The Women’s Fellowship of the Trinity United Church, Legon, yesterday extended a helping hand to the Legon hospital and Police station. At the hospital, the women, numbering 25, donated bed sheets, toilet rolls and detergents. The police and the cell inmates on the other hand received food, bags of sachet water and toilet rolls.
The group also prayed and shared the word of God with the inmates and encouraged them to have faith in God and believe that they will get out of cell and become prominent persons in society, just like the story of Joseph in the bible.
According to the President of the Women’s Fellowship, Madam Patience Anim-Hughes, the decision to extend a helping hand was based on the Fellowship’s motto, which reads ‘Let your life radiate that of Jesus Christ’.
Madam Patience Anim-Hughes said “per the motto, we ought to show concern, we ought to show love and we ought to show compassion for those who are sick, for those who are in cells and others.”
She also noted that they chose to donate the items to the two institutions in Legon because the church is situated in the community where these institutions are also located.
“…The church is situated within Legon community, and as community members when we are sick we need to visit them,” she said.
She continued that, their purpose for choosing the maternity ward was due to the fact that they are mother’s themselves and have an understanding of how motherhood is.
“…you know, since we are women, we are mothers too, so the place to go in a hospital is the maternity ward where we have mothers delivering; mothers who have come for postnatal, mothers who are on antenatal and mothers who need encouragement….”
On the need to donate to the prison cell, Madam Anim-Hughes indicated that there is the need to imbibe the word of God in the inmates so that when they are set free, they will not go back to commit crimes that will put them in jail.
Madam Anim-Hughes indicated that the donation was not the first. She stated that places like Nsawam prison and Psychiatric hospital at Asylum Down have all been beneficiaries of the Fellowship’s benevolence. She assured that the group will continue to extend a helping hand to the needy in society.
The Head of Maternity at the University’s Health Services Directorate, Madam Saidatu Abubakar, who received the items at the hospital thanked the group for the donation and prayed for them to get more resources so others can benefit from their kindness.
Inspector John Bosco Ayisala, the officer who received the items on behalf of the East Legon Police Station expressed his appreciation to the group.
He said the items will enable them cater well for the inmates in their custody. He indicated that the fact that the inmates have found themselves on the wrong side of the law does not mean they should not be catered for.
He, therefore, called on other organisations to emulate the donation by the Women’s Fellowship of the Trinity United Church, Legon, to help them take care of the inmates.
