Tamale, July 1, GNA - As part of its tenth anniversary celebration, The Office of the Administrator of Stool Lands (OASL), has donated assorted items valued at six million cedis, to the Tamale Children's Home.

The items included rice, omo, key soap, lactogen, dettol and cooking oil.

The OASL also presented two million cedis to the Home. Mr Divine Comla Sekyere, out-going Northern Regional Stool Lands Officer, who made the presentation, said the Office of the Administrator of Stool Lands chose the Tamale Children's Home as a beneficiary of the donations from personal contributions by staff of the Office. Mr Sekyere explained the functions and responsibilities of the Office of the Stool Lands, which among others, received rents, dues, royalties, revenues and other payments in income or capital, from stool or skin lands.

He said the activities of the OASL had contributed to poverty alleviation and ensured best practices of the land administration, adding "It is for this fact that we cannot celebrate our tenth anniversary alone but to extend a gesture of social responsibility to our deprived and less privileged brothers and sisters". Mrs Augustina Quainoo, the Proprietress said the Tamale Children's Home currently had 17 children, the youngest being two months old. She commended the Office of the Administrator of Stool Lands for the gesture and appealed to other organisations to provide the Home with a means of transport and a stand-by electricity generator.