Seaweld Engineering, an oil service company in Sekondi/Takoradi, has channelled its corporate social responsibility towards the underprivileged in the metropolis.
The company has built a home for the homeless with facilities that would not push them back to the streets. The home has electricity, water supply, toilets and a bath house and fitted with a sound system, television set and other items that are needed to create a perfect environment for the inmates.
Members of the home are mostly mentally challenged and the destitute who have been cured, and their children have been sponsored by the company to go back to school.
A pregnant woman who was picked on the street and happily settled in the home gave birth a few days after she arrived in the house. To make the inmates feel at home, the company is providing a three square meal for them.
The company has also employed the services of a caretaker and a psychiatric nurse who see to the health needs of the inmates.
The Operations Manager of Seaweld Engineering, Mr Alfred Fafali Adagbedu, said it was the focus of the company to ensure that its support for society was directed at the disadvantaged who really needed help.
Asked what motivated them to resettle the destitute, he said it was sad to see them, some of who were pregnant, in the open with their children.
“We were left with no option but to settle them to make them feel part of society, initially they were settled in a tent, but later we had a place to build the three-room apartment for them to feel at home.”
Mr Adagbedu expressed the hope that the home would one day develop into a good health facility for public good.
He said there were many of the destitute on the street who would contribute to the development of the country, if they had the support and better environment.
Mr Adagbedu said the company would not put any cost to what it gave to society but would ensure that society became the winner in the country’s oil find.
He said there were other areas that the company would work to ensure that they created and shared with the communities in which they operated.
“We all look up to the government for every basic thing, but if we could invest little of what we gain from society back into it the world would be better than this.”
He said the building was on one side of the land and the rest was being used for farming by some of the inmates to keep them busy.
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