MFANSTIMAN OLD GIRLS ASSIST WEIJA LEPROSARIUM (SPREAD, MARCH 9, 2010)

THE Mfantsiman Old Girls Association (MOGA) has donated items worth more than GH¢ 2,000 to the Weija Leprosarium in Accra.
The items include bags of rice, sugar, toilet rolls and soap, canned fish, vegetable oil, tomato paste, oranges, biscuits and used clothing.
Presenting the items, the Chairperson of the National Anniversary Planning Committee, Mrs Henrietta Baiden, said the gesture was part of the pre-activities towards the school’s 50th anniversary, which would be celebrated in August this year.
She said the donation was one of the many donations the association would be making to mark the school’s 50th anniversary.
Other activities to mark the anniversary include a thanksgiving service on March 21, 2010, fun games, which would be held at the El-Wak Sports Stadium on April 3, 2010, and the unveiling of the 50th anniversary cloth.
Mrs Baiden said the items were meant for the inmates and their care takers.
The President of the association, Mrs Matilda Attoh Brehun, said the association was trying to give back to society since many great women leaders of the country were trained by the school.
She said the gesture was to tell the inmates of the leprosarium that they cared for them.
Receiving the items, the prefect of the inmates, Madam Gladys Adobea, thanked the association for their gesture and appealed to other organisations to come to the aid of the leprosarium.
A care-taker at the leprosarium, Mr George Quansah, said the leprosarium needed more facilities and assorted items to help in maintaining it.
He appealed to relatives of the inmates to stop stigmatising them, since the disease was not communicable.