Mr. Opoku Mensah, the Ashanti Regional NSS Director, presenting the bags of maize to the Mampong Babies Home
THE NATIONAL Service Secretariat (NSS) in the Ashanti Region has presented quantities of bags of maize harvested from NSS farm to the Mampong Babies Home to help in the proper upkeep of the children.
The NSS has been able to harvest over 70,000 bags of maize from the NSS farm project at Ejura in the Ashanti Region. Management of NSS therefore decided to donate some of the maize to the orphans.
Making the presentation during a colourful ceremony, Mr. Opoku Mensah, the Ashanti Regional Director of the NSS, said it is the duty of all and sundry to support government to take good care of orphans in the country.
In this regard, he stated emphatically that the NSS, especially in the Ashanti Region, had vowed to always assist in their own way to help better the lives of children in orphanages to make them live comfortably.
He also announced that the Ashanti Regional Secretariat of the NSS had also donated about 20 bags of maize to the Ejura Traditional Council as a way of showing its appreciation to the chiefs for their support.
According to him, the Ejura Traditional Council, led by Barimma Osei Hwidie, the Ejurahene, willingly released a huge track of land for the NSS to start the maize farm project “and we need to show appreciation”.
Mr. Mensah, whose tenure as regional director has led to massive improvement at the NSS, said the NSS farm project had become overly successful, stressing that the future of the farm project looked very bright.
He said the harvest from the farm would also be used to support government flagship programmes such as the free SHS and the School Feeding programmes, saying “the NSS does not exist to only post students”.
According to him, the NSS has now been structured and correctly positioned in order to make it contribute its quota towards the effective growth of the economy.
The Ashanti Regional NSS Director stated that the farm project is among the new innovations by the NSS leadership to help make them more useful to the country and its people; he called for support from all.
FROM I.F. Joe Awuah Jnr., Asante Mampong