Glona Healthcare centre honours founder

A special award ceremony was held at the weekend to honour Mrs Lydia Odoley Glover, the Founder of the Glona Healthcare and Vocational Training Centre, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) and school, for her contribution towards social and community development.
She was presented with a framed picture, a plaque and a citation by volunteers and pupils of the school.
The school, which was established 12 years ago, started as an informal child literacy programme for deprived children. It sought to provide voluntary services such as health care and vocational skills training for the less-privileged.
In an address read on her behalf, the Minister for Women and Children’s Affairs, Ms Akua Sena Dansua, commended Mrs Glover for her contributions to the reduction of poverty through the education of the less privileged in society.
She observed that Glona's efforts were in line with the social democratic principles of the new administration.
The minister said the government had introduced interventions such as meeting the examination fees of senior high students and free exercise books for pupils in deprived areas and enhanced the existing facilities of the school feeding programme and the capitation grant.
"All these interventions are to relieve parents and guardians from the burden of educating children and affording all underprivileged children an opportunity of having education, at least up to the second-cycle level," she added.
Ms Dansua called on other individuals to emulate Mrs Glover’s move, adding, "We need men and women with a heart to help the vulnerable in society."
The Director of the school, Mr William Anum Annang, said the school had provided help for the deprived in society to make them realise the importance of education and health care as factors that built good living.
"Glona is challenging those involved in poverty eradication efforts to develop sustainable programmes that produce tangible and observable results," he said.