Kabaka Foundation brings joy to two institutions and the underprivileged at Kwahu-Nkwatia

A charity-based organization, the Kabaka Foundation has brought joy to the hearts of widows, the aged and people living with disabilities (PWDs), inmates of the Bless the Child International Home and students of the Kwahu-Nkwatia D/A Basic School.

The interventions are part of the ongoing birthday celebrations of Opanyin Kwame Wadie, father of Nana Owiredu Wadie, Nkosuohene of Kwahu-Nkwatia in the Eastern Region.

Education on menstrual hygiene and presentation of sanitary pads and books

At the Kwahu-Nkwatia D/A Basic School, students including boys and girls were educated on menstrual hygiene ahead of this year's Menstrual Hygiene Day which falls on the 28th of May.

Executive Director of the Kabaka Foundation, Dr. Henry Larbi said education remains a priority of the Kabaka Foundation. Dr. Larbi explained that the gesture sought to address the challenges girls faced during their menstrual periods.

“We have adolescent girls who probably are in the stage where they menstruate and some of them find it difficult to even come to school where they’re in their menses and we at Kabaka Foundation would want to support them,” he said.

According to him, this wouldn’t be the end of the intervention as considerations were underway to undertake the intervention on a monthly basis.

Addressing the students, the education director for Kwahu-East, Mr. Andah Monney recalled the days when lgirls had no education or knowledge on menstruation and counted today’s girls lucky to benefit from such interventions and urged them to make the best out of what has been taught them.

Madam Constance Tawiah Asomani, Girl Child Coordinator for Kwahu East urged parents, siblings and friends to support girls during their menstrual periods as the phenomenon is not the responsibility of the girls alone but all their close associates.

At the school, Nana Owiredu Wadie I adopted four-year-old Ruth Asantewaa, a KG 1 needy pupil and has offered to fully sponsor her education to the highest level.

Donation to widows, aged and PWDs.

On the day, some 250 beneficiaries received assorted food items including crates of egg, rice, cooking oil and live fowls from the Foundation.

At a short presentation ceremony at the Freedom Hills Hotel, the Chairman of the Kabaka Foundation, Nana Owiredu Wadie assured the beneficiaries of his family's continued support for them.

According to him, the welfare of the groups was of paramount interest to him, adding that he'd continue to avail himself of them.

Mr. Kingsley Boateng, chairman of the Kwahu-Nkwatia PWDs speaking on behalf of the beneficiaries after the donation expressed their profound gratitude to the Nkosuohene and his family for the gesture.

The gesture, he said, is ample proof of the love Nana Owadie harbours towards PWDs, the aged, the widowed and the less privileged in society.

He was particularly grateful to the benefactor for gifting persons living with disability a plot of land in the community.

Mr. Boateng however appealed to kind-hearted individuals to help put up a workshop on the land where PWDs can undergo skills training to enhance their living conditions.

Presentation to Orphanage

Additionally, the Foundation presented assorted items to inmates of the Bless the Child International Home.

The home received assorted food items including bags of rice, gallons of cooking oil, cartoons of mineral water and toiletries for the 40 inmates of the orphanage.

A cash amount of GHC10,000 was also presented to the director of the facility to support the running of the orphanage.

Nana Owiredu Wadie after presenting the items to the director, assured the home of his continued support, adding that he would continue to do more to ensure that the needs of the inmates are fulfilled.

Despite the intervention from Kabaka Foundation, Rev. Jeremiah further appealed to the public for more financial support for the facility.

The Kabaka Foundation is a charity organization under the Kabaka Construction and Investments Limited owned by Nana Owiredu Wadie I, the Nkosuohene of Kwahu-Nkwatia.

The foundation has undertaken several charity programs in and out of the Kwahu area over the years.