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The CLARION Call For Women

*MOTHERS, your CHILDREN are your RESPONSIBILITY*
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The face of a woman who is struggling to bear a child is one of frustration and gloom.
But after a child is born unto them, what next????
The telltale situation of such a mother and child unfolds.....
Take a read!!!
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Parents have a sacred duty and divine calling to protect their children from all harm and dangers. However, in recent times underage children are left unattended to on the streets and highways of this country; Ghana. These children are left to attend school and return home unaccompanied and without any special supervision irrespective of their age and vulnerability to the busy streets, highways, passing and approaching vehicles.
These children are seen struggling for seats in public buses, crossing roads and highways and escaping predators whereas mothers rush to work and expect to return home seeing their children safe and sound. Undoubtedly, no parent imagines losing his or her child to accident, child traffick or kidnap until reality dawns on them.

When I see the risks little children are exposed to, I begin to ask myself a deluge of questions and wonder

"Where are their parents, most especially their mothers?"

It is despicable that a mother will leave home for work, knowing that automatically their little child will go to and from school safe and sound. Ironically, we are in a country where road users adhere to road traffic regulations to the latter; obeying traffic signals, pedestrian crossing signs, road signs, to mention but few.

Good parenting is not all about providing food for the child, clothing, place of abode and enrolling them in a school.
Good parenting is seeking and championing the safety of your child irrespective of your work demands and overly busy schedules.

It was a heart bleeding experience barely a month ago, seeing two children of about ages 3 and 6 years, alight from a public transport and helplessly walk along the wrong side of the Legon- Madina highways with vehicles at top speed behind them without any assistance or guardian in sight.
These are innocent children who do not know that their lives are in danger.
These are vulnerable children whose parents are home or at their various workplaces waiting for their children to be home.
This is a driver who probably does not have any concern whatsoever with regards to the safety of the child hence, alighting them at a place which is not appropriate and safe.

But who is to blame? The mother, the child, the public transport driver or the society?

Why will we subject our children to such inhumane treatment and conditions? There have been various instances where children have been knocked down by oncoming vehicles. How sad it is, for the lives of such young ones to be cut short because of the negligence of their parents and society.

In some countries, when a child is spotted alone without any supervision, the child is picked up by the police and the parents are charged with child endangerment, risk of injury to a minor or child neglect. But what do we see in our country Ghana?
We have parents who will have thousands of excuses such as the demands of work, the short distance of the child’s school from home, the familiarity of the child with the route from home to school and vice versa, the developmental maturity of the child even when the child is age six(6), amongst others because they are aware the laws of the country  will never take them on.
Nevertheless, my heart felt question to such parents especially to the mothers of the home is, “What shall it profit you if you gain all the wealth in this world and all the promotions at the workplace and lose the child whom you struggled to bear and nurture?”

Mothers, bear in mind that your child is your responsibility and as such you must be dutiful in this regard.

Mothers must teach and guide their children on road safety precautions to compliment what the children are taught in their schools.

Heads of various schools must ensure that children of tender ages are not allowed to report and leave school unattended to, without their safety being guaranteed. Parents must be made to sign “Safety Warrants or Plans” upon enrolling their children in school.

The police must be extremely concerned with child safety and the law must consider it an offence to leave a child unattended to or unaccompanied on the roads and highways of the country.

To you and I, let us take it as a responsibility to assist young children whom we see solely plying our roads. Let us offer them the assistance they deserve and need; for it will be sad that our young ones perish at the irresponsibility of our actions and inactions.

Children are our responsibility, Mothers are our pride. We all have a role to play in keeping our children safe. Mothers, it is by this that they can be kept alive to annually wish you a HAPPY MOTHERS DAY with love.

*NB. WOMEN OF LEGACY FOUNDATION WISH ALL WOMEN A HAPPY MOTHERS DAY AND RESPONSIBLE MOTHERHOOD……*

Joyce Ohenewaa Kwapong
Coordinator, Women of Legacy Foundation
(Activist, Women and Children)
University of Ghana, Accra City Campus
+233(0)267968373
joycekwapong@gmail.com
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WE ARE ORPHANS BUT ARE WE OFF YOUR HANDS?

WE ARE ORPHANS BUT ARE WE OFF YOUR HANDS ??

I am that child who saw other children being pampered by a woman they called mum.

I grew up not knowing who a father was.

I grew up and all I saw was myself with many other children around me.

Around me were children who have lost their identity, having their names as ORPHANS.

I wondered why we were referred as such.

Then I realized we lost the person whom we could have called mum.
And life took away the man we could have called father.

Today, on the same mat we lie.

In the same room we lay our heads to sleep.
It would not have been so if not for the cold hands of death.
Dreadful death that took away such loved ones from us.

