Nkoranza (B/A), Aug. 29, GNA - Members of the women's ministry of the Nkoranza South, North and East districts of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, has donated a cash amount of 500,000 cedis and food items to the inmates at the Tuberculosis (TB) section of the Saint Theresa's Catholic Hospital at Nkoranza.

The items included yams, fruits and vegetables and these formed part of their welfare activities, Madam Joyce Oppong, leader of the ministry told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Nkoranza. She said the women's ministry of the church had been carrying out evangelisation programmes in the communities so as to win more souls for the church and that they also offered counselling to the youth to be serious with their education in order that they would do away with social vices and grow to become responsible citizens to serve the church and the state.

She said the members were also being offering training to acquire vocational skills and to undertake income-generating activities in trades such as batik tie and dye printing as well as catering, and they would generate resources to support their husbands in the upkeep of their families.

She disclosed that the churchwomen's ministry also undertook clean up exercise in the communities and to promote environmental sanitation among the people to free them from contracting communicable diseases. Madam Oppong commended the members of the ministry for their joint efforts in rendering active services towards the growth of the ministry and urged them not to relent in their efforts as their activities also enhanced the development of the church. Madam Susanna Fosua, Ward Assistant at the hospital, who received the items on behalf of the inmates, was grateful to the donors for their kind and generous offer. She urged other religious institutions to copy from the shining examples of the ministry to promote the health status of the inmates. 29 Aug. 06