LET'S HELP OTHERS: BECOME A VOLUNTEER
The recent cyber bully in todays world is helping the vulnerable and not protecting their digital footprint. Kindness is a long-held secret that does not require evidence. You often don’t have to be concerned about leaving tracks while traveling the…
Family-Based vs Institutional Care book is launched- a call to put children in families not orphanages. The book “Family-Based vs. Institutional Care: Best approaches to caring for Orphans and Vulnerable Children’s” launch was a success. Thank you to all who…
It’s a book launch…and You are all Invited. Experiencing childhood in an orphanage, I never envisioned working with orphans and vulnerable children. When I figured I had to put this book together, it was mixed feelings. I cannot save the…
The history of orphanages in Ghana is a painful trip back in time. Although no child welfare system existed in the pre-colonial Gold Coast, it was customary for the extended family, through kinship foster care and other community networks, to…
Life tries to convince us that there’s nothing special about us…and that we have too many obstacles to ever accomplish our dreams…and that we’ve made too many mistakes to ever leave our mark. But we don’t realize who we are.…
Incest is a crime and one of the crimes handled discreetly in Ghana. Check this story out. Every day, Mama Lulu (real name withheld) goes through unbearable pain when she recalls how her husband defiled their nine-year-old daughter at Dedeso,…
The countdown to the release of my book has begun with a pre-order. The impact I have seen talking openly about orphans and vulnerable children is incredible. Thank you for giving me the chance to see the writer in me.…
There are various ministries in Ghana in charge of child welfare. In Ghana, child maintenance is recognized as a mandatory parental obligation enforced by the Department of Social Welfare and the Court through social workers. Still, the government is supposed…
Did you know most orphanages in Ghana operate below the national standard? Many times donors’ bowels of compassion are moved towards orphanages with leaking roofs and with the children looking tattered. In the bid to fulfill their moral obligations, they…
As I journeyed beyond the orphanage, I always almost turn my heart and mind to vulnerable children across the globe and how they chart their life paths. Anytime I do that, I am reminded of my little self in the…