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Ashanti and savanna regions benefit from kog kriationz sight restoration project
The Ashanti and Savanna regions have been the latest beneficiary regions of the kog kriationz net work nation wide sight restoration project for the year 2023.
The two regions have been blessed with a team of experts put together by the kog kriationz net work a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) based in Accra. The organization’s mission is to restore the eye sights of the vulnerable in society and also reach out to selected underserved communities to educate and restore the sight of the affected people through its elimination of avoidable blindness project.
Inline with this objective, the NGO has visited some selected basic schools in the Amansie central district of Ashanti region and screened over 2000 pupils free of charge including teachers.
The beneficiary schools include Jacobu Experimental ,Jacobu SDA Atobiase D/A among others. Some 500 pupils and teachers with refraction or cases of cataract and other related cases were either given glasses eye drops or have undergone surgeries free of charge.
The Ashanti region exercise was executed shortly after a community based one was carried out in some selected district in the Savannah region.
Over 1000 people from distracts such as Bole, sola Tuna kalba, East and West Gonja as well salaga all in the Savannah region were over joyous for the fact they can see again and go about their normal duties unaided.
The people from the two regions have expressed their heart felt gratitude to the kog kriationz net work for the benevolence and asked that they spread their tentacle to more of such people In other parts of the country.
Meanwhile the Chief Executive Officer of the kog kriationz net work Mr Eric Owusu Gyimah admonished the people to seek regular checks on their eyes in order to avoid unwanted blindness. He also expressed his profound gratitude to partners such Oheneba Kasempa Enterprise, the CEO of Friends Eye center Dr Seth Wanye and a host of others for their support.
Story by Lawrence Kumah
