Apostle Dr. George Amoako Alhassan (4th right) presenting an envelope to the director of the orphanage
Fire Trinity Ministry International (FTMI), in partnership with George Amoako Alhassan Foundation (GAAF), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), have brought smiles to the inmates of the Beads of Life Orphanage at New Koforidua in the Ejisu-Juaben Municipality of the Ashanti Region.
The gesture forms part of the church’s social responsibility to climax its annual 40 days fasting and prayer festival, and also to mark the first anniversary celebration of the organisation. It is also to reduce the woes of the vulnerable inmates at the orphanage.
Assorted items worth GH¢25,000 were donated to the inmates. Among the donated items were bags of rice, bags of sugar, gallons of cooking oil, toiletries, biscuits, toffees and pastries.
Others included boxes of soap, detergents, used clothes, educational materials, foot wears, loaves of bread, as well as an undisclosed amount of cash.
Presenting the items to the home, General Overseer of the church, Apostle Dr. George Amoako Alhassan, who doubles as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of GAAF, said the donation was the eleventh in a series made to the inmates of the home.
According to the clergyman, he was inspired by the biblical injunction to care for the poor and vulnerable in society, while pledging the church’s and the organisation’s continuous support for the children.
He urged other religious bodies, corporate organisations and philanthropists to support orphanages. “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world,” he said, referencing the book of James 1:27.
Receiving the items, the director of the orphanage, Doris Agyemang, commended the church and GAAF for their love, and promised to use the items judiciously for the benefit of the children.
He also appealed to well-meaning individuals and organisations to emulate the kind gesture of the church and the organisation.
FROM David Afum, Kumasi