ORPHANS GET SCHOLARSHIPS
After the donation
to the prisoners a few weeks back one of the reporters informed
me about an Orphanege 40 miles from the Capital. We went there
last week Wednesday May 1st to find out the condition in the
center. Brethren, we talk of poverty but this is beyond imagination.
An American couple started to take care of six orphans in the
80's with the help of a house help. In 1983 the couple left
Ghana and asked their house help to find a home to send the
children, they gave the house help some money to help educate
herself. She chose to use the money to take care of the Orphans
and used part of the money to buy a small farm land to live
with the children.
Today there are
more than 90 Orphans in the home, 35 of them are thrown away.
The age range from 14 days to 19 years.
Captain Joseph Yeboah
the father of the home came there two years ago, he was sentence
to death for shooting an arm robber on his farm. For nine years
he was on death row. In the year 2000 he read about the orphanage
in the news, he sent $50 or 350,000 Cedies on three occasions
so the founder and mother of the home went to visit the captain
in prison. On hearing his case they decided to pray for his
release. In December 2000, Captain Yeboah received presidential
pardon after one week of prayers.
On his release from
prison captain Captain Yeboah went to the Orphanage to help.
He got saved while on death row. He is now the Lord's captain
for this needy orphanage. He leads in their devotionals, farm
and general running of the orphanage, He got married to Madam
Emma Boafo. ( Boafo means helper).
I gave a short message
before the donation based on Deut. 24: 19-22 where the Lord
ordered his children not to remove everything from the land
during harvest. Ruth did benefit from this Law.
Pray with us as
we do our best to help. See the story below and the pictures.
The first picture is the one with Mrs. Quarshie with one of
the 14 day old babies, the second picture is the one with the
children and the items we donated, that day there was no bread
in the home, the bread we sent was the only bread they had for
that day. The third picture is the one I took with some of the
boys who were sacked from school, 10th grade, we want them to
come to our High school come September this year. The Mother
and Father of the home are the ones at the end of the picture
I took with the boys.
PICTURE
ABOVE: Ten youths from the
country-side Children's Welfare Home at Bawjiase in the Central
Region have been offered a 135 million cedi educational scholarship
to pursue a three year Secondary education at the Baptist Institute
of Professional Studies at Teshie near Accra. The scholarship
programme will be sponsored by Shalom Indigenous Foundation,
Grace Baptist Mission,-Ghana of the US.
PICTURE
ABOVE: The President of
Shalom Indigenous Foundation, Rev. Mr. Noah Quarshie announced
this when he presented 10 million cedis worth of assorted items
and cash to the Home at Bawjiase. These include used clothing,
mattresses, toys, writing materials, Food items and gospel literature.
Rev. Quarshie said they came to the aid of the beneficiaries
after a visit to the home had revealed that the children have
been withdrawn from school due to lack of funds for their school
fees and learning materials. He promised to mobilise resources
to assist the orphanage. He also appealed the government to
help the Orphanage because that is the only way God will bless
the land.
PICTURE
ABOVE: The Founder and Mother
of the Home, Mrs. Emma Boafo-Yeboah ,mentioned the lack of power
supply, vehicle, food shortage and inadequate accommodation
as some of the problems facing the home. She appealed to philanthropists
to come to their aid to make life comfortable for the children.
The Father of the Home , Captain Joe Yeboah, said they are currently
cultivating yam, maize and cassava on a four acre land to supplement
the food requirement of the home.
God bless as we
work together to help people with both spiritual and material
needs.
In His Grace for
his Glory, Noah Quarshie & Family
Updated 02/04/2006
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