• Supt. Judith Abbiw (right) receiving the items from Madam Aba Dawood.

The ladies wing of the Lower Pra Rural Bank PLC at Shama in the Shama District of the Western Region has donated assorted items to the Female Prison at Sekondi.

The items included various soft drinks, carbolic soap, powder soap, liquid soap, beans, maize, gari, pineapples, water melon tissue and pads.

Presenting the items on behalf of the group, Madam Aba Dawood said it was part of the corporate social responsibility of the Ladies’ Association of Lower Pra Rural Bank to reach out to the less privi­leged in times like this.

She said the donation was to inform the inmates that people outside always had them in prayer everywhere and that they should never feel neglected because God was with them.

She said the gifts were a sign of love the ladies had for their counterparts who were within certain areas and were also limited to move about freely.

Madam Dawood told the inmates never to think that it was a punishment being there but rather a correctional home to learn a skill and come out as a profession­al to fend for themselves with the knowl­edge acquired in the prison.

Superintendent Judith Abbiw, the second-in-command who received the do­nation on behalf of the inmates thanked the association for their kind gesture.

She said various trades were be­ing taught in the prison for inmates to acquire some skills and go out to be independent and not liabilities to their families.

She appealed for support in any form to enable the correctional home admin­ister proper skills to the inmates so that after their release they would not be found wanting but use the skills acquired to generate income for themselves.

From Peter Gbambila-Sekondi