DR CHUKWUDI Ihenetu, King of the Igbo Community in Ghana, has called on corporate institutions and well-meaning Ghanaians to support the poor with skills that can help them out of their predicament.
Speaking over the weekend during the launch of “Feeding the Hungry”, a philanthropic project organized by the Ezeigbo Ghana Foundation at East Legon, Accra, Dr Ihenetu said the foundation was ready to assist in this drive to help the marginalized in society have access to small businesses.
He said if successful African business men and women extended a helping hand to the less privileged in the society, they would be on track to having a fulfilled life.
He continued that the foundation was engaged in the paying of school fees for needy pupils, providing public toilets, seed capital for small businesses and also offering counseling to the youth on career options and pathways.
With funding from himself, chiefs, elders and people from the Igbo Community in Ghana, he said the Feeding the Hungry project, would provide at least a meal on Fridays, for 1000 hungry people in selected communities such as Fadama, James Town, Nima, Teshie, Madina Zongo, and Kasoa in the Central Region.
Coverage of the food and meal assistance, according to the Eze, would extend to other communities in other regions of Ghana as the initiative gained expansion.
“Feeding the Hungry is one of the existing long-term goals for the Ezeigbo Ghana Foundation.
Our goal is feeding the hungry in various communities, to serve the homeless, unemployed, elderly, migrants and the working poor. Everybody who comes to us to be fed is welcomed regardless of race, sex, age, color, national origin, religious preference, special needs or income,” he added.
Eze Dr Ihenetu condemned hunger as making people not to think well and right, causing sickness, putting up bad behavior and destroying infrastructure.
Ezeigbo Ghana Foundation’s Feeding the Hungry project is a non-profit organization’s effort to address the plight of hungry children, men and women on the streets of Accra.
Since its inception in 2014, the foundation has been involved in providing social amenities for some communities in Ghana.
Some projects embarked upon by the foundation since its inception included the sinking of boreholes, providing public places of convenience and paying the school fees of the less privileged.
The EzeIgbo of Ghana speaking at the launch of the project