IGP DONATES

27/12/2007
Story & Pix: Mary Mensah, Dodowa
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr Patrick Kwarteng Acheampong, yesterday presented a cow, assorted food items worth ¢20 million and a cash of ¢300 to the Women Refuge and Child Survival Africa, an NGO based at Dodowa.
The items were contributions made by the IGP, his office staff and the Public Affairs Directorate to assist the NGO which caters for battered women and abused children.
He also announced that a club would be formed at the police headquarters to contribute money to offer monthly assistance to the home to put smiles on the faces of the children and women.
The IGP also promised to provide the shelter with a television set before the beginning of CAN 2008 to enable them to watch the matches and other educative programmes.
The Proprietor of the NGO, Mrs Jane Adu, thanked the IGP and his staff for the gesture and called on other organisations and individuals to go to the aid of the home.
She said currently the shelter was taking care of about 45 abandoned children and five battered women, adding that since the setting up of the shelter some six years ago she had been financing its activities from her own meagre resources.
She appealed for assistance from the public to enable the shelter to meet its requirements.

Pix: The IGP, Mr Patrick Kwarteng Acheampong, presenting the items to the Proprietor of the shelter, Mrs Jane Adu, as some members of staff of the IGP office and the children look on.