In a tearful tone, Head of Edwinase Rehabilitation Centre, Mr Modesti Ayiwoli has disclosed his outfit is hopeless of getting support for the physically challenged inmates at the Home.
Speaking to newsmen at the government subvented facility during a visit by the Kwadaso Executive Keep Fit Club, the Head disclosed for two years now the Ministry of Gender and Children had failed to pay the yearly 300ghana cedis government has allocated to it to cater for the inmates.
With about 100 children at the facility, Mr Ayiwoli said the Home had continued to struggle to provide the vulnerable and physically challenged inmates three square meals a day.
He noted with pain the absolute neglect by goverment and the the Social Welfare Department, which he said exercised direct responsibility over such needy Homes.
COMPOSITION :
Mr Ayiwoli explained the Home played host to children with various forms of deformities and these were mostly those with ages above 10years.
According to him, due to the inherent funding and feeding challenge at the Home, his outfit had raised the age bracket to about 12 and 14 .
He, noted, these children had displayed better understanding in the environment they live than those in the age bracket of 10 years.
Though, some of the children were born blind, the Head of the facility tells of how they were endowed with amazing skills in beads and doormat making .
FUNDS:
Suffering from perennial inadequacies in funding and feeding, the Head of the Home disclosed they had to teach the children simple vocational and technical skills so as to ensure they use monies raised from such simple art work to support the upkeep of the Home.
Items such as leather shoes, beads, rubber made doormats , soap and liquid disinfectants were some of the things the Home sells to augment the paltry and inconsistent funds advanced to it by the Gender Ministry for its upkeep.
PROMISE:
Addressing inmates with a heavy heart, Mr Owusu Ansah, Chairman of the Council of Elders for the Kwadaso Executive Keep Fit Club promised to visit the Home periodically to check on the upkeep of the inmates.
The Club, later in a touching ceremony presented assorted food items and drinks including rice, maize, cooking oils and toiletries to the Home with an additional cash sum of 500gh for their upkeep.
The Head of the Home thanked the club and called on government as well as private and individual organizations to come to the aid of the Home since they were currently in a dire state of hopelessness.
