Kwaw Kese Donates To Orphans
KWAW KESE is one hiplife artiste who anyone would least expect to share his possession with society.
He however erased that perception when he donated some items worth ¢5million to the children at the Peace And Love Orphanage in Adenta which is under the management of popular Akan Drama star, Grace Omaboe, aka Maame Dokono.
The donation was part of his efforts “to give back to society what he gets from society.”
Five months ago the artiste donated to two other orphanages at Swedru and Asiakwa.
The “Abodam” chanter would be coming out with new songs at concerts he would be organizing in collaboration with Maame Dokono's orphanage in the other regions to raise funds for the disadvantaged children.
When he entered the premises of the orphanage, children as young as two hailed him “Abodam”, literally meaning “madness”, to which he responded “fa wusa bo waa adwin”, also meaning “hit your hand against your brains”. This, he explained, was his class of attracting admirers; he thus uses it anytime he mounts the stage.
During the donation some of the tracks from both his new and old albums were played to entertain the kids, with whom he made merry and as well urged to learn hard at school.
Receiving the items, Maame Dokono congratulated the artiste for remembering the children in her orphanage.
Recounting some of the challenges facing the orphanage, she took the artiste and his entourage round the orphanage to look at conditions.
She mentioned that the orphanage as well had a school that was open to the public. However, she said, on the introduction of the school feeding programme, which the school did not have, some of the pupils had left for other schools.
According to her, the school had been sidelined in the capitation grant. “I have applied to the capitation grant secretariat but they ask me to hold on. I am yet to receive any reply.”
She disclosed also that several attempts had been made to register the orphans for the National Health Insurance Scheme but they could not pay the ¢20million being demanded as the registration fee.
She therefore appealed to the government as well as the general public to come to the aid of the orphans.
“The children are orphans and I am just a caretaker who would have to account for their wellbeing; I need the assistance of all and sundry to take care of them,” she added.
She commended the first lady, Mrs. Theresa Kufuor, for coming to their aid at a point in time when they were in need.
By Francis Addo