The Gideon Charity Foundation has donated some items consisting of sixty packs of sachet water, Soft drinks, Kivo products, boxes of soap and buckets of detergents, among others to the Ankaful Main Camp Prison.
The donation exercise was led by Mr. Gideon Quansah, a co-founder of the foundation and a PhD candidate at the University of Cape Coast on Monday, January 27, 2025.
Mr. Quansah stated that the initiative forms part of the University’s community outreach function in the society, adding that as a student empowered by the university, it is deemed appropriate to support communities and less privileged people.
He stated that the donation, part of his birthday celebration on January 27, 2025, reflects his commitment to supporting the less privileged.
Emphasizing his Christian faith, he highlighted that giving back to society and assisting the needy is a core value he upholds.
“I know as postgraduate students we are not in school just to study, we are in school to study, do research and then give back to the society and this really motivated us to go to Ankafo Prison to give back to them.
We are Christians and we know that as Jesus said in Matthew 25: 40 that I was in prison and the people didn’t visit me. so that particular test in the Bible actually motivated us to visit them because any of us can’t be in there so we have to just mobilize something and then send to them”, He stated.
Moving forward, Mr. Quansah assured that the foundation will establish a mobilized fund to raise financial support for the inmates at Ankafo Prisons. This initiative follows the prison commander’s disclosure of a shortage of essential items.
The Assistant Director of station command at the Ankaful Main Camp Prisons, Dr. Aaron Agbenyegah Agbo who received the items thanked the foundation for the kind gesture and describe it as timely because the prisons need such items to supplement the little they have.
He disclosed that donation is crucial for the smooth running of the prisons; offering them feeds out of their routine feeding as inmates.
“It boosts their nutrition and then also makes them happy …” he said.
Dr. Agbenyegah Agbo indicated that the institution faces some challenges such as insufficient drugs for health needs of mentally ill inmates, and some tools used in training them with skills that can ensure their independence when they are released from prison.
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