Women Empowerment Fellowship supports two orphanages
By: Bernice Bessey
A non-governmental organisation (NGO), Women Empowerment Fellowship (WEF) International, has supported two orphanages with food and other relief items worth millions.
The fellowship donated items such as bags of rice, corn, sugar, biscuits, and boxes of soap, dresses and huge sums of money to support the physical and mental development of the children.
The leader of the team, Miss. Gloria Hinson, said the need to support the homes with their resource was because, as parents, they need to reach out to vulnerable children in society, especially, the motherless and fatherless.
She said addressing the needs of the orphans would make them have a sense of belonging and hope for the future.
She said it was important that every individual especially well-to-do Ghanaians to join hand with the fellowship assist orphanage homes in the country.
The overseer of Good Shepherd home thanked the fellowship for the gesture and prayed for the Lord blessing upon their lives.
He further appealed for long relationship between the homes and the fellowship as they have bid to support the needy in the society.
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Every society has a compartment between the very rich and the very poor. The affluent ones have more than enough to postpone death even where they cannot buy life. They have money to buy everything, except everlasting life. The other compartment of class society are the very poor ones, defined by Frantz Fanon as the wretched of the earth. Their problem is that of the stomach as they struggle to break through the decency line. This group comprises a large army of motherless babies, orphans, the physically disabled, etc who have no means of livelihood. To prove their humanity, the rich invoke the concept and practice of philanthropy, according to which they are enjoined by their respective religions to feed the hungry, assit the needy and to inspire hope in the hopeless. The crux of the matter is that giving of alms to the poor is selfish. The rich in our midst merely “donate” the crumbs from their tables to the poor, while keeping back the oyster and the substance. True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the structures and forces that nourish charity. The noblest occupation in the world is to assist another human being to help him succeed. Real generosity does not mean empathy, compassion and pity for the afflicted but the creation of enabling and condusive environment for everybody’s development, especially children. And as Nelson Henderson has shown,”the true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”