{"id":280079,"date":"2016-12-27T06:30:28","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T06:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=280079"},"modified":"2016-12-27T06:30:28","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T06:30:28","slug":"cop-dampare-joins-citi-fm-to-feast-kids-on-boxing-day-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=280079","title":{"rendered":"COP Dampare joins Citi FM to feast with kids on Boxing Day [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was one of those rare moments when the head of the Ghana Police Command and Staff College at Winneba, COP, Dr. George Akuffo Dampare,\u00a0along with his wife, left his busy schedule, and joined staff of Citi FM and its listeners, to feast with children of Manchie and Korleman near Amasaman in the Greater Accra Region.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-279999\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/help-a-christmas-child-2016-96.jpg\" alt=\"#HelpAChristmasChild at Manchie and Korleman\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Citi FM as part of its annual Help a Christmas Child project, put smiles on the faces of children of the two deprived towns in the Ga West Municipality with support from its listeners.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_279994\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-279994\" style=\"width: 667px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/help-a-christmas-child-2016-91-e1482774274669.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-279994\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/help-a-christmas-child-2016-91-e1482774274669.jpg\" alt=\"#HelpAChristmasChild at Manchie and Korleman\" width=\"667\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-279994\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">#HelpAChristmasChild at Manchie and Korleman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_279998\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-279998\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-279998\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/help-a-christmas-child-2016-95.jpg\" alt=\"#HelpAChristmasChild at Manchie and Korleman\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-279998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">COP Dampare sharing toffees to the kids<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The kids were served sumptuous meals, drinks and also given teddy bears, learning materials, clothes, biscuits, toffees among others, and were also treated to good music.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_279990\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-279990\" style=\"width: 667px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-279990\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/help-a-christmas-child-2016-87-e1482774296931.jpg\" alt=\"#HelpAChristmasChild at Manchie and Korleman\" width=\"667\" height=\"1000\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-279990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">COP Dampare and Bernard Koku Avle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The elated children, who were grateful to Citi FM for the intervention, could not hide their joy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_279992\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-279992\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-279992\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/help-a-christmas-child-2016-89.jpg\" alt=\"#HelpAChristmasChild at Manchie and Korleman\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-279992\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dampare and Umaru Sanda Amadu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI am very happy to see these things. I have not celebrated Christmas like this before. I thank Citi FM for what they have done for me. God bless Citi FM,\u201d one of the children, Ethel, said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-279985 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/help-a-christmas-child-2016-82.jpg\" alt=\"help-a-christmas-child-2016-82\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another child, Joycelyn, said \u201cI am very happy with Citi FM. God bless Citi FM for giving me these items.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-279965\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/help-a-christmas-child-2016-62.jpg\" alt=\"#HelpAChristmasChild at Manchie and Korleman\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-279964\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/help-a-christmas-child-2016-61.jpg\" alt=\"#HelpAChristmasChild at Manchie and Korleman\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-279962\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/help-a-christmas-child-2016-59.jpg\" alt=\"#HelpAChristmasChild at Manchie and Korleman\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-279911\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/help-a-christmas-child-2016-8.jpg\" alt=\"#HelpAChristmasChild at Manchie and Korleman\" width=\"1000\" height=\"668\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Every Boxing Day, the station with the support of its listeners, holds\u00a0a party for underprivileged children in selected communities.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-279906\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/help-a-christmas-child-2016-3.jpg\" alt=\"#HelpAChristmasChild at Manchie and Korleman\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Godwin Akweiteh Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was one of those rare moments when the head of the Ghana Police Command and Staff College at Winneba, COP, Dr. George Akuffo Dampare,\u00a0along with his wife, left his busy schedule, and joined staff of Citi FM and its listeners, to feast with children of Manchie and Korleman near Amasaman in the Greater Accra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":279997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[13253,14540,3,14457],"class_list":["post-280079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-citi-fm-staff","tag-cop-dampare","tag-ghana-news","tag-help-a-christmas-child"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}