FIVE ORPHANAGES RECEIVES SUPPORT FROM LORDINA FOUNDATION

First Lady Lordina Mahama has once again fulfilled her pledges of supporting some orphanage homes in the country. The orphanage homes namely Frank May, Bethesda and Let the Kids Smile all in the Brong Ahafo with Anfaani and Tamale children’s home in the Northern Region.

The yearly ritual sees to the donation of food items, beverages and toiletries to help in catering for children who one way or the other have been abandoned and hitherto children whose parents have passed on. At separate presentation at the five homes, Mrs. Mahama said she would not relent on her efforts in giving each child a reason to live.

It is now evident that care for the less privileged in society is a value rooted in the First Lady Lordina Mahama. This is because the urge to support these homes has become insatiable all the time adding that every child needs to be helped to realise his dream with or without parents .It is this passion that drives her all the time to continue supporting children in these orphanages to become useful in future.

Most of the children adopted by the First Lady are either in the universities and other tertiary institutions. The little ones have also been enrolled in various schools.

Mrs. Mahama said it is fulfilling that her efforts are yielding results.
 At Frank May Orphanage home, the manager  Frank Apus recounted some devastating story surrounding one of the child brought there by Holy Family Hospital. He said after the mother of the child passed on, the family chose the dead body over the baby.


This story and more is what has led him and his wife to take in these children. He said the home is striving because of the immense contribution of the First Lady for the past eight years.

Most of the children are being brought from social welfare, Police and Holy Family Hospital.
 The story was not different at Bethesda and Let the Kids smile orphanages.

At Bethesda there are 12 children in their custody with most of them at their advanced stages in their education.

The founder of Bethesda Pastor Stephen Volante was full of praise for the first Lady for the gesture, which has been consistent for more than eight years. A similar presentation was made at Let Kids Smile in Nkoranza. 
The First Lady and her team later moved to Tamale Children’s home.

One by one the First Lady interacted with children of the home and the staff as well. There were giggles and laughter all around. That is what the presence of the First Lady brings each time she visits the home.
Though the Tamale children's home is a government funded, the First Lady continues to support the home. Apart from the food items, a dormitory block facilitated by her Foundation, is nearing completion is under construction.

Home Supervisor Augustina Quainoe says the gesture by the First Lady is immeasurable. Anfaani Children's home was the next point of call. Most of the children brought there are as little as one week old.  The children are victims of abandonment and those whose mothers died at birth.

One distressing challenge facing the home is that when family members bring the babies there they cease coming to the home to check up on them.

Those who also do visit don’t do so regularly. This is a source of worry to them but staffs of the home say they are managing with the support from the First Lady.

This home one may say is emotionally attached to the First Lady Lordina Mahama. Reason being that it is made up of only babies and for her at such tender age more needs to be done to take care of them. One by one she checked up on all the children in the home and those sleeping in baby cots while carrying some of them.

This motherly love exhibited by the First Lady left staff of the home in awe as they look on. Mohammed Abdul Razak administrator of the home together with another eleven people manages the home. He was short of words for the First Lady.

According to him words cannot express how thankful the home is to the First Lady.


The First Lady who also provided new sets of baby cots for the children at Anfaani, pledged her continuous support for the children.