Global Women's group donates to Nsawam Prison

The Accra Presbytery Women Ministry of the Global Evangelical Church has presented items worth GH?8,000.00 to the Women’s Wing of the Nsawam Medium Security Prison.

The items included bags of rice, maize, gari, beans, gallons of cooking oil, sanitary products, yam, fish, used clothing and baby wears for a pregnant inmate.

Presenting the items Mrs. Euphemia Gifty Agbavitor, the Presbytery Leader, said members were touched by the plight of their compatriots who had found themselves at the other side of the law.

She said as Christian women, the Bible enjoined them to care for the needy, the less privileged and especially those in the prison.

Assistant Superintendent of Prison (ASP) Judith Okyere who received the items thanked the group for their show of love to the inmates.

“Apart from the physical food, we very much appreciate the spiritual one which goes a very long way to reform them. If they are not reformed at the end of the day, they will return to the society to commit same crimes or even worse ones,” she said.

Rev. Edith Adoblosu-Kuhlor, National Coordinator of the Women Ministry of the Global Evangelical Church, in a brief church service encouraged the inmates not to give up on life but to keep their dreams and aspirations high.

She recalled the story of Joseph who was imprisoned for no crime committed, forgotten by men in prison but in God’s own time, he remembered him and promoted him.

“Just as Joseph was promoted from a prisoner to become a prime minister, so shall your story be in Jesus’name if only you believe,” Rev Adoblosu-Kuhlor said.

Special prayers were said for the prison officers and inmates, some of whom readily accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour.