The Students’ Representative Council (SRC) of the Christian Service University College (CSUC) in Kumasi, at the weekend donated items worth GH¢ 1,100 to the Kumasi Children’s Home as part of its annual week celebration.
The items included DVD players, Compact Discs, radio cassette players, fruit drinks, cartons of milk, and sachets of milk powder, detergents, toilet rolls, multivitamin and
Paracetamol syrup.
Mr Sarfo Binfo Darkwa, SRC President who
presented the items on behalf of his colleagues said the gesture was in connection with the Biblical principle which admonished Christians to show love and compassion to the needy in the
society.
“Our plan is to adopt some of the children and provide scholarship packages for their education,” he said.
He thanked Dr Mumuni Yussif Caesar, Director of MY Ventures, a herbal drug manufacturing company in Kumasi and the student’s body of the College for their contributions
towards the donation to the home.
Mrs Caroline Amponsah, Assistant Child Care
Officer, who received the items thanked the students for their benevolence and called on others to emulate.
She mentioned some of the challenges facing the Home as threat of harm by some of the mentally challenged inmates to others, inadequate working staff and the exorbitant medical bills the Home pays on the inmates since they are not covered by the National Health Insurance Scheme.
Mrs Amponsah therefore appealed to government and other stakeholders to help solve some of the problems in order to provide quality service to the children.