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Morning Glory Foundation supports 15 widows
• Morning Glory Foundation beneficiaries in a group photograph
Morning Glory Foundation (MGF), a non-profit Christian organisation has donated GHC 1, 000. 00 each to 15 needy widows, including an 87-year-old woman at a ceremony at Dabala, in the South Tongu District of the Volta Region.
The octogenarian, Madam Deborah Viletor, had given birth to seven children but unfortunately lost all of them, with her last surviving child buried this year.
The gesture which formed part of MGF’s second -year of donating to support needy widows and single parents in the society, was also used to provide a two-day entrepreneurial skills training for over 300 female residents atDabala and its environs.
The training include making of pastries, producing liquid soap, local drinks, detergents and arrangement of beads to make them self-reliant.
The trainees were drawn from Dabala, Dabala Junction, Klikpo, Agavey, Deme, Agboglah, Hleve and Agordomey, all in the Agave Traditional Area.
The founder and leader of MGF, Rev Davida Matti-Atapka, said the foundation was started to support poor widows who were left unaided but compelled to toil and cater for their children.
She said it was unfortunate that most of the widows were subjected to inhumane treatment following the death of their husbands, including expulsion from their matrimonial homes.
The founder disclosed that it was incumbent on society to ensure that people received love, the best of treatment, care and support to make them comfortable.
According to Rev Matti-Atakpa, it was refreshing to note that a few days after the training session,some of the trainees had commenced making use of the skills they had acquired.
The Queen of Agave Traditional Area, Mamaga Kakator Agarll, asked the participants to take the skills training they had acquired seriously because elsewhere, others had to pay much for such training opportunities, adding that those who had received financial support from MGF should put the money to good use to enable them educate their children.
She thanked MGF for coming to the aid of the residents in the community, and called on philanthropists andother groups to emulate them to bring development to the area.
History
Delving into the commencement of MGF, Rev Matti-Atakpa said on July 18, 2017 after she had breastfed her child at dawn, she felt a tap on her shoulder with the accompanied words, “Just as you have fed your child with undiluted milk, so must you feed my sheep with the unadulterated word of God each dawn.”
She said this literally gave birth to the formation of MGF with the sole aim of propagating the word of God, but thiswas later extended to caring for widows and single parents.
By Raymond Kyekye
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) will undertake a nationwide Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination exercise in schools from October to December 2026 to protect eligible girls against cervical cancer and other HPV related diseases.
The exercise, organised in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service (GES) and its partners through the School Health Education Programme (SHEP), will be conducted in two rounds.
The first round is scheduled for October 19 to 23, 2026, while the second will take place from November 30 to December 4, 2026.
In a press release dated October 19, the GHS explained that health workers would visit schools across the country to vaccinate eligible girls aged 9 to 14 who have not yet received the HPV vaccine.
The exercise forms part of efforts to raise awareness about the routine HPV vaccine, increase vaccination uptake and strengthen the country’s routine immunisation programme.
The GHS has called on school authorities, parents, guardians, teachers and community leaders to cooperate with health teams to ensure the successful implementation of the exercise.
The Service reaffirmed its commitment to protecting the health and well-being of Ghanaians, particularly children, through vaccination and other public health interventions.
By: Jacob Aggrey
Vice President Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang has held high-level discussions with organisers of the 2026 Global South Academic Forum in Shanghai, seeking to draw lessons from China’s acclaimed rural revitalisation and poverty reduction drive.
The meeting, led by the Forum Chair, Professor Lu Xinyu, explored practical areas of cooperation and knowledge exchange between Ghana and China, with focus on community-driven development, fisheries and aquaculture, local governance, sports initiatives, and infrastructure development.
According to officials, the engagement is part of a broader effort by the Ghanaian government to study tested development models that can be adapted to the local context to promote inclusive growth, empower local communities, and improve livelihoods across the country.
China’s success in lifting over 800 million people out of poverty through targeted rural policies, investment in agriculture and local infrastructure has become a global reference point for developing nations.
The Vice President’s team says insights from the Forum will help inform policy direction, particularly in strengthening decentralised governance, boosting the fisheries and aquaculture sector, and investing in community-level infrastructure and youth sports development.
Professor Opoku-Agyemang is expected to continue engagements with academic and development institutions while in China.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
