Freddie's Corner assist under-privileged children
The Management and staff of Freddies Corner, dealers in mobile phones and audio visuals, has presented items and money to three institutions in Accra.
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The items included rice, yam, confectionary, milk, Indomie noodles, cooking oil and clothing and an amount of Gh¢8,000 to each institution.
The beneficiaries are the Countryside Children’s Welfare Home, an orphanage at Awutu Bawjiase in the Central Region; the Hope Training Institute at Pokuase and the Akropong School for the Blind at Akropong in the Eastern Region.
The Managing Director of Freddies Corner, Mr Alfred Korlie Matey, said an amount of Gh¢5040 was raised for the donation through a morning devotion organised by his company for management, staff and some friends to assist in the upkeep of needy children in the society.
''At the age of 18, I was a newspaper vendor at Alajo Junction and moving from friend to friend for accommodation. I feel compassion for street children when I remember those days," Mr Matey said.
The MD said some friends informed him about the predicament of the Countryside Children’s Welfare Home in particular.
“This orphanage which has many children to take care of has not been receiving support from philanthropists, as a result of the closure,” he said.
The Administrator of the home, Mr Ernest Osei Owusu, who received the items and funds said 22 of the 40 children who were transferred from the home had returned.
He said the children returned two months after they had been temporary sheltered at the Osu Children's Home in Accra.
According to the administrator, the orphanage had been re-opened even though there was still on-going investigations into the allegations.
Mr Owusu, therefore appealed to philanthropists to continue assisting them for the upkeep of the children.
The Managing Director of the Hope Training Institute, Mr Amos Asuma-Karikari, thanked their benefactor for his kindness and said it was significant that the company got to know about the institute which currently had 65 inmates through a Peace FM programme.
He expressed the hope that other benevolent organisations and individuals would come to their aid.