'Tell It Moms' support Orthopaedic Centre

A United Kingdom Based Women's Empowerment Group, 'Tell It Moms' has presented an amount of 1,500.00 pounds to the Nsawam Orthopaedic Training Centre (OTC) to enable Management to purchase five prosthetic legs to fix for four children at the Centre.

The donation was in response to an appeal by Crime Check Foundation (CCF), a Prison Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), for support for the children with disability, who had been neglected by their parents at the Centre.

Mr Ibrahim Oppong Kwarteng, the Executive Director of CCF, told the Ghana News Agency that the plight of those children moved most Ghanaians, after the NGO shared a story about the large number of neglected children, who suffered from one form of disability or the other.

He said the story also revealed how some of the children had been stigmatised by their parents, who had sworn to have nothing to do with them because of their disability.

Madam Barbie Nubi, Co-founder of the Group, said: "We are devastated by the news".

“It is not the fault of the children to carry disability. Rather than shun them, these innocent children deserve love, care and attention.”

Madam Nubi said the Group would continue to support the poor, voiceless and the vulnerable in many communities across the country.

"We will continue to support these children at the Centre," she added.

Madam Nubi urged parents with children with disability to do away with the misconceptions associated with such children and show them more love and care to improve their wellbeing.