NGO launches fund to assist Haiti earthquake victims

Accra, Jan. 20, GNA - The management of Caring Kids International, an Accra-based child welfare oriented NGO on Wednesday launched a fund dubbed 'One for Haiti' in Accra to raise funds to assist victims of the earthquake that hit Haiti recently.

The fund is to ensure each pupil across Ghana contribute one Ghana Cedi towards the set target of one million dollars for the victims. Launching the fund, Nana Frimpomaa II, Founder of the NGO said the assistance from the pupils would help to inculcate in them the habit of giving and the sense of sympathy towards the plight of the needy in society.

She said the organization would embark on an educational programme in schools to help raise the money to be presented to former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan for the victims. Nana Frimpomaa, who is also the Gyantuahemaa of Dormaa Traditional Area in the Brong Ahafo Region, expressed concern that so far donations to the victims came only from the developed countries, without much intervention from African countries although the people of Haiti had ancestral links with the African continent. The NGO assists in the enrollment of poor but needy students in senior high schools and the computerization of libraries in the country.