Akrobi community gets new orphanage

Akrobi (B/A), March 28, GNA - A GH¢ 10,000 Rescue Home and Orphanage containing five bedrooms and a hall is being constructed at Akrobi in Wenchi Municipality of the Brong-Ahafo Region by eight philanthropists from the Wenchi Municipality. The Manager of the Home is Pastor Joseph Nsowah, in-charge of Apostles Continuation Church, Wenchi and Mr. B. C. Kwasi Botwe, Founder and Administrator, Wenchi Methodist Hospital. The other philanthropists are Mr. Charles Afriyie, businessman, Mr. Isaac Kwasi Adabanka, a teacher and Mr. Kwadwo Gyimadu, a businessman.

The rest are Mr. Abdul Wahab Yaroba, Coordinator Wenchi Municipal Red Cross Society, Mr. George Ampah, a farmer and Pastor Kervin Owusu, in-charge of Mountain Movers Church, Wenchi. The Management of the Home organized a fund raising rally and mobilized about GH¢ 260 to support the building project which had reached the lintel stage. Speaking at the function, Kwasi Botwe, one of the philanthropists stated that the best antidote to the solution of armed robbery cases, crime wave and other social vices facing the state was for the leaders to solve the challenges facing street children as they grow to become criminals and liabilities in the communities. Mr. Botwe expressed regret about how some orphans were neglected by their families and later found them in the streets. He noted that such persons later joined bad companies and peers to engage themselves in all sorts of social vices at the expense of the state.

He therefore stressed the need for the leaders of the state to consider the plight of orphans and the needy children in the streets and arrange the necessary programmes towards their welfare and rehabilitation to prevent them from going wayward in the communities.

Mr. Botwe also appealed to Non- Governmental Organisations(NGOs) as well as other spirited individuals in the Wenchi Municipality to offer their widow's mite towards the Rescue Home and Orphanage project so that a number of orphans from the communities could be accommodated. Pastor Joseph Nsowaah, Founder of the Home disclosed that for the past two years they have been able to adopt 17 orphans and that they were currently in his mission house which is serving as a temporary facility for them.

The Pastor commended some individuals from the Wenchi, who occasionally donate second hand cloths and footwear towards the up-keep of the children and pleaded for more support from other people and organizations.

He appealed to other religious leaders and churches at Wenchi to organize their members to set up some special funds to support the Home as the church is a stakeholder in the nation's development. He thanked the chief of Akrobi, Nana Aborokwaa Adomako Ababio for allocating a two and half acre plot for the Orphanage building project. Nana Kusi Oboadum, Chief Linquist of Nana Aborokwaa Adomako Ababio, who represented the traditional rulers of the area called on all the people of Wenchi to provide the necessary support towards the successful execution of the orphanage project.

Mrs. Vida Achempomaa Boateng, a business woman at Wenchi who is in-charge of the VIDABEX Enterprise at the place donated some second hand clothings worth about GH Cedis 50 to the inmates.