Church assists inmates at charity home with items

Boadi, (Ash), Jan 12, GNA - The Chosen Generation Ministry, a church in Kumasi, on Sunday donated items valued at four million cedis and 500,000 cedis cash to the Boadi King Jesus Charity Home. The items consist of two bales of second-hand clothes, two sacks of assorted sandals, one bag of rice, a carton of bar soap, one gallon of edible oil and half a bag of sugar.

The Rev. Stephen Bright Antwi, the General Overseer of the Ministry, presented the items to the Home and said the Ministry's decision to donate the items to the Home stems from the fact that the Home is one of the orphanages in the region that has benefited less from public assistance.

Rev. Antwi said the Ministry had plans to provide infrastructure and reading and learning materials to the Home.

Rev. Kofi Owusu-Afriyie, Founder of the Home, thanked the Church for the gift and said since he founded the Home in 1995, he had to single-handedly bear the cost of feeding and education of the children. He said out of the 126 children at the Home, 18 of them are attending Junior Secondary Schools, four of them, Senior Secondary Schools and 12 are pursuing vocational training courses, while the remaining are enrolled in the primary school.

Rev Owusu-Afriyie said apart from the primary school which belonged to the Home and on the compound, all the other children attending JSS, SSS and vocational school have to do so in public schools outside the Home with the fees borne by the Home.