Private Ashietei Hammond is joined by Broadcaster Abeiku Santana.
A Ghanaian World War II veteran has ended his marketing campaign to elevate money for health professionals and nurses at the front-line of Ghana’s Covid-19 reaction. Personal Ashietei Hammond, now 95 years, took inspiration from 100-year-aged Captain Tom Moore, a British Planet War II veteran, who just lately walked all-around his house to elevate millions in donations for Britain’s Nationwide Wellbeing Service (NHS).
The Navy Cemetery sits quietly only a handful of meters from the Oxford Avenue in which Non-public Hammond has been strolling all 7 days in Accra. And it is right here, in amongst the lush greens and the eerie quietness that Ghana’s fallen soldiers lie, some who stood in fight with him. They lay aspect by facet, comforted, it seems, by the chirping of the birds.
The graves here are the only traces still left to exhibit the bravery and sacrifice of so several that Private Hammond now remembers.
He does not appear his age at all. Personal Hammond is on a mission to increase resources for frontline health workers. He’s been strolling two miles a day from his small property in Osu by means of the Oxford Street to the Military services Cemetery above the past a person week to persuade people today to donate toward his venture. He’s set his eyes on boosting 3.5 million cedis in in guidance of the struggle towards Covid-19.
In excess of the period, Non-public Hammond has been joined on his experience by British Substantial Commissioner Iain Walker, hip lifestyle legend Okyeame Kwame, motion picture star Jocelyn Dumas and lots of a lot more who like him want to stand up and be counted as persons who supported a deserving result in by a aged veteran who for all intents and uses should really really be shielding himself from contracting the condition which has so significantly killed 345 thousand human beings globally.
His day-to-day walks ended right now but his web site is still up and people are becoming encouraged to make donations there.
