SOS initiates programme for underprivileged children
The SOS Children’s Villages, Ghana has initiated a ‘Family Strengthening Programme’ to care for less privileged children within the communities they operate in.
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The Programme Director of the Tema SOS village, Mrs Rosemond Boamah, said this at a party organised for the children of the home by T.T. Brothers Company Limited on New Year's Day.
Under the programme, she said, needy children would be identified within the various communities and be supported.
At the party, children were served with meals and entertained with music by Akosua Agyepong and the Tagoe Sisters.
The company and its foreign partners, South West Distillers, Parmalat South Africa and Britvic International, also presented a variety of items worth GH¢18,000 to the foster home.
Items
The items included 30 bags of rice, five cartons of cooking oil,15 cartons of Sunripe Juice and 15 cartons of soft drinks.
The items were presented on behalf of the company and its partners by the board chairman, Mr D.D. Ofoe.
In a speech read on his behalf, the Managing Director of the company, Mr Isaac Tetteh, said "this season is a time for renewing commitments and above all, sharing with one another and this is the main reason why we thought it necessary to come and celebrate with you.”
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Appeal
The Tema Village Director of SOS, Mr Isaac Kojo Ackon, thanked the company for organising parties and donating to the village twice a year for 13 consecutive years.
He said the Tema home presently had 129 children under its care and appealed to other corporate institutions to come to its aid.
Mr Ackon appealed to individuals and institutions to provide mentorship for the children by striking acquaintances with them and making them feel as members of a family.