Kumasi, Jan.12, GNA - The District Grand Lodge of Ghana Freemasons as part of its 75th anniversary has donated 15 million cedis to the Kumasi Children's Home.

Activities lined up for the one-week celebration include a medical symposium as well as a soiree for media practitioners.

Speaking to the Ghana News Agency after the presentation in Kumasi on Friday, Mr Abraham Gyesie, Chairman for Publicity and Public Relations of the Committee for the anniversary, said the group regarded mankind as God's children and saw the need to help make the lives of the deprived in the society a happy one.

He added that their gesture was also to promote development as well as to prove to the public that Freemasonry was a charitable organisation.

Mr Gyesie explained that any male adult of 21 years and above who believed in God and had a good character and the desire to serve could be a member.

Dr Victor Akrofi, the current Head of the Freemason in the Ashanti, Brong Ahafo and the Northern regions, appealed to women in the reproductive stage to plan their lives and stop being promiscuous to prevent abandoning their babies at obscure places since they were not ready for them.

He invited the media practitioners to their Soiree on Friday night to interact with members to educate the public on the doctrines of the society for the public to have a true picture of what Freemasonry was about and its work.

Other members present at the presentation were the immediate past head and some members from the Greater Accra region. Madam Beatrice Osei Assibbey, Child Officer of the Home, thanked the group for its benevolence and appealed to other groups and organizations to emulate the Lodge. 12 Jan 07