Blessed Lifeline, a local Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), on Tuesday feted some street children in Accra.
Ms Theresa Frimpong, Executive Director of the NGO, said the gesture was to bring some joy to the children, as well as a platform to counsel them to return home to their parents and be in school.
She noted that the NGO which aims at helping the distress and marginalized in society, is going to take full responsibility of the children’s education, after they have moved from the streets.
“We want them not to just eat the food, but counsel and care for them properly after they have gone back home and to their classroom.”
Ms Frimpong noted that after preliminary counselling, almost 60 children had accepted to go back home and Blessed Lifeline was going to assist them.
She observed that the get-together would be an annual programme which would help the NGO to achieve its set mandate in helping to offer help to the needy.
“Once a year, it will be done even if they go or not”, she concluded.
Mr Emmanuel Osei, Consulting Secretary, Blessed Lifeline, commended members of the NGO for their efforts that helped to make the programme a reality.
He, however, appealed to the children to remember that they had not been forgotten, even though their parents could not provide them with such meals, adding, “Blessed Lifeline was doing everything possible to ensure that every Ghanaian child had access to education”, he said.
Some of the street children who spoke to the Ghana News Agency expressed happiness about the programme, and promised to go back to school in order to become great leaders who would help to promote development in the country.
Blessed Lifeline is offering help to the needy and distressed people in society, through counselling and donations, among other forms of assistance.
Source: GhanaWeb
