The Widows and Orphans Movement with funding support from Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc has supported 21 widows and 12 orphaned schoolchildren in the Upper East Region.
Each of the 21 beneficiaries, who hail from various districts in the region, received a bag of rice and millet as well as ingredients while the orphaned student beneficiaries received monies and books.
The donation is under the organization’s Harmattan Food Breeze, which was initiated 2 years ago, to cushion widows and orphans in Northern Ghana against hardships in the dry season.
Speaking to Dreamz News at its office in Bolatanga, where some of the beneficiaries took delivery of the items, Executive Director of the Movement Fati Abigail Abdulai indicated that the initiative targets to extend similar support to as many vulnerable people as possible and called for public assistance.
“We are currently supporting 21 widows with rice, millet, herrings, salt and other ingredients to enable them care for their families because we know that the farming season is over and things will soon start getting hard for them.
We’ve also supported 12 orphans, who are in school from the kindergarten level to the Senior High School level. These children benefited from some money to enable them purchase the things they need to be able to stay in school,” she said.
“We are most grateful to Gama Sorority but we are also calling on the general public to join the campaign and to donate to us. You can donate food items or cash. You can also donate your time to go with us to share some of these items”.
Some of the beneficiaries, while detailing their struggles, expressed gratitude to the Movement and the donor for their kind gesture towards them.
“We are grateful for the kind gesture. Things have not been easy. What to eat has been a headache. So we are grateful that they remember us and decided to extend a helping hand to us,” a beneficiary Abotisom Agana said.
Another, Nyaamah Ayambire added, “God will bless them more for not forgetting about us. This support will go a long way to help us cater for our families”.
