Reverend Father Daniel Yaw Ganu, Parish Priest of St Augustine’s College Church, Saltpond has donated assorted items worth five thousand Cedis to Village of Hope at Gomoa Tetteh to celebrate his 51st birthday.

The items included bags of rice, sugar, toilet rolls, boxes of biscuit, bags of sachet water, gallons of cooking oil, gallons of liquid soap, soap, boxes of tomato paste, washing powder and carbonated drinks to cushion the management in the up-keep of the children.

Making the presentation at the Village, Rev Fr Ganu, who is also the Dean of Saltpond Deanery of the Catholic Archdiocese of Cape Coast, said he found it prudent to support the less privileged and vulnerable, hence the decision to visit Village of Hope to share the little that God has blessed him with to put smiles on the faces of the children.

He thanked Madam Mary Nyamekye Ankrah, immediate past President of the Saint Gregory Catholic Church at Gomoa Buduburam, who is also the Awutu Senya East Municipal Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) for supporting him with some items for the donation.

He expressed the hope that the items would be used to mitigate the needs of the younger ones under their care.

Mr Ranford Assumie, Senior House Parent of the Village who received the items, thanked the donors and all who joined Rev Father Ganu for the gesture.

He said the Village of Hope had been in existence for the past three decades, and now had seven subsidiaries under it.

They are Hope Christian Academy, Hope Christian Hospital, Hope College and Hope Ridge School, as well as Kwahu Nkwatia Vocational Training Institute in the Eastern Region, which train teenagers picked from the street with skills and another children’s home in Bongo in the Upper East Region.

According to him, currently, some 230 children under their care, including 44 in tertiary institutions, were having their school fees, hostel bills, among others paid by the home.

The children, Mr Assumie p had home setting under a couple to make them feel at home, but called on organisations, families and individuals to visit the children for them to feel loved.

Later, Father Ganu together with Madam Ankrah, had fun with the children and also prayed for them and their caregivers for the Almighty God to be with them in all their endeavours.