Mr Sylvester Parker-Allotey, Ambassador to Japan and his wife Mrs Alice Parker-Allotey, at the weekend joined inmates of the Mathew 25 House, an HIV and AIDS Care Centre in Koforidua to celebrate Christmas.

The occasion also marked the 60th birthday of Mrs Parker-Allotey, in Koforidua at the weekend and the couple were joined by their children and grandchild for the event.

The Christmas party is an annual affair of the Mathew 25 House to fete persons living with HIV and AIDS (PLWAs) from other parts of the region, orphans and vulnerable persons. This year, students of the Koforidua School for the Deaf took.

Monsignor Bobby Benson, Founder and Director of the Mathew 25 House, said the rationale behind the Christmas party every year was to put smiles on the face of the PLWAs and the many orphans and vulnerable persons in the society.

He said the House also fetes patients at all hospitals in Koforidua, inmates of the Koforidua Prisons and cells and destitute on the streets on every 25th December, to show love.

Monsignor Benson mentioned that all this activities had been realised through the benevolence of many people including the wife of the Vice President, Mrs Matilda Amissah-Arthur.

Mrs Golda Asante, Technical Coordinator of HIV and AIDS in the Eastern Region, advised the PLWAs not to look down upon themselves to aggravate their situation.