The Parish Priest of Mary Help of Christian Parish at Odumase, Rev. Fr. Peter Savio Kpen-Ana says Ghanaians should see it as a moral and Godly duty in reaching out to “Our brothers and sisters who are in need especially those in the street “.

He emphasized that a little bit of kindness everyday will help us together “lift up Ghana as a nation and prevent those who are compelled to travel on the desert through Libya and end up dying in the sea from doing so.

Rev. Fr. Peter Kpen-Ana was speaking at the inauguration of a new building for the Don Bosco Boys Home at Odumase in the Sunyani West District of Brong-Ahafo.

Radio Ghana’s Emmanuel Mensah-Abludo reports that the Project which is valued at 558,606 Ghana Cedis was co-ordinated by Don Bosco Mondo through the Africa West Province Project Office with sponsorship from Knorr- Bremse Global Care and Jokob Christian Adam Stiftung.

Don Bosco Boys Home was established in 1996 by the Salesians of Don Bosco with Rev. Father Isaiah Gonzales Torrres as the founder and the first Director.

Brother Primus Edward .K. Baidu said the Home in spite its challenges has helped in fulfilling the destinies of many young people through formal and informal education.

He said the Home has churned out a lot of skilled personnel such as trained teachers, nurses, mechanics and other artisans who are doing well in the job market.

The DCE for Sunyani West , Madam Agnes Kusi commended the efforts of the Catholic Church in providing home based care, livelihood and nutritional support, skills training for street children, orphan and the sick through its missionary organizations.

The D.C.E called for a stronger complementary efforts from the church and the state to produce what she described as “a complete and a sound society”.

The Catholic Bishop of Sunyani, Most Rev. Matthew Kwasi Gyamfi described the commissioning of the Don Bosco Boys Home christened “Asomdwe Fie “as an important function that goes to the core of a Christian mission.

He observed that 90 percent of us find it very difficult to understand the plight of street children because many of us have never slept on the street to know how it feels like being on there.

Bishop Gyamfi therefore called on society as a whole and the powers that be in particular to help tackle the root causes of streetism for the safety of all of us.

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