Boy-Little one Initiative Ghana (BCIG), an NGO, on Saturday donated assorted merchandise to over 100 avenue boys who slumber at a slum in the vicinity of Opeibea House, off the Airport Freeway in Accra.
The items provided toothpaste, toothbrushes, slippers, nose masks, and beverages.
The NGO also donated food items merchandise to Mr Mohammed Afisu, a road boy who was knocked down by a car or truck when he was cleansing the windscreen of cars at the Opeibea visitors mild.
Akosua Offeibea Boakye, the Director of Boy-Child Initiative Ghana, said the donation was to present adore and present hope to the road boys in the region.
Ms Boakye mentioned the organisation realised that social interventions were being generally targeted to girls, neglecting the boys, for this reason the need to advocate for boys in susceptible communities by empowering them to be dependable citizens in the long run.
This, she spelled out, was essential simply because the men had been regarded as heads of families and as such desired to empower to get up the leadership obligation.
The organisation, according to her, provided instructional and scholarship supports to good but needy, primarily the boy-baby in deprived communities.
Ms Boakye stated the organisation because its inception in 2014 has donated to a village in Suhum, Children’s home, Nsawam prison, and supported the education of two boys in the Senior Superior Colleges.
Boakye explained the establishment of BCIG was to bridge the gap amongst the notice accorded to the female-baby to that of the boy-child.
Mr. Sulemana Yayah on behalf of the road boys thanked the organisation for the form gesture, adding that the goods would deliver reduction to the beneficiaries.
He reported he started out residing on the streets given that 1992 and indulged in prison functions and afterwards arrested and imprisoned for 9 a long time for theft
“I have realized classes in jail and I am a modified human being now. I no more engaged in legal activities”, he explained.
He appealed to the organisation to supply them with mosquito nets.
Mr Afisu recommended the organisation for the adore and treatment confirmed him and appealed for assist to be enrolled as an automobile mechanic apprentice.
