CATHOLIC CHURCH DONATES TO ORPHANAGE (PAGE 36)

THE Knights and Ladies of Marshall of the Catholic Church in the Twin-City of Sekondi/Takoradi have presented food items, toiletries and used clothes to the Egyam Orphanage in the Ahanta West District in the Western Region.
The donation of the GH¢1,000 items, including tubers of yam, bags of rice, laundry soaps, fruits, toilet rolls, toys, gallons of cooking oil, cartons of milk and educational materials, formed part of the church’s Easter activities.
The Knights and Ladies also sang and danced with the children for hours.
At the ceremony, the leader of the group, Mr Joseph Essilfie, said over the years, the Catholic Church’s charity society had been undertaking benevolent programmes to bring joy to the less privileged in society.
He said the members had made similar donations to the sick, underprivileged, as well as the physically challenged, to assure them that they were part of the larger society.
Mr Essilfie said this year’s focus was on Our Lady of Lourdes Orphanage at Egyam in order to make the inmates part of the society.
He said it was not the wish of those young ones to find themselves in care homes, but was due to circumstances beyond their control.
“It is, therefore, the duty of society to give them the needed love and care,” Mr Essilfie added.
He said it was important also to focus on both the spiritual and physical needs of mankind through the display of brotherliness to make the world more habitable for all through unity, charity and service.
“As we entered the place, our joy was not what we are bringing the children, but the smile on their faces as we sang and danced with them to impart to them brotherly and motherly love to make them feel part of the bigger society,” he said.
Mr Essilfie appealed to other members of the society to contribute to the upkeep of the inmates and expressed the hope that their contribution would be useful to them.
The Administrator of the home, Mr Daniel Payne, thanked the Knights and Ladies of Marshal for their support and assured them that the items would be used for the upkeep of the children.