Accra, Dec. 24, GNA - The Ghana National Canoe Fishermen Council has donated two million cedis and four basketful of smoked fish to the Osu Children's Home as part of its social obligation. A Nii Abeo Kyerekuandah IV, Executive Secretary of the Council led a delegation of Chief Fishermen to the Home to make the presentation, a statement he signed and released to the Ghana News Agency on Wednesday said.
The statement called on the rich in society to share what they have with the poor, especially children like those in the orphanages. He said such children found their way to such homes because they were either thrown away or abandoned by their parents, who were scared by the prospect of having to fend for them due to poverty.
He said that poverty should be tackled and addressed not only by the Government, but also by all since it could be a destabilising factor of the democratic dispensation.
"The fact must be stressed that the rich in society have a crucial role to play in this arduous task of poverty eradication and if they decided to throw their full weight behind the Government, simply as patriotic citizens of Ghana, irrespective of political, religious, ethnic and other affiliations and go the whole hog, Ghana would surely see a new and better social order emerging in no time".
