{"id":388994,"date":"2018-01-05T11:58:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T11:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=388994"},"modified":"2018-01-06T14:33:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T14:33:33","slug":"us-based-students-donate-to-kressner-orphanage-at-kodjo-ashong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=388994","title":{"rendered":"US-based students donate to Kressner Orphanage at Kodjo-Ashong"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three students from Los Angeles, California in the United States, have donated assorted items to children and guardians of the Kressner Orphanage at Kodjo-Ashong in the Ga West Municipality of the Greater Accra Region.<\/p>\n

They are Kojo Boakye-Nimako, a Ghanaian, and Dylan Anderson, who are students of the Chaminade College Preparatory High School and Riley Shapiro of Calabasas High School, all located in Los Angeles, California.<\/p>\n

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The items donated to the orphanage included confectionery, toys, books, clothes and an unspecified amount of money.<\/p>\n

The students told citifmonline.com<\/strong> that the donation formed part of their project work at school.<\/p>\n

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Kojo Boakye-Nimako, who spoke on behalf of his other colleagues, said that although the gesture was part of their project work, they also found it necessary to show kindness to the children.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2019 Someone will ask why we did not do this donation in Los Angeles where we all stay, but I must say that it is quite humbling for us to travel from our homes and come to Kressner to put a smile on the faces of these young ones\u201d Kojo stated.<\/p>\n

He added that, they were willing to return to the orphanage to repeat the gesture if the need arises.<\/p>\n

The three US-based Ghanaian students were accompanied by the Vice Chairman of the LPG Marketing Companies Association of Ghana, Gabriel Kumi, and the Director, African Initiatives for Safe Water Network, Charles Nimako.<\/p>\n

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The guardian of the Orphanage, who received the items, Sister Kizita, expressed her heartfelt gratitude to the students for the gesture.<\/p>\n

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Charles Nimako making the cash donation on behalf of the students<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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About the Orphanage<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Kressner Orphanage, located at Kodjo-Ashong in the Ga West Municipality of the Greater Accra Region was funded by the Rotary Club of Otterndorf-Land in Germany, and in collaboration with the Rotary Club of Accra with about $700,000.<\/p>\n

It was inaugurated in March 2015 to support orphans within Kodjo -Ashong and its environs in the Amasaman District of Ghana.<\/p>\n

Currently, the Orphanage has thirty nine children aged between two and twenty three years<\/p>\n

The facility consists of a convent for the reverend sisters, quarters with caregivers\u2019 rooms, a four-unit classroom block, social centre, a pantry, and recreational rooms among others.<\/p>\n

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The orphanage caters for orphans, children of HIV\/AIDS patients, the less privileged and vulnerable in society.
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\nBy: Pearl Akanya Ofori\/ Citifmonline.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three students from Los Angeles, California in the United States, have donated assorted items to children and guardians of the Kressner Orphanage at Kodjo-Ashong in the Ga West Municipality of the Greater Accra Region. They are Kojo Boakye-Nimako, a Ghanaian, and Dylan Anderson, who are students of the Chaminade College Preparatory High School and Riley […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":389054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15884,15878,887,3,15877],"class_list":["post-388994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-calabasas-high-school","tag-chaminade-college-preparatory-high-school","tag-donation","tag-ghana-news","tag-kressner-orphanage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388994","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=388994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/389054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=388994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=388994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=388994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}