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Kantanku Global Foundation supports needy children in Ghana
The Kantanku Global Foundation has donated some assorted clothing and footwear to some needy children in Kpasiri, a village in the Wa municipality in the Upper West region of Ghana.
The donation forms part of the foundation’s response to some pressing issues affecting the community, especially needy children.
The power of community proves that when people care and come together, change is more than possible.
Kantanku Global Foundation has taken up the challenge to create a more compassionate and community-focused environment to model the value of generosity and selflessness for the needy and more community-based supports in the areas of education, health care, shelter, food, sanitation, and basic essential needs to facilitate the successful growth of mankind.
Kpasiri is a farming community that is confronted with numerous socio-economic challenges that are common among developing communities in the region. Most people in the village fall into the poverty bracket, and they barely make ends meet.
The community is predominantly a farming community that cultivates on a small scale. Most youths, especially females, have resorted to migrating to urban centres to learn skilled apprenticeship training, mostly in sewing, but end up halfway due to financial constraints that could facilitate their daily transport to and fro, food, and utility expenses.
The only health facility in the village lacks equipment, making it difficult to access healthcare.
In a video message, the Founder of the Foundation, Mr. Emmauel Nana Marfo, said even with the scanty resources at the Foundation’s disposal, it will continue to provide comprehensive essential services such as emergency aid, food and water supplies, shelter, healthcare, sanitation, and education to the marginalised.
He thanked the donors for their immense contributions to showing care and love for the needy.
Mr. Marfo recounted that the Foundation has so far supported many lives in three regions in Ghana, such as the Upper West, Volta, and Greater Accra, at different humanitarian services on countless occasions and continues to impact the poorest of the poor for a better future.
According to him, many high-profile personalities, in their beginnings, encountered socio-economic challenges before they realised their enviable heights, and he called on all well-endowed people to support and engage in charity work for a prosperous future.
The Assembyman for Kpasiri Electoral Area, Hon. Saeed Abdul Rashid expressed gratitude for the benevolent gesture of the foundation in identifying the pressing needs of the community and responding to them.
He appeals to donors to support the foundation in other areas, especially healthcare equipment and agricultural technology training, to promote and address the wellbeing and welfare of the people in the community.
The parents of the beneficiaries were very grateful to the foundation for coming to their aid; adding the donation will go a long way to mitigate their challenges.
The Member of Parliament for Nsawam Adoagyiri, Frank Annoh Dompreh, has expressed concern over delays in the release of the District Assemblies Common Fund, warning that the situation is stalling development across the country.
On his facebook page, he described as a matter of urgent national importance, the Minority Chief Whip pointed to what he sees as a growing crisis of unpaid contractors, abandoned projects, and halted infrastructure works in many districts.
He noted that several communities are grappling with half completed schools, unfinished health facilities, abandoned markets, deteriorating roads, and stalled sanitation projects.
According to him, many contractors who have executed projects for district assemblies have not been paid, forcing some construction firms to demobilise from sites while workers lose their jobs.
He stressed that the District Assemblies Common Fund is not a discretionary allocation but a constitutional requirement under Article 252 of the 1992 Constitution, intended to support development at the local level.
In his view, years of delayed releases and accumulated arrears have weakened district development financing and disrupted projects meant to improve living conditions in communities.
He further argued that some payments made in recent years were largely the settlement of old debts rather than funding for new or ongoing projects, a situation he believes has affected contractor confidence and local economic activity.
He described the issue as more than a budgetary challenge, characterising it as a development emergency and a governance concern.
He therefore urged the appropriate authorities to pay outstanding DACF arrears, settle contractors who have completed their work, and ensure that transfers to districts are automatic and predictable.
He maintained that decentralisation can only succeed when district assemblies receive adequate and timely funding to carry out development projects.
He emphasised that stalled projects directly affect ordinary citizens, since they rely on such infrastructure for education, healthcare, transportation, sanitation, and economic activities.
He called for renewed attention to grassroots development, insisting that national progress should not be concentrated only in major cities but extended to all communities.
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