The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection on Friday donated items to orphanages and prisons in five regions.

The items included 10 bags of rice, 60 boxes of sanitary pads, two cartons of cooking oil, 70 boxes of chocolim, 15 trails of ideal milk, seven sacks of second hand clothing for children and 100 bags of sachet water.

The beneficiaries are Gambaga Witches Camp in the Northern Region, Royal Seed Home, Kasoa in the Central Region, Partnership in Community Development and Ho Female Prisons in the Volta Region and Sunyani Female Prisons in the Brong-Ahafo Region.

Nana Oye Lithur, the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, presented the items and described the Ministry as a government machinery mandated to ensure empowerment of vulnerable, aged and persons with disability through the use of social protection and other innovative interventions.

She said the donation would, not only change the situation of the beneficiaries but would also improve their lives and acknowledged the efforts and support of the donors to improve livelihood for the less privileged.

"This for me is the power that partnership has to change situations and champion positive social change," she said.

Nana Oye Lithur appealed to individuals and organizations to emulate the example of the donors to restore the dignity of the life of under-privilege that might have been lost.

Superintendent Grace Allan-Gayinah, Officer In-Charge of the Ho Female Prison, thanked the minister, staff of the ministry and the donors for the gesture.