Seaweld Engineering Ghana, an on and offshore oil service provider, organised Christmas party for inmates of its care home at Apremdo in the Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolis.
The inmates were served with hot meals and drinks by the officials of the company and care-givers at the home as they danced with them.
For his part, the Deputy Chief Operations officer, Mr Michael Avorkliyah, said the company was moved to build the facility for the homeless since it started its operations.
He said it was the focus of the company to ensure that the needs of the community it operated in were met and the party was just to put a smile on the faces of the less privileged.
Mr Avokliyah said since the company built the facility, many of the inmates had found a home at the place and some had even been registered in schools while those interested in learning a trade had been sponsored accordingly.
The deputy chief of operations said some of the homeless girls picked on the street were pregnant or had babies and were sleeping in the open.
“We, as a company, think that this is the area to focus on instead of the privileged ones. Our company has actually taken responsibility to ensure the well-being of these people just to make them feel good and smile again,” he said.
Others, he said, were not in position to do anything on their own and had been added to those in the home and the company was taking full responsibility for their upkeep and medication, with the support from the Regional Directorate of Health.
The trained Psychiatric Nurse, Madam Gladys Frimponmah, who is offering voluntary service to the home, thanked the company for the support and called for support from other companies to ensure that the inmates were made to feel part of society.
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