Ladies For Power, a youth wing of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Greater Accra Region, has donated food items worth GH¢8,000 to Porter’s Village, an orphanage at Dodowa in the Shai Osudoku Constituency and Orphans Aid Africa.
The items included toilet rolls, used clothes, cartons of soap, pampers, bags of rice, assorted soft drinks and bottled water, among others.
Presenting the items, president of the Ladies for Power, Maame Serwaa Adjei, noted that due to the current harsh economic conditions in the country, most philanthropists and other well-to-do Ghanaians were not donating to needy people in society, hence the need for them to support inmates of the orphanages.
Maame Serwaa assured the inmates and the Founder of the orphanage that the economic situation would improve if Ghanaians vote the NPP into power, adding that NPP government was poised to improve the lives of Ghanaian children.
The NPP parliamentary candidate for Shai Osudoku, Stephen Nene Oyortey, appealed to the children to pray for NPP to wrestle power from National Democratic Congress (NDC) come 2016 since Ghanaians were yearning for change.
Founder and President of Porter’s Village, Dr. Jane Irina Adu, commended them for their kind gesture and promised to use the items judiciously.
The home has 127 inmates, the youngest among them aged seven months was brought to the village from the street by Good Samaritan, Dr Adu said.
She added that the orphanage was facing serious financial challenges.
“The children are leaving in a rented house with GH¢3,600 as rent advance being paid every year, but we have three acres of land for the construction of classroom, assembly hall, dormitories, modern kitchen for them,” she added.
She called on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), corporate bodies and churches to come to their aid.
From Sarah Afful, Cape Coast