Occasionally, we receive items from people.
And all our ears hear is DONATION.
Through this act of kindness we feed and clothe to live.

How we wish we could stretch our hands and mum will lift us up.

Oh how we wish!
That in moments of dilemma, dad will offer an advice.

How we wish, we would ask for new clothes and mum will be there to provide.

How we wish on daddy's chest we would lie.
And as the tears dropped, he will wipe and provide a shoulder to lean on.

But today, we are here.
In a place called ORPHANAGE.
With our names, ORPHANS.
Because if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

Let your hand of lifting not be far from us.
For it is not by our will that we find ourselves here.

You could have been us.
And we could have been you.
So if you have much today, remember we have none.
Remember our plight and be our light.

To you we say,
We are ORPHANS but never off your hands.

Joyce Ohenewaa Kwapong
+233(0)267968373
joycekwapong@gmail.com
Activist, Women and Children
University of Ghana, AccrbyCity Campus

                 INVITATION TO BE PART OF   

         WOMEN OF LEGACY FOUNDATION(WOLF)

An army of selfless women who will do exploits is emerging.

Women who will realize that, not for themselves alone are they born.
Women who will leave a legacy and make their impacts worth remembering and celebrating.
Women who will leave a legacy worthy of emulation.

Women of legacy are going to change the world and live the change they want to see in the world.

One day, generations will write about you and I.

Be part of the WOLF (Women of legacy foundation) family.

Contact Joyce Ohenewaa Kwapong on 0267968373 so that together, we leave outstanding legacies for generations.

Our maiden project will take place early this year
Do not miss out, leave a legacy.

# Women of legacy foundation
# Leaving outstanding legacies for generations

*Kindly forward the Visual plus the above invite message to all groups. Membership are for only women, thanks*

MY COLLECTIONS

 

There is a cry

THERE IS A CRY!!!

There is a cry!
A cry from the bosom of our nation, Mother Ghana
A cry of rescue!
Rescue from the hands of her own people

My sons and daughters
From my womb I bore you
And placed you on my laps
On these laps of mine were green vegetation, rich minerals and fresh water
What wealth did I not place you on?
But today, like the prodigal son
You've mismanaged and destroyed the wealth you received
And one day, you will return to me asking for PARDON
But it may be too late
Because by then, I may be BARREN
That is why I cry out today
And it is a cry for an IMMEDIATE RESCUE!

On this day, Your Mother
I cry out
I cry for rescue
Rescue from the hands of filth, open gutters and polluted environment

I bore you with a silver spoon in your mouth
But today, you have clothed me in debt
IMF is now your abode
And a place you run for rescue

My children,
In agony I suffer
Malaria, cholera and typhoid
Meant to be your foe, rival and enemy
Now your ally, companion and spouse
I am a mother of many, never barren
So I can't watch in silence for malaria, typhoid and cholera 
To take away my children
And leave me childless

Hear my cry my children
Today, my clear water bodies, sea, lake, rivers
Have all turned muddy
The seas roll carrying in its belly materials of all kinds.
For every net-catch of fish, is human excreta
For every rainy season comes flood, loss of lives and property

My children, give me back my GLORY!
Rescue me my children!
Because, nobody else can but you!  

My children have selfishly occupied positions
With their BELLIES, the Nations TREASURY!
And their pockets as vineyards
With the Nations currencies and wealth their harvests.
Leaving my lands for decades under developed

The poor are struggling to make ends meet
But their struggles reward them with little
Whilst the pockets of the greedy and selfish are bounty
Overflowing with milk and honey.

There is a cry!!!
An awakening cry
A deafening sound I make
To you the young and old
The rich and poor alike
To the government and the people
For you all to ARISE!

Arise and wipe away my tears
Arise and make me great again
Arise and restore my pride
Arise and make me smile

I sleep but have no rest
I await the new dawn
I await the day the storms will be over
For the sun to shine bright again

This is my cry
The sad cry of me
Your mother !
Mother Ghana!

Joyce Ohenewaa Kwapong
+233(0)267968373
joycekwapong@gmail.com
Activist, Women and children
University of Ghana, Accra City Campus

Read more on
ohenewaa-kwapong.blogspot.com

    PEACE TOUR AT POPE JOHNS SHS, KOFORIDUA

A team of selfless student leaders who under the auspices of Face of GUPS 2016 (Shemimah Dapillah) took it upon ourselves to embark on a peace campaign tour to various senior high schools; a place where majority of first time voters can be found, to engage them on issues relating to the peace of Ghana, why they shouldn't allow themselves to be used as agents of violence and how they can settle their grievances without causing mayhem.

The students of Pope Johns were hence made to swear an oath of allegiance to protect the peace of Ghana; their motherland.

It was in all, a great and worthy exercise.

Long live Ghana!

Long live Pope Johns!