Acts of kindness: Neo-care Ghana Donation To The Mother of Mercy Babies Home.

I want to begin this report by thanking everyone who in their own small way contributed to making neo-care and the projects it runs a success. Real heroes don’t wear capes, and that’s you guys.

Neo-care is a community of people who care deeply for the wellbeing of the less privilege all over the world, as long as we have a trustworthy Hivean in said country. Neocare has run support to the needy and less privileged in a few countries already, and Ghana(my country) was the recent to benefit from it.

Neo-care was able to gather an amount of 203HIVE which upon conversion to USDT, gave 106.16USDT. @sayee sent me this amount on 7th February (last week) in anticipation of the donation happening this week.

I left the money in my Binance until when I set out on my journey to Navrongo on Friday last week. When I converted the 106.16USDT into my local currency, I got GHC1,312.13.

When I arrived in Navrongo, the preparations for the orphanage visitation started on Tuesday with myself and my friend @zzzinnn heading to the campus supermarket, Paradise Supermarket to make an inventory of the stuff we’ll be buying for the donation. This was necessary so that we could make a complete budget of everything before hand tomorrow(Wednesday). I’ll go through a quick review of what we put on the list and why.

Shopping

So first and foremost, we covered Rice itself. There were varieties of rice but we budgeted to buy2 bags of fortune delicious rice which as per the picture was GHC70 for a bag, so GHC140 for the two bags.

Next was tomato paste. For this one, we had the choice of either going with the paste in sachet, or this big Master Chef container here, and we stuck to the master chef container because it seemed like we’d be getting more for our money that way. We bought 1 container for GHC50

Obviously, we needed cooking oil since we bought rice already so we got 1 can of this 4.5L Frytol on the top shelve here for GHC180. Considering we bought two bags of rice, it was the logical choice.

Next thing we put on the list was Spaghetti. Our hands were tired with the spaghetti because we only bought 5 pieces for GHC 40 because our budget was tight. We wish we could’ve gotten more, but what we got was better than nothing.

Mackerel was next on the list. We bought 7 tins of Ole Mackerel which cost GHS16 each, so 112 for the 7 tins.

After handling a bit of the heavy meal part of the donation, we got some stuff for breakfast. We bought 1 Roll of Milo and 1 Roll of Nido for GHC37 and GHC34 respectively. The roll had more pieces than what’s showing in this picture, as the roll in this picture had been shortened.

It would only be logical we got sugar so that was the next item on the list. However for the sugar, we had wanted to buy the sugar sold in rubbers as those provided a greater quantity of sugar. Unfortunately, the supermarket ran out and we had to compromise for cube sugars. Regardless, we made sure to buy 2 boxes of Big size cube sugar, for GHC32 each, making GHC64 for the two.

Now we were done covering the feeding aspect of the donation and we had to divert to cater a bit for other needs.

We bought 1 large can of Sasso insecticide spray(for GHC 60) to better prevent the children better against malaria, which is a serious plight of people in this area.

Also, we bought one large size baby diapers (for GHC72) housing 48 pieces for the kids.

We contemplated of buying Dettol too, but it seemed it wouldn’t fit into the budget so we left it. Maybe in the next project, we shall cover all that.

Now, onto some sweets to get their mouths watery. 50 pieces lollipop was staring right at us as of we asked where it was so we bought 1 pack for GHC28.

Aside that, we also bought 1 box of kalyppo for GHC65 and 2 packs of King cracker for GHC22 each, making GHC44 for the two.

The receipt of our purchase is above, showing the total purchase to be GHC1,031.

Visit to Mother Of Mercy Babies Home

After making the purchase and everything, we set out for Mother Of Mercy Babies Home on Wednesday(yesterday). It was a long journey to be honest, and seemed even longer because none of us had been there before until yesterday.

When we arrived, we were received by the mothers taking care of the children and was asked to wait for the lady in charge.

When she arrived, we saw the children and handed the donation over to the mothers. We engaged in a bit of conversation before and after for them to know our mission as they had a few questions which we addressed without doubt.

You should’ve been there to see the children, great kids. It was sad seeing children like them at an orphanage. But that is life, cruel as it is without mercy.

After the donation, the sister gave me this as a token of appreciation on behalf of the orphanage. asked me to make a list of the stuff we bought in their record book and that was pretty easy as I already had the receipt in my pocket. She also asked me to leave behind my number as a representative of the team so that when the more literate sisters come in the following day, they can give me a call so we speak more. It seemed they were really overjoyed by our visit and had a lot of questions about our uniform T-shirts (Hive).

We spent like an hour at the orphanage before we headed back to campus. Most of my colleagues are still students and had to get back to campus for a few lectures so we sped things up for their sake, arriving back on campus around 2:40.

We took two tricycles for the journey and they took GHC150 for the journey.

After we returned, as a token of appreciation, O took everyone to a food joint and each bought food for GHC10, so that summed up to GHC100.

Adding everything together, we spent GHC1,281 and the balance remaining is GHC31.

Again, l want to thank @jimah1k, @yahuzah, @nhaji01, @abu78, @zzzinnn, @tiyumtaba, @smariam, @gunu1, @rubilu for their presence. I’m setting each person except @nhaji01 as 5% beneficiary to this post. Because I can’t add more than 8 beneficiaries, I’ll send @nhaji01 the same amount every beneficiary received when this post pays out. Thanks for coming guys, and thanks again to everyone supporting neo-care. God bless you all.