CILIIA children’s home to construct a clinic

Yawhima(B/A), Nov. 22, GNA – The management of Compassion Is Love In Action (CILIA) Children’s Home at Yawhima in the Sunyani Municipality has initiated the construction of a clinic to improve health care delivery to its inmates. The clinic comprising a short stay ward, nurse’s office, dispensary, consulting room and an Out-Patient Department (OPD) is estimated at about GH¢120,000. Reverend Mrs Charlotte Osei Kwarteng, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Home speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Yawhima on Thursday, said two US-based Ghanaian philanthropists had presented an initial amount of GH¢20,000 with a promise of further assistance towards the project. She said some building materials had been procured for the project which is expected to begin in December, 2012. Rev Mrs Kwarteng said as a non-profit making organisation, CILIA depended on her own resources as well as assistance from individuals and charitable organisations in the society. She appealed to government, charitable organisations, financial institutions and other philanthropists to assist the Home not only to complete the clinic on schedule but to undertake the other development projects for the welfare of the inmates. Rev Mrs Kwarteng said an urgent need of the Home was a means of transport for field trips for the inmates adding “It is my passionate plea and appeal to all individuals, groups and companies in Ghana and outside to come to our aid for holistic education and training for the inmates”. CILIA has 38 orphans with the oldest being two years and seven needy children. It is situated on an eight-acre land and currently has a security booth, an administrative block, a nursery and a temporal accommodation for the inmates. In addition, the Home has been designed to include a caretaker’s house, a bungalow for the Founder, dinning and an assembly hall with kitchen, a six-classroom block, chapel and a mission house, a workshop for vocational and technical training and dormitories for boys and girls.   GNA ... Read Full Story