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Ghana: Call Goes Out for Support for Orphanages


Accra Mail (Accra)
 

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Accra Mail (Accra)

21 August 2008
Posted to the web 21 August 2008

Lawrence Nortey

The Grace Mission Church has called on philanthropists to support orphanages across the country. The Mission Church, based in the United States of America has been in Ghana to lend support to some orphanages.

During their visit they donated toiletries, books and clothes to orphanages in the Northern Region. Madam Elizabeth Mireku Boye, a missionary at the church who led the delegation during noted that for any positive improvement in orphanages in the country to be made, individual philanthropists would have to contribute.

She said the battle to uplift the appalling standards of orphans within the orphanages can never be won if philanthropists do not offer their widows mite to the orphans.

Madam Elizabeth Mireku advised the youth in the Northern Region, especially young girls to be extra careful about teenage pregnancy and study hard to be responsible adults in future.

Speaking at the donation ceremony at Frus Academy in Accra, she encouraged the orphans to devote their time to their books in order to secure better jobs.

She urged them to offer help to their fellow brothers and sisters in the various orphanages when they become successful in the future in order to eradicate poverty or reduce it.

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She said reports should be sent to Ghanaians in the Diaspora to come down and support these orphanages.


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