St Martin de Porres Girl Guides supports Children's Welfare Home
The St Martin de Porres unit of the Ghana Girl Guides Association has presented assorted items worth GH¢4,000 to the Countryside Children's Welfare Home at Bawjiase in the Central Region.
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The gesture forms part of activities marking the Founders Day of the school.
Making the presentation, the Chief Commissioner of the association, Mrs Juliana Ofori-Kissi, said the items were purchased through contributions from the pupils of the school.
They included toiletries, biscuits, bags of rice, cooking oil and sugar.
The rest were detergents, bottled water, milk, bevearages like Milo, toothpaste like Pepsodent, tooth-brushes and boxes of indomie noodles.
According to her, the association had for the past years unearthed the potential in girls in the country by creating platforms for them to reach out to the under-privileged in the society .She appealed to the general public to support the girl guides.
She said the association had supported numerous homes across the country and expressed the hope that other associations would emulate the gesture and put smiles on the faces of orphans, especially during the Yuletide.
Mrs Emma Boafo Yeboah, Founder and Mother of the Home, praised the association for their continuous support and love for the inmates.
She appealed for financial support to enable the management of the home to adequately cater for the children as well as the caretakers of the home.