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Hope for Ho ex-convicts …hotel to offer assistance
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Ex-convicts in the Volta Region would no longer be jobless after their release from prison as one of the hotels at Ho, has taken it upon itself to train them soon after they finish serving their sentences.
As the name depicts, Management of Freedom Hotel, Ho, has announced plans to train ex-convicts in the hospitality industry.
“This is to facilitate their reintegration into the society and make them self-reliant, after the training, they could seek jobs or set up their own businesses.” Mr Bob Coffie Dusu, Managing Director of the hotel, has said.
Mr Dusu was speaking to The Spectator when the management of the hotel donated a modern and large ice-chest, a carton of soap, hand-sanitisers, consignment of sanitary paper and packs of bottled water to the Ho Female Prison, a fortnight ago.
The items were presented to the Correctional Centre by Ms Dorothy Hamza, Human Resource Manager of the Freedom Hotel, accompanied by Madam Gertrude Sowor and Mr Ganyo Klu, manager and chief driver respectively.
Ms Hamza said that the hotel was of the conviction that once ex-convicts were once again gainfully employed they would contribute their quota to national development without resorting to crime for a living.
She said, prisoners and ex-convicts needed love from the society to reform completely.
Furthermore, Ms Hamza said that prisoners only lost their right to personal freedom during their incarceration not their right to personal dignity.
Assistant Superintendent of Prison (ASP) Augusta Addo received the items on behalf of the Ho Female Prison .
Later, the Officer-in-charge of the Ho Female Prison, Superintendent Mandy Mensah expressed gratitude for the gesture, saying the concern shown to inmates by the Freedom Hotel was highly gratifying.
She gave the assurance that the Ho Female Prison would support the hospitality training programme of the hotel by recommending inmates to them before the completion of their jail terms.
Superintendent Mensah entreated other corporate bodies and pubic-spirited individuals to support the welfare of prisoners in various ways for their upkeep.
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Christians have been urged to demonstrate a living faith in Jesus Christ by allowing their confession of Him as Lord and Saviour to reflect in their daily lives.
According to the Kaneshie District Pastor of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana (EPCG), Rev. Dzidzor Nathaniel Affram, a genuine Christian’s confession should go beyond words and be demonstrated through obedience to God, love for others and service to the Church.
He made the call at the 40th anniversary remembrance service for the late Wesley Kwasi Kwadzo at the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana, Maranatha Congregation at Awudome Avenui in the Volta Region.
Speaking on the theme, “The Church Built on a Living Confession,” Rev. Affram said life would continually present challenges capable of testing Christians’ faith, making it necessary for believers to hold firmly to their confession that Jesus Christ is Lord.
He explained that accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour required Christians to live according to His teachings, stressing that their faith must be evident in their conduct.
“A living confession listens to God and not man,” he said, urging Christians to remain obedient to God even when faced with difficulties and pressures.
Rev. Affram further encouraged the congregation to care for vulnerable people and demonstrate concern for others, adding that such acts were practical expressions of Christian faith.
He also urged Christians to identify and use their God-given gifts to build the Church.
He said every member of the Church had a role to play and cautioned Christians against looking down on others because of their status or abilities.
The remembrance service brought together family members, friends, members of the congregation and sympathisers to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the late Wesley Kwasi Kwadzo.
By Lizzy Okai
