The Ghana School of law Students’ Representative Council (SRC) under the leadership of Gertrude Emefa Donkor in collaboration with student representatives from the National Black Law Students Association (NBLSA) from the USA have donated food items to the people of Agbetikpo in the Volta region.
The donation is part of the volunteering initiative of the Ghana School of Law SRC and their colleagues from the USA to support the displaced people who were affected by the spillage of the Akosombo and Kpong dams by the Volta River Authority (VRA).
The food items included bags of rice, bottles of cooking oil, tin tomatoes and spaghetti. The team handed over the food items, expressing their belief that the donation would provide some relief in the livelihoods of those impacted by this unfortunate disaster.
Member of Parliament (MP) for the area, Okudzeto Ablakwa, warmly welcomed the delegation to the community and received the donation on behalf of his people. He led the students to visit places in the Agbetikpo community where displaced people were temporarily lodging. Notable among these lodging places is the Agbetikpo D/A Basic School where about 300 households were temporarily lodging.
This implies that the school children in the Agbetikpo community have been displaced twice and now study under trees. The MP, who was hailed by his people in the constituency also took the student representatives to other communities in the area to visit people who had resettled in new homes built from the benevolence of several donors.
He expressed profound appreciation to the Student Representatives for their inspiring and thoughtful intervention by embarking on such a humanitarian mission. He further pleaded that, as prospective lawyers, they should use their modern advocacy techniques to solicit for support and even create greater awareness for other donors to come to their aid.
Members of the community who interacted with the team disclosed that the situation was dire and had brought untoward hardship on them and that they needed interventions from across the globe.
The Senior Divisional Chief of Mepe Traditional Area, Torgbe Kordzo Azagba, while expressing his appreciation for the kind gesture also urged the students to advocate more for the communities that have been displaced as he was strongly going to count on the team to help restore lives to normalcy in the affected communities.
Gertrude Emefa Donkor, the president of the Ghana School of law on behalf of the NBLSA and the Ghana School of law SRC volunteering committee assured the community that this kind gesture was only a beginning of better things to come and that as prospective lawyers, they owed it a duty to stand with all the communities affected by the spillage and advocate for them.
While expressing her sympathies, she pledged that the Ghana School of law under it’s volunteering initiative will do more to help the affected communities.
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