NHIA boss donates to needy

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Mr Sylvester Mensah, has donated food items valued at GH¢10,000 to three institutions in the La Dadekotopon Municipal Assembly (LaDMA) in Accra.

The beneficiary institutions are the Osu Children’s Home, the Shelta for Abused Children and the New Horizon School.

The items, comprising rice, oil, sugar, milk and canned fish, were bought with the proceeds from the sale of a book titled: In the Shadows of Politics, Reflections from My Mirror  authored by Mr Mensah, which was launched to mark his 50th birthday celebration.   

According to Mr Mensah, his compassion for the underprivileged in the society is what drives him to help improve their situation anytime he has the means to do that.

He expressed the hope that the items would significantly help the institutions to feed the children under their care with healthy meals.

For her part,  the proprietor of the New Horizon School, Ms Joycelyn Adoboe, thanked the CEO for the kind gesture and appealed to other institutions to follow suit.

She stated that many people perceived the New Horizon School as a school for the rich hence they did not need any help, but that was wrong as most of the children were sponsored by philanthropists while some stay at home due to lack of funds to pay their school fees.

The MCE of LaDMA, Ms Rita Odoley Sowah, commended Mr Mensah for the foresight in deciding to use the proceeds of his book to help the needy in the society.

She said there were a number of children out there who needed support, and called on others to try and touch the lives of underprivileged people.