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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
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