Compassion International inaugurates office complex
An organisation committed to child care and protection, Compassion International, has inaugurated an office complex at Madina in Accra to enhance its operations.
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The three-storey block is to boost the organisation’s operations to help address challenges of deprived children within the municipality and enable them to become responsible adults.
The organisation currently offers support to 73,339 children in six regions in the country, out of which 72,892 are catered for by the organisation’s homes.
The regions are Brong Ahafo, Greater Accra, Volta, Ashanti, Eastern and Central.
Child support
At the inauguration ceremony in Accra last Wednesday, the Chairperson of the Advisory Council of the organisation, Reverend Joyce R. Aryee, said the organization constantly received an annual increase in the population of children in their homes, hence the need for more infrastructural facilities to meet the needs of the organisation.
She said some children could not afford three square meals a day; and the organisation, in collaboration with corporate bodies and churches, was able to provide financial support to offer education and other essential support to such children.
Through those efforts, Dr Aryee said, parents of the children also benefited from
training and employable skills, noting that the training was given to them to help provide them with sustainable employment.
Limited funds
The Country Director of the organisation, Mr Padmore Baffour Agyapong, said the organisation had done a lot to protect vulnerable children, ranging from education to social protection, adding that a number of children under the care of the organisation would soon enter the senior high school, and that required more funds to cater for them.
He lauded the Ghana Police Service (GPS) and the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) for their support over the years, particularly for taking action against unscrupulous people who defiled children.