MAMPONG BABIES HOME IN DISTRESS

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Management of the Asante Mampong Babies Home has appealed to philanthropic individuals and organizations to help the Home to offset its 26 thousand Ghana Cedi debt to the Electricity Company of Ghana to avoid a disconnection from the National Grid.

 The 26 thousand Ghana Cedi debt is the amount outstanding following Central Government’s decision to discontinue the payment of utility bills of the Home about a year ago, while the Asante Mampong Municipal Assembly which has accepted to pay the monthly bills has also declined to offset that bill.

 Making the appeal through the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation at Asante Mampong, the Supervisor of the Home, Madam Margaret Addai noted that the ECG recently reconnected the Home to the national grid after a period of disconnection.

 They have however threatened to cut off the Home again if the outstanding bill is not paid anytime soon. 

The Asante Mampong Babies Home was founded by Sisters of the Anglican Church in the 1960s as part of the Saint Monica’s Complex made up of a Primary, Junior and Senior High Schools, a College of Education, a Maternity as well as a Midwifery Training School. 

The Babies Home was established primarily to cater for babies whose mothers died during labour. 

But with time, it has become the orphanage for abandoned children in general.

 It currently has 50 inmates with the youngest among them only one and a half months old while the oldest is aged 11 years. 

Even though for sometime now, the Home has been under the care of the Department of Social Welfare of the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, it largely survives on monthly stipends from the Kumasi Anglican Diocese for infant formula for the little inmates and goodwill of individuals and organizations. 

Madam Addai disclosed that the sector Minister has now started processes to enroll the Home unto the Livelihood Against Poverty, LEAP as a means of getting them money for the Home’s upkeep.

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