By
Iddi Yire, GNA
Oyibi (GAR), Nov.
12, GNA – The Third Sector Foundation (TSF)Ghana, a non-governmental
organisation, has organised an outreach programme for the aged at Oyibi-Saasabi
in the Kpone-Kantamanso District of the Greater Accra Region.
The outreach
programme was organised by TSF in collaboration with the 2019 Master of
Business Administration (MBA) Corporate Governance Students of the University
of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA).
During the outreach
programme, the two groups presented assorted items to the aged.
Each aged person
received a package which contained a half piece of cloth, a pack of toilet
roll, one litre cooking oil, five kilogramme bag if rice, three pieces of
geisha toilet soap, a bar of key soap, three tins of sardines, a packet of
sugar, a milo, and a pack of powdered milk.
Beneficiaries were
also taken through a health screening exercise where their malaria and blood
pressure status were tested.
They were also
offered free medication; educated on the importance of adopting healthy
lifestyles; as well National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) registration.
Speaking to the
Ghana News Agency (GNA), Dr Augustine Awuah Peprah, a team member of TSF Ghana,
said the Foundation dealt with various issues including education and
environmental health.
He said the outreach
programme seeks to affect lives of people especially in deprived communities
like Saasabi, and they decided to partner with the graduate students so they
could impact lives.
Dr Peprah, who is
also a Lecturer at UPSA, said these were people above 70 years, not working,
their health is deteriorating, hence the effort to aid them.
Madam Trudy Lamptey,
Assistant Team Lead, who described the exercise as a fulfilling endeavor, said
the project has given them the opportunity to learn something about outreach
programmes; so in the near future, when they were out of school, they would
hopefully come to together and embark on such initiatives.
Nii Ashitey Saasabi
II, chief of Saasabi, expressed gratitude to TSF Ghana and the graduate
students for their kind gesture.
He said the
community has a borehole and electricity, however, one of its major challenges
being encountered is with the road network from the New Saasabi through to the
Old Saasabi community and; “we call on government to help us in that regard”.
TSF Ghana is an NGO
that builds and sustains society through robust, participatory and action
research to enhance the socio-economic agenda of sustainable development.
The Foundation
exists to develop a global partnership with practitioners in industries,
government institutions, foreign agencies, embassies, private funders, NGOs and
other institutions of interest to find empirical solutions to universal primary
education, extreme poverty, gender equality, environmental sustainability,
women and child development through research findings.
GNA
