Have hope in physically challenged children; Parents told

Mr Peter Yankey President of the St Vincent De Paul Society of the Holy Spirit Cathedral, in Accra, has urged parents not to lose hope in their children with disabilities.

He said children are dear to God and parents faced with kids with challenges must show greater love, compassion, kindness and gentleness as Christ portrayed on earth.

Mr Yankey, who was speaking at a special mass organised by the society for persons with disabilities at the parish said the aim of the Society “is to attend to the poor, the needy, the sick and the disabled.

The mass which was established by the Society, a charitable organisation of the Catholic Church as an annual ritual had in attendance students and staff from Akropong School for the blind, Tetteh-Ocloo State School for the Deaf, Accra Rehabilitation Centre, The Three Kings Special School, Dzorwulu Special School, Mampong Technical School for the Deaf and members of staff and patients from the Accra Psychiatric Hospital.

Speaking on the achievements of the Society, Mr Yankey said members have supported hundreds of needy individuals with monthly stipends for their upkeep, paid the medical bills for sick people and provides mental patients of the children’s ward of the Accra Psychiatric hospital with hot meals on regular basis.

In a sermon, Reverend Father Patrick Agbeko, Associate Parish Priest asked Christians to sacrifice and give out to their neighbours who are in need.

Rev Fr Agbeko said, a Christian must be the first to give, feel comfortable with what he gives out, look at the bigger picture and imagine how the gift would change someone’s life.