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An aspiring New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for the Abura Asebu Kwamankese (AAK) Constituency in the Central Region, Mr. Elvis Morris Donkor has registered two thousand children onto the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), to enable them access health care at the hospital without paying anything. The children were drawn from Moree, Brafoyaw, Asebu, Papagya, Putubiew, Old and New Abu, Brabia and Abeam, all in the Abura Asebu Kwamankese Constituency. Mr. Donkor announced this during a Christmas party he organized for orphans, and more than one thousand children in the constituency at Asebu in the Central Region at the weekend. He explained that the registration was to offer parents and guardians who did not have the means to give their wards quality health care at hospitals, the opportunity to send their children to hospital anytime they were sick. Mr Donkor noted that majority of the residents in the constituency were poor, and sometimes could not afford hospital bills for themselves and their wards, and therefore called on politicians and other well-endowed persons in the constituency, to work hard to reduce poverty in the area. He said it was only when the children who are the future leaders were healthy, that they would grow and take up the mantle of leadership to ensure progress and development when the older generation was gone. The aspirant MP advised the beneficiary children to take their education seriously, as it was the only sure way of achieving greater heights and eradicating poverty. He charged the parents to take full responsibilities of their wards, and make efforts to cater for the social, economic, health and educational needs of their children. Mr. Donkor who is also the owner of �Children�s Home of Peace Orphanage,� noted that support was often given to well-established orphanages and Children Homes, which he said was good, but appealed to government and other philanthropists, to consider supporting up and coming orphanages such as his. He disclosed that his orphanage, established in 2006, has helped many children to redeem their status in the community, some of whom he said were HIV positive. He expressed his profound gratitude to NGOs, philanthropists, corperate institutions, volunteers and individuals, who have supported the orphanage in various ways.