The Management of Crime Check Foundation (CCF), a Crime Prevention and Advocacy Organisation, has presented food items to more than 200 widows, widowers, physically challenged, and other vulnerable people in the Okaikoi Central Constituency.
The donation, which came with a cash presentation totaling GHC 20,800, is to fill a vital gap in the economic lives of these vulnerable people.
Mr Ibrahim Oppong Kwarteng, the Executive Director of CCF, said the Management decided to support the people with bags of rice, cooking oil and some cash to put smiles on their faces.
He said in the wake of the COVID-19, government alone could not support the vulnerable and the less-privileged in society, hence the support.
“The fight against the spread of COVID-19 pandemic remains a collective responsibility and must not be left on the shoulders of the government who has already overstretched its coffers,” he added.
Mr Kwarteng said the Foundation started with the “Time with the Prisoners Series,” and had gone beyond to introduce more programmes like the Health Check Series, Ex-Convict Reintegration, Petty Offenders, and the Philanthropy projects.
He said the Foundation’s Philanthropy Project was premised on the idea that there were many in Ghana who lived virtually in ‘prisons outside prison’ because of poverty.
He said the Foundation had provided livelihood support to many poor individuals and families over the years through those projects.
Mr Kwarteng, who is also the Ambassador Extraordinaire of Ghana Prisons, commended Madam Linda Owusu, a philanthropist based in Holland, for sponsoring the food items.
“Madam Linda Owusu also gave the Foundation a branded car to ease our operations and activities,” he added.
He also commended other donors of the Foundation who continually support its activities.
He gave the assurance that the Foundation would not only focus on prison-related issues but would continue to put smiles on the faces of the vulnerable as the country battled the COVID-19.
Mr Patrick Boamah, the MP for the Okaikoi Central, commended the Foundation for supporting the vulnerable in the Constituency and encouraged others to support the activities of the Foundation.
Mr Gilbert Osafo, the President of Persons with Disability in the Okaikoi Municipality, called on other organisations to emulate such benevolence and go to the aid of the vulnerable.
