National Service persons attached to Cal Bank in the Takoradi/Sekondi metropolis have presented items valued at GH¢7,000 to Egyam Orphanage Foundation in the Ahanta West District of the Western Region.
The items include three desktop computers, bags of rice, plates, cooking oil, laundry soaps, tinned tomatoes, fish, stationery and biscuits.
Others are soya milk, sugar, soft drinks, insecticides, detergents, laundry baskets, plastic chairs, toothpaste, aluminium and plastic bowls and ice chest.
The orphanage, established on December 27, 2007 with initial 32 children to help the less privileged in society, now has 51 children comprising 32 boys and 19 girls.
After the presentation, the persons interacted with inmates at the orphanage and encouraged them to aspire to become responsible citizens in future.
The Director of Human Resource at Cal Bank, Mr Samuel Boafo, said the focus was to reach out to the less privileged in the communities within the catchment area of the bank.
Receiving the items, the Administrator of the orphanage, Mr Daniel Payne, thanked the service persons and the bank, as well as other donors, for the support.
Later, the service persons went on a float through the principal streets of the Sekondi/Takoradi metropolis to educate people on the importance of blood donation and afterwards donated blood to the Blood Bank of the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital.
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