{"id":87683,"date":"2015-02-02T12:02:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T12:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=87683"},"modified":"2015-02-02T17:16:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T17:16:05","slug":"hell-at-bawjiase-home-children-reduced-to-sex-objects-starved-and-enslaved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/02\/hell-at-bawjiase-home-children-reduced-to-sex-objects-starved-and-enslaved\/","title":{"rendered":"Hell at Bawjiase home; Children reduced to sex objects, starved and enslaved"},"content":{"rendered":"
When benevolent organisations and individuals donate to orphanages, they expect that their donation, both in kind and in cash, will be put to good use.<\/p>\n
But this appears not to be the case at the Countryside Children\u2019s Welfare Home, an orphanage with more than 100 children, at Awutu Bawjiase in the Central Region.<\/p>\n
At the orphanage, the children are forced to fast, even in the midst of plenty.<\/p>\n
It is a sad tale of poor feeding and forced fasting, open sale of donated items, abuse and neglect, wanton pregnancy and abortion and lack of proper health care.<\/p>\n
In his latest undercover investigations at the orphanage, the ace investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, and his team, after living in the home for six months, uncovered a home that has been turned into a business venture by its Founder, Mrs Emma Boafo Yeboah, affectionately referred to as Auntie Emma or Mummy in the home.<\/p>\n
At the home, the children are made to pose for photo opportunities to receive items from donors, only to be starved behind the walls of the orphanage.<\/p>\n
The devil in the orphanage<\/strong> After the food items donated to the Countryside Children\u2019s Welfare Home have been sold to the public, the children are made to live on a cup of gari, which is poured into their shirts, and uncooked noodles.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Through their own ingenuity, some of the children ground pepper and tomatoes, which they eat with the gari for lunch. For supper, the meal is just a plate of soup, without fish or meat, shared by four children.<\/p>\n The situation is so bad that at one point the investigative team had to buy food for some of the children who were crying because of hunger.<\/p>\n Even worse, some days are declared fasting days and the children are given mango and water at the end of the fast.<\/p>\n \u201cToday is fasting day and everybody is fasting \u2014 the whole house,\u201d a caregiver who identified himself as Sylvester announced on one of the fasting days.<\/p>\n However, Auntie Emma painted a picture of the children living in luxury with choices.<\/p>\n \u201cThe children are well fed. They eat and we ensure that they are satisfied,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Sale of items<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n \u201cOne day, someone will come to know the truth and it will be dangerous,\u201d an aggrieved employee said.<\/p>\n The Countryside Home has, over the years, benefited from the generosity of individuals and organisations, including Prophet T.B. Joshua of the Synagogue Church of All Nations; the Metropolitan Archbishop of Accra, the Most Rev Charles Gabriel Palmer-Buckle; a former Black Stars player, John Mensah; Becca, a musician, and the Kumasi Metropolitan Chief Executive, Mr Kojo Bonsu.<\/p>\n Key buildings at the orphanage were put up by institutions such as Regimanuel Gray Estates, the World Health Organisation, Balast Nedam Company Limited and Wirbelwind, a German organisation.<\/p>\n Several of the items donated by those individuals and organisations were sold openly, as Auntie Emma turned the orphanage into a retail shop. She sold almost everything, including bags of rice, gallons of cooking oil, cartons of milk, bales of used clothing, shoes and bags, toothpaste and brushes, biscuits, drinks and toiletries.<\/p>\n
\nThe investigations, which were carried out in collaboration with the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL) and titled: \u201c\u2018Care\u2019 less: the devil and the orphanage\u201d, brings back to mind a similar expose at the Osu Children\u2019s Home where abuse and neglect of the children and the looting of donated items were the order of the day.<\/p>\n
\nWhile the children go hungry in the midst of abundance, Auntie Emma has been accused by some employees of the orphanage of using the home as a money-making machine.<\/p>\n