Children from SOS village make it to the University

Asiakwa (E/R), Oct. 29, GNA - The Director of Asiakwa SOS Village, Mr. Josiah B. Nartey said some of the children who started the village over ten years ago, are now in the medical school and various universities in the country.

He said the village receives abandoned children, orphans and children from destitute and explained that, once the children enter the village, they shed away their past because they were admitted into homes in the village each with a mother and a father.

Mr. Nartey was speaking when the members of the Guild of Good Shepherd of the Koforidua Diocese of the Anglican Church visited the Asiakwa SOS Children's Village on Saturday. As part of the visit, the members of the Guild presented items worth over ten million cedis with a cash of five hundred thousand cedis. The goods presented include fruits, bags of rice, loaves of bread, cartons of carbolic soap and milk and ten big bags of secondhand cloths.

He said the village has a basic school up to the Junior Secondary School (JSS) level and after that the children were allowed to go to public second cycle schools to learn how to live with others outside the SOS Village.

Mr. Nartey said when the children attain 16 years and above, they were sent to live at youth homes which are headed by a married man and wife for them to learn how to live in a family. He said later, the youth are made to live as semi-independent individuals and later as completely independent individuals. Presenting the items, the Diocesan Master Shepherd, Mrs Doris Asentewaa Hammond said it had been the dream of the guild to always visit the village but had been obstructed by other things and thanked God for making it possible for them this time round to be able to be at the home.

On behalf of the Guild, she expressed her appreciation to all those who had made it possible for the idea of the SOS Village to come into being to provide such opportunity for children who otherwise would be destroyed. 29 Oct. 06