In response to the country’s current economic woes, 156 orphans in the Ashanti Region have benefited from a scholarship package provided by a humanitarian relief organization.
Each orphan from a poor family received GHȼ2,700 as an annual package to help with school fees and other expenses.
Weltweiter Einsatz Für Arme (WEFA) and Project implementing partner, ALDIA Society, presented the orphans with a total cash scholarship of 421,200 cedis. This is a monthly cash package of 250 cedis paid to all the orphans this year.
It is to help single parents, particularly mothers, who are working against the odds to ensure their children are well-taken care of.
The package will also cover the orphans’ education, health, housing, clothing, and feeding.
Donors to international humanitarian relief organizations believe every child deserves to be happy, healthy, safe, and, most importantly, loved.
Because children are the world’s most valuable resource and its brightest future hope, these children who have lost one or both of their parents are like flowers without a gardener to protect them.
WEFA and ALDIA society have therefore decided to be their lost gardener.
Bushira Khalid, mother of one of the recipients, says the cash assistance arrived just in time to enable her to cope with the country’s current hardship.
Bushira Khalid indicates she will invest the money in her son’s education.
Madina Abdul-Mumin, another mother, has three children who benefitted from the assistance.
She finds it heartwarming that her children are benefiting. Ms. Abdul-Mumin intends to invest some of the money in business in order to increase the family’s profits.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 140 million children worldwide have lost one or both parents. A child loses a parent every 2.2 seconds. Every day, 5,760 more children are orphaned.
WEFA and project implementing partner, ALDIA society’s goal is to provide the best education and life opportunities to orphans.
According to Usama Mansur Rashed, the Manager of ALDIA society, the humanitarian organization’s charitable services do not stop with orphans in school, but also with infrastructure development to assist the Ghana government in reducing education, health, and housing deficits.
Mr. Rashed also stated that it is their top priority to assist the Ghanaian government in eliminating street children and increasing school enrollment in underserved communities.
Iddrisu Baba Neendow, a key stakeholder in the ALDIA society Ghana, advises recipients’ parents and guardians to make the most of the assistance.
The WEFA cash scholarship programme is open to all categories of orphans under the age of 18 on the African continent, including Ghana, regardless of religion, gender, ethnicity or race.
