Yawhima (B/A) Jan. 18, GNA - Brong-Ahafo Students Union (BASU) on Wednesday presented food items, drugs and learning materials worth two million cedis to Compassion is Love in Action, an Orphanage at Yawhima in the Sunyani municipality.

The items were a bag of rice, tins of Milo, beverage drinks, toffees and biscuits, boxes of paracetamol syrup, drinking cups, bread, pencils, crayons and variety of beginner's writing and reading books. Making the presentation at Yawhima, Mr. Anane Agyei, National President of the Union, accompanied by Mr. Stephen Owusu Asamoah, local union president of the University of Cape Coast, said the union would continue to support the orphanage.

Mr. Asamoah said even though the main objective of the union was to ensure quality education in the region, there was the need to identify and support such children in their upbringing.

He commended the management of the home for their humanitarian services and expressed the hope that the items would help to alleviate the plight of the beneficiaries.

Nana Ansu Ababio, chief and Nana Kwame Adu, Krontihene, both of Yawhima who received the items on behalf of the orphanage thanked the union for the gesture.

Nana Adu, who is the Manager of the orphanage said there were 30 inmates and appealed to philanthropists, NGOs and other public-spirited organizations in the region to assist the orphanage.

Divisional Officer Atta Ameyaw, Brong-Ahafo Regional Coordinator of Rural Fire Division of Ghana National Fire Service educated the community on the causes and consequences of bush and domestic fires. He mentioned poverty, diseases and hunger as the effects of fire disasters and advised the people to guard against the outbreak of fires, particularly during the current harmattan season.

Divisional Officer Ameyaw deplored the activities of group hunters and palm wine tappers whom he said were the worst culprits of bushfires and warned that the Service would not relent in efforts to ensure that perpetrators faced the full rigours of the law.

On domestic fires, the Divisional Officer advised the people to engage qualified electricians to check their insulators and to change their old wires.

He added that the Service would embark on a house-to-house exercise to inspect their wiring systems and appealed to the general public to cooperate during the exercise.