REGIONAL MINISTER EXTENDS HELPING HAND TO THE NEEDY 26th June, 2019


There are many people in our world today, who will only wine and dine with their families, close associates and with people who can give something back but the Upper East Regional Minister, Hon. Paulina Patience Abayage isn’t part of the status quo.

Hon. Paulina Abayage presenting the items to Magr. of the Home
Hon. Abayage on Wednesday afternoon donated a package of assorted food items to the Mother of Mercy Babies’ Home in Sirigu in the Kassena-Nankana West District of the Upper East Region as a prelude to the celebration of her birthday that drops this Sunday, 30th June, 2019. The items included four maxi-bags of rice, one bag of sugar, one box of frytol cooking oil comprising four gallons, five cartons of malta guinness, 10 bags of sachet water and 30 loafs of bread.

The minister’s donation to the home also included some packed-lunch she later ate in communion with the home’s inmates while helping to feed others.

Hon. Abayage disclosed that friends and well-wishers had made the donation possible with their presents to her and that it was proper that when you are blessed, you ought to share that blessing with the less-fortunate. According to her, she had frequented the Sirigu Babies’ Home on a number of occasions with friends and did similar donations in the past and thus, called on people who can afford to periodically extend some form of support to the facility.

The items as  displayed
She disclosed that one such time she visited, she witnessed the home take care of a set of quadruplets and that she hears positive stories today of those kids as one of them was presently studying at the Bolgatanga Technical Institute. She noted that the efforts of the  Babies’ Home operated by the Navrongo-Bolgatanga Catholic Dioceses, cannot be ignored because it had been filling a great vacuum in care-giving to mostly very helpless babies and children through the decades.

Hon. Abayage wished both the managers of the facility and the inmates well as she promised that she will continue to remember them and would not hesitate to help whenever she could. She announced that she had similar donations to make to the Mama Lardi Children’s Home in the outskirts of the Bolgatanga Municipality and the children’s wards of both the Navrongo War Memorial and Bolgatanga hospitals. She is also expected to present a package of dual desks to the regional education directorate within the week.

In receiving the donation, Manageress of the home, Reverend Sister Delphina Zoomie thanked Madam Paulina for her kind gesture and expressed the excitement of the inmates and their prayers for her.

Rev. Sister Zoomie disclosed that the home was established in 1984 and had been admitting and catering for babies with age ranges zero to three [0 -3] years old. She added that these were mostly babies born to insane mothers, orphaned babies, malnourished babies, abandoned babies and babies whose mothers just cannot afford to keep and cater for them.

According to the Manageress, the facility caters for and monitors the response and growth rate of these babies and if all indicators are positive, they re-integrate some with their relations and do regular follow-ups on them to check their welfare and also support them thereafter while a few others are sent to the child development centre at the offices of the Diocese for further care. She disclosed that the facility currently had 10 inmates made up of five boys and five girls, a set of triplets and a set of twins while some eight had been processed and taken home.

Regional Minister [in dark shades holding baby] in a group photo
Sister Zoomie also disclosed that the home had eight workers and also runs a piggery to support the smooth administration of the facility.

Hon. Paulina Abayage was accompanied on her visit to the facility by the Kassena-Nankana West District Chief Executive, Hon. Gerald Ataojei, the Upper East Regional Coordinating Council’s Protocol Officer, Mr. Douglas Abandoo and Madam Sandra Akambasi, the Minister’s Special Aid.      

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