World Vision provides start-up kids to care givers

World Vision Ghana, has provided start-up kits to newly trained women in soap and bread making to ensure that caregivers of orphans and the vulnerable within the Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolis are economically independent.

Mrs Gladys Tetteh-Yeboah, Programme Manager in charge of the “Strengthening Community Care and Support for Orphans and Vulnerable Children” (SCASO) told Ghana News Agency that the project seeks to increase the protection and provision of comprehensive development and integrated service to orphans, persons living with HIV and AIDS as well as chronically ill children.

The SCASO project is being implemented by World Vision with funding from the United States Agency for International Development.

Mrs Tetteh-Yeboah added that about 40 households have been identified for support under the project.

Alhaji Ishaq Asuru, Metropolitan Coordinating Director of Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly thanked World Vision for the training and entreated the beneficiaries to stay united in order to grow the business skills acquired.

He said the intervention to take care of the unfortunate ones in the society would go a long way to ensure that social vices are curtailed.