Buguboi,
(UWR),
Nov. 24,
Ghanadot/GNA
- Mr
Alban
Bagbin,
the
Minority
Leader
in
Parliament,
has
donated
100 bags
of
cement
valued
at GH¢12,000
to the
people
of
Buguboi
in the
Sissala
East
District
for the
construction
of an
orphanage.
He said
people
in the
Sissala
East
District
were
good
farmers.
who
produced
to feed
the
region,
but the
area was
not
accessible
and also
lacked
welfare
and
social
facilities
to help
improve
the
living
standards
of the
people.
Mr
Bagbin,
who is
also a
Member
of
Parliament
for
Nadowli
West,
said the
area has
inadequate
health
facilities
and poor
roads
and
because
of the
high
maternal
death
rate in
the
region,
many
children
whose
mothers
died
during
delivery
and of
HIV/AIDS
were
receiving
little
care due
to the
lack of
an
orphanage.
Besides,
parents
in that
district
have to
travel
many
miles to
seek
care at
the St.
Joseph
Orphanage
at
Jirapa,
the only
orphanage
in the
region,
he
lamented.
“This
unpalatable
situation
touched
me
during
my
rounds
to that
district
and as a
native
of the
Upper
West
Region,
I feel I
should
come in
and help
the
people
to have
an
orphanage”,
Mr
Bagbin
said.
The
Minority
Leader
said it
has been
his wish
to
always
help the
vulnerable
in
society
as well
as
secure
development
for poor
people.
Mr Yanaa
Yahaya,
Executive
Director
of Rural
Organisation
of Women
Farmers
(ROWFAD),
a local
NGO,
appealed
to Mr
Bagbin
for
support
to
undertake
the
project.
He said
the
absence
of such
a
facility
in the
area had
caused
the
death of
so many
children,
whose
lives
could
have
been
secured.
He
thanked
the
Majority
Leader
for his
love and
compassion
for
children,
saying
even
though
Mr
Bagbin
is not a
Sissala
and also
not the
Member
of
Parliament
for the
areas,
“he has
demonstrated
that he
is the
people's
man”.
Mr
Yahaya
appealed
to other
politicians
as well
as
philanthropists
to
emulate
Mr
Bagbin
and
support
the
project
to help
alleviate
the
suffering
of
orphans
in the
Sissala
communities.
GNA
