Onua Foundation, a subsidiary of the Media General Group on Tuesday, July 30, 2024, donated some food items to the Weija Leprosarium in the Greater Accra Region.
The donation, according to the Director of the Foundation, Abu Issah Monnie, was surplus of items received for the ‘Sallah Feast’ which they decided to donate to the leprosarium.
“The Weija Leprosarium is a place people don’t normally donate to, but they need support badly. So, it is important for the Onua Foundation to put smiles on the faces of these people. That is why Management of Media General decided not to keep the items that remained during the ‘Sallah Feast’ but to bring them here,” he noted.
General Manager of the Group, Stephen Schandorf, on his part expressed the Foundation’s intention to always prioritise the masses to affirm its ‘Ye Dwene Woho Paa’ slogan of caring for the people.
“The Foundation will continue to think about the less- privileged as Onua’s slogan says “Ye Dwen Woho Paa”.
Receiving the items on behalf of his colleagues, the Prefect at the Leprosariumn, Kwame John, stated that he always wondered why Onua had not lived to its tagline and visited them whenever he tuned onto any of the channels.
“I receive these items on behalf of my people. Anytime I watch or listen to Onua TV and FM, I ask myself, so why have these people not visited us since they claim ‘they think about us’, not knowing you had a good plan for us,” she disclosed.
The Administrator for the Leprosarium is Esther Geh. She lamented that, “we have fifty-three lepers. The oldest is 94 and the youngest is 5 years old.”
“We have five Leprosariums in Ghana and the inmates all depend on us, since most of them are aged and can’t work for themselves. And the stigmatization in our society does not even allow them to go out,” she added.
The overseer of the Leprosarium is Father Andrew Campbell. He expressed appreciation for the gifts and called on other philanthropists to come to their aid. “We appreciate Onua Foundation and also I’m appealing to the general public to support us.
“These people here have been rejected by the society and also neglected by families. We cannot watch them die and so we will continue begging Ghanaians to come to our aid,” the Rev. Minister pleaded.
By Regina Akua Sarpomaa
