Ghanaian Gratitude [Archives:2008/1131/Letters to the Editor]

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We often wonder years after a project how our presence may have impacted a community. We are happy to report that, four years after our successful project in Ghana at the Wieja Leprosarium and Pantang psychiatric hospital, other religious bodies and NGOs now extend their humanitarian services, visiting and interacting with the patients, different from the way it was sometime ago.

Rev. Father Andrew Campbell, the chairman of the leprosarium, sends his gratitude for the encouragement Religious Youth Service gave to others to associate with the leprosarium.

Smiles have returned to the faces of the patients. He assures us that the inmates now get a lot of gifts in kind and cash from the religious bodies, NGOs and caring individuals. The government has also increased the daily stipends of the outpatients for their social well-being.

Father Campbell thanks us with this update, for our support and for giving our best to these institutions. Little did we know that our project would compel the general public to focus so much attention on them. As for the cured lepers, they are grateful for the public support because they no longer need to beg in the cities as before.
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