First Lady fulfills pledge of supporting orphanages in Ghana

First Lady Lordina Mahama has once again fulfilled pledges of supporting some selected orphanage homes in the country.

The yearly ritual is to donate food items, beverages and toiletries to help in catering for children who - one way or the other, have been abandoned and hitherto children whose parents have died.

At a brief presentation at separate event at two of these homes, Frank May and Bethesda all in Techiman, Mrs. Mahama said she will not relent on her efforts in giving each child a reason to life. 

Radio Ghana’s Yvonne Attilego reports that it is now evident that care for the less privileged in society is a value rooted in the First Lady.

This is because the urge to support these homes has become unappeasable all the time adding that every child needs to be helped to realise his dream with or without parents.

It is, this passion that drives her all the time to continue supporting children in these orphanages to become useful in future. 

Most of the children adopted by the First Lady are either in the universities and other tertiary institutions. The little ones have also been enrolled in various schools. 

First Lady, Mrs. Lordina Mahama said it is fulfilling that her efforts are yielding results.

At Frank May Orphanage home, the manager Frank Apus recounted some devastating story surrounding one of the child brought there by Holy Family Hospital. 

He said after the mother of the child passed on,the family chose the dead body over the baby.

This story and more is what drove him and his wife to take in these children.

He said the home is striving because of the immense contribution of the First Lady for the past eight years.

The home currently has 39 inmates with seventeen outside the home.

Most of them being brought from social welfare, the Police and the Holy Family Hospital.

The story was not different at Bethesda which has 12 children in their custody with most of them at their advanced stages in their education. 

The founder of Bethesda Pastor Stephen Volante was full of praise to the first Lady for the gesture which has been consistent for more than eight years.


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