The kabaka Foundation, a social intervention and charitable organization under the Freedom Group has distributed a number of wheelchairs to persons with disability in Nkwatia – Kwahu in the Eastern Region.
As part of its social responsibilities to commemorate the 68th birthday of the Chairman of the Freedom Group, Opanyin Owiredu Wadie, the Executive Director of Kabaka Foundation Dr. Henry Larbi while speaking to Republic FM’s Andy Frimpong Manso said, this initiative forms part of the foundation’s and Nana Owiredu Wadie’s willingness to assist and alleviate the burdens the disables go through in the area.
“The motive of developing the Kwahu – Nkwatia by Nana Owiredu Wadie l is to ensure that, in development nobody in the area is left behind and if you can recall, he made donations to widows in the community and today, he decided to extend the same support to the disables and that is why we are here”, he said.
During a handing over ceremony, the Chairman of the Freedom Group in Nkwatia, the District Chief Executive for the Kwahu East, Mr. Isaac Agyapong accepted the donations and presented it to the disables.
In his remarks, the DCE acknowledged the gesture being meted out by the Kabaka Foundation.
“I wish he can celebrate his birthday every week so he can bless the needy but notwithstanding, I will ask for God’s blessings for him for such a tremendous act of humanitarian activities and to also mark the years that has been bestowed on him earth and its our prayer, it will bigger than what we are seeing in the next two years”, he said
One of the Beneficiaries of the donation, Mr. Kingsley Boateng used the opportunity and called on Nana Owiredu Wadie l the Development chief of Nkwatia – Kwahu to provide them with a training and vocational center in order to create for them a trade that can sustain and support their daily needs.
“We have a bit of challenge and most of us have learned vocational training. Some of us are working, others are not but we are pleading for you to assist us with a vocational training center so we can gather ourselves there, learn and ply our trade so we don’t become burden to the society”
“I’m very happy with what you have just said, and to my surprise I was at an event in Madina Roman church, I saw a lot of people buying bread and later we realized that it was a disable who baked the bread but let me assure you that, God will show us how to go about it but we will absolutely honor your request by all means”, he stated.
The Kabaka Foundation distributed washing gels and other toiletries to the Kwahu Government Hospital, Bukuruwa clinic and other adjoining towns during the presentation of the wheelchairs.
