{"id":272701,"date":"2011-01-04T11:35:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T11:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=44528"},"modified":"2011-01-04T11:35:25","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T11:35:25","slug":"akufo-addos-wife-fetes-needy-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/04\/akufo-addos-wife-fetes-needy-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Akufo-Addo&#8217;s Wife Fetes Needy Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_44529\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44529\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-44529\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/01\/04\/akufo-addos-wife-fetes-needy-children\/mrs_akufo-addo\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-44529\" title=\"mrs_akufo-addo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/mrs_akufo-addo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nIt was an ecstatic and colourful  scene at her Nima residence, New Year\u2019s Day when Mrs. Rebecca  Akufo-Addo, Auntie Becky as she is affectionately called, played host to  hundreds of needy children from different parts of Accra.<br \/>\nThe  kids, who could not hide their joy sang and danced to rhymes and tunes  with Auntie Becky as lead vocalist. She could not hide her joy too. They  played games such as musical chairs, with Rita Alomatsi from Jamestown  emerging overall winner, \u2018oware\u2019, \u2018ludo\u2019, hide and seek, lucky dip, pick  and act, sack race, lime and spoon among others.<br \/>\nThey were served  food, drinks, biscuits, toffees and given story books to take home.  During the entire period, Auntie Becky went round and made sure she had  personal interactions with almost all the kids present before giving a  speech to all of them.<br \/>\nIn her speech, Auntie Becky encouraged the  kids to take their studies in school seriously because; as she put it  \u201ceducation is the surest way to the top in life. When you are educated,  you will get a good paying job, your life will improve and you can take  care of your family. Without education, the chances are not bright.\u201d<br \/>\nShe  also admonished them to be obedient to their parents and adults in  general, as they are the people who will show them the way to grow and  become the future leaders they were born to be.<br \/>\nShe also made an appeal to them to be prayerful and God fearing in life.<br \/>\nShe tasked the girls to compete fiercely with the boys in school and ensure that they always beat the boys to it academically.<br \/>\nShe  used the opportunity to wish all children across the country a happy  new year, with the hope that as the years go by, life will get better as  they grow older and wiser.<br \/>\nNana Addo who was receiving visitors  and well wishers who were trooping in to wish him a Happy New Year could  not help but take some time off to join his wife in the middle of the  event.<br \/>\nHe went round and had personal interactions with the kids,  urging them to take their academic lessons seriously, be respectful and  be hopeful that life would get better.<br \/>\nHe also wished all children and indeed, all Ghanaians a happy New Year.<br \/>\nSource: Herbert Krapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was an ecstatic and colourful scene at her Nima residence, New Year\u2019s Day when Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo, Auntie Becky as she is affectionately called, played host to hundreds of needy children from different parts of Accra. 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