Vice President Bawumia Donates To Street Children And Cured Lepers

The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has donated food items to the Christ the King Soup Kitchen and Leprosarium.

The Vice President, who regularly supports both the Christ the King Soup Kitchen and Weija Leprosarium, made the donation as part of his humanitarian gesture towards the needy and less privileged.

Dr. Bawumia donated 300 bags of rice to the Christ the King Easter Soup Kitchen and 100 bags of rice to the Weija leprosarium.

The Christ the King Soup Kitchen is an initiative of Rev. Father Andrew Campbell, which, with support from the Church, feeds and helps the less privileged, especially street children.

It also provides skills training to help them earn a living, find their feet and move away from the streets into permanent accommodation and livelihoods.

Presenting the items to Father Campbell on behalf of the Vice President, Mr. Augustine Blay, Secretary to the Vice President, expressed the Vice President's appreciation to the good works Christ the King and Father Campbell are doing to support street children.

"You touch the hearts of so many people and the Vice President is so grateful for it. So he is donating these bags of rice to support the great work that you are doing for the leprosy programme and the soup kitchen," said the Vice President's Secretary.

"400 bags of rice for the programmes and may God bless you. On behalf of the Vice President, we say thank you," he added.

On his part, Father Campbell expressed utmost gratitude to Dr. Bawumia for the support he has been offering the Soup Kitchen and the Leprosariums.

"How grateful I am to His Excellency our Vice President who has sent all these bags of rice; 300 for the soup kitchen and 100 for the leppers," said Father Campbell.

Father Campbell said that the Vice President's donation is timely as it has come at a time they are in shortage of food following their intervention to provide food for over 15,000 children during the recent lock down of Greater Accra and Kasoa.