A Japanese charitable organisation visits Ghana

A 13-member delegation of the Global Rainbow Ship, a charitable organisation from Japan, paid a courtesy call on Vice-President, Mr K.N. Arkaah, in Accra. The team, made up of industrialists, builders, actors, a Member of Parliament & Musicians, have been in the country for one week trying to identify areas where the group can be of assistance to the country. Receiving the delegation, the Vice-President urged the group to team up with some Ghanaian companies to establishg commercial enterprises in the country. Ghana, he said now needed the type of assistance that would help it to develop.

"We want the sort of assistance that, for instance, can help us grow more food to feed our people or machinery for our industries", he said. "Such assistance", he said, "must put us in a position where we can help ourselves to make life worth living". Mr. Arkaah expressed the government's appreciation for donations the organisation had made to various establishments.

Responding, Mr. Takeshie Gomi, leader of the delegation, said the Global Rainbow Ship aimed at saving people from famine by providing food and medicine to the wounded and refugees. He said since their arrival in Ghana, the team had made donations made donations of food, medicines and cash to Liberian refugees at Budumburam, the Cape Coast Hospital and the 31st December Women's Movement. The group, he said, had assisted over 20 countries worldwide.