Orphanage managers asked to ensure quality care

Anum Apapam (E/R), Oct 31, GNA – A prophetess of the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) has asked managers and caretakers of orphanages to give quality care to children in their care to ensure their proper growth.

These children could contribute to the development of the country if they were brought up properly, she stated.

Prophetess Elizabeth Bradu Quayeba, in-charge of the Promisedland Prayer Centre of the CAC, told the Ghana News Agency at Anum Apapam in the Eastern Region that orphanage managers, therefore, required continuous training to enable them to deliver quality services.

Prophetess Quayeba who is also the proprietress of “Maa Lizzy Home”, an orphanage and preparatory school facility at Anum Apapam with a branch at Achiansa in the Suhum Kraboa Coaltar District, said caretakers of orphanages also had to be developed to be on top of the work and be intelligent.

She Maa Lizzy Home took up the challenge of caring for abandoned and orphaned babies a few years back and that some of those children had grown to assume responsible positions in the society.

She added that the home nurtured children from the initial years who are later reunited with their families, many of whom were migrant labourers and very poor.

Prophetess Quayeba expressed worry about the falling standards of education in the Suhum Kraboa Coaltar district, and urged the education directorate to endeavour to organise workshops for stakeholders in education to find the means of addressing the problem.

She asked stakeholders to make conscious attempts to mobilise resources to address the downward trend in education in the District, including the improvement of school structures.

She warned against lavish spending on funerals to the neglect of children's education and their development needs and called for a change of attitude among the people, so as to help provide children the needed education to improve the human resource base of the area to enhance development.

Prophetess Quayeba conducted the GNA round a site to establish an estimated GH₵ 15,000 vocational school at Anum Apapam for the numerous female school drop-outs who are idlers in and around the sub-district.

She noted that teenage pregnancy was high, as well as the school drop-out rate, while moral standards were also low, and expressed concern about the fact that most children did not go beyond the Junior High School level.

GNA