Nkosuohene of Kwahu Nkwatia Nana Owiredu Wadie (I) as part his annual gestures poor and needy in society ,has donated relief items and cash to widows,disable aged and the vulnerable in Kwahu Nkwatia in the Eastern region through his Kabaka Foundation.
In an interview with the media ,Nana Owiredu Wadie (I) assured to build a factory in the area to creat jobs for the youth particularly children of such poor and vulnerable groups to end the quagmire of poverty .
“We came to support the aged,widow and the disable with relief items we gave them cash and food items. We are planning to build factory to help our brothers and sisters in Kwahu to get some employment opportunities” Nana Owiredu Wadie said.
He called for Strengthening of Ghana social safety net interventions for the poor and vulnerable to alleviate their sufferings.
Latest multidimensional survey by Ghana Statistical Service (GSS),in 50 out of the 261 districts (19.2%), more than half of the household population is multidimensionally poor.
Widows and persons living with disability are among the poorest and vulnerable in the country.
Some of the beneficiary widows sadly recounted the serious challenges they went through to single handedly taking care of their children and themselves after losing their husbands.
Christiana Boamah,a 60 year old widow lost her husband 15 years .She said the family of her late husband disposessed her and seven children access to acres of cocoa farm of the late husband hence out of frustration left Kumasi to stay in her mother’s house at Kwahu Nkwatia to labour and engage in petty trading to take care of the children.
The widows were grateful to Nana Owiredu Wadie I for his annual support.They called on government to provide benefit scheme for poor widows in the country.
Meanwhile, some persons with disability at the event appealed for establishment of a workshop and called on government to take a second look into the mode of disbursement of benefits from the Disability common fund.
Kingsley Boateng, Chairman of Disable Association in Nkwatia said financial benefits through the Disability common fund must be disbursed via mobile money or bank accounts of individual beneficiaries instead of the current module of purchasing startups and table top disbursement of cash
The assembly member for Dompim Electoral area in Kwahu Nkwatia, Dominic Yeboah was grateful to Nana Owiredu Wadie I and father Opanyin Kwame Wadie for their commitment to supporting the poor and vulnerable as well as overall development of the area.
Present at the event was Nana Opoku Amankwah Il, Nkwatia Kyedomhene and Opanyin Kwame Wadie ,father of the Nkosuohene.
Source :Mybryfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
