Third Sector Foundation Ghana donates to aged in Oyibi-Saasabi

By Iddi Yire, GNA

Oyibi (GAR), Nov. 12, GNA - The Third Sector Foundation (TSF)Ghana, a non-governmental organisation, has organised an outreach programme for the aged at Oyibi-Saasabi in the Kpone-Kantamanso District of the Greater Accra Region.

The outreach programme was organised by TSF in collaboration with the 2019 Master of Business Administration (MBA) Corporate Governance Students of the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA).

During the outreach programme, the two groups presented assorted items to the aged.

Each aged person received a package which contained a half piece of cloth, a pack of toilet roll, one litre cooking oil, five kilogramme bag if rice, three pieces of geisha toilet soap, a bar of key soap, three tins of sardines, a packet of sugar, a milo, and a pack of powdered milk.

Beneficiaries were also taken through a health screening exercise where their malaria and blood pressure status were tested.

They were also offered free medication; educated on the importance of adopting healthy lifestyles; as well National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) registration.

Speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA), Dr Augustine Awuah Peprah, a team member of TSF Ghana, said the Foundation dealt with various issues including education and environmental health.

He said the outreach programme seeks to affect lives of people especially in deprived communities like Saasabi, and they decided to partner with the graduate students so they could impact lives.

Dr Peprah, who is also a Lecturer at UPSA, said these were people above 70 years, not working, their health is deteriorating, hence the effort to aid them.

Madam Trudy Lamptey, Assistant Team Lead, who described the exercise as a fulfilling endeavor, said the project has given them the opportunity to learn something about outreach programmes; so in the near future, when they were out of school, they would hopefully come to together and embark on such initiatives.

Nii Ashitey Saasabi II, chief of Saasabi, expressed gratitude to TSF Ghana and the graduate students for their kind gesture.

He said the community has a borehole and electricity, however, one of its major challenges being encountered is with the road network from the New Saasabi through to the Old Saasabi community and; “we call on government to help us in that regard”.

TSF Ghana is an NGO that builds and sustains society through robust, participatory and action research to enhance the socio-economic agenda of sustainable development.

The Foundation exists to develop a global partnership with practitioners in industries, government institutions, foreign agencies, embassies, private funders, NGOs and other institutions of interest to find empirical solutions to universal primary education, extreme poverty, gender equality, environmental sustainability, women and child development through research findings.

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