NGO fêtes more than 500 children at Kokrobite

Fruitful Warriors Foundation, a Non-profit Organisation, has feted more than 500 children at the Kokrobite Township and its environs.

The NGO is dedicated to the improvement of livelihood of underprivileged children, hence its decision to put smiles on the faces of children at Krokrobite.

The town is a fishing community in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region, which faces numerous socio-economic challenges like poor living standards and sanitation, unemployment, and teenage pregnancy.

The feast, organised with support from Promasidor Ghana Limited, a food manufacturing company, saw children from Kokrobite, Bortianor, Oshiyie and nearby communities make merry as they enjoyed their food, biscuits and assorted drinks.

Mr Thomas Addo, a Director of the NGO, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, said festive periods like Christmas were ideal occasions to show love and share with the less privileged in society.

He said even though the yuletide normally brought about merry making, some underprivileged children could hardly distinguish between an ordinary lifestyle and the euphoria of festive occasions.

The Foundation, therefore, had for the past five years fed a limited number of children in the community due to resource constraints, however with support from some corporate organisations, it was able to widen the scope to reach more children this year.

He said as part of efforts to ensure they had better health care and reduced financial burden on parents, the NGO had registered 50 children in the community onto the National Health Insurance Scheme.

While appealing to the corporate world for support, Mr Addo gave the assurance that the Foundation would continuously support the children and ensure a better living condition.

It has put in place measures to provide skills training in catering, masonry, and shoe making, among other trades, to develop their talent and provide them the opportunity to earn a living.

Mr Addo appealed to parents, opinion leaders and traditional authorities in the communities to prioritise the welfare of the children to curb the social vices and facilitate development.

Mr Andrews Nii Okaijah Aryeetey, the Asafoatse of Kokrobite, who graced the occasion, said the traditional authorities were working assiduously to ensure social vices such as smoking, premarital sex, child labour and abuse, were reduced to their barest minimum, if not totally eradicated.

He appealed to government, investors and corporate organisations to consider establishing companies in the area to provide employment for the youth.