Asaase Broadcasting Company Ltd, in partnership with the Asaase Foundation, helped to throw a Christmas party and made donations to children at the Princess Marie Louise (PML) Children’s Hospital in Accra yesterday (Tuesday 13 December).
“We have been operational for a year, and in that one year, we came up with a strategy to adopt certain causes that we thought were important,” said Kojo Mensah, president of the Asaase Foundation.
“Children are most important to us, followed by women, and anything related to health is also important and that is why we started the project,” he said.
Among the items presented by the foundation were footballs, branded T-shirts, toys, money, educational materials, school bags, food, water, pastries, cartons of soft drinks, biscuits and water bottles.
“The most important thing about Christmas is sharing, and the most important people during Christmas are children, and Princess Marie Louise Hospital is the only dedicated children’s hospital in this country,” Mensah said.
“It wasn’t a difficult choice [of partner institution] to make.
“The most crowded … hospital is the Princess Marie Hospital. But kidney health is our major project, and children’s health is now something we are trying to do as well.
“So, for now, we are going to be working with the malnutrition unit. Our job now is to concentrate on malnourished children.
“It should be the responsibility of everybody to improve the lives of others. And we go by this adage from Nelson Mandela: ‘You can tell a nation’s wealth by the way she treats her children.’ If a society does not have a place for its children, then it’s not a society,” Mensah said.
The Second Lady, Samira Bawumia, other individuals and charitable organisations joined the foundation to put smiles on the faces of the children.
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