long-held dream to be a nurse.

Ms Tampuri said she completed the Bole Senior High School in 2013 and had good grades but had to come down south to do kayayei because her parents were unable to afford the cost of her tertiary education.

Ms Tampuri, who hails from Daboya in the North Gonja District of the Savannah Region, told reporters that her wish was to leave the street and go back to school.

She said she went back home some two years ago to see if her parents could raise money to take her to school but that did not materialise and she had to come back.

“I have not given birth, I am still young, I am only 22 years old, I just want to go to the Nursing College, should I get help today, I would leave the street,” she said.