The donation which was from a member-church of the GBC, the Triumphant Baptist Church (TBC), of Kwadaso, Kumasi, in the Ashanti Region was to beef up the government’s moblization efforts to fighting the pandemic.

The gesture was the first step of a special GBC COVID-19 Fund, which has been instituted by the Convention to receive donations from its member churches and individual members to support the efforts of the Government to contain COVID-19 pandemic.

Presenting the cheque, a seven-member delegation led by Reverend Enoch Nii Narh Thompson, Vice President Ministries and Rev. Washington Komla Darke, Vice President Administration of the GBC acknowledged Governments efforts aimed at containing and controlling the pandemic and assured that, the Convention will continue support Government’s efforts to rid Ghana off the dreaded disease.

Receiving the donation, Mrs Akosua Frema Opare-Osei, the Chief of Staff at the Office of the President, thanked the Convention and its member-church, TBC for their generosity and kindness. 

She entreated the Convention to encourage its members to endeavour to observe all the appropriate protocols to curb the spread of the virus.

Mrs Opare-Osei also admonished that any suspected infected persons should not fear any form of stigma but avail themselves quickly for testing and early treatment.

Rev. Washington Komla Darke, Vice President, Administration of the GBC, speaking on the sidelines, used the opportunity to call on all Member-Churches and individual members of the GBC to make donations into the Convention COVID-19 Fund to support the efforts of the Government in fighting the disease.

He also stressed the need for all to observe the necessary protocols in keeping the virus at bay and emphasized that, save for procuring food, health, banking or any other essential services, adding that, all non-essential service providers should stay at home in compliance to the restrictions of movements, as recently directed by the President Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo.

“Deliberately stay at home to deliberately stop the virus,” he added.

Deacon Anthony Adu-Nketiah, Chairman of the Body of Deacons of TBC on his part also commended Government’s efforts to contain the epidemic. 

He affirmed the call on all Local Congregations, Assemblies or Churches of all Denominations to create local COVID-19 Accounts to receive donations from their members for onward transmission into their National Denominational COVID-19 accounts from which donations can be made to aid the fight against the pandemic.

“As Christians, we should let our light shine by championing this course in the country in times like this,” he added.

Other members of the delegation were Rev Kwaku Frimpong, Associate Pastor; Pastor Dennis Agyemang, Deputy Associate Pastor; Deacon James Amoateng Antwi; the Church Secretary and Deacon Benjamin Adjei, the Chairman of Finance Committee; all of the Triumphant Baptist Church. 

Source: peacefmonline.com

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The items included boxes of drinks, cartoons of milk, tins of milo, sugar, biscuits, baby food, four boxes of noodles, 10 bags of sachet water and gallons of oil.

The also included were bags of gari, beans, maize, two buckets of detergent, and boxes of bathing and washing soap.

A statement from the YPG to the Ghana News Agency noted that Mrs Antoinette Ohene Atitse, President of the YPG, said the support came from the elders of the church, who mobilised the items to improve the lives of the little orphans.

She said the exercise was undertaken with encouragement from the Church, which taught members to care for orphans and widows.

According to the statement, Madam Victory Sampson, the Founder of the Orphanage, expressed her profound gratitude to the YPG for the kind gesture.
She said overcrowding at the home made it difficult for them to accept more vulnerable children explaining that about 55 of the children slept in an old room built in 1824.

She appealed to government, corporate bodies and philanthropists to support them with housing facilities. 

Source: GNA

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The donation, estimated at GHC6,000.00, was supported by Wornam Foundation and the Ho Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) platform to promote maternal and infant health under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Ms Princess Lovia Tetteh, Director, LoveAid Foundation, said her outfit was working with people outside urban centres to help attain SDGs in areas of good health and well-being, quality education and decent work and economic growth.

She said her organization was moved by the plight of rural poor women, who were often not in charge of their health due to socio-economic challenges.

Ms Tetteh said the organization would collect data from the hospital to help track and train mothers, especially teenage mothers who may need economic empowerment.

She encouraged teenage mothers at the facility not to allow childbirth to cut their dreams short and aspire to be great.

Dr Elaine Ababio, a Medical Officer at the Hospital, who received the items, urged pregnant women to take charge of their health and not allow their husbands and male partners to be solely responsible for taking decisions on their health.

She observed that though the National Health Insurance Scheme covered aspects of pregnancy and delivery, some expectant mothers could hardly afford transportation to the health facility because “their husbands control their attendance”.

Dr Ababio said the major cause of indecisiveness of some women was due to lack of economic empowerment and expressed gratitude to Loveaid for the support.

She said in some cases, women lost their lives and that of their babies because their husbands failed to allow them to undergo certain medical care and reiterated the need for women to plan their pregnancies, prepare economically and manage their health during the period.

Source: GNA

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