Compassion International, a child centred Non-Governmental Organisation, based in Unites States, has spent GH�108,545.76 on the Apam Mount Zion Child Development Centre, since its inception in 2008.
Mr Eric Kwesi Koomson, Project Coordinator for the Mount Zion Centre, who announced this at the Centre's Second Anniversary Celebration, at Apam, said the amount was spent on a number of activities to ensure the holistic development of the children being sponsored by the NGO.
He said the NGO spent GH�7,845.63 on the health needs of the children whilst GH�13,511.18 was spent on education supplies and fees with
GH�6,297.55 on uniforms.
Mr Koomson said the Apam Mount Zion Centre had been adjudged the best among the Winneba Cluster of Child Development Centres.
He said the Centre's activities were based on four main areas, namely: Spiritual, Physical, Cognitive and Socio-emotional to make the children to develop holistically.
Speaking on the theme for the celebration: "Transforming the World, One Child at a Time; The Role of the Community - " the Very Reverend Emmanuel Ebow Walters, Superintendent Minister of the Apam Circuit of the Methodist Church, called for the use of Science and Technology to transform the world into a better place.
He urged adults to listen to children and stop regarding them as people who must be seen but not heard.
Very Rev. Walters said children had some brilliant ideas which could be used for national development if only adults would encourage them to express them.
Mr Theophilus Aidoo-Mensah, Gomoa West District Chief Executive, urged parents to initiate good programmes in the home for children as they spend the greater part of their time at home.
He commended Compassion International for complementing the government's efforts in developing the Ghanaian Child.
The DCE said the Assembly would soon re-roof the two-unit classroom block which had its roof caved in about a month ago to enable the children
to have congenial atmosphere for learning.
He cautioned that any teacher found drunk during school hours would be severely sanctioned.
Mr Amos Sarfo, Communications Manager of the Compassion International, said the project, which aimed at assisting children to develop their talents to enable them to become useful to the society, was five years old in Ghana.
He appealed to well-to-do Ghanaians to adopt some needy children and sponsor their education.
"It is not good enough for us to always look up to foreigners to sponsor our needy children," he said.
Mr Sarfo appealed to district assemblies to create recreational grounds for children in the communities.
He pointed out that absence of places for children to spend their leisure time encouraged waywardness among them.
Mr Kwesi Nyamekye, Partnership Facilitator for the NGO, urged couples to avoid creating broken homes and strive to keep their families intact for children to have parental control.