The Supervisor of the Tamale Children’s Home at Nyonhini, Madam Augustina Quainoo has expressed worry about the dwindling love and affection among families in the northern region.
Madam Quainoo could not understand the lack of sympathy and love for one another.
The Nyonhini Home was established in 1969 to cater to abandoned, motherless and abused children.
The home also provides temporary care for custody of children. Since its establishment, the home has grappled with several challenges in the area of water, payment of electricity bills and most importantly a fence wall to protect the vulnerable.
The plight of the orphans has touched many individuals and organizations resulting in the donation of mainly toiletries, formula milk and sometimes assorted drinks just to put smiles on the faces of the children.
Thankfully, the government has decided to honor its responsibility by providing money for the purchase of power and also footing the water bills. The government, Zaa News was told, is also making quarterly allocations for the upkeep of the orphans.
Security and safety of the children remain major challenges for the managers. The Nyohini children’s home as it is widely known managed and raised motherless children some of them are now adults.
A motherless boy who is now 22-years old is studying nutrition at the university for Development Studies while his other two colleagues though visually impaired are learning trading and tailoring.
Explaining the operation of the Home to Zaa News, Madam Quainoo said the care-givers automatically become biological parents and will play such roles assisting the youngsters to get jobs post school and stand as biological parents even when they are married.
Their pertinent place as adults and family issues rest on the shoulders of the Home. The Home, she said, currently has 25 children with youngest being 1 month old who was brought there two weeks ago.
A two-weeks old she explained was brought after the mother died after delivery. According to the supervisor, no one in the innocent boy family was ready to take care of him and the hospital where his mother died brought him to the Home.
The sad case of the two-weeks old baby, Madam Quainoo said, is just one out of many cases. Most families she observed seem to be busy and taking care of orphaned infants looks like nobody’s business.
